, 1877-12-09
THE RAILROADS.

| THE TAR AGAINST TIE SCALPERS
.sp.cfot nsn1tch tn Ihr Chicago Trtonne.
BALTIMORE. Md, Dec 6.-rAe trial Of Will
ia1n r. Bloomer and Upton ". Dorsey, charged
with couspirn. to drfraud the Chicago, Burlins
ton j. Quincy Railroad, which has ocenpict
the attention Ut the Criminal Court Of this city
for two weeks past, was decided at Il late houi
tonight. The array Of counsel in this
case has been remarkable. Not only were the
brightest legal luminaries OF the Baltimore Bar
occupied in the trial, but the Hon. James W.
Scoyi!le, Of New Jersey, was retained By the
defense, and the State vas aided by many we'll
known railroad lawycrs from all parts Of the
country. Among the witnesses were the
Afcssrs. Pnkcrtou, Of Chicago; WaItzcr, ascalpcr
J from that city; and numerous eniploYes OF the
Railroad Company. The jury had been
| out since Thursday last and only returned at
$50 tonight. They rendered verdict Of guilty
| in the case Of Bloouer, ard failed to agree in
Dorsey's case, in which they stood ten to t'ro in
| B!oomer excited much surprise, it being gcner-
| rally supposed be would be found not guilty.
! He was ut once conducted to jail. 4 motion
was made by his counsel for a new
trial, anu ball to the amount ut 520 C00 offered
| which Judge Brown refused. The counsel will
| 20 to Annapolis Monday morning and lay the
| case before the Court of Appeals, which is now
| in session.
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! Pennsylvania Railroad Company, will come up
at the next term Of the court. The counsel who
aided tue State III this prosecution We're paid by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
The war against the ticket sea1pers Is being
prosecuted with t1reless energy, and neither
side as Jet shows any signs OF weakness. AS
predicted in yesterdays TRIBUNE, the sca1pers
hung out their shingles yesterday morning
nouncing that they would sell regular frst-class
tickets, the cost Of which is $50, for SIS, and
second-cass tickets, which cost SIG, for $1f
This entails loss upon the scalDers OF So on
every ticket they sell. All these tickets arc
over the Erie l. Chicago Line. The railroad
men managed to outWit the seal lpers very neatly
on their last move. They engaged men to 70
to the various scaloing offices and buy up all
the New York tickets they could get aud then
redeem them. In tlis way the scalpers suffered
4 loss of 81 on each TICKET they sold, and
the railroads were ahead that much on each
one, while the Erie d Chicago did not securc
any additional traffic, the seal pcrs intended it
should. The scheme worked very well until
evening, and about fifteen tickets, first and
second-class, were secured, and If some foolish
fellow had not tried to oycrtlo the thing the
game might have been kept up indefinitely and
the sealpers subjected 10 a great loss. Instead
ul asking Tor one ticket at a time, thus making
the sclpers believe he was bona fdc passen-
ger, this fellow became dissatisfied With the
slow process, and asked for dozen tickets at a
time, when the seal pers 611e}t mice and |
bounced Kim. The discovery made the further
sale of tickets on the above plan impracticable, |
anti at scalpcrs' meeting held in the evening il
vas decided to continue to sell tickets ut SIS !
over the Chicago Il Eric Line butt to prevent tue
railroads from buying them up, they will here
alter extract from tho buyer $50 and give him !
an order for rebate OF So on Mr. GustaV Lam
stng their agent in New York.
Mr.. Justus Goodrich was arrested Second |
time last evening for selling a.tickct unlawful !
ly. This was tue only arrest made yesterday,
but number Of others are on tl'e slate, and
will be hauled before the Justices Monday.
The seal pers seemed to be more discouraged
yesterday than they were during the last four
days, and while they still hare faith that the
Supreme Court Will declare the Law unconstitu-
tional on the ground that 4 man cannot be pre-
vented from selling property lawfully pur-
chased, vet they say they would 70 ont OF the
business provided the railroads would agree to
redeem the large amount Of tickets they have
Oh hand. It is claimed that uut very few of the |
roads redeem their tickets. Tie law provides |
for their redemption, but most Of the railroads |
refuse to redeem them further than the Illinois |
State line. claiming that the Illinois Legislature
cannot legislate outside Of this State. If the
seatpcr5 really mean to go out OF the business !
if they can dispose Of their stock OIL hand, it
would only lie just on the part OF the roads to |
provide for the redemption Of all outstanding
tickets over their entire lines. They cannot |
CIpcCL Iilt sHatptIS VIII Hapc large amounts OF |
these tickets on hand to throw them away or
burn them up.
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL EUROPEAN
LINE.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company is
still negotiating with several steamship COM
panics in order to establish frst~class line Of
steamers from New Orleans to enable it to ship
grain and other produce from this CITY to
Europe direct via New Orleans. So far the |