Evening star., 1907-05-26
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.
State Commission Renders
Railway Decision. s
SEVERAL CHANGES PROVIDED
Orders in Reference to the Amount
Of Cash Fares.
AS TO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
Memorial Services by Councils Of
Junior Order of United Americans.
Other Matters.
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 25, 1907.
The state corporation commission has
rendered a decision in the case of the COM
muters against the Washington, Arlington
and Falls Church Railway. Company, which
was argued at the Alexandria county court
house February Is and 16 last. One i'm
portant change provided by the decision is
reduction in cash fares. 1t is also pro-
vided that the company must either fur
nish station where passengers may pur-
chase tickets or place them In the hands
of Its employees for sale.
+ The commission makes the following find
ings: -
THE commission is of the opinion chat
the net earnings of the defendant railway
company from all the lines operated by it.
derived by deducting all operating expenses
and taxes from the gross passenger revenue,
constitute an exceedingly profitable return
upon the capital invested In the property Of
the corporation, and that the travel upon
and the earnings of the road will steadily
increase with reasonable fares and proper
management.
THAT the present system of passenger
fares in effect on the defendant railway
company lines is complicated and confus-
ing, and confines the passenger traffic of
the road very largely to its regular patrons
and deprives the road of some revenue
which 1t would otherwise acquire from oc-
casional or casual travel on its road.
1T appearing In the evidence that the de-
fendant company is constructing a connect
Ing line by which its lines in Alexandra
and Fairfax counties will be connected with
the tracks of the Washington, Alexandria
and Mount Vernon Electric Railway Com
pany. thereby giving its patrons through
travel over the tracks of the last-named
road on the new bridge over the Potomac
river, into the lower part of the city Of
Washington, instead of landing It's passen-
gers as now done at Rosslyn. the southern
end of the Aqueduct bridge over the Po-
tomac river, the commission orders that
as soon as the said connecting line is COM
pleted and put into operation the defendant
railway company shall, after rearranging
its passenger rates in accordance with this
order. print in convenient form all its
various fares for public distribution.
Amount Of Fares.
1T is ordered that from and after the
first day Of June, 1907, the defendant rail-
way company shall not charge, whether
collected in cash or upon sale of tickets,
a greater amount than cents for each
passenger for travel between Rosslyn or
Aqueduct bridge and Clarendon, or inter-
mediate points, and not more than 6 cents,
whether collected in cash or upon sale Of
tickets, for each passenger between Ross
lyn aor Aqueduct bridge and Ballston; and
not more than cents, whether collected
in cash fare Or upon sale of tickets, for
each passenger between Rosslyn or Aque-
duct bridge and tVeitch. 1t Is further or
dered that from and after the first day Of
June, 1907, the defendant railway COM
pany shall not charge, whether collected in
cash or upon the sale of tickets, greater
amount than cents for each passenger
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bridge and Fort Myer, or intermediate
stations; and not more than 10 cents from
Rosslyn or Aqueduct bridge to Nauck or
any stopping place between Fort Myer
and Nauck. 1t is further ordered that on
and after the date aforesaid, the said de-
fendant railway company shall not charge,
whether collected in cash fare or upon the
sale Of tickets, greater amount than 10
cents for each passenger for travel be-
tween Veitch and West End sor intermedi-
ate points.
TT is further. ordered that the general
regulation, as to cash fares be observed
by the defendant railway company from
and after June /, 1897. A passenger
boarding car at any stopping place at
which tickets are not sold, or at which
for any reason he cannot purchase
ticket, shall not be charged more, as cash
fare collected on the car, than the straight
ticket fare, according to the present pas
senger tariff of the road, as modified by
this order, obtaining at the nearest ticket
selling station, in either direction, charge
of 5 cents to be made If such passenger
debarks before a ticket station is reached;
and in no event shall the defendant rail-
way company collect whether in cash or
by sale Of ticket, from any passenger be-
fare in excess of s cents for trip be-
tween any two stations or any part of it's
road; nor shall it collect in cash or by
sale of ticket from any passenger be-
tween any two stations or any part of it's
road at which tickets are sold and which
are less than three miles apart, sum
greater than 10 cents.
Must Submit List.
"This commission cannot undertake to re-
wise the whole system of passenger fares of
the defendant railway company at this
time, but the commission now orders that
before the connecting line above mentioned
is put into operation the defendant company
shall. subject to the regulations herein.
contained, submit to the commission all of
Its passenger fares of every character, ar
ranged in orderly and systematic manner
for publication, SO that the commission may
examine them before they are put into eff
feet and published.
1T is further ordered that all of the spe-
cfal rates and tickets now used, and in ef-
feet upon the road of the defendant rail-
way company. such as communication tickets,
school tickets, and the various coupon or
the defendant railway company, the fares
and charges evidenced by the various said
special rates and tickets not to be in excess
OF those now in effect, and no advance to
be made therein without the consent of the
commission first obtained.
The commission Is of the opinion that
better accommodations should be provided
by the defendant railway company during
the rush hours in the morning and evening,
especially on the line known as the main
line. and If 1t should prove necessary, that
additional cars should be put on during the
heavy travel in the morning and evening
hours. and that all Of the larger cars re-