Untitled

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 291, 7 December 1900, Page 2

A man twenty-one years old, who was travelling recently on a. Santa fe train, presented the return coupon.or; a child's half-rate ticket for transppr-,, tation from San Francisco to KaßS!i» v , City. He had bought the ticket eleva» years ago, and as it was unlimited w» to time he claimed the right to wb the ticket on his return trip. .Tli» railroad officials, on, the other han<s, argued that, as it 'was a half-raW ticket good for a child under twtft*^ years of age, he, a man of twenty?' ; ono, could not ride on '-it. The cw*;.' tract on the back of the ticket 'di^ not specify that the child was to stojvv growing,, however,, and now the ques* - tion is, Can the young man conipe* the railroad to carry him on.' tliat ticket? * i - ■