Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-26
RAILROADS WILL
MAKE NEW RATES
BY BOARD ORDER
North Jersey Cities Affected by
Ruling of Public Utilities
Commission.
IFrom a stan Correspondents

TRENTON, Sept. 26.-The Board of
Public Utility Commissioners today
allowed the Erie New York, Susque-
hanna and Western and New Jersey
and New York Railroad companies
to put into effect from October Is
schedules of rates which were denied
the companies in October, 1911 The
commissions action requires the COM
panies after sixty days, during which
the schedules have been in effect, to
revoke the schedules If there is suf-
ficint complaint In the boards judg-
ment to warrant such action The
companies will then be required to
restore their present schedules on
notice by the board. The railroads
are also required to acquaint the
commission with the effect of the new
schedules as regards the revenue de-
rived in comparison with revenues
accruing under the present schedules.
On sixty Days Trial.
The Utility Commissioners in the
summer of 1911 refused to approve
certain increases in rates of fare sub
mitted by the companies. The rail-
roads then withdrew the entire sched-
ules submitted, which contained cer-
tain decreases as we'll as increases
of fare. The Erie and affiliated roads
have applied to the commission for
reconsideration of the schedules sub
nitted in 1911. The commission de-
cided to allow a trial of the schedules
|sfirst proposed, upon the assurance
given by the companies that IL sixty
days trial of the new schedules de-
velops complaints enough the COM
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ent schedule rates of fare.
The commission gives numerous
reasons for it's action. In its memo
randum the commission says:
''On the lines operated by the Erie
Railroad Company the decreases
would have numbered 156 and the in
creases 85.
"The changes in fare refer only TO
one-way tickets and excursion tickets.
They have no reference to commuta
ton fares.
Uniformity in Fares.
"The new schedules will establish
greater uniformity in fares. There
will be closer approximation to the
21a cent per mile rate. The excursion
fare will more closely conform to 90
per cent. of the one-way fare.
Certain anomalies now existing in
fares will be swept away. The rea-
sons giving rise to such anomilies are
not now operative. Among such
anomilies is the possibility under the
present tariff of purchasing two tick
cts for two links of journey at a less
price than for the entire journey. In
the greater number of cases this is to
be remedied by reducing the through
fare, so as to equal the sum of the
fares on the two links. In other cases
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through fare to cover the sum of the
fares of the two links of the through
route.
"The advances in fares are small IN
every case. In two or three cases the
increase in the excursion fare Is ten
cents, but practically every increase.
whether for an excursion fare or
one-way fare, is a five-cent increase,
whereas, some of the decreases run
as high as. twenty-five cents.
Paterson and Passaic.
1.-THE only cases where any appreci-
able increase in revenue will result
from the new schedule are the fares
from Rutherford to Paterson, and
from Passaic to Paterson. In each
case the increase Is but five cents in
the round-trip fare. The present
round trip fare from Rutherford to
Paterson is twenty-five cents, as
against twenty cents for the one-way
fare. Based on mileage and other con-
sideration the increase in the excur-
sion fare to thirty cents seems rea-
sonable.
"Similarly the fares between Pas
sale and Paterson are twelve cents
one way and fifteen cents round trip.
This gives rise to certain combina-
tions on Paterson from Passaic Ito
Hawthorne and points beyond, which
are improper In both cases the in
crease in excursion fare will tend to
align their excursion fares with other
excursion fares"