Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1911 — Tickets Not Transferable. [ARTICLE]

Tickets Not Transferable.

The Brighton Railway company, which has just passed its seventieth anniversary, was, although not the first company to run an excursion train, the first one to run a regular service of such trains at low fares. Half a crown was the fare for a day trip to Brighton and back in the early '7os, but after a time the company found that it was losing money by the return halves being openly sold. Rathen than stop the cheap trains, however, it prosecuted the touts who crowded Brighton station and Importuned persons to sell or buy

return halves. It was successful and settled the important "question from the railway point of view that a ticket expresses a personal contract and is therefore not transferable.— London Chronicle. ,