Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1899 — Bicycles Carried Free. [ARTICLE]

Bicycles Carried Free.

Bicycles will be carried free by all railroads running east from Chicago. The plan to levy a uniform charge in every part of the country for carrying bicycles has been voted down by the railroads running between Pittsburg, Buffalo and New York, known as the trunk lines. This action forces the lines between Pittsburg, Buffalo and Chicago to drop their original scheme. The refusal of the eastern roads to make charge was not optional, for they were forced to do so by reason of the fact that several of the Atlantic seaboard states, more particularly New York, have laws compelling roads to accept bicycles free. The Monon has always carried bicycles fre6, and probably will continue to so, no notice to chafge for them having been received by the station agents.