The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-10-26
Northwestern Railway Company
Orders Agents to Stop Sale Of
Students Tickets Here
MAY HAVE TO GIVE UP SCHOOL
High Rates for Transportation Will
Make Children in Western Part of
County Remain at Home-Effect
of Railway Legislation

Frenzied railway legislation in the
! to be felt in Kenosha county and
yesterday the local agent for the
Northwestern railway company re-
ceived an order from the company
directing him to stop the sale of all
! tickets formerly sold as students"
| tickets. This order provides that in
the future the students must pay full
| fare. In the past the company has
been issuing tickets to students at
about one-third the regular fare and
they were generally in use at all the
stations on the western division of
the Northwestern Children from the
extreme western part of the county
were permitted to attend the high
school in Kenosha by these tickets.
Under the old rule the round trip
from the village of Salem for student
was about thirty cents, but under
the new rule the student will have to
pay ninety cents.
The increase is similar all along
the line. At present there are about
a hundred and thirty students coming
into Kenosha daily. Some of them
are entered in the high school while
others are registered in the Col eye
/ of Commerce.. It is probable that
many of these children will have to
give up their hopes of higher educa-
ton on account of the fact that the
parents will be unable to pay the in
creased rate Of stransportat ion.e
The agent at, the railway station
states that this action is taken as a.
direct result of the passage of the
rate bill by the last Wisconsin legisia-.
ture and that the railway company
had been forced to take this step for
self protection and in order to live
within the demands of the law. It is
probable that the. company is acting
entirely within its rights but it is
greatly regretted that the blow should
/ fall on the children attending school.
tits just possible that the commuta-
ton tickets which have so long been
ia use between Kenosha and Chicago
are in danger and the agents here
may receive an order at any time to
stop the sale of such tickets. If this
ruling is made the people of Kenosha
would be forced to pay full fare for
every trip made to and from Chicago
and the amount of money from the
city to the railway company would be
almost doubled in single year.
Assenblyman Curtiss, who was one
of The Legislators whoivoted for the
rate bill, was seen at Hotel Eichel-
man this morning and when told that
the company had taken off the stu
dents tickets he expressed regret but
statedsthat such action could be ex-
pected from the company. Ward
B1oss, who is the constant companion
of the Assemb1yman, stated that the
matter would result in the next state
Legislature passing a law which
would provide for a universal two
cent fare in all parts of the state.
Mr.. Curtiss and Mr.. B1oss attributed
the cutting off of the student tickets
to the meanness of the railways
rather than to any effect produced by
the passage of the rate law. There
is general movement about the
county to petition the company for
the return of the low rate tickets, but
it is hardly possible that the company
will grant the prayer Of the petition.
In the meantime thei.students will
have to pay either full faresor give up
their work in the different schools of
Kenosha.
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