The San Francisco call., 1897-07-15
MUST MAKE A
UNIFORM Rate
Monthly San Rafael Tickets
Of One Price to Men
and Women.
The State Commission Says
Otherwise It Would Be
Discrimination.
Rush of Business With the Southern
Pacific in Caring for the
Tourists.

| Hereafter the San Francisco and North
Pacific and the North Pacific Coast rail-
roads will have to make a uniform rate
| for passengers who travel on commuta-
| ton tickets between here and San Rafael
| by the railroad company's boats. This
the State Railway Commission decided
] yesterday. The matter has been before
| the commission for several Neeks, and has
been postponed from time 10 time.
| Some months ago the railroads made a
| rate of So month for communication tick
cts for men and So for women between
! San Francisco and San Rafael. All went
we'll Tor a time, but finally j. s. McCue
| lodged a complaint with the Railway
| Com nilsson. alle4 ing discrimination in
| rates and asking 80 cent reduction Tor
men. He also complained that mem bers
of the Schuetzen Club were allowed a
! % cent round-trip rate, while Others had
| to pay SO cents. As 10 the latter the
com mission held that ii was special ex-
cprsion rate, and declined to interfere.
| AS to the former, however, it decided
| that the rate must be the same for men as
for women. In other words, whatever
might be charged, 1t could not counte-
nance charging more for one than for the
other, as it would be discrimination. This
| was he decision:
THE rate for monthly mmutation
tickets as now sold is an unlawful dis
elimination between persons. The San
Francisco and North Pacific Railway Com
pany and the North Pacific Coast Railway
Com pany are hereby ordered to deslst
from charging higher rate to male than
that charged to female passengers for
monthly commutation tickets"
The position of the San Francisco and
North Pacific is that it voluntarily re-
duced the rate for women. Becauset his
was done, as it alleges, complaint was
made that the other rate should be re-
duced.
| The chances are now, therefore, that the
rate for women will be raised while the
| rate for men will be lowered little. At
any rate the charge to both will be the
same, the only decision the ommission
made being tnat there should be no dis
elimination.
President A. w. Foster of the San Fran.
cisco and North Pacific road, whom in
formed of the decision last night, said he
could not yet say what action the road
| would take.
| The Southern Pacific was busy yester-
day with the Endeavor visitors. The yell
| low building was thronged, as for several
| days past, with persons who are manag-
! ing different excursions. The general
ticket office under the Grand was also
| filled with people.
1--WE had 1l5 cars out in different direc-
| tons yesterday" said Manager Fillmore
Yesterday. '"These cars went to Los An
geles Portland and Ogden. We had 141
| ca, the day before. To-day we had about
half what we had yesterday. Two big
| trains for the big trees went out this
morning. We also had one to Del Mon te
| and one 10 San Jose"
Thirteen cars go out tonight south, "
said Mr.. Richardson, twenty-five north
+. and eight cars East. This includes one
| Ohio contin cent."
By count 500 went to Santa Cruz yester-
day morning, $50 to Monterey, and Mr..
Judah said that about $500 had been car
ried to San Jose. All the ticket offices
were busy.