. The street railway review . with the parent or guar-dian ; hut never to eject a passenger for this cause. On anumber of roads, however, where this trouble is more fre-quent, the orders to conductors are somewhat more strin-gent. One road writes: Our experience is that the parentor guardian will never admit that a child is over years ofage and voluntarily pay a fare for it, but wait for the con-ductor to demand the fare. We expect our conductors, whenin their judgment they consider a child six years of age, orover, to collect a fare, and the judgment of our conductors UNION TRACTION COMP
. The street railway review . with the parent or guar-dian ; hut never to eject a passenger for this cause. On anumber of roads, however, where this trouble is more fre-quent, the orders to conductors are somewhat more strin-gent. One road writes: Our experience is that the parentor guardian will never admit that a child is over years ofage and voluntarily pay a fare for it, but wait for the con-ductor to demand the fare. We expect our conductors, whenin their judgment they consider a child six years of age, orover, to collect a fare, and the judgment of our conductors UNION TRACTION COMPANY. HALF-FARE SCHOLARS TICKET—NOT TRANSFERABLE. Theite tirtrta air innued upon thefollowino concHtionn: Good only ioT fare of person to whom iseuecl and between the followinghours : 7:00 a. m. to H-M a. 11:30 a. m. to 1:00 p. ;^:30 p. m. to 5:(X) , onSchool Pays. Not cnod on Sjiturdays. Sundays, Holidays or during tickets will not be accepted for fares. ISSUED TO AND FOR SOLE USE OF .jYo^ 225. FIG. 6. tickets from this book for fares only between hours namedon front hereof, and for person to whom this book is last ticket is used from this book return the backto the office. A special method of handling /2 fare passengers is in useon the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway Co., of WebbCity, Mo., which is as follows: The conductors buy fromthe office a pad of yi fare tickets—20 in a pad—for whichthey pay $1. These tickets are sold on the cars to yi farepassengers at 5 cents each, and the conductor punches theticket and hands it to the passenger but does not ring upthe 5 cents received. The punched /-fare ticket is thengood for another ride when presented by a passenger, from5 to 12 years of age, and it is then rung up and turned inby the conductor receiving it. These tickets are illustratedin Figure 2. They measure 3J^ in. by Ij4 i-, and are print-ed in black on yellow paper. The most troublesome feature of carrying children, either
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