Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-20
INCREASED RATES
FOR COMMUTERS
ARE NOW IN FORCE
But Willy Public Took Time
by FOrelock and Bought
Tickets Yesterday.
KICK" ON AUG. l, WHEN
NEW SUPPLY IS NEEDED
Commuters League Counsel
Says There Is Nothing to Pre-
vent Increase Next Year.

If the ears Of the directors of the
Leckawanna, Erie, Central and Penn
syivania railroads, and certain 1egisla-
tors, didn't burn today 1t was not be-
cause of the things that we're left un-
said by the thousands OF commuters
and other passengers who use the roads
through this State. For today the in
creased Communication rates went into
effect, just as the railroads planned
they would, and just as the fighting
commuters hoped they would not.
1t was stated at the different railroad
offices that there wasn't the feeling of
jubilatlon that might come with VIC
tory Of this kind. The railroads are
said to have very keen realization OF
the fact that the victory is only par
TALLY won; that the commuters are
banding together, determined to get a
remedy at the polls In November.
On every crowded train early today
the increased rates was the favorite
topic of discussion. Many bitter things
were said Of the roads and of the men
who are said to have made it possible
for the railroads to take the drastic
step they did and get away with it.
EVENING STAR reporters were sent
early today to the different stations in
this city, 1t was learned that yester.
day had the record for the sale of COM
mutation tickets. 1t was the last day
, that they could be had at the old price,
and thousands of tickets were sold.
Nearly all the commuters had held off
buying tickets until 1t was finally appa-
rent that the injunction proceedings
against the rates had dismally failed.
No Call for Tickets.
At the ticket office of the Market
street station of the Pennsylvania rail-
road it was said this morning. when
the increase in the rates for commuta-
tion tickets between Newark and New
York went into operation. there was
no call for Communication tickets because
the commuters bought their tickets for
this month on July l, or the days on
which their monthly tickets expired
Many persons who have been In the
habit of buying ten-trip tickets have
invested in fifty-trip tickets before the
increase in rates went into effect. The
people who complained most at the
station today were those who have
had to pay five cents more for an ex-
cursion ticket and two cents more for
O. single trip ticket to New York than
tEcy did a couple OF weeks ago.
'I go to New York three or four days
& week" said a real estate dealer,
"and have to pay thirty cents for an
excursion ticket, the price charged
twenty-five years ago and more. Rail-
road people say five cents is slight
increase on an excursion ticket, but 1t
means a good deal to great many
persons who have to go to, New York
often have just bought an excur-
sion ticket for a small place below
Railway and l paid the same rate that
/ have been. Why Is it that the rail-
road company has not increased the
rates below New Brunswick? Is 1t
because South Jersey counties elect
legislators who are always tools Of the
railroads."
"I<icIxv VIII Come ON August i.
"rhe kicking by the commuters will
be heard in the Market street station
on August 1 and later" said one of
several commuters, when they have
to pay the increased rate for their
tickets. 1t is said that the commuters
who are doing the most kicking gre
men who do business in New York and
statesmen, bookkeepers and brokers who
are we'll able to pay a dollar month
more for a Communication ticket, but
the Commuters' League is making a
fight not only for all commuters, but
for all persons who go to New York on
single or excursion tickets.
There are several thousand men and
women who live in Newark and are
employed in New Yorh--the women as
saleswomen, typewriters and dressmak-
ers, and the men as clerks and porters
in stores of all kinds, in shops and fac
tories, and they buy Communication
tickets. These people Will feel the dol
lar extra they must pay hereafter for
a Communication ticket each month,
which makes s12 a year. 1t is mani
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