Notes on the Collection of Transfers

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Notes on the Collection of Transfers

Frank Folupa (W. J. Sidis)

Philadelphia, Dorrance and Company [©1926]
xi, [1], 13-306 p. illus. (incl. maps) diagrs. 20 cm.

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Kindly contributed by Leon Hansen from his Sidis collection.

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Compliments of Jay Dillon Books

"Author recommends that the Reader, after going through this Introduction, skip and read the end of the book first, and gradually work back toward the beginning as references and contexts suggest."

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION	Click chapters to open.
PART I	THE RIGHT OF TRANSFER
CHAPTER I	TRANSFERS IN GENERAL
1	What Is Included
2	Vehicles Giving Transfers
CHAPTER II	TRANSFER PRIVILEGES
3	Transfer Privileges in General
4	The Universal Transfer Privilege
5	The Special Transfer Privilege
6	The Restricted Transfer Privilege
7	Central Districts
8	Continuation Privileges
CHAPTER III	FARES
9	Prepayment Stations
10	Payment of Fares
11	Notation for Fare Rates
CHAPTER IV	REVERSIBILITY
12	Reversibility of Fares
13	Reversibility of Transfers
14	Reversibility as an Aid in Collection
CHAPTER V	FARE LIMITS AND OVERLAPS
15	Fare Limits
16	Overlap Receipts as Transfers
17	Effect of Overlap on Transfer Privileges
18	The Overlap Transfer Privilege
CHAPTER VI	CIRCUMSTANCES OF ISSUE
19	Issuance of Transfers
20	Passenger Using Transfer

21	Fares Paid for Transfer
22	Repeat Transfers
23	Reversibility of Repeats
CHAPTER VII	SYSTEMS AND SUB-SYSTEMS
24	Companies and Systems
25	Notation for Systems
26	Sub-Systems
27	Inter-Company Transfers
PART II	CONTENTS OF TRANSFERS
CHAPTER VIII	TRANSFER TICKETS
28	General Appearance of Tickets
29	Transfer Inscriptions
30	Transfer Conditions
31	Endorsed Matter
CHAPTER IX	TRANSFER FORMS
32	What Constitutes Separate Forms
33	Issues of Transfers
34	Vestigial Forms
35	Punches and Listings
36	Types and Devices
CHAPTER X	DATING OF TRANSFERS
37	What Constitutes Dating
38	The Date-Number Surcharge
39	Month Surcharge
40	Surcharge of Complete Date

41	Date-Code Surcharge
42	Color Check on dating
43	Jumbled Dating
44	Undated Forms
CHAPTER XI	TRANSFER TIME LIMITS
45	Elements of a Time Limit
46	Old Type Time Limits
47	Slight Variations of Old-Type Time Limits
48	Owl Time Limits
49	Dial Time Limits
50	Stamped Time Limits
51	Attached Coupons as Indicating Time Limits
52	Absence of Time Limit
53	Effect of Time Limit
CHAPTER XII	THE HALF-DAY ON TRANSFERS
54	Combination of Half-Day With Time Limit
55	Separate Punch for the Half-Day
56	Combination of Half-Day With Other Items
57	A.M. and P.M. Surcharges
58	Separate Half-Day Forms
59	Indication of Half-Day by Attached Coupons
60	Distinction Between A.M. and P.M.

CHAPTER XIII	ROUTES
61	Difference of Routes
62	Naming of Routes
63	Company Numbering and Lettering of Routes
64	Naming of Directions
65	Naming and Numbering of Divisions
66	Number of Lines in Cities
67	Notation for Routes and Divisions
CHAPTER XIV	TRANSFER ISSUING UNITS
68	What Constitutes a Transfer- Issuing Unit
69	What may Be Transfer-Issuing Units
70	Indication of Transfer-Issuing Unit
71	Wording of Issuing Unit on Transfers
72	Baltimore Type of Transfer
73	Section of the Issuing Unit
74	Attached Coupons Indicating Initial Fare Limit
75	Transfer-Receiving Units
76	Notation for Transfer-Issuing Unit
CHAPTER XV	CONDITIONS OF PLACE
77	Varieties of Conditions of Place
78	Implication of Receiving Conditions
79	Wording of Receiving Conditions
80	Punching and Listing of Conditions of Acceptance
81	Additions and Exceptions

82	Explanation of Punches
83	Other Endorsed Conditions
84	Parallel Columns
85	Combination of Receiving Conditions With Other Conditions
86	Direction Punches
87	The Square-Box Type
CHAPTER XVI	MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
88	Indication of Repeats
89	Use of Original Transfer for repeat
90	Emergency and Continuation Indications
91	Forms Not Giving Actual Transferral
92	Classes of Transfers
93	Form Numbers
94	Serial Numbers
95	Conductor's Numbers and Run Numbers
96	Issuing and Receiving Punches
CHAPTER XVII	STANDARD TYPES
97	The Ham Type
98	The Pope Types
99	The Smith Type
100	The Moran Type
101	The Franklin Rapid Transfer
102	Stedman transfers
CHAPTER XVIII	COLORING OF TRANSFERS
103	Color Schedules
104	Individual Coloring

