The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-03-10

The kitualiOn UnChanged-TIe
Ticket Fever Talk on Both
Sides-A Ticket SeaIpeF's Views
Limited aud Unlimited Tick
cts.
From the Baltimore American Of Monday.l
Nothing startling wasdeyeloped in the
railroad war on Saturday or yesterday.
The Baltimore & Ohio Company still ad.
here firmly to the schedule Of passenger
rates for Western travel which they an.
nouncOd three weeks ago, when tho con.
test began, notwithstanding the fact that
the Pennsylvania Company are now sell.
Ing tickets to the same points at from ten
to thirty per cent lower prices. The Bal
timore 4 Ohio officials think that the
travelling public are too well aware Of the
advantages al tickets good until used"
to prefer them to tickets the use Of which
Is limited to fOrty-cight hours, even when
the latter are offered at lower rates. The
risks incurred by purchasing limited
tickets, they say, nrc numerous. Its the
conviction Of many Of the officials Of the
Baltimore & Ohio Company llatthc war
ID over as far IA they arc concerned, and
their minimum rate has been reached,
both a. to passengers and freight, They
think that IL has been demonstrated that
NIta nalNtVn.sa T. nl,kn
gers at u profit to the West at the prevail.
Ing rates, and that for sometime to come
there will he no change either upward or
downward. The proposed trip Of Presi-
dent Garrett, Of the Baltimore & Ohio, Is
also thought to he an indication that that
gentleman ia going to give himself very
little more concern about the war, being
satisfied that the great corporation whose
destinios he has directed for An many
years Is losing nothing now, and can lose
nothing in tho future, on account Of II.
Notwithstanding that II has been intima.
ted several times Oi late by the Baltimore
& Ohio officials that there will be no
change in the rates Of Western tickets,
TIE TICKET FEVER
appears 10 10 daily on the increase. OF
course, all those wishing 10 speculate in
railroad tickets buy those Of tho BALI.
more & Ohio, which are COED until used
II is stated that on account OF the great
difference existing between the price Of
the regular and cut rate tickets--the lat.
ter, In some cases, being about one.half
the forincr-many people have been In.
ducod 10 invest In railrOnd tickets. Per.
sons In moderate circumstances have in
several instances drawn their savings
from banks and elsewhere 10 do this. II
Ia now no uncommon thing for an indi.
vidual to walk into either Of the ticket
Offices Of tho Baltimore 4 Ohio-thc one
at Camden Station and the one at the
southeast corner Of Baltimore and Cal.
vert Strcets-tako from his pocket roll
Of bills, amounting to 500, $500 or
81 900, a. the case may lie, and OIIcr the
sum for Western tickets. At the down.
town office, where tickets arc sold on
commission, none arc sold 10 SPECTATORS,
who arc always referred to Camden Sta.
ton, where tho pastebOards can be put-
chased In unlimited amounts. II IL said
that short time before the closing Of the
Baltimore and Calvert street office OH
Saturday gentleman stepped in and pros
posed 10 invest $4,000 III Chicago tickets.
lie WA told 10 20 10 headquarters, whore
he would at Once b. accommodated. As he
has not since been heard Of at Camden
Station, II Is supposed that he afterwards
changed his mind or Is celebrating on Lhe
subject. Chicago tickets are principally
In demand by speculators. On Friday the
amount Of the sales Of Baltimore 4 Ohio
tickets for western points nj tho ticket
Offices In Philadelphia, Washington and
Baltimore, Appropriated, II Is alleged,
$4,000. As an indication VI tho In
crease In the through travel over the
Baltimore & Ohio 1t Is stated that nearly
two hundred and fifty coupons were
taken up In one day Last week on the
Chicago division Of that road. The OIL
CiNls Of
THE PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY
we're In howise cast down on Saturday,
button the contrary, appeared 10 DO III Tie
besL Of spirits. NfF. DcFord. and several
others said they were doing a lively busiL
ness In tickets, and had no reason to
complain in any RESPECT They were Of
The opinion that The greater number d
the passengers for tho West who wished
10 20 fight through To destination wcf6
purchasing tickets via their, line. On
Saturday fiRht two thousand new posters
were put up by the Pennsylvania Compa.
NJ In conspicuous places In various sec