The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-30
UPPER BERTH TO
COST LESS MONEY
New Pullman Rates Effective OH
MI Railway Lines Be
ginning Wednesday.
LOWER BERTH RATE STANDS
But il You Crawl 70 Top Of Car
There Will BE Rcdue-
ton OF 20 Per Cent.

Although it was said yesterday that
the new tariff sheets had not been re-
ceived. railroad people have been adj
viscd officially that beginning Wcdncs-
day all upper berths III Pullman cars
VIII be reduced 20 per cent in price.
with scattering reductions in rates for
lower bcrths. So far, however, local
officials have not >bccn notified OF any
rate changes in the latter. which are
supposed to stand
as an Illustration as to how the
revised tariff will work, an upper
berth from Richmond to Washington
will cost s1.2O, while a lower will cost
Sl5o. An upper from Richmond 10
New York will tax the traveller $l.6O,
as compared with So for lower. a
section, for instance from this city TO
New York. will he sold for $3.50. as
compared With 81, the rate long i'll
effect.
Curious to Sec Effect.
Just what effect this arrangement
Will have OH that daily demand for
lowers. railroad mon arc unable to
say, although They believe that here
after passengers Will he able to Sc
cure the best quarters more casny
than heretofore. Especially Will this
reduction be appreciated by pa ssengers
on the long haul for thousands OF
them who are travelling every day
would buy cheaper accommodation ii
there were any to be had. When TINS
element. therefore. is willing and
anxious TO sleep upstairs there viii be
more accommodations downstairs for
81, n lI n
price for the bottom berth. Ticket
agents. at all events, believe that in
the future they will not have TO deal
with so many natural born kickcrs--
kickers who will go gladly into up
pers now after swearing at the dis
elimination and Inconvenience hereto
fore.
Some Complex Rates.
But travelling people are curious to
know whether or not there will be Il
rcadjustment OF rates on moro com
mon sense basis. y man travelling
from Raleigh to Richmond over tile
Seaboard Air Line for example pays
81 for Pullman berth; from Raleig II
to Washington-in the same car--hc
pays So; from Raleigh TO Baltimore
in the same car again--he pays 81, al
though there Is a big difference In the
amount of railroad fare from Raleigh
to the three points named This same
system applies on other roads leading
out of Richmond, II the Hat $. rate
is TO stand, ali upper from Raleigh TO
Richmond or to Washington or Baiu-
more will be $3.50 in each instance.
But there is big difference in the day
rate. which is based upon mileage.
Not the snmc Here.
Attention was called yesterday to a
curious rate on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway. The day Pullman rate
from Richmond to Gordonsviilc is 40
cents; a scat in a chair car--owned by
the railroad and not by tho Pullman
Com pany--costs so cents This. OF
course, is a Very small matter, vet t
shows the complex system of charging
people for extra accommodations.
y new feature of the rate scheme is
the establishment OF an intermediate e
lower berth rate heretofore a rate of
$50 has been collected for a certain
time and distance. and the next higher
rate amounted TO so cents more. IN
the revised tariff rates, sl15 S2..o
etc. have been put in wherever it was
necessary TO bring abou, all euuaiiZa-
ton Of the lower berth rates