Sorting Out 7,000,000 Tickets.

There was recently completed, says the London Daily News, the work associated with the London Underground's annual “clip,” and the task of sorting out the 7,000,000 tickets.

Uniformed men were in the subways of the Underground stations, giving a special clip to the tickets of passengers. One hundred and fifty different-shaped punches were employed, among them being a heart, a spade, a diamond, a club, a shield, a square, and a circle.

The object of the test was to discover how passengers are using the Underground for travelling from point to point.

“We are able to find out,” said an official, “if people are going by the shortest routes. It assists us to cater more efficiently for the public by ascertaining their requirements.