Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — “Madam, How Old is Your Son?” Is Conductor’s Question. [ARTICLE]

“Madam, How Old is Your Son?” Is Conductor’s Question.

Railroad officials are engaged in the effort to prevent the abuse of the age'limit for free transportation for children on steam roads. It is suspected that ninety times out of a hundred the parent with a six or seven year old child will tell the conductor that the little one is only five. W. G. Crush, general passenger agent o-f the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road, has supplied the conductors on his trains with pads of blank forms for getting the written statement of the parent who is trying to pass his offspring as a 5-yera-old, or if over five, less than 12 years old, and entitled to half fare rates. The conductor presents one of these blanks to a parent, with the remark that the question will be settled by J he interstate commence commission. Tn most cases the parent pays the fare rather than sign the paper. Other lines are adopting the plan.