The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-02
m RAILROAD WAR.
Nevv Tactics BY the Baltimore &
OiliO-ROund Trip Tickets from
S'inelnnnfi to Chicago.

the Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania
Companies, but new moves have been
made by both companies at other points.
1t was ascertained at Camden Station yes
terday that the Baltimore s Ohio are now
selling cut rate round trip tickets At Chi
cago and Cincinnati. That is, travellers
wishing to 60 from either Of these cities
to Washington or Baltimore and return,
can purchase tickets for the entire jour
ney Tor $50, and To Philadelphia and re-
turn for S2i. These tickets, like all Issued
BY the Baltimore 4 Ohio, being good I'M
I'll used, svc being bought up by many
who contemplate visits TO Washington,
Baltimore or Philadelphia, and whose
business or pleasure will cause them to b.
absent from home for several weeks or
months. II, during their sOjOurn, the
war ceases, and passenger rates advance
to old figures, they have effected aconsid-
cradle saving by purchasing the cut rate
round trip tickets alluded to. The Penn
sylyaRia Company are debarred from
meeting this move Of the Baltimore q
Ohio, By taking similar action, Us their
tickets are limited to torty-eight hours.
An official Of the Pennsylvania COmpa.
ny stated yesterday that he had succeeded
in
MAKING THINGS LIVELY At HARPERs
FERRY,
or, in other words, had carried the war
into the enemy's country. He asserted
that the travel west from the Valley Of
Virginia always increased at this season
Of the year, and that the majority Of the
passengers started from Harper's Ferry.
The Baltimore & Ohio Company have
not reduced the rates from Harper's
Ferry, and tickets from that place TO st.
Louis, Chicago, or any other Western
city, cost Just as much now As they did
before the war. The regular rates for
Western tickets ria the Baltimore 4 Ohio
have, until the existing war commenced,
been the same. Hence it now comes to
pass tina. any one wishing to go to Chi
cago from Harper's Ferry has to pay Sl9
for ticket, while he can go from Balti-
more for so, the cut rate Of the Baltimore
& Ohio. The southeastern agent oil the
Pennsylvania Company,
SAMUEL 7. DE- FORD, ESQ,
having knowledge Of all these facts, de-
termined to make things little less mo-
notonous, and connected the following
scheme: Several hundred hand.bills con-
tanning the following announcement we're
printed: "War bulletin Passengers for
the West from Harper's Ferry, Win
chester and the Valley will save money
by going ria Washington and Baltimore
and the Pennsylvania Railroad"
A special agent was appointed at liar
per's Ferry, who was supplied with these
bills, and he commenced operations yes.
terday. This agent was also furnished
with local tickets Of the Baltimore 4
Ohio, costing 50 each, for the trip from
IIarper's Ferry to Washington. The pas.
senger for the West from the Valley Of
Virginia via the Pennsylvania Railroad
Is sold one Of these local tickets in add.
ton TO his through ticket. lie proceeds
to Washington by the Baltimore q Ohio,
and on his arrival there is taken charge
Of by the Pennsylvania Company, COM
plotting his journey over the road OF the
latter. The local fare Of the Baltimore
4 Ohio from Harper's Ferry to Washing
ton Is simply added to the cut rates Of the
Pennsylvania Company prevailing at
Washington to different points in the
West.
The Baltimore & Ohio people say that
the travel westward from the Valley Of
Virginia. is scarcely worth competing for,
and some Of their ticket officials expressed
the opinion that the new dodge Of the
enemy amounted practically to nothing
at ali. They also stated that they could,
II they were SO disposed, sell tickets to
western points at Ifarpers Ferry, at the
Baltimore and Washington cut rates, but
did not assert that they intended doing so.
One OF the Baltimore & Ohio officials said
the country In the neighborhood Of liar
per's Ferry was thoroughly Baltimore 4
ohio in sympathy, aud that the special
agent Of the Pennsylvania Company, with
his "war bulletins" might find II too
warm for comfort and safety. II having
been recently stated in the New York
papers that the Baltimore & Ohio com
pany had purchased the
NEW JERSEY ( SOUTHERN RAILROAD,
inquiries were made at the Camden Sta.
ton with regard to what degree Of Accu.
racy the statement possessed. The pur-
chase would enable the Baltimore & Ohio
to gain terminus in New. York, and
thereby transport their passengers from
Baltimore to the Empire City without
any trouble or hindrance. The New
York Herald Of Saturday asserted that
the New Jersey Legislature had passed n
bill, which became law without the
Governors signature, under which the
Baltimore & Ohio had bought the New
Jersey Southern Railroad. II has fur.
ther stated that under the influence Of
friends Of Col. Scott this bill had been re-
ferred back, and was not likely to be re-
vived In answer to the query Of the re-
porter, a high official Of the baltimore &
Ohio said that the New Jersey Southern
had not yet been purchased by the Balti-
more & Ohio, all statements to the con-
trary notwithstanding. lie intimatcd,
however, that the New Jersey Southern
would eventually pass into the hands Of
his company, but at what time he was not
prepared to say. lie had no doubt that
the authority for the recent statements on
the subject In the New York papers could
be traced to that astute manipulation Of
stocks,
JAY GOULD,
who had put the same tactics into prac.
tice two years ago. The effect Of these
publications could be seen, he said, IN the
recent fluctuations Of the stock OF the
New Jersey Southern. which had opened
at 0 in New York oil Monday and i'd.
vnnced to lot. As far as the baltimore
& Ohio Company were concerned, there
was nothing new to report regarding the
New jersey Southern Railroad, and he
reiterated the assertion that all the re.
cent agitation on the relations Of the two
roads was evidently the handiwotk Of
Mr.. Gould, who desired TO operate In the
stocks Of the New Jersey Road.
A Good showing for steubcnviiic.
From tho Herald 4 News Of Yesterday.
President spanlding received notice
this morning From Messrs. Garrett 4
Sons, Of Baltimore, that they have for
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