The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31
RAILROAD NEWS.
Reduction in Pullman Rates Ef-
fectiye Wednesday.
Upper Berths Will Be Sold Less
Than the Lowers.
TOURTST RATES ALSO
TOURIST RATES ALSO.
New Sleeping Cars Come in for
the Decrease.
Other Items OF General Inter-
est in Traffic World.

On and after Wednesday next tickets
for Pullman berths will be sold at re-
duced rates. Announcement of this
fact has been made by the company's
offlcials. The reduction will be made
in accordance with the arrangement
commission on the subject.
The company in a statement explains
that the revisions in rates and reduc-
tons made are voluntary on the part
Of the Pullman company, except-in the
three or four specific rates which we're
passed on by the commission in the
Lotus case
The tariffs as filed provide that where
the lower berth rate is $1.50 the upper
berth rate will be SIPS, and where the
lower berth rate is more than 81 80 the
upper berth rate will be 20 per cent
less.
An entirely new feature of the rates
is the putting in of an intermediate
lower berth rate between the even dol
lar and the half dollar, that is hereto
fore the rate of $3.50 would carry for
a certain time and distance, then the
next higher rate would be s. and the
next $2-o and so on, but in the new
tariff rates of S1.75, $2.25, $Z15, ETC.,
have been put in wherever it was nee
essary to bring about an equalization
of the lower berth rates.
Tourist Car Rates Also Changed.
New tourist sleeping car rates have
also been filed which do not change
the rates for lower berths, but estab
lish a differential of 20 per cent in IA
vor of upper berths in tourist cars with
a minimum upper berth rate of 81.
The tourist car berth rates were not
involved in the complaints fled with
the commission and there has been no
complaint filed concerning them, but
the company considered that the class
of people who occupy tourist cars were
ant Ind - 60. ~
berths equally with the occupants of
the standard or first-class sleeping cars
and so voluntarily established this low
er rate for tourist car upper berths.
Local state tariffs on the same basis
as the interstate tariffs will also be-
come effective at the same time.
Redemption of Refund Coupons.
Asked about the coupons which were
issued for the difference between the
old rates and those originally order
ed by the interstate commerce commits
sion in the Lotus cases and the funds
deposited with the circuit court to
cover the amount of these coupons, Of
fcialS of the Pullman company declin-
ed to say more than that the coupons
had been issued and the funds deposit
ed in accordance with the courts order.
1t was stated that the holders of
these coupons would, so far as such
refunds are held to be lawful, be en-
titled to receive a refund of the differ
ence between the old rates, which were
collected and the new rates establish
ed, which are the same as those pro-
vided in the modified order of the
commission. over $4,000 has been de-
posted with the clerk of the United
States circuit court at Chicago to cover
the refunds and he has received several
hundred letters inclosing refund cou-
pons with request for remittances.
The tickets provide for a refund in
case the original order was upheld. .
AS it was modified in accordance
with the company's offer the question
will have to be passed upon by the
commission. Rates out Of st. Paul and
rates competitive with them are in
volved in the refund order.