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because IL maintains good time schedule.

because II maintains good time schedule.
runs numerous trains and its service ap-
parently commends itself TO commuters.
The commission shows the difference
between the fares Of the Central OF New
Jersey and the increased fares of the
other railroads in the following table:
Ten Miles Central Railroad Of New Jer-
sey. 5o5. Erie Railroad. $3.50: Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, s5,75: Lehigh.
SS. 90: West shore. $3.50.
Fifteen Mies-Central Railroad OF New
ersey. 50. .25; Eric. se.75; Delaware. Iacka-
wanna and Western, $50. Lehigh. s6.o5;
West shore. SO o5.
Twenty Miles-Central Railroad OF New
Jersey. Ei5 Erie. o. as; Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western, s7.s5; Lehigh. S.l5
West shore. s7.s5.
Twenty-Five Miles Central Railroad Of
New Jersey, ssl5: Erie, $50; Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, IS; lchgh,
S5.75; West Shore. Ss.s5.
Thirty Miles Central Railroad Of New
Jersey. Is. 80; Erie. ss.o5: Delaware Iacka-
wanna and Western, $3.50; Iehigh. ss.35.
West Shore. 500.
Thirty-fye Milcs-Central Railroad OF
New Jersey. saa5 Erie. Ho.a5: Delaware.
Iackawanna and Western. s9.a5; Ichgh.
q. 40. West Shore. 500
Forty Niles-Ccntral Railroad Of New
Jersey, $40. IS: Erie. sii .a5 Delaware. 1acka-
wanna and Western. sio.i5, Iehigh. s9.3o;
West Shore. lloj.
The commission finds that the increases
In the fares of the Lehigh Valley have been
very slight. and they are accepted along
with those of the Central Of New Jersey
as the basis Of comparison. Measured
by this standard the new fares OF the
Erie. the Lackawanna and the West Shore
are not unreasonable except in particular
cases. For example. the new monthly
fares of the Erie to places thirty-three
miles or more from New York city exceed
the fares Of the Central of New Jersey and
the Lehigh Valley to places of equal dis
tances by si.35 or more. In the com
missions opinion the record gives no ac-
ceptable explanation for the higher fares
to these places and the same is true of the
Lackawanna and the West Shore to places
toward the limits of their suburban zone.
The commission says:
With respect to all the special instances
here mentioned We shall assume that the
defendants named will at once revise their
schedules so as to bring their fares more
into conformity with the fares of the Central
Of New Jersey and the LehiGh Valley for the
distances referred to and that no order in
that regard will be necessary.
The complaint of Pennsylvania COM
muters was that the 1870 trip quarterly
tickets we're abolished and at the same
time there was an increase Of 81 in the cost
Of sixty trip monthly tickets. This change
the commission finds produced very
startling increase" per month in the
charges exacted Of commuters at Me-
tuchen, New Brunswick and other places.
The railroad contended that the increased
charges were justified by reason Of the
great cost of elevating its tracks, in
creased taxes and wages and because Of
the cost to il of the Use by its commuters
OF the McAdoo tunnel.
The monthly difference made in the
Pennsylvania's increase amounted to
g 81 from New Brunswick and SO. IS from
Metuchen. Comparing these and other
fares with those charged by the Central
Railroad of New Jersey the commission
Gays
After careful study of the record we see
no justification. either in the value to the
commuter of the service rendered in that
line or the cost in the service of such a large
difference in the fare demanded Of the COM
month demanded of New Brunswick COM
muters for its sixty ride tickets is unreason-
able and ought not to exceed sio per month.
and We shall look to that defendant at once
to readiust its entire schedule in a proper
relation 70 the fare that We here fix as
reasonable fare for New Brunswick.