The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-03-05

Mile.
, The Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Company announces it's intention to re-
duce, in the immediate future, mot
later than May l, 1910 the passenger
sares on its lines in the State of Ken
lucky to a maximum of % cents per
mile.
ACTION VOLUNTARY.
This action on the part of Kentucky s
principal rail carrier is voluntary, and
is taken in order to equalize the rates
in its home State with the rates eff
fective on or before the date mention
ed in the States of Tennessee and
Alabama.
This Company adheres to it's belief
that cent fare is not wholly re-
munerative and is not unfair to the
public. Nevertheless, in deserence to
public opinion, particularly in other
states, the management has decided to
apply the lower rate in the hope that
increased volume of traffic will save
material losses, and pursuant to pro-
misses heretofore given the people of
Kentucky it proposes to place Ken
| lucky on the same basis as other
states. Should the reduction prove
disastrous, the company will appeal to
the Railroad Commission for such
readjustments as will be fair under all
conditions.
EXTENT OF TRAFFIC AFFECTED.
The reduction to be made will apply
to all of the lines operated by the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com
panv for it's own account in the state
of Kentucky, with the exception of
few branches and new lines on which
the passenger business is not now
remunerative or is conducted at loss.
The reduction Will be made effective
on lines which now are producing over
nine-tenths of the Company's total
passenger earnings in the State of
Kentucky; thus will affect nine-tenths
of the Company's passenger business.
The reduction proposed in Kentucky
will not only apply on intrastate travel
between points within the State, but
will also apply on interstate traffic over
the same lines to and from points with
in the State and through the State; al
so, as similar reductions have been or
are to be made on the principal lin IS of
travel in the States of Tennessee and
Alabama, the effect of interstate travel
on the lines of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company will be to sub
stantially establish maximum fare of
% cents per mile from the Ohio River
to the Gulf of Mexico.
REDUCTION IN REVENUE.
Some idea of the reflections to be
made by the Company in it's passenger
fares may be had when it is under
stood that the reduction in Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Alabama will represent
an annual reduction in passenger re-
venues of about $500, 200. In Kentucky
alone, the annual reduction in revenues
will amount to about S13O, 200 on inter-
state traffic, and about $3.50, 900 on in
trastate traffic, or to total amount of
about $380,00O.
| ILLUSTRATIVE CHANGES IN FARES.
The following list of existing fares
and the proposed new fares, is illustra-
tive of the reductions which will be
made:
DATE EFFECTITE OF CHANGES.
The proposed reductions will be made
effective as soon as the tariffs can be
compiled and issued giving the notice
required by law. 1t is now estimated
that the new intrastate tariffs will be
made effective about April LIST or
shortly thereafter Certainly not later
than May l. 1910, and that the inter-
state tariffs will be published i'm
mediately thereafter to be effective not
later than July l, 1914. The great
majority of interstate fares are joint
with other railroads and such cannot be
compiled until the various state tariffs
in the several states are compiled; the
interstate tariffs require the co-opera-
ton of all connections, and as the fares
in these are far more numerous, in
volving many thousands of figures
which have to be calculated, there is
naturally some delay. The legal notice
required in connection with interstate
fares is 20 days.
LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAIL
ROAD COMPANY,
BY w. A. Russell,
Pa ,senper Traffic MANAGER