St. Paul daily globe., 1884-10-31
THE RAILROADS.
Local Passenger Agreement.

Local passenger agreement.
The following is the agreement just en-
tered into by the local passenger agents ii
st. Paul, of the roads leading east from thi:
city:
/. The rates published in the st. Paul
Minneapolis rate sheet. and rates for specia
occasions furnished by the compiler of sale
sheet, shall be standard rates, and the sale Of
any ticket or tickets at less than rates stated
therein, or with excessive limit, or In viola
tion of any of the rules or stimulation:
named in said rate Sheet will be considered
violation of this agreement.
2. No ticket or tickets shall be sold to any
competitive point not quoted in the st. Pau
& Minneapolis rate sheet, except by agree
ment.
3. Army officers and members of tbeil
immediate family, on request of proper su.
thorities, may be granted half rates.
Employees of connecting lines, hotels, oi
steamboats,, 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 understood tc
be one-half of full first class unlimited rate.
4. Reduced rates for students from St
Paul and Minneapolis proper, and points
north thereof, to Milwaukee and Chicago,
shall be agreed to In each case by the lines
from st. Paul and Minneapolis.
3. Theatrical rates are agreed to be two
thirds of the regular unlimited rates over
our respective lines, and must be confined
to genuine theatrical people of not less than
four on one ticket.
For a company of less than ten people,
one-half fare permits may be given the ad-
vance agent: for company of from ten to
twenty people, one pass and one-hah fare
permit may be issued; for company OF
twenty or more, two passes may be issued.
Two hundred pounds of baggage viii be car
ried free for each person in the company,
excess over that amount to be paid for al
excess baggage rates. When an extra bag
gage or scenery car is required, the rate foI
same will be twenty-five cents per mile. II
the theatrical company furnish its own bag
gage car, then the rate shall be twelve and
one-half cents per mile. Theatrical COM
panies of less than twenty-one persons, trav-
cling in their own coach, will be charged
ten cents per mile for the coach in addition
to regular theatrical fare. For twenty-one
persons or more, the coach will be hauled
free.
6. The agreed laborers' rate to st. Loui:
by all lines, in parties of not less than two
on one ticket is SIS 90, on which a commits
sion of fifty cents and no more shall b(
paid; the tickets must be second-class, with
contract and coupons marked plainly in ink
'Laborers," and tickets limited to two days
after sale. No laborers' rates shall be quoted
to any other competitive point except by
unanimous consent.
z. The maximum per capita ticket com.
mission to be paid on tickets sold in st
Paul and MINI Deapolis, to any point what
ever, shall not exceed one dollar on al
classes of tickets, and any person who uses
said commission to cemoralize rates shal
no longer receive the benefit of same.
8. Receipts must be taken by the ticke
agents for all commissions paid at the time
tickets are sold or delivered.
9. Any violation of the provisions of thi.
local agreement affecting business to o.
| through Milwaukee or Chicago shall be con
sidered violation of the managers agree
ment, and subject to the penalties provided
therein. A. V. H. CARPENTER,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
! Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway.
T. W. TEAsDALE,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
railway.
S. F. BOYD,
General Ticket and Passenger Agent,
Minneapolis IL st. Louis railway.
No Free Passes to Influence Business.
The meeting of the general mauag
ers and general freight agents o
the roads leading west and south
west from Chicago has just been closed, AM
Mr.. F. B. Clark, general traffic manager o
the Chicago, st. Paul g. Omaha, who at
| tended it, has returned to st Paul. The oh
| iect of the meeting was to make new ar
rangement regulating the issue of passes ant
| free transportation 10 shippers and mer
| chants on account Of business or for the pur
| pose of influencing traffic. The matter wa
| fully talked over and the difficulties sur
rounding the matter were all gone over, ant
after full consideration of the subject tn
agreement in effect during 1888 was re-en-
acted with slight amendments. 1t covers
however, a much larger territorl
than the one in effect in 1888. L
includes all roads west and southwest from
! Chicago and st. Louis as far west as Utah
The old agreement of last year cOmpriset
only the roads between Chicago and th
lAiooONiA klNCl. OuuCt TIC new HltltD
II is agreed to abolish entirely the issu
passes to men in charge of live stock
takes away from division officers the right L
issue passes, and provides that the genera
managers only shall issue them. II ais
provides penalties for violation of the agree
ment-$50 for the first offense, 500 for In
second, and $500 for the third. Arbitrato
Bogue is appointed to carry out the pruvis
ions Of the new agreement. 1t will be pu
into effect Jan. /, 1855.