Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1910 — Size Settles Question of Fare. [ARTICLE]

Size Settles Question of Fare.

“Curloug,”safdan old railroad conductor to a New York Sun man, “how parents’ memories lapse Sometimes about the age of their children. But up at Bronx Park, in running the electric launches that ply from the boathouse there on the Bronx river, they have a fare system that avoids all such mistakes and does away with any necessity of remembering on the part of parents whatever. On these boats the fare for adults and children over four feet in height is ten cents, for children under four feet InJheight, five cents. There’s a that seems to be simplicity Itselv don’t you think? You never have to ask how old a child is, you go by the child's height, regardless of age, and I don’t know but' what that system might be applied to advantage on railroads. , You could just have a fourfoot mark* on the jamb of the door through which passed, and just back the child up against that mark. It would take far Ims time than the talk now necessary In arguing about the child’s age.”