. Electric railway journal . suing of such checks shouldbe accomplished through a mechanical device rather machine for a zone-mile system, it was decided, shouldbe built so as to accomplish the following results: 1. Issue only one ticket at a time; the ticket being pre-sented to the passenger somewhat after the fashion ofthe ticket-issuing device described. 2. That while the tickets themselves would be num-bered serially and therefore a check would be had onthe number issued, the device should register consecu-tively the number of tickets issued, so that it would bepossible to check off the op
. Electric railway journal . suing of such checks shouldbe accomplished through a mechanical device rather machine for a zone-mile system, it was decided, shouldbe built so as to accomplish the following results: 1. Issue only one ticket at a time; the ticket being pre-sented to the passenger somewhat after the fashion ofthe ticket-issuing device described. 2. That while the tickets themselves would be num-bered serially and therefore a check would be had onthe number issued, the device should register consecu-tively the number of tickets issued, so that it would bepossible to check off the opening and closing number oftickets issued, just as is now customarily done by con-ductors in taking off the opening and closing numberof the totalizer on fare registers. 3. That but one form of ticket should be used. Amachine which would contain a roll of tickets for eachzone through which the car passed would be unwieldyin size, difficult to operate and confusing to the pas-senger. If only one form of ticket, however, is to. TWO TYPES OP FARE REGISTERS DEVELOPED FOR USE WITH FARE SYSTEM PROPOSED, ALSO CONDUCTORSKEY FOR LOCKING AND UNLOCKING REGISTER than to require the conductor or motorman to hand themto passengers boarding the car. Attention was naturallydirected to the ticket issuing device, now almost uni-versally used in moving picture establishments, familiarto almost everyone in the United States. These ma-chines, it will be remembered, are manipulated by aseries of push buttons, each of which regulates the issueof a certain number of tickets. If the button bearingthe figure 1, for example, is touched, the machine (whichis motor-driven) almost instantaneously throws oneticket through an aperture in the brass plate with whichit is covered. If the figure 2 is touched, two ticketsemerge. The familiarity of the public with such amethod of issue—that is to say, with the issue of ticketsin the manner in which these machines present them—■was considered to be a feature w
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