the extra fare, of traveling in sleeping, parlor, or extrafare trains. A local skeleton ticket (Forms 5, 6, and 7), also commonly referred to as a blank ticket, contains blank spaces in which the agent writes the destination of the passenger. Local simplex tickets are those in which various devices are employed to indicate destination, route, or limitations. Many destinations and various routes may be printed on the margin of the ticket and provision made for the agent to punch or cut it in a prescribed way at the time of purchase. Their purpose, as well as that of the skeleton ticket, is to minimize the expense of printing complete tickets for each destination and route. The regular local round-trip ticket (Form 8) usually consists of a contract, which also forms the return coupon, and attached to it is a going coupon. This ticket entitles the purchaser to the usual first-class accommodations, but, since it is generally sold at a reduced fare, it is usually limited to the time within which it may be used. (2) Regular first-class interline (or foreign) tickets (Form 9) constitute a second group as distinguished from local and interdivisional tickets. As in the case of regular first-class local tickets, they may be single trip, simplex or To 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 DENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD COMPANY. GOOD FOR ONE FIRST CLASS PASSAGE 28 29 30 31 1 To ONLY ON PRESENTATION OF THIS TICKET WITH COUPONS ATTACHED, SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: It is vold unless emcially stamped and dated. la selling it for passage over other lines this Company arts only as agent for them, and assumes no responsibility beyond its own line. It is subject to the stop-over regulations of the lines over which It reads. Baggage liability limited to wearing apparel, not exceeding $100 in value. contract bears no cancellation or stamp other than the ordinary dating stamp, it is understood that this Ticket cuddles the purchaser to all the privileges accorded to parcegfts holding regular unlimited Tickets, otherwise it is subject to the following conditions In consideration of the reduced rate at which this Ticket is sold, the bolder agrees with the respective companies over whose lines such holder is carried, to use the same to destination on or before midnight of the date canceled by punch on the margin hereof; and falling to comply with this agreement, either of said companies may refuse to accept this Ticket or epy coupon thereof, and demand the full regular fare, which the holder agrees to pay. JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT ост. NOV. DEC. 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 FORM 6. other patent form, skeleton, or round trip. The simple oneway card, however, is not used for foreign or interline business, as it is necessary that each line performing service should receive an equivalent in the form of a coupon, which is its voucher for service performed. The contract provisions contain specifications regarding the time limitations, the trains to be used, stop-over provisions, a baggage liability clause, official stamp and date, class of service, regulations as to detachment of coupons, and a prohibition of alteration or erasure of contract. There are three devices peculiar to interline ticketsthe feeder, paster, and extension forms. The feeder (Form 10) is generally used from a small station in connection with a printed destination ticket from the larger station. The feeder form is an entirely separate ticket, valid for passage only when issued as above. The paster (Form 11) form is on the same principle as the feeder, except that it consists only of additional coupons, which are pasted on the ticket in connection with which it is issued. An agent at any point between, for instance, St. Paul and New York, may be furnished with a stock of forms reading from St. Paul to Seattle. In selling these tickets he attaches the so-called paster to cover the intermediate roads. The exten sion form (Form 12), the reverse of the feeder, is a separate ticket, reading from an important junction point to local stations beyond. For example, an agent will issue a printed ticket through from New York to St. Louis, issuing in connection therewith an extension form, reading from St. Louis to some unimportant point beyond. The purpose of these devices is to prevent a multiplicity of forms. Extra fares (Forms 13 and 14) are charged for speed and superior accommodations on what are usually called limited trains, or trains carrying a specified number of cars. The companies usually publish a basis upon which refunds are made to the passenger when the limited train fails to make its schedule time, the amount of refund depending upon the delay. 1 The courts have decided that a clause calling for continuous passage is valid, and that, in case the ticket is silent on this point, a continuous passage is understood. Stopover privileges are permissible only when expressly stipulated in the contract or by a ruling of the carrier or passenger association. It has also been held that, unless there is a definite stipulation to the contrary either in the contract or in a notice given at the time of purchase, the ticket is good until used. Limited tickets, however, may be issued. All tickets, without a specific clause to the contrary in the ticket or contract, are transferable. 4 (3) Excursion tickets constitute a third extensive group. They are round-trip tickets, sold at a reduced rate, and subject to all the limitations placed in the contract. In addi 1 Drew vs. Cent. Pac. R. Co., 51 Cal. 425; Halton vs. R. R. Co., 39 Ohio St. 375. 2 P. R. R. vs. Spicker, 105 Pa. St. 142. 3 Hill vs. Syracuse R. R. Co., 63 N. Y. 101. Hudson vs. Kansas Pac. R. R. Co., 3 McCrary (U. S. C. C.) 249. |