The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-15
THE RAILROAD WAR.
REDUCTION OF RATES FoR PASSENGERS AND
FEEIGHrs-How THE TROUBLE STANDS.

INDUCTION OF RATES roR PASSENGERS AMI
FEEIGHTs-How THE TROUBLE STANDS
The quarrel among the great railroad companies a.
to freight and passenger ares still continue and
marked yesterday by still further reduction At
certain points Of its route by the Erie Railway Com
pany. During the past ten days the nght which had
been long coming gradually to open hostility has
been growing warmer and warmer. Until q few weeks
the Grand Trunk Company had been generally con-
coded by the other trunk companies the privilege OF
charging higher account Of its routes being
longer and the road inferior 70 its rivals but the New
York Central opposed this concession and insisted that
II tho Grand Trunk Company could charge SIS 50
from Chicago to Boston the New York Gen.
trail was also entitled do the same. The Grand
Trunk unfair and reduced its raIes In
token Of lis defiance Tho New York Central was then
obliged follow and oil course the Erie and the Penn
syivnnia roads also compelled TO YIELD The nrst
reduction Of the Grand Trunk was TO So for passen-
gers from Boston 10 Chicago, and the New York Gen.
trail followed with reduction OF from *z2, the OLD
standard rate to SIS 10 or from Boston AID slI 70 or
from New York Tho Erie, however, considered IN y
there was 81 OF difference between Boston and New
York reduced The accordingly, forcing the Now
York Central and the Pennsylvania Central 10 follow
Then the Grand Trunk sti further IT'S rates
$l4 between Chicago and Boston and again to $l2 and
the Now York Central was obliged again TO follow, BET
ony coming down 10 ST. and sic, and sub
scqIcntly making the .arc SD. Tho prnci-
pie however, that tho Grand Trunk Company
freight than the other companies did was not sustained
and the quarrel then became between The Eric and
the New York Central Tho rate 10 Chicago had
yesterday down to t13 Nothing had been
heard either The Offices OF the New York Central The
Erie, tho Pennsylvania companies last evening 10
make II probable that
STILL FURTHER REDUCTION
woeid be determined upon during the night For q
few days after tho reduction to Chicago hsd nrst been
made change rates occurred IN any OF tho inter.
mediate points but the Erie company soon rcduccd the
faro 10 buffalo ~ 25 by successive sradations
TO S. putting tho round trip a, So The other COM
pancs have not yet down 70 low as this, nor
have they followed Erics lead the reduction OF The
rates in New YORK TO and from Utca syracuse Oswcgo,
Auburn, Geneva, Canandaisut ana Rochester, which
went into force yesterday.
In regard TO lrcighs there has been great redsc-
ton going on gradually March last Freight Is
row carried between Chicago and Boston ~ zoe per
cwt During The past weeks there has been sun
further reduction OF westward bound freight from 15c
TO 25c per cwt the nrst three casscs and In the
last Two from I5c. TO l6c.
There opinion ventured by the railroad officials
as to when the wxr now going on snail cease. Ihc
companies are all at variance among themselves, and
arc watching each other for some now development
with constant anxiety. When one moves all have got
10 move, especially regard TO the traffic 10 and IRON
Chicago he reduction OF the freight rates was
forced upon great roads because the baltimore and
Ohio rUad was sweeping away at reduced rates all
the freight from Chicago 10 Baltimore, where the
Crane Trunk Company took charge Of It for its dcsti
nation IL claimed that the passenger rates did not
make SO much difference, still no one company could
afford TO allow rival TO outstop in public favor