home station, the agent will inform you at what station they can be 

 obtained. You can in such case purchase a local ticket thence, and 

 there purchase through ticket and secure certificate to place of meet- 

 ing. Be sure that, when purchasing your going ticket, you request 

 a certificate. Do not make the mistake of asking for a receipt. 



4. On your arrival at the meeting, present your certificate to Mr. 

 F. S. Hazard, assistant secretary, A. A. A. S. It has been arranged 

 that the special agent of the Trunk Line Association will be in attend- 

 ance at the office of the Permanent Secretary, to validate certificates 

 daily (9 a. m. to 6 p. m.) from Monday, December 29, 1913, to Satur- 

 day, January 3, 1914, both dates incluvsive. A fee of 25 cents will be 

 charged at the meeting for each certificate validated. If you arrive at 

 the meeting and leave for home prior to the special agent's arrival, 

 or if you arrive at the meeting later than January 3, after the special 

 agent has left, you cannot have your certificate validated, and conse- 

 quently you will not get the benefit of the reduction on the home 

 journey. No refund of fares will he made on account of failure to have 

 certificate validated. 



If the necessary minimum of 200 certificates is presented, and your 

 certificate is duly validated, you will be entitled, up to and including 

 January 7, 1914, to a continuous passage ticket to your destination 

 via the route over which you made the going journey, at three-fifths 

 of the limited fare. 



The Southeastern Passenger Association has published Joint Tariff 

 No. Exc. 5796, I. C. C. No. F-2402 (in effect December 27, 28 and 

 29, 1913), for excursion fares to Atlanta and return covering practi- 

 cally all railroad lines in its territory. Reasonable concessions are 

 indicated therein. 



The Southwestern Passenger Association offers no special rate, 

 but suggests that members take advantage of the regular Christmas 

 Holiday excursion rates to points in the Southeast. 



The Western Passenger Association states that the fares in a large 

 part of its territory are now on the ba sis of two cents a mile, which 

 affords practically the same reduction as was formerly granted on 

 the certificate plan. 



From the States of California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and 

 West of and including Mission Junction, B. C; also from what are 

 known as Kootenay common points, namely. Nelson, Rossland, 

 Sandon, Kaslo and Grand Forks, B. C, the Transcontinental Passen- 

 ger Association has on sale daily Nine-Months Tourist fares, approx- 

 imating two cents a mile in each direction. The nine-months fares 



