The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-05
Two Railroads. Make Cent a Mile
Rate to Kansas City.
Round Trip Tickets Sold fer
$1.S5 This Week.
BUT ONE HOLDS OUT
Rock Island Reduces the Fare
to $2.O5.
Reduced Rate Does Not Apply
to Topeka Alone.

Are the railroads backing down on
the two cent rate as the minimum
fare?
! AT any rate it is possible this week
| for Topekans to ride to Kansas City
| and back for one cent mile. This
is even a more reasonable rate than
was formerly offered for special oc-
casions even under the old rate of
three cents per mile. Occasionally a
| Sunday excursion would be run to
| Kansas for rate of $1.25 per round
| trip. The Rock Island is not in the
combine, as this road offers rate
| of $2.05 for the round trip. But new
/ er before did any railroad between
Topeka and Kansas City put in a rate
| to Kansas City of cent mile for
the round trip, with tickets good any
time until Monday.
The special occasion is the Priests
| of Pallas festival week in Kansas City.
| This is the big annual fall festival
| which is attended by almost every one
within radius of one hundred miles,
| and which is the big event of the year
| in Kansas City.
This is not only a rate of one cent
| a mile between Topeka and Kansas
| City, but it is good all over Kansas,
| Missouri and points in Nebraska and
Iowa.
Tonight is the big night of the week
the occasion of the annual Priests
of Pallas parade, where will be seen
miles of floats appropriately decorat-
3D. with one of the prettiest young
women in Kansas City as the Pallas
Athene, with her retinue of maids
paying her homage. This is a great
sight and Topeka people go there year
after year to witness the event.
Today all the trains east bound
from Topeka were laden with pleas
ure seekers. larger number of
Topekans than ever before will be in
Kansas City tonight to watch the
spectacular event. All are buying
round trip tickets at the rate of $1.35
for the round trip. which is a rate of
one cent a mile.
The railroads are not only increasing
the crowds in Kansas City by offering
reduced rates, but special trains are be-
ing put on and special accommodations
are being offered for the event. At noon
today the Union Pacific, which has
managed to keep out of most of the
rate reductions, ran a special train to
Kansas City which was well patronized
with pleasure seekers, who paid the
Union Pacific, only. $1.35 per for the
round trip in a special train. Tonight
the Santa Fe will hold its late trains in
Kansas City in order to furnish &C
commoda lions for all the TopekanS,
many of whom Will stay only long
enough to see the parade and then re-
turn home tonight.
Rock Island First to Act.
The campaign for rate reduction was
started months ago by the Kansas City
authorities The Rock Island first
broke the ice with a rate of one fare
and a half. Others followed but finally
another road, antagonistic to the Rock
Island, sought to get even by announc-
ing a rate of one cent a nile-a rock
bottom rate. Then all the other roads
fell in line and people in Kansas and
Missouri this week have the privilege
of riding into the western MISSOURI
metropolis for a cent a mile.
- %I,@ dc IN III IL,
have Kansas City trains-the Santa Fe
and Union Pacif1c-are doing big
business into Kansas City. The rate Of
one cent a mile for the round trip is pre-
man today made the rounds of all the |
other ticket Offices in town and pur |
chased tickets for his friends. for a
rate of one cent a mile-no more, no |
less.
Are the railroads backing down?
When the rate of two cents a mile !
was first put into effect by the state |
board of railway commissioners on the |
order of Governor Hoch. the railroads |
accepted the rate for the time being, |
or until its legality could be threshed |
out in the courts. In the meantime it |
was announced by each and every |
road that the two cent fare would be |
the minimum rate as we'll as the
maximum-except in cases of the short
line mileage being used in computing |
the fare between competitive points.
Since that time different roads have
showed symptoms of backing down.
Kansas City has secured the best rate |
concession thus far, but the agitation |
which recently brought to light the /
special rates for the state fairs at
Wichita and Hutchinson, and which |
was responsible for a rate of a cent |
and half.
Are the railroads backing down ? |
The railroads say not, but looks are de-
Gel ling.