Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — EXCURSION RATES CONTINUOUS [ARTICLE]

EXCURSION RATES CONTINUOUS

Railways Not to Change Their Policy in This Matter in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. New York, July 25.—The policy of granting railroad excursion rates for special occasions in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois will be continued. This was decided at a meeting of representatives’ of the trunk lines concerned. Recent Igislation in the states mentioned fixed the maximum passenger rate at 2 cents per mile, and it .has been thought possible that the railroad would retaliate by making the maximum also the minimum rate, and so abandon the frequent fall excursions for which a mileage of less than 2 cents has been charged In past years. The whole matter was threshed out at a conference in the offices of the Erie railroad, and following the meeting President Underwood, of the Erie, said: “We decided not to change the present methods, each railroad being allowed to make whatever rates It may choose for this class of traffic. No other matter was considered.”