New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25
EXCURSION DATES FIXED.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE MERCHANTS
ASSOCIATION.
THE TIME WITHIN WHICH REDUCED RATES Vi
TRAVEL, WILL BE ALLowED-TERRIToRY
COVERED BY RAILWAY ASSOCIATIONS
WHICH GIVE THE CONCESSIONS.

COVERED BY RAILWAY ASSo'ihiio>"
WHICH GIVE THE CONCESSIONS.
Arrangements for the excursions of the Mer-
chants Association were completed yes'eroaS' anu
the dates for the excursions were announced Ill
ferent dates have been arranged Tor the sale vi
OK ,urson tickets by the railroad companies In the
Joint Traffic Association and by the faiifoao Gun
panies I'm the Trunk Line Association. Inc oa'e'
for the Joint Traffic Association ana all poi"''
within its territory are from August 10 Ausu''
10 inclusive and from August q TO August 81 VI
elusive The tickets to be placed on SAFE With
those dates and each ticket will be good for thirty
DAYS from the date OF sale. Members oil the Acr
chants Association their employees or members q
their families use the excursion tlche'S' '".,
bers of the Merchants Association VINO I'VE III inc
territory of the Joint Traffic Association VIII pay
tho full fare coming East but on their return Trip
they will receive a reduction. so tEat the e"'''e
round trip will cost one and one-thru ''e P''''
ordinary fare one way ,.,
In the territory of the Trunk Line Asso.ta''o.
the dates between which tickets VIII DE sou a'
from September / TO September inclusive ar
from September 10 TO September IA inclusive. Inc
tickets will be similar to the tickets issued py VIZ
Joint Traffic Assoclation-that is to say they WIN
no good for thirty days from the date OF sale anu
TO be sold only between the dates hameu' an" ~
merchants the members of their imineola'e lam
flies and their employees Users OF tickets issue'
nv both railway associations get the reduction OH
on the certificate countersigned by the Merchants
Association The tickets will have stop-over priVi-
leces at Philadelphia and Baltimore. as proViueo
for In the original resolution OF the JONI liam
and Trunk Line associations and concurreu III ~
the officers of the Merchants Association oi -e"
York. - .ho
The Merchants Association will not accept inc
,ro,oai,ion made by the Southeastern Association
to run open excursions to New-fork without any
Limitation as TO the reduced-rate fare being so'u ~
members of this association only. Inc Merchants
Association In its proposition 10 the JOINT Aid"0
and Trunk Line associations guaranteed every
ticket of which unlawful use should De ina'e' u
which should be found in the hands of scalpeFs III
this territory This guarantee holds; put uhue' INC
proposltion made by the Southeastern -'ssocid'o"
10 run open excursions such guarantee cd"'''t D'
made There would be no limitation as TO the c:ai
acter of people who would use such tickets anu
there would be no way TO keep them from peihs
unlawfully used passing into the hands Oh
scalpcrs The aim OF the Merchants Association Is
to build up the trade Of small cities ana to"hs
along the line OF the railroad by making II advah-
taeeous for the local merchants to come 10 New
York where they buy most cheaply' ana II 10
not their aim bring people Unfortunately 10 the
CITY for whom they cannot be responsible, or whose
movements they cannot trace for sucn persons are
not and could not be members or the Merchants
Association unless they were merchants OIL soou
standing In their respective communities The Mer-
and Trunk Line associations in this matter believ-
ing that the action of these associations Is the
proper one to have taken.
The territory of the Trunk Line Association IN
cudes the territory west OF New England, traversed
by the companies represented in the committee ana
east of ana including Toronto. Suspension Brldge,
Niagara Falls. Tonawanda Black ROCK, Buftao.
East Buffalo Buffalo Junction, Dgnkirk saIamanca
ana & are a as feows Bamore
mi M VILE
apeake and Ohio Delaware Lackawanna and West
e[n Erie Ga nd TTRk e22gR ey Snd
Western: Pennsylvania Philadelphia and Reading
The Joint Traffic Association has jurisdiction
competitive traffic which passes to, from or through
h rmn of the R drunk e VII a
Tonawanda Black Rock. Buffalo. East Buffalo. BUT
i Pisburg ard Aegheny, Penn; Bellaire Ohio
Wheeling, Parkersburg. CHARLESTON and kenoya.
the Joint Traffic Association follows: Ale.
gheny Valley. Baltimore and Ohio, Baltimore and
road OF New-Jersey, Chesapeake and Ohio, Chicago
and Erie, Chicago and GraT Trunk Cleveland Gin
wanns and Western; Detroit, Grand Haven and Nil,
waukee Erie. Grand Rapids and Indiana. Grand
G GuE KaT eSh 3 chsan cna NsW
York Central and Hudson River, New York, Chit
ern; Northern Central, Pennsylvania Company,
Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia and Reading.
and Lake Erie, Pittsburg and Western Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Chicago and ST. Louis Terre Haute and
Indianapolis Vandalia Line, Toledo. Peoria and
Western. Wabash. and West Shore
Among the new resident members OF the Mer-
chants Association Averbeck q Averbeck,
Jewelry, No. Ii Mai len Lane; the spencer optical
Manufacturing Company. No 10 Maiden Lane; the
II. W. Johns Manufacturing Company. paints. No:
100 Wilam-st; r. b. Shoaff & Co.. carpets. No. S35
Broadway; Ferguson Brothers. furniture No i35
West Thlrty-first-st.; Frederick Victor e. Achelis.
commission No 66 Leonard-st.; Lawrence. Taylor IL
CO.. drygoods, No. 1903 Worth-st. Enterprise Rub
Der Company. No III Reade-st.; the India Rubber
Comb Company, No. Mercer-st; Thomas J. John
ston q Co., cloaks, No. 1l5 Broadway; S. +. * A.
Rothsctiid cloaks No. y Waverly Place; a. Beller
& Co. cloaks. Nos. and II West Fourth-st.; Null
ford Cary Il Conkln. leather and findings No. "a
spruce-st; Strange & Bro, silks, No 96 Prlnce-st;
ST.; f. Bianchi & Co. flowers and feathers. No.
6j7 Broadway; Louis Auerbach. neckwear. No. SS6
broadway: Sykes. Bros. d CO.. clothing, No. 70S
Broadway; w. =. Willis & Co.. woollens No 1j6
Fifth-ave y. Erlanger. Blumgart & Co.. importers.
No 81 Prncc-st. Samstag & Hildcr Bros, notions.
No 4ii Broadway; the Harris Suspender Company,
stspenders No l3s West Fourteenth-st.; the Stew
art. Howe & May Company. bias velveteen skirt
binding No. 13l Sprng-st., and the John G. Rankin
Company. printers and sationers No. 81 Cort-
andt-st.