The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-28
LOW RATES WEST.
The Same as Granted the
Worlds Fair.
NEW RULES OVER THE BAY.
More Reductions on the Southern
Pacific Railroad Probable During
the Coming Winter Months.

| There seems no doubt now but that
| So 50-round trip rate will be placed IN
effect between this city and the other Gail
fornia points and the Missouri River, go0d
| Tor period of six months from October l.
The following resolution was passed at
meeting, September 26. held at chicago by
the members of the Transcontnental
| Passenger Association, and letter en-
| bodying the resolution was addressed TO
| Chairman Caldwell:
AT the meeting of the Transcontinental Pas
| senger Association held this morning It was
unanimously agreed by the following lines that
! rOundtrIp rate OF $50 80 from Missouri
! River Sioux City ana Kansas City fnclusVe) 10
| California points should be placed IN elect on
and after October l, and that round-tiip tickets
| sold at This rate should be good for return pas
sage up 10 and including April 30, 1894.
Tickets sold at this rat 10 he good going
| and returning via the routes over which the
| standard $50 rate applies.
| AS this has been considered in connection
| with other rates by the Western Passenger As
! Soclatlon, and action on the question as whole
| was unIavorable, we ask you TO submit this
| question at once 10 the Trans Missouri COM
mltlee OF your association ana urge an lmme-
! diate vote.
| The lines represented at the meeting TO-DAY
| were The A. L. and S. F. r. r., Atlantic and
| Pacific, ST. Louis aud San Francisco, Southern
| California; Chicago Rock Island and Pacific.
| Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific, d nver and
Rio Grande, RIO Grande Western and Southern
Pacific.
General Passenger Agent Goodman and
the other officials of the Southern Pacific
have contended for October l being made
as the time for putting the new rate into
effect, thus giving tourists who may wish
to visit the coast before the Midwlnter
Fair opens an opportunity 10 do so. Some
/ rf "a Dc rxr.~ end fn
but finally agreed, aud the matter has as a
result been decided as the gentlemen indi-
| Gated wished.
The telegram from Chicago yesterday
| relative TO this rate was erroneous in the
| portion which stated that the Southern
! Pacific was the only road that had failed TO
agree TO putting the rate into effect The
| suggestion as to the raise came first in the
/ way of joint telegram under date of Au-
| gust Is from the Southern Pacific, Atlantic
and Pacific and Southern California lines.
! constituting the California joint rate COM
mittee, to the Western Passenger Ass0cia-
! ton al Chicago, followed by a similar tele-
gram on August %, and joint letter on
! September l.
! Tie green fruit shipments over the
/ Southern Pacific road for the present sea-
! son, up to the sd inst, amounted to 4239
! carloads as against $3.50 carloads for tue
same period last year. A slump in the
| market early in the season proved some
| what disastrous.
! The unemployed" are still moving
about in the southern portion of the State.
Forty-hve of them boarded a train at
! Bakersfield yesterday and came up as far
| as. Tulare. all claiming 10 be from Colo
| RADIO and in search of work. The people
| In that section have had their fears of
! tramp invasion dispelled, as the men are
said TO be willing to work.
General Agent High of the Alton and
| his wife will start for Chicago next week.
| With the coming of the win ter months
more reductions in the working forces and
/ train service of the Southern Pacific are
| contem plated. A high official said yester-
day that those reductions would, OF course.
be regulated by the business Of the com
/ pany. but that with engines going to the
roundhouses to lie idle. cars to be side
| tracked and train service TO be dscOntn-
ued, all of which are usually the results of
| the advent OF winter, there would neces-
sarily be proportionate cutting down of
! employees.
General Traffic Manager Gray of the
! Southern Pacific yesterday denied the re-
| port published that his road contemplated
| an increase in freight charges between
| this city and points across the bay.
The following is condensation of the
| circulars which will be issued by the South
ern Pacific for the information of the pub
| lie relative TO the new arrangements for
| running trains across tie bay:
| Commencing Tuesday, October 10. 1898.
all passengers taking trains running be-
tween Fruitvale ana Oakland pier on the
Seventh-street line Will be required to
| show tickets before enteri; the cars
! Passengers must enter the cars from the
north side excepting at Oakland pier.
New ticket agencies will be established
at West Oakland, Center street, Adeine
| street, Market street. Oak street, Clinton
| station and Twenty-third avenue
Tickets sold will only be good for the
| way designated thereon and must be sur
! rendered to train gateman at starting
point.
Monthly communication tickets good for
continuous rrp) between Fruitvale or Oak
| land and San Francisco will be sold at SIS.
AT San Francisco ferry station unlimited
sIngle-trip tickets to Berkeley. Fruityale
or Alameda will be sold at Is cents, with
the same rate operative in the opposite
| direction.
Fare between Oakland, Berkeley, Fruit
vale and Alameda will be cents.
Some Interesting statistical information
| is contained in the reports of 1874 railroads
IN the United States of their gross earn
| ings for the month of August. Almost
without exception they show a heavy de-
crease. in some instances the falling off
| approximating 80 per cent. Following are
few of the most prominent instances.
| showing the gross earnings for August,
1892 and the same month this year:
Name of road. 1892 1909
| A. L. and s +. system. .$3524l3l 50 elS Sb1
| Denver and Rio Grande... 93lOUO $50 300
Missouri Pacife........... 2.e62, s53 l.s25'617
Northern Pacific. ........ 2.7S26eS ! $50 "a
/ Rio 6rande WeStern...... PAS 900 lS3 7OD
| San Fran. and y. Pacific. 953pO NJ a;9
deIas facinc......,..-.. 513,SOO 4E2 S0z
! wabash Observation-Disclosures. 1,4l3.0OO l,242UO
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