to be filled in by agent selling RETURN ticket. Purchaser's Signature (IN INK. I have this day issued to the person Signature of Agent Selling Return Ticket. E DEPARTURE OF TRAIN. excursion tickets is generally applied to tickets regularly on sale between points on the same line, and sold with varying limits. Summer and winter excursion tickets (Form 16) are valid only during limited seasons, and aim to increase pleasure travel to summer and winter resorts. Train excursion tickets are furnished by the train conductor to persons boarding train from nonticket stations or at other stations when the ticket office is closed. This form is usually a duplex form, one portion being retained by the conductor as his receipt for fare collected and the other is furnished to passenger for his return journey. In case of small conventions or meetings the round-trip special excursion ticket is sometimes displaced by the certificate plan. A one-way ticket is purchased at the regular fare, and the buyer of the ticket secures from the agent a stamped certificate (Form 17), showing form, number, destination, and fare paid. When the certificate is presented to the railroad representative at the convention, who validates it, it then becomes the passenger's voucher entitling him to purchase a reduced-fare ticket for his return journey. The reduction accorded for the return trip is usually two fifths of the fare, and the ticket issued returning is faced" Delegate." When the certificate plan is authorized for a convention the passenger thus secures a fare and three fifths for the round trip. Party tickets (Form 18) are issued to groups of ten or more who wish to travel together. For use locally, a blank form of ticket is used, the number of persons covered being written therein, and, in addition, a special coupon is used, upon the face of which is a series of numbers, the one checked by the agent indicating the number of persons entitled to the party fare. The tickets may be one-way or |