Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1893 — Aluminum Tickets. [ARTICLE]

Aluminum Tickets.

A Michigan street railway has inaugurated the use of aluminum tickets. It has just made its first issue of these light and ornamental tokens, which are about the size of a silver quarter-dollar. One is round, for the ordinary fare; the other octagonal for children. The adult’s ticket is sold by the railroad company to the public at the rate of six for a quarter and the child’s ticket at the rate of ten tor a quarter. The railroad company does not allow its employes, either conductors or motormcn, to sell the tickets to the public, but disposes of them in flO lots to several storekeepers who handle them.