Just A Freeze Out, That's All

From all tliat The Deinocrat can learn rom tliose wlio use large amounts of railroad "mileage," the uew interchangeable mileage ticket is not hkely to bècome popular. ïlie iuterchangeable feature is about all there is to recoinmend it. The ticket is so weighted down with conditions and exactions that people prefer to buy the old style of mileage and deal eeparately with the different roads with wliich they fiud it uecessary to do business.- Democrat. But yon can not buy thousand niile bnnks on anv of these roads but the Ann Arbor. The M. C, the M. S. & L. S., and other roads liave called in all of their mileage tickets, and will hereafter sell nothing but the interchangeable mileage. And ander the restriction with which those are sold, with 3 cents per mile for each raie of them given outright in their own hands, do you think for a minute they will f.. il to show, in alniost every instance, soine infringment of the contract? By the new system the man wtio buys a ticket signs a cupou in the presence of the agent. This is torn off and sent to the geueral ticket office. A!l tlie strips used irom the books must have a signature to eorrespond to the one on the cupon, and tliere is no signature on the milage book to copy from. If there is any discrepancy the $10 extra, deposited when the ticket is bought is forfeited. As a railroad man remarked a few days since, " That interchaugeable mileage is a delusion. It is sitnply a soheine of the big roads combined in the Central traffic associatión to freeze out the sealpers. And while ït no doubt will go a long way toward doing that, yet when the general traveling public come to understand its workings there will be a great howl of indignation, and the railroads will be dainned up hill and down."