The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-10
ADVERSE COMMENT
AROUSED BY RATES
CONTINUED from First Page,


verse comment The rates named be-
tween this city and the Exposition
Grounds as set forth yesterday morn
ing arc as follows:
Round trip tickets, good until
December 18th. s4.25; round trip
tickets, good for ten days, $3.50;
round trip tickets, good going In
the morning and returning in the
evening, $3.50; round trip coach
tickets. sold on opening date of
exposition. April Goth, and on each
succeeding Thursday thereafter,
good returning day after date OF
sale 81; round trip tickets for
military companies, in uniform, and
camping on Exposition Grounds,
So; round trip tickets for Sunday
schools and other parties of 200
adults. good going in the morning
and returning In the evening, 81.
1t SENS to be generally accepted that
the pace set by the Chesapeake and
Ohio will be observed by the Norfolk
and Western. and thus the announces
ment above settles the question at rates
between Richmond and the Jamestow.
Exposition for the whole season.
Public Disgruntled.
There IS no doubt Of the fact that the
Richmond public. people Of all classes,
! arc disappointed and are anything but
| pleased at the figures set forth. Nine
out of ten of tho citizens OF Richmond had
, expected cheaper rates than these. The
fact is, they had been looking for some-
/ thing in the neighborhood Of the Sunday
excursion rates that have prevailed on
both the Chesapeake and Ohio and the
| Norfolk and Western Sunday special ex-
,cursion trains. These remarkably cheap
trains took people down to the seashorc
and back on Sundays for $1.25 during
tho summer, and one or more summers
made the Sunday excursion one-dny rol,ntl-
| trip rate Just dollar.
| The public naturally argues that IL the
| roads could afford to haul people al that
rate when travel was light, they could
better afford to do the same thing when
travel is much heavier, because OF untls-
ual conditions. The railroad people.
| however cannot see 1t Just that way.
! The travelling pubics argument Is
wrapped up entirely in that one propG-
sition They say the railways did NOT
/ run these Sunday excursion trains last
! summer Just for fun; II they had not
paid. they would have cut them off;
II they paid then they will pay better
this year. and better still II they arc
run every day in the week, instead Of
only on Sundays That is the general
i +
The Railways View Of 1t.
The railroads take decidedly dlfferen,
view or the conditions and the situation
| y Times-p Dispatch man last night called
on Mr.. w. O. Warthen, thu district mas.
senser agent OF the chesapeake ana Ohio
Railway, and asked for an expression al
the railway company's sde OF the mat.
ter Mr.. Warthen was not disposed ia
/ speak Of the adverse criticisms he ha(
heard. Ido said. however;
THE rates as named for Richmond tn
the exposition are In conformity wifi
those established from other sections 81
the country; In fact, are something
lower and also on Il parity with those
named heretofore for other expositions
The season tickets at the rate OF $42l
for the round trip cover tho entire period
of the exposition, and are on the Same
basis of season tickets for all former ex
| POSITIONS The $3.50 ten-dny ticket /.
the rate used from Richmond for al
special occasions, and Is less than tn,
2-cent per mile rate advocated for us,
by railroads In Virginia and Other States
In addition to these rates q rate of on,
fare for the round trip, namely, S25O
tickets sold daily is inserted, and also ,
special coach excursion rate of So for tn,
round trip Cone sent per mile) on certain
days, tickets good until the day follow
ing Tho rate of one cent per mile, q
81 round trip, for military companies ii
uniform Is that accorded IN the past fo
such movements Mt tho expense of tn
companies, and It has always heretofor
been highly satisfactory"
Referring to the objection that ha'
been raised that Sundayschool children
may not he hauled as cheap this yen
ms heretofore, Mr., Warthcn said;
'IEor several summers past the Chesa
pealSe and Ohio has been granting rate
for Sunday-schoos to the seashore o.
such a basis as would enable the school
to sell tickets to the public outside q
their school membership, to help defra
the expenses OF the school children on
certain day to enjoy an outing Mt tn
seashore.
"The company could afford to be thu
liberal when 1t had Idle engines and car
| In the yards. hut With Il great exposl
i i ton tit Its terminal, the company find
ample business tn keep all of its rollin
, stock employed. and 1t would not be goo
business to farm out to Sunday sclGo,
or TO other organizations this ,lnusuu
business, and do It at the expense c
the railroad company"
Strictly Business.
Mr.. Wartllen said further: 'Iooklng 4
| the whole matter from a business view
point. the Chesapeake and Ohio has.