US348596A - Railway passenger-tariff and distance guide-book - Google Patents

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(Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 1.

S. F. STEVENS.

RAILWAY PASSENGER TARIFE AND DISTANCE GUIDE BooK.

No. 348,596. Patented Sept. '7, 886.

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(Model.) 3 SheetS-Sheet 2.

S. P. STEVENS.

RAILWAY PASSENGER TARIFE AND DISTANCE GUIDE BOOK.

No. 348,596. Patented Spt. '7, 1886.

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3 Sheets-Sheet 3. S. I. STEVENS.

RAILWAY PASSENGER TARIIIEl AND DISTANCE GUIDE 1300K. No. 348,596.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL FREDERICK STEVENS, OF NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS.`

RAILWAY PASSENGER-TARlFF AND DISTANCE GUIDE-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,596, dated September 7, 1886.

Application filed October 28, 1885. Serial No. 181,164. (Model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, SAMUEL FREDERICK STEVENS, of the town of North Adams, county of Berkshire, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway Passenger- Tariff and Distance Guide- Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the arrangement of printed matter upon the pages of a railway passenger-tariff and distance guide-book for the use of railway conductors and others; and in most of its features my invention consists of certain improvements upon the invention for a like purpose that is shown in an application for Letters Patent' made by me, and filed in the United States }?atent Office, October 3, 1885, and also upon the invention illustrated and described in Letters Patent No. 310,329, dated January 6, 1885.

In the application for Letters Patent before named the arrangement of the printed matter was combined with a book having a iiy-index cut upon its pages,to contain the names of the railroad-stations, and with matter upon the pages, where opened at the index stations, which gave the relative distances, and fares from the index stations to other stations.

By my improvelnent, as will be more fully detailed in connection with its illustration, I dispense with the fly-index cut upon the pages of the book, and arrange a single index-page upon which are printed the main-line-station names in their order in column, and alongside of the latter a column of branch-road stations. Todesignate the index stations thus placed, so that a series of the stations may be grouped for reference, to one page of thev book, each consecutive two of the stationnames of the main-line and branch column (excepting the terminal station at the top of the main list) are inclosed, where transversely opposite, by brackets, with the number of the bookpage containing the fares and distances between either of these four stations thus grouped consecutively, and the other stations are printed opposite the brackets inclosing them. The matter upon the pages other than the indexpage is arranged with reference to the index stations about the same, as in the application for Letters Patent made by me, now on ile and pending, as before named.

Accompanying this specication, to form a part of it, there are three plates of drawings containing three figures illustrating my invention, with thesame desiguationol` thearrangement of the subjectmatter used in all the ligures.

Of the illustrations, Figure l shows the book open at the index page. Fig. 2 shows it opened at page 15, and Fig. 3 shows it as opened at page 19, the arrangement of matter being the same on all the pages of the book but the index-page.

The arrangement of the several parts of printed matter employed in carrying out my invention are designated by letter-reference, and their connected use is described as follows:

The letter I designates the index-page, and this page contains a column ofmain-line-station names andfM, a column of branch station names, N. Allthe station-names in both columns of index stations (excepting the terminal main-line station,in this instance designated as Albany) are grouped in pairs by brackets in each column, where transversely opposite, so that there are four station-names grouped in each set of index stations. Opposite the brackets of each column which connects each consecutive two names of the stations therein is printed the number of the page containing the printed matter relating to the fares and distances from each of the four index stations thus designated and the other stations. Thus 15 is the page-number opposite the two sta tionnames Schenectady and Branch,77 of the main-line column, and iigure 15 is op' posite the grouped two station-names of the branch column. So we readrr that page 15 contains the distances between these stations and the other branch and main-line stations.

