, 1873-01-05

] petitioner to collect from the passengers such
BUNS ns are usual on competing lines furnishing
! equal accommodations such rules and regula-
tions to be further mutually agreed on as will
favor the renting Of seats and couches; tho
railroad companies to sell the tickets Of the car
company in their ticket offices; tho petitioner
fnrn ISL drawing-room aud sleeping-cars oror
such railroads; the railroads collecting their
fares from passengers in such cars tho samo as
from passengers in their own. Further, that
the Company WAS. on the 1sb> april, 1872, the
owner Of II such cars running into the City
Of Chicago, which cars, it claims, were not
liable to taxation as against the petitioner, each
of them on that day being operated under said
agreements. managed, controlled, and in actual
uso by tho said railroad companies, and liable to
be taxed against the latter, as portion Of tLer
rolling stock, under the statute. The petition
further ayers that the total value of all the por
sonal property. moneys and credits OF the Conf
pany liable to be taxed in Cook County on the
S57, $3.50, the total taxable value Of the cars
being S303 900, and tho pro rata value Of said
cars, according to the number OF miles run in
Cook County, az compared With the whole mum
Der Of miles run by them. 81. 6.411:so, they being
taxable only as rolling stock, and pro rata as
thus described.
The bill then goes on to furnish statistics.
Fourteen cara are run between Chicago and
Now York over the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and
Pennsylvnnia Central Railroads, a distance Of 9l2
miles, sixteen miles being in Cook County; I've
between Chicago and Philadelphia over the same
roads, q distance Of 82a miles. sixteen miles
being in Cook County; two between Chicago
Railroad, a distance Of 1853 miles, OF which si1-
teen are in Cook County; two between Chicago
aud Columbus, over the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati T.
St. Louis RAilroad, distance Of 343 miles,
twenty-two Of which are in Cook County: two
between Chicago and Cincinnati, by way Of LII
fayette, distance Of 800 miles, the came being
in Cook County; two between Chicago and
Cincinnati BY way Of Richmond, distance
Of 2sa miles, tho same mileage
chicsgo @ and New New York By Tay Of s the Michigan %
Central Railroad, distance of 948 miles, eigh-
toen being in Cook County seven between Chi
cage and Rochester,, New York, BY way Of the !
roads, distance Of 5s8 miles, the Same mileage
in Cook County two between Chicago and Do
troit, over tile Michigan Central Railroad dis |
tance Of 284 miles, same mIeage in Cook County |!
two between Chicago and Sarnia, over the same
railroad, $40 miles, same mileage in Cook County;
two between Chicago and Grand Rapids, same
railroad, 181 miles, Same mileage IN Cook t
County two between Chicago and Montague,
Bame railroad, 2o9 miles, same mileage in Cook
over the Chicago & Alton Railroad, $50 |
miles, 26 miles being in Cook County |
three between Chicago and Kansas City, /
8 ane railroad, 404 miles, Same mileage in Cook
way OF tho Chicago L. Northwestern Railroad,
49l miles, fourteen miles being in Cook County;
two between Chicago md Dutuque, same rail-
roaa, 183 miles. same mileage in Cook County;
two between Chicago and Cddar Rapids, over the
County two between Chicago and Green Bay,
same railroad, 2i2 miles, thirty lone miles being
in Cook County two between Chicago and ali1-
waukee, game railroad, IS miles, nineteen miles
ton, 1888 miles, same railroad, thirty miles
being in Cook County; three between Chicago