The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-11-22

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has denied the rumor that the advance in
the passenger rates on the Amboy Division
in New Jersey, which are to become eff
fective next Sunday, was occassoned by
desire to apply the additional revenue
to help pay for the New York Terminal
Improvements.
X. ]. De Long, division ticket agent of
New Jersey Division, issued statement
in which he points out that the adjustment
of fares is occasioned by the basis of fixed
rates per mile in compliance with the
amendment to the Interstate Commerce
Act of last July. The higher fares are
principally from Philadelphia to Mount
Holly and apply only to single and round
trip tickets. Communication and package
tickets are not advanced. Mr.. De Long
in his explanation says:
AN amendment to the Interstate Com
merce Act, approved June 18, 1910, for
bids common carrier to charge any
greater compensation as a through route
than the aggregate of the intermediate
rates, subject to the provisions of the act
Fares not in harmony with this law have to
be adjusted, and tits in compliance with this
particular part of the Interstate Commerce
Act that the fares between Philadelphia
and Mount Holly and between Philadel-
phia and Trenton had to be increased.
"The general basis for one-way fares on
the Pennsylvania Railroad system is two
and one-half cents per mile; and on this
basis the fare from Philadelphia to New
Lisbon is now 70 cents, and from Phila-
delphia to Bay Head $175. The fare
from Mount Holly to New Lisbon is 80
cents, and from Mount Holly to Bay Head
81. 20. Add to the latter the present fare of
~ cents from Philadelphia to Mount
Holly, and you have q combination of 50
cents from Philadelphia to New Lisbon,
II cents less than the through fare, and
combination of $165 from Philadelphia to
Bay Head, or 10 cents less than the
through fare.
ITO comply with the law the fare from
Philadelphia to Mount Holly and inter-
mediate points had to be advanced from.
two cents per mile to the general basis of
two and one-half cents per mile. This
advance in one-way fares necessitated cor
responding advances in the excursion fares
from one and one-half cents per mile to
two cents per mile In the same territory.
The present one-day fare of 80 cents
from Philadelphia to Trenton had to be
advanced for the same reason to IS cents,
or on the general basis of two and one
half cents per mile for "a miles. The
present fare Of so cents from Philadelphia
to Trenton, added to the fare Of 81 AZ from
Trenton to New York makes a combine
ton of 81 %, or three cents less than the
through fare of So %.
IAN adjustment of fares to comply with
this new legislation, can be made only on
the basis of fixed rate per mile, or on
the zone system. A similar adjustment of
fares from Trenton eastward, reduced the
present fare of $l42 from Trenton to New
York to $1.40.
These slight changes were made in the
fares, In some cases increases, in some
cases decreases, to comply with the law
Similar adjustments are being made by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on
other portions of its system, as well as by
all other railroad companies, to become
effective February II, and the changes in
fares will be slight, and as previously
stated, there will be reduction in fares
in many cases, as well as an increase In
others.
mo changes whatever have been made
In fares for Communication tickets and pack
age tickets in the territory between Phila-
delphia and Mount Holly. That the adj
vance In fares between Philadelphia and
Mount Holly is coincident with the open
Ing of the new Pennsylvania station in
New York, is due to the fact, as previous
lY stated, that the new fares to the Penn
sylvania station had to be made so as to
comply with the new law, and this neces-
STATED an advance from Philadelphia to
Trenton from 80 cents to IS cents. As the
latter fare applied from Market st. wharf
to Trenton, by way of the Amboy @ivi
sion, the Amboy Division fares had % be
adjusted to comply with the new law,
and to become effective on the same date !"