The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-18
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The Pennsylvania RaillroadR Offers
Special Rates OIL Account of
Bryan's Home Coming.
sSITsTo8vvARN EpUBLlCANs7
Belief General That Allied Rail
road Interests Will Rally
to the Demo crats.
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t pfifLA DfsLpti1A,s PA. August Is
Official announcement mao yesterday
~ the sPennsylva Railroad Company;
that 1t would sell greatly reduced rate ate
tickets from all points on its lines 70
New York, on account Of tho home com n.
Ing Of William ]. Bryan 81, AUGUST soth
next, created a s$H ensa tion here among
business "a frier1. 1, who y have e wa tched the
course Of recent railroad legislation and
government INQUIRIES into railroad MAJ y
fers. It was 4atEb first Interpreted as an
indication OF the corporal ion's friendliness
to the former Demo atic preasld dental nj
candidate, and az a. g rong nj 81 q -
ft,rcs attitude toward his am pi-
stions. Al. "a az
rhis belief which was freely exp ressedl
throughout the ifltiancialg district, was acTi
?cerlttiated by the railroad company v $ iss,i-
Ing u second official Sannollncemen Of the.
proposed a reduced " atcs. s$i In II which the
credit Of making. the red uction wa trans
:ferred from the Petln syl yanin Railroad "a :, q
Company to the Z runk Line Assoc la ton:
and THE Central \ Traffic "a ssocia tion, the.
two organizati tons which reguat to pa sseii-,
ger traffic east Of Chica go.$ n,
The P Pennsylvania Announce
s3sA r11ef1t. y
al The flrstS news 81 the raj road,s inten-s
ton ITO offer a duced ESrat was 4 cor,-E
to,ned in4the following official Il stat ertont
given out by the co1npan " $ represc1l ta-S}
tives, Darker & Lee b Isl
Something & et al Il novelt; in exc llr-9ssssS
sionss is geinbod!e i, the issued
n BY the p ennsylv Mia Railroad Com
s pany$ to- day through It's ticket agents,
S35 conductors and ketstreceiyers, 4 au-488#
them to sell special round w
# trip tickets from all points along the IA
Il cornpany's line to New y rk CT " n g$S
honorfof the home coming Of w III lam y5
Jennings Bryan. These tickets 85Will
~ be- sold n forS ono first class fare plus 3#2
" 81 for the round trip. Mr. Bryan sis
expected to arrive on August 8oth.isss
Special tickets will n be sold and u besF$8
& eood a saving \ any 3 point on August
n 29tfi,j. leaving ~ New x ork City not
arlierB han fAngu sts S0th and not Ia ter
8 than Septernb bar 20
The Explana tory Statement.
when the news became known ,thro ugh
OUT tie business section Of the city the
Offices Of the passenge depar tnen mt II
Broad Street station we're sbeseg ed With
tinnuiries as tout he R ma ure@ Of the pro-
posed red uced fares This ulted Sin a. a.
second official atement, or EXPLANATION
OF the first announce ment, being maze
through the company 81 advertiser de-
81 as followB
a IN order to accoHlmo dat e 4 the resi- dents
,of distant " sect oils llo desire to y att
tend the areception ITO be- itender red Hon
u. Bryan, In ew ~ orls, on the occ I'll
sion 81 his liolne-cOini Ing, the Trunk Line
Association and the Central Traffic u AS
sociation5 have fixed a rate from all sta 10.
stons $in& their respect We u Sterritorles t.
New York reis for the round TIP
plus 3d. M 4. N Y
Pennsylyania is railroad e Comp viii I
sell tickets at the above rate, good going
on Angus st 2sth 81 and 4 valid 81 for return
until September I'd. The special tickets
will he sold only from the stat ms where
the specialHrate does not exceed the reg "
lar tariff rate 4..st 81 sS}S5
ISL Warning to the O. O.S lt',.i 4
aried opinions 81 were expressed con-
corning the announcement III They we're In
q largo majority who exnr1 ksed them
selyes a as believing ii that 1.-THE b rail roads.
haye banded together to II Civ q q rebuke
TO the Republican part and 81 President
Roosevelt, because OF heir Ion IN pm ss-
ing the railroad rate bill ordering Y the
coal and oil inyesu ga ton, and for their
activitv ii reform iegialat Ion In so far
IA itpertains to the srai lroads y and their
allied interests. 81 NJ III
n Most Of the officers Of the Pennsylvania
4 Company II are absent Il from the cityi < on
their yacations Those here decried the
theory that the order was intended to
help along the Il Brya Il boom, d and IA said
! that It was purely d bus iness pro- ton.
\ It was needed, loweV err that i was an
unusual thing to grant peclal excursion
rates so generally In honor OF the home
i oon,ing Of a private citizen, PAL ticularly
one who8is a oand ate for romina alton
4 to tho presidency. Nj Il v s
3 Financial men freely expressed Them
selves MS believing that the companies
are making the Bryan return a big thirgz
as a hint to the pa rty in pc werj to mend
sit sways and cease It's active interyeni-.
Z ton In the ana rs Of the ilroads