Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-15
OUR iron ARTERIES,
THE MAINTENANCE OFF RATES ON
CHICAGO PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
An Agreement Entered Into by the Repre-
sentatives of the Eastern Trunk Lines
Iron-Clad Regulations AdODted-The
Notes of the Rail Generally.

Iron-Clad Regulations AdODted-The
Notes of the Rail Generally.
Maintaining Rates.
The following local agreement for the
maintenance of equal rates from st. Paul
and Minneapolis to all competitive points
was signed by the respective parties yes
terday:
We hereby pledge ourselves to observe
the following agreement, to take effect
Sept. 18th, 1888:
/. Army officers and members of their
immediate family, on request of proper
authorities, may be granted half rates.
Employees of connecting lines, on request
of proper authority, may be granted half
rates.
Half rates may be granted on account
of charity, but tickets so issued must be
marked "Charity.'
Half rates in all cases are to be under
stood to be one half of full first class IN
limited rate.
2. Ticket agents or their assistants, and
female members of their immediate family
may be furnished trip passes for their
personal use only.
3. Ticket commissions to be paid only
to parties depositing the forfeit as provid-
ed for in this agreement.
4. Ticket agents must not change their
dating stamp until the last through train
has left for the day. No tickets must be
dated ahead of actual date of sale, and the
limit of ticket must not exceed the limit
specified in St.iPaul and Minneapolis rate
seeet, except where passengers are obliged
| to purchase tickets beforehand, in which
| cases agents may change their stamp, but
must note on face of first coupon the
| word "over' in ink and on reverse side of
said coupon note in ink mot good until
The notation in ink and dating to be
uniform with that of stamp.
5. Reduced rates for students from st.
Paul and Minneapolis to Milwaukee and
Chicago shall be agreed to in each case by
the lines from st. Paul and Minneapolis.
6. The rates published in the st. Paul
and Minneapolis rate sheet, shall be the
standard rates, and any ticket, or tickets,
sold at less than rates stated therein, or
| with excessive limit, or in violation of any
of the rules or stipulations named in said
| "rate sheet" must be redeemed by the
company's regular agent, or the broker or
commission agent, as the case may be,
who sold the ticket or tickets, under the
following penalties:
For the first offense, the ticket, or tick
cts. shall be redeemed at twice the agreed
rate. For the second offense, within thir-
Gy days of the commission of the first
offensc, the ticket, or tickets, shall be
redeemed at three times the agreed rate.
For the third, and all subsequent offenses,
within thirty days of the commission of
the preceding offense, the ticket, or tickets
shall be redeemed at four times the agreed
rate.
| Z. No ticket, or tickets shall be sold to
any competitive point not quoted in the
st. Paul & Minneapolis rate sheet, except
by agreement.
8. Second, or subsequent offenses, &C.
curing at intervals longer than prescribed
above, shall be treated the same as first
offenses in all cases.
9. 1t is, however, understood that in the
event of ticket being sold by broker, or
anybody else at less than the agreed rate,
aud the agent of the road who sold such
| ticket being able to establish that the
agreed rate was paid to him for the ticket,
and that he did not pay, and had no ar
rangement for paying any commission or
rebate of any kind on such ticket, and
that he could not possibly control its sub
sequent sale the penalty, so far as redemp-
ton of ticket is concerned, shall be only
the amount of the agreed rate.
10. In the event of broker or COM
mission agent declining to redeem any
ticket or tickets, with agreed penalties, and
the amount of his deposit not being suf-
icient to cover the total amount of the
assessment, it is understood and agreed
that the company whose issue of ticket, or
tickets, was sold shall redeem such tickets
at the agreed rate, so as to leave the total
amount of the broker or commission
agents deposit available for paying the
net amount of the fine.
IL. When fines are imposed upon a
broker or commission agent the full
amount of the penalty must be collected
| from such broker or commission agent
| Except in cases provided for in the pre-
ceding paragraph, and must not be
drawn out of the $4,000 deposit provided
for in this agreement, unless the party
who sold the ticket wishes to surrender his
right to sell our tickets, in which case the
deposit, less the amount of the fine, may
be returned to the party to whom 1t be-
longs, and then all parties to this agree
ment shall at once Withdraw all patronage
from and decline to pay said party any
commission or consideration of any kind
for the sale of tickets. Any deposition de-
string to withdraw the amount of his de-
post shall be required to give the treas
urer of this fund at least five days notice,
and on receipt of such notice, the treasurer
will notify each party to this agreement,
| and then all lines will at once Withdraw all
| patronage from the party giving notice of
| intention to withdraw.
IL. If ticket is sold in violation of
this agreement, and it becomes necessary
for purchaser to ride on such ticket in
order to procure evidence of such viola
| ton it will not be absolutely necessary for
him to produce said ticket if he can prove
that the violation was actually committed,
and that it was impossible to get posses
sion of the ticket, and it is further agreed
that IN such case the full penalty shall ap-
ply from starting point to destination of
ticket without regard to the distance for
which the ticket was used.
Il. Receipts must be taken by the ticket
agents for all commissions paid,