Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-23
Is. a o. After the Pennsylvania.

CHICAGO. Oct. Especial Telegram to
THE BEE. The Baltimore & Ohio passen-
ger department has declared war on tho
passenger department of the Pennsylvania.
Not only has it made this declaration, but it
is attempting to enlist the cooperation of all
connecting lines. The following letter, ad.
dressed to the general passenger agents of
all eastern and western lines, explains itself:
"The Pennsylvania railroad company, with
intent to deprive the Baltimore II Ohio rail
road company of its proper revenue from
excursion tickets which were sold to Wash
ington, ID. c., and retur via our line, took
up the return portion of the excursion
tickets reading via the Balti-
more 81 Ohio railroad and issued in
exchange therefor tickets reading via
the Pennsylvania railroad to Philadelphia
or New York, as the case may be, and thence
to destination via any othei route excepting
the Baltimore & Ohio. This action of the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad company is without
precedent and was entirely irregular and un-
authorized. beg leave therefore to respect
fully request that you do not report to the
Pennsylvania railroad company any portion
of the revenue accruing on excursion tickets
to Washington or Baltimore and return read
ing via this company's lines, but report to
the company the entire proportion both ways
accruing to it's lines beyond the junction
points at which the business was delivered
to US. The arrangement for exchanging
tickets at Washington was not Incorporated
in the agreement entered into by the Wash
ington lines and approved by the trunk line
association covering arrangements for the
sale of excursion tickets TO the knights
Templar conclave. The exchange feature
was entered upon individually by this COM
pany for the purpose of relieving its connec-
tions from the trouble ana expense of pre-
pairing numerous forms of round trip tickets.
L protested repeatedly by telegraph and IN
person to the general passenger agent and
assistant general passenger agent of the
I1nt, avis t,a vlntl nad
their action, as outlined above, but notwith-
standing my protests many tickets reading
via the Baltimore & Ohio railroad were
taken up at the Pennsylvania railroad
offices in Washington and tickets reading
via the Pennsylvania railroad were issued in
exchange for the same l trust you will rec
ognize the justice of my request and notify
your auditor to report to this company the
full round trip proportion on all tickets of
your issue sold to Washington or Baltimore
and return via the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road. CHARLES O. SCHULZ.
General Passenger Agent Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad, Baltimore, Md"
There have been all sorts of charges made
| return portion of the Knights Templar tick
| cts. the principal one being that large
| block of Pennsylvania tickets with the going
coupon torn off had been placed in the hands
| of soalpers and worked of under
cover of the big rush from Washington.
| This charge was never officially denied by
the Pennsylvania and Is now reiterated by
| the Baltimore 81 Ohio. The day following
| the making of the charge the Pennsylvania
not only abandoned the iron clad feature of
| Its excursion tickets, but requested all its
| connections to honor the return portions OF
| the Pennsylvania tickets whether properly
signed or not.
The Baltimore g. OHIO officials explain that
| their present action is taken simply to retail
ate for the exactly similar action of the
| Pennsylvania.