In those days workers never traveled on passenger trains unless they could get a pass.

Judges and statesmen pursued the same policy.

To pay for a ticket was money thrown away; so thought the upper classes and the lower classes.

About the only people that paid car fare were the Knights of Pythias on their way to their annual convention.

Railroad workers could get all the passes they wanted, and any toiler whose sister had married a brakeman or whose second cousin was a conductor "bummed" the railroad for a pass and got it.