105	Uniform Coloring
106	Variable Color Schedules
107	Coloring Based on Class of Transfer
108	Coloring Based on Half-Day
109	Coloring Based on Issuing Direction
110	Combination of Different Kinds of Schedules
PART III	COLLECTING TRANSFERS
CHAPTER XIX	COLLECTION IN GENERAL
111	Direct Collection
112	Separate Forms
113	Tickets and Receipts
114	New Issues
115	Incomplete Transfers
CHAPTER XX	DERELICT TRANSFERS
116	What Is a Derelict
117	Separate Forms
118	Handling Derelicts
119	Cleaning and Patching Derelicts
120	Importance of Derelict Transfers in Collection
121	Souvenir Transfers
CHAPTER XXI	LOCAL EXPLORATION
122	Local Trolley and Bus Riding
123	Suburban and Interurban Riding
124	City Exits
125	Other Modes of Travel

126	Points to be Noticed by the Collector
CHAPTER XXII	ARRANGEMENT OF COLLECTION
127	Grouping of Transfer Forms
128	Transfer Envelopes
129	Labelling the Envelopes
130	Filling Envelopes
131	Division of Envelopes
132	Duplicate Collections
133	Keeping Count of a Collection
CHAPTER XXIII	INDEXING THE COLLECTION
134	File Numbers for Transfers
135	Record of File Code
136	Order of Filing Transfers
137	General Index
138	Index of Hints
139	Index of Duplicates
140	"Bad Condition" Index
141	Summary of Transfer Indexing
142	Special Type Index
CHAPTER XXIV	READING TRANSFERS
143	Interest in Reading transfers
144	Transfers as Auxiliary Street Guides
145	Company Connections
146	Noticeable Factors in Reading Transfers

147	Tracing Form Resemblances
CHAPTER XXV	MAPS AND GUIDES
148	Use of Local Maps and Guide Books
149	Transfer Maps of Systems
150	Distribution Maps
151	Census Guides
152	Information Leaflets and Time Schedules
CHAPTER XXVI	TRANSFER HUNTING OPPORTUNITIES
153	Transfer Hunting from Various Cities
154	Opportunities for Collection from New York
155	Opportunities for Collection from Cleveland
156	Opportunities for Collection from Los Angeles
157	Transfer Collecting While Travelling
CHAPTER XXVII	MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST
158	General Interest in Transfer Collection
159	Historical Interest
160	Anecdotes and Verse
161	Conclusion
	APPENDICES
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D

APPENDIX E
APPENDIX F
APPENDIX G	[DESIGN FOR TRANSFER ENVELOPE]

LC Control Number:	26008226
Type of Material:	Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Brief Description:	[Sidis, William James], 1898- [from old catalog] Notes on the collection of transfers. Philadelphia, Dorrance and company [c1926] xi, [1], 13-306 p. illus. (incl. maps) diagrs. 20 cm.


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Sun., June 20, 1926, p8.

YOUTHFUL PRODIGIES AT GENIUS MEETING

"Mother" Stoners' League Holds First Patrons' Gathering at Bird Home in Tuckahoe.

CHILD AUTHOR AS HOSTESS

Caroline Bird, 9, Entertains Other Famous Youngsters―Transfer Collector Speaks.
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Special to the New York Times.

TUCKAHOE, N. Y., June 19.―The first of a series of Genius-Patron Mêtes, under the auspices of the League for Fostering Genius, was held this afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hobart S. Bird, the hostess of the afternoon being Carolina Bird, the nine-year-old author and orator.

Winifred Sackville Stoner, who is called "Mother" Stoner by her friends and who is the founder of the league, explained the object of the gathering, which is to emulate the ancient Grecian custom of bringing wealthy people and aspiring young geniuses together.

Frank Folupa of Boston, who has made a hobby of the collection of street car transfers and has gone into the history of the various types and kinds and uses of transfers, was a speaker.

Among the youthful prodigies introduced this afternoon were Paul Gest, ten-year-old nephew of Morris Gest, who came from Russia a year ago and has written several children's plays; Elizabeth Benson, the twelve-year-old daughter of Anne Austin, the writer, who is ready to enter college; Bobbie Kanovlas, three-year-old son of Dr. John Kanovlas of Brooklyn, who demonstrated his knowledge of music by giving the history and principal themes of a number of operas and who has composed music.

Others were June, 6 years old, and Dorothea, 9, daughters of Schuyler Patterson, the author, who have shown literary talent; Emma Lord, composer of children's music; David Farjeon, ten-year-old composer and pianist; Elizabeth Rollent, eleven-year-old dancer; Elizabeth Willguss and Jean Wilson, two twelve-year-old authors.

Among the older people present today were Claribel Fontaine, actress, and Gertrude Boyle, the sculptress; Orcella Rexford, who spoke upon her research work in the use of colors to express personality and to bring out the latent personality of people who consult her.

"Mother" Stoner expressed her satisfaction at the success of the gathering and said that she hoped that other philanthropically inclined persons would become interested in the work of the league, of which Dr. Frank Snow is President.

"Surely there is no better way in which to spend one's millions," she said in her talk, "than in helping the divine spark to glow and to bring happiness to the world. It is a disgrace to humanity that any genius has been allowed to suffer for the necessities of life."

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