Suggestions for Securing Rates to the General Conference
A RATE of a fare and one third on the certificate plan has been secured for all attending the General Conference to be held at Washington, D. C., May 11-30.
The following directions are submitted:—
1. Tickets at full fare for the going journey may be secured within three days prior to, and during the first three days of, the meeting. Consequently tickets may be purchased not earlier than May 8, nor later than May 13. Be sure that, when purchasing your going ticket, you request a certificate. Do not make the mistake of asking for a receipt.
2. Present yourself at the railroad station for ticket and certificate at least thirty minutes before departure of train.
3. Certificates are not kept at all stations. If you inquire at your station, you will find out whether certificates and through tickets to Washington can be obtained. If not, the agent will inform you at what station they may be procured. You should then purchase local ticket to nearest station where certificate and through ticket can be obtained. By applying early, your agent may be able to secure ticket and certificate for you. It will be well to make early arrangements with your agent, that there may be no disappointment at the last moment.
4. On your arrival at the meeting, deposit your certificate with the writer at the office of the General Conference.
5. A special agent representing the railroads will be in attendance to validate certificates May 18. A fee of 25 cents will be collected for each certificate validated. If you arrive at the meeting and leave for home prior to May 18, or if you arrive later than that date, you can not have your certificate validated, and consequently you will not get the benefit of the reduction on the home journey. No refund of fare will be made on account of failure to have certificate validated.
6. It is understood that the reduction on return journey is contingent on an attendance of not less than one hundred persons holding certificates obtained from ticket agents at starting-points, showing payment of full first-class fare of not less than seventy-five cents on going journey.
7. If the necessary number is in attendance, and your certificate is duly validated, you will be entitled, up to June 2, to a continuous passage ticket to your home at one third the limited fare.
8. The foregoing regulations and benefits have been provided for those desiring to attend the meeting of the General Conference from points in the United States east of Cheyenne, Wyo., including all points in Colorado, and that portion of Canada lying within the Central Passenger Association territory.
9. Those living at distances too great to make the trip in three days, may be given the opportunity to purchase tickets at such time as will enable them to reach Washington at the opening of the meeting. Such arrangements should be attended to beforehand with local agent.
SPECIAL TO MINISTERS
Trip permits are not issued for clergy tickets on roads east of Chicago and St. Louis or north of the Ohio River. Annual clergy permits are issued only to ordained ministers living within the territory of the association. The clergy rate granted by the roads south of the Ohio River is two cents a mile. Those holding clergy permits who reside in the Western States could use such for the purchase of tickets to Chicago or St. Louis, and repurchase on the certificate plan from those points to Washington.
Those holding clergy permits who reside in the Central Passenger Association territory, may repurchase tickets at Buffalo, Pittsburg, or the usual Ohio River points to Washington.
The writer will be glad to furnish any further information that may be needed. However, it would be well to preserve these suggestions for reference. By carefully complying with the same, no one should have any trouble in securing the desired rates.
W. T. BLAND,
Transportation Agent for Gen. Conf.Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
