The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-06-17
Reduction Of Fare,

tive C ommittee hss addressed the fols
lowing circular to the Managers Of
the different railroads in the State, for
the purpose Of securing the reduction
Of fare on the occasion Of the State
Convention. We hope the circular
will have the desired effect, as BY This
arrangement, the number attending
the meetings viii be increased more
than one half it otherwise would be.
The Secretary win please notify us as
early as possible of the result Of each
application, that we may inform our
readers in due season.
CoLUMBus, Ohio, June 9Th, 1858.
To The President, Directors and iSH-
peintendents of The several Railroads
witkia Me Slate Of Ohio.
GENTLEMEN; The State Temper.
ance Executive Committee have been
requested by the Grand Division Of
the Sons Of Temperance for the State
of Ohio, to correspond with you seye-
rally, and collectively, if possible, on
the subject Of a reduction Of fare on
your several roads to persons attend.
H ing Mass Conventions for benevolent
or other purposes. aa EuJm
il We would, therefore, in accordance
with ou. instructions, most respect
Y fully represent, that the order passed
by the Railroad Companies, and at
present understood to be in force, re-
| quiring forty or more persons to be
! present upon any one train, in order
| to be benefited by the reduction Of
fare on such occasions, has been found,
| in practice, to work very unequally,
and probably, quite the reverse from
what it was expected by the compa-
MES themselves; for livery frequently
happens, that it is quite impossible
for all persons, residing in the direc-
\ tion of any one line Of the railroad to
| procure seats on the same train. The
time Of return, upon such occasions,
must of necessity vary very consider
\ ably; and though there may be a very
large number of delegates attending
u convention, it may harpen--as it
did at the last Temperance Conven-
tion--that not forty would be upon
\ the same train, at one and the same
time, although more than that num-
Der would pass over the same road, in
the same direction, at different times.
\ Anothey consideration is Of much
| more Importance, to wit: the certain
knowledge of persons leaving home
/ upon such excursions, as to what is
TO be the expense attending it. This
is particularly important on occasions
| Of Temperance Conventions. These
assemblages are purely philanthropic,
PecunialiIy or politically there is no
return expected or desired. Those
/ who leave their homes on such excur-
sions are, for the most part, men in
\ moderate circumstances. They have
no sinister object in view. They are
obliged to economic, and if they leave
home expecting, under the arrange
ment of the railroad companies, to be
transported at half the usual fare, and
find on trial that this expectation is
not realized, is often to them very
serious inconvenience, not to say in
Il justice.
But the committee beg leave to sug-
/ gest, that the uncertainty of the con-
\ tingency on which the companies now
H agree to reduction of fare, will and
must prevent very large numbers from
attending any public gathering on any
occasion; and this consideration alone
\ renders nugatory the principal object
Of proposed reduction Of fare, to
wit: an augmentation Of numbers in
attendance. ro.
/ Now the committee beg leave to
announce, that arrangements have