Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1889 — “Try Not the Pass.” [ARTICLE]

“Try Not the Pass.”

Having had some dealings with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which proved very satisfactory to all concerned, a well-known citizen remarked to a very pleasant official: “Now, I will take a run to Washington; just •give me a pass.” The official, not large physically but immense quizzically, said, “Certainly.” In less time than it takes to tell it, the citizen was comfortably seated in the parlor car. The handsomely uniformed conductor entered as the train was rolling around the big curve at Kidgley street. “Tickets!” he said. The neatly folded pass was produced by the citizen. The conductor seemed puzzled. Then the “pass” was handed politely back. The following is the pass: “To all toll-gate keepers on the Washington pike Pass him free, his name is 'O’Leary.” The fair was paid.— Baltimore Sun,