The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-24
WAR ON THE SCALPERS
THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE FRA
TERNIrY BECOMING GENERAL.
Favorable Exhibits of Indianapolis
Lfnes-Important Rulings by Joint
Traffic Association.

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official. "that the strong lines have entered
upon a general movement to crush u the
ticket scalpers. such inroads have they
made on the business OF the railways and
TO such an extent have they abused the
mileage book. The interchangeable mileage
book has done more mischief in that direc-
ton than any other privilege the railways
ever granted. Since they came into use
scalping offices rave sprung up in Lafay-
cite, Columbus. Muncie. Richmond, New
Castle, Anderson, Ewood. Marion. Koko-
mo. Logansport aud numerous other towns
in this State, in Ohio and Illinois, and these
scalpers nave thrived only through the use
of the interchangeable mileage. If any per-
son wished TO go from one town to another
he could step into some scalping Office,
often a cigar store, and purchase the book,
using the mileage he needed and return II,
and on all this local business the roads
were losing one cent a mile" He had, he
said. been in the passenger service thirty
or more years, and this was the first time
the general passenger agents had taken
50 advanced a step, and so in earnest were
they and so much in harmony that If the
steps taken thus far do not prove sufficient
TO break up s~calping and the resulting de-
moralization of rates he thought the roads
would enforce the laws regarding scalping-
Indiana. Ohio and Illinois all having laws
which would shut up every scalpfng office,
he said, IL enforced. The fact that in this
movement the general passenger agents are
carrying out the Instructions OF the Joint
Traffic Association has a very significant
meaning.
Object of the Traffic Association.
Similar answers to that filed in New York
Saturday by the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway Company in the suit
filed in the name of the United States
against the corporations composing the
Joint Traffic Association have been filed
to-day b. the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Rail-
road Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, the Allegheny Valley Railroad
Company, the Philadelphia, Whining
ton & Baltimore Railroad Company, the
pany, the Northern Central Railway Com
pany, the Grand Rapids Il Indiana Railroad
Company; the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chi
cago & st. L.. Railway Company and the
Toledo. Peoria. Indiana q Western Rail-
road Company. The object OF the traffic
association, among other things. the an
ton which would lead to the maintenapce
OF reasonable and just fares, rates. rules
and regulations of interstate traffic. prevent
unjust Discrimination, secure the reduction
and concentration of agencies and the in
PRODUCTION of economies in the conduct Of
interstate commerce.
ICclCIudJ dllEIIOOll dlLltlOidl "
the same in substance and nearly so III
text, were filed by the following companies:
The Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Rail
St Louis Railroad Company, the Michigan
Central Railroad Company, the Wabash Raj
road Company. the New York. Ontario &
Western Railroad Company, and the Lake
Shore Railroad Company.
Protest Against Mileage Rates.
The Canadian Pacific and the 500 line
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that he cause the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific to take out certain rates
that were in effect when the agreement OF
the Transcontinental Association was
formed and of which the two roads that
now object to the continuance of the rates
were cognizant at the time of forming the
for arguments on both sides and will render
his decision at a later time. The rates to
which the Canadian Pacific and the 500 OBJ
Ject are the mileage rates from minneapolis
to Pacific coast points. The Great Northern
and Northern Pacific say they cannot take
out the rates so long as the Southern Pa
cific and the Oregon Short-line keep them
in effect. The mileage rates at 21sc per mile
are a decided reduction from the regular
tariff rates; The regular tariff from Mime
apolis to Seattle Is $50 and the mileage Is
$45.43. The Canadian Pacific and the 500
have asked the chairman that while these
mileage rates are kept in effect the regular
AdtC OC maui TIN - III jill IdCluC
coast points. taking the regular tariff rate
Of SEQ. This is the first time any road has
commended that rates in effect when the
transcontinental agreement was formed
should be taken out on the subsequent OBJ
jections of any line. The chairman has
asked that all arguments be in his hands
by April ].
Actual Earnings.
Samuel Thomas, president of the Louis
vile. New Albany & Chicago, has given
out the actual earnings of the lines for
January, 1896, In comparison with the cor
responding months of 1894 and 1895, as fol-
lows:
Gross ........... s23S, 419 $2l6, 4s9 $174,976
Op. exp .......... 1884, 1876 1S5.4O5 1906
- - -
Net ............. s4s,324 1904 S14.3OS
Net 2 MONTHS. T1.59S 5SO,67S 6O5,S7S
NJ. f. Ingalls,, Of the Big Four. reports
the actual earnings for the same period of
the c., c., c. & st. L. lines proper as fol-
lows:
Gross earnings. 81, 1Oe,2 $50 Inc. SiS.6
Net .........-.-. 24216 Inc. S6.S7S
Seven months.
Gross earnings 90. $s.4S4,755 Inc. $500. 800
Net .................. Z,l99, 4l6 Inc. 1SS. 564