. Electric railway journal . Agents tickets issued to local agents are kept in the general pas-senger agents office in a loose-leaf book, several leavesfrom which are reproduced in Fig. I. The separate sheetsare about 17% in. long by 12 in. wide. The left-handportion of the leaf, comprising about one-third of the sheet,is used for a record of tickets received from the column headings provide for entering the date re-ceived, name of firm which did the printing, the com-mencing number, closing number and number of tickets group of sheets for any one station contains the recordsfor ev
. Electric railway journal . Agents tickets issued to local agents are kept in the general pas-senger agents office in a loose-leaf book, several leavesfrom which are reproduced in Fig. I. The separate sheetsare about 17% in. long by 12 in. wide. The left-handportion of the leaf, comprising about one-third of the sheet,is used for a record of tickets received from the column headings provide for entering the date re-ceived, name of firm which did the printing, the com-mencing number, closing number and number of tickets group of sheets for any one station contains the recordsfor every form of ticket handled at that station readingto all other stations. At the present time on the OneidaRailway the greatest number of different forms handled atany one station does not exceed 30, and the loose leaves,which are 12 in. deep, permit 36 index cuts on the more than 30 forms are handled at any station, it wouldbe necessary to increase the depth of the sheet from topto bottom or else make narrower Fig. 2.—Group of Loose Leaves for Keeping Records of Tickets Supplied to Agents and Daily Sales in the shipment. The balance of the sheet is used for therecord of tickets supplied to agents and gives the dateissued, name of agent to whom issued, invoice number, com-mencing number, closing number and number of tickets sup-plied to the agent. Each sheet therefore provides a con-stant inventory of the supply of each form of ticket general passenger agent can tell just how many ticketsof any form are on hand at any time by comparing the clos- The same method of indexing could be secured by theuse of tabs or projections along the edge, but it is believedthat the system of cutting the edges gives a more conve-nient and a neater arrangement. Fig. 2 is a reproduction of a group of sheets from therecord of sales book, which is kept on practically thesame system, except that the index is at the left-hand left-hand side of the sheet gives the reco
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