. The Street railway journal . rves for admission to all amusement features andis used for purchase at all of the concessions let on thepercentage basis. In fact the only place on the groundswhere money can be spent direct or without first purchas-ing tickets is at a few of the smaller concessions paying a 122 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 4. fixed rental. Tickets are on sale at numerous booths, theticket sellers in which are in the employ of the park com-pany. Tickets taken in by concessionaries upon being pre-sented to the cashier are cashed, after deducting the per-centage due the
. The Street railway journal . rves for admission to all amusement features andis used for purchase at all of the concessions let on thepercentage basis. In fact the only place on the groundswhere money can be spent direct or without first purchas-ing tickets is at a few of the smaller concessions paying a 122 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 4. fixed rental. Tickets are on sale at numerous booths, theticket sellers in which are in the employ of the park com-pany. Tickets taken in by concessionaries upon being pre-sented to the cashier are cashed, after deducting the per-centage due the company. The system of collecting the money from the ticket sel-lers and receipting for it is of interest. The ticket selleror agent is provided with a stub book of triple the end of the day the ticket seller makes up his re-mittance and enters the amount on each section of thetriple receipt. The agents receipt and the park superin-tendents stub are torn from the stub and turned in with DAILY REPORT OF TICKET SALES. DAILY RKP(3RT OF TICKET SALES Collections to the park superintendent. The superinten-dent, after checking the amount, certifies to its being cor-rect by signing the agents receipt, which is then returnedto the ticket seller. In transmitting the receipts by messenger a four-partreceipt is used. For convenience this is so made that twoof the receipts are doubled under the others and made outby the use of carbon paper. Of the four parts of the re-ceipt the ticket seller retains the managers stub, thepark cashier retains a stub and the other two portions arereceipts given by the cashier to the park superintendentand the messenger. The ticket sellers accompany their remittance with adaily report of the tickets sold, which gives the openingand closing numbers of the tickets, the number of eachprice ticket sold and the gross and net revenue. From thereturns of the several features the daily receipts from allsources are totaled. Another report is made out daily
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