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December 25th, 1897.

Mr. Joseph S. Hall, 

Michigan Passenger Agent, Michigan Central Railroad Co.,
Detroit, Michigan.

Dear sir: 

Replying to your courteous note of December 23rd. The facts in the case are as follows.

As usual, my clerk went to the Union Ticket Office and asked for ticket and sleeping for accommodations for me on your North Shore Limited train leaving Detroit December 14th. Later in the day and during a very busy hour he handed me my tickets, and now says that he informed me then that there was no vacant space in the compartment car and that he had consequently procured a section for me. I however, had an impression in which I seem to have been wrong, that in the event of there being a vacant room in the compartment car, it would be marked on the diagram as reserved for me and would be exchanged for the section. When the train and sleeping car conductor came around I asked if there was a vacant room in the Compartment Car. The Conductor replied that there was, but that he had telegraphed the vacancies to St. Thomas, and that if I wished to stay up until after the train passed St. Thomas and if the vacancies were not taken at that station. I could have one of the rooms. As it has been the practice of my clerk to arrange, as named above, for me to have a compartment room, if there are any vacant, I supposed he has done so in this instance and so named to the Conductor. Later the Conductor came back to my car and stated that he would advise me to take one of the rooms, running the risk of being called at St. Thomas, and I