Upon what is each right-hand page of the book where open there is arranged a column ot' main-line-station names in their order. This column is indicated at D, and alongside of it is a column of branchroad stations designated at C, and arranged on the outer edge of the page. Upon the inner side of the righthand page, when the book is open, there is a column of figures, F, which, when transversely opposite, give the fares and distances between the lower one of the index-branch stations (Ausable in this instance) and each succeeding branch station. Thus, from Ausa- IOO ble to Salmon River the distance is fifteen miles, the fare seventy-tive cents, these being the iigures in column F transversely opposite Salmon River. Upon the same right-hand page of the book is another column of figures, E, which, where transversely opposite, give the fares and distances between the lower one of the branch-index stations (Au sable in this instance) and each of the mainline stations in column D. Thus, the fare from Ausable to Albany is seven dollars and ten cents, the distance one hundred and eighty-eight miles, these being the Iigures in column E that are transversely opposite the station-name Albany Upon each left-hand page of the book where open there is a column of figures, G, which, where transversely opposite, give the throughfares between the upper branch index station (on this page it being Plattsburgh) and each succeeding branch station in column G. Thus, from Plattsburgh to Ferona the distance is seventeen miles, the fare eightyive cents, the latter lbeing the figures in column Gopposite Ferona Upon each left-hand page there is another column of figures, J, which, where transversely opposite, give the fare and distance between the upper index branch station (for this page 15 being Plattsburgh) and each of the main-line stations. Thus, from Plattsburgh to Troy the distance is one hundred and sixty-two miles, the fare iive dollars and ninety cents, these being the iigures in column J that are transversely opposite Troy in the main-line column D.

Upon each right-hand page of the book where open, and immediately beneath the column F thereof, there is a column of iigures, R, giving the fares and distances between the inner one of each of the main-lineindex station groups, which at page l5, and as shown in the index-page designating the reference-page, is Branch, and each succeedingmain-line station. Thus between Branch and Ganesvoort77 the fare is eighty cents, the distance twenty-five miles, these being the figures in column R, which are transversely opposite the station-name Ganesvoort The letter P designates a column of iigures arranged beneath the column G, giving the fares and distances between the upper one of the mainline-station names of each indexgroup and main-line-station names in the same column below it. Thus the distance from Schenectady to Saratoga is twenty-two miles, the fare eighty cents, the lat-ter being the iigures transversely opposite Saratoga in column P. As the numbers of the pages rise numerically, the length of the column G and F shorten from the bottom upwardly, and

hence it becomes convenient to insert the column P beneaththat indicated at G and the column R beneath the column F, for the columns P and R increase inlength from the bottom upwardly, as the numbers of the pages decrease numerically just as fast as the columns G and F shorten upwardly from the bottom under the same conditions numerically.

For convenience of reference the stationnames of each index-group are placed at the heads of the columns of fares and distances, where in determining the latter they are initial stations upon the page.

l disclaim herein a book made with a iiyindex and containing pages to which the iudex stations refer, having columns of figures giving fares and distances between said index stations and other stations.

Vhile I have shown my invention as applied to the Delaware St Hudson vroad and its Canada branch road, myinvention can be applied to any other road, as the manner of arranging the matter constitutes my invention instead of the matter which I use in illustrating it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

A railway passenger tariii and distance guide-book having an index page arranged therein and containing a column ot' main-linestation names and a column of branch-roadstation names side by side, with all stationnames of both columns but'the iirst stationname of the main-line column grouped into consecutive series of four stations each, each group being composed of two mai n-line and two branch-line stations, which,where in couples, are transversely opposite,with the number of the reference-page which gives the distances ICO and fares between these index stations and other stations printed opposite each group, and said reference-pages to which the indexnumbers refer, each having acolumn of mai nline and a column of' branch line stations printed thereon side by side, and columns of figures, which, where transversely opposite, give the fares and distances between each of the said index branch-road stations and other branch-road -stations and main-line stations upon each page, and columns of figures which give the fares and distances between each of said mainline-index stations and other mainline stations, as shown and described.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 3d day of October, 1885, and in the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

SAMUEL FREDERICK STEVENS. lVitnesses: CHARLEs S. BRINTNALL, GEO. A. DARBY.

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