The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-13
TRACTION coMpANY's STATEMENT
Issued by Mr.. Larrabee Relates 30 the
Question of Fares.

Nothing new in the way of develop.
ments was reported in the rate situation
on the interurban line OF the Barre h
Montpelier Traction & Power Co. to-day
Supplementary to the brief notices which
the company has posted in conspicuous
points along the railway is the state
ment included in an interview which
Manager II. d. Larrabee gave Times
representative this morning. Manager
Larrabee says:
"At the time the city OF Montpelier
filed with the court a petition for an
Injunction to restrain the company from
charging more than five cents for rid
ing wholly within the city limits Of
Montpelier it seemed best to the com
pany, in view of the early date of the
hearing, to defer action on the rest OF
the schedule, thinking that the whole
matter might be cleared up in a short
time. When ii became evident that the
proceedings instituted by Montpelier
might not reach an early termination,
the company deemed it necessary to put
into effect the schedule filed with the
public service commission and posted and
advertised on June s. excepting only
that portion of the schedule which re-
lated to fares between one point and an.
other within the city limits of Mont
pelier, which was the only matter in
volved in or affected by that city. On
Aug. 5, therefore, the company caused
to be posted in its several cars notices
to the effect that the schedule filed with
the public service commission would be
in full force and effect on and after
Aug. IL, with the single exception just
stated.
"The city of Barre having now
brought legal proceedings for an injunc-
ton similar TO those instituted by Mont
pelier, the company is placed, in regard
to the fares for riding wholly within the
city limits of Barre, in precisely the |
same position as existed regarding the |
fare for riding wholly within the city |
limits of Montpelier The company ac-
,crdingly has posted "wednesday morn
ing inside its cars, notices to the eff
feet that the schedule filed with the
public service commission would have
10 be modified to the further extent that,
bending these additional legal proceed
ngs brought by the city of Barre, the
arc for riding wholly within the city
limits OF either Barre or Montpelier
would be five cents until further notice.
Under the schedule filed with the
,ublic service commission, which is the
schedule now in force, the fare for rid
ng from any point in Montpelier TO
my point in Berlin or Montpelier as
ar as No. ! switch is six cents; from
Barre to any point in Berlin or Mont
'elicr as far as Dewey park the fare is
TX cents. Special rate tickets good on
ertain specified trips will be sold at the
ate Of so for sl.75, except that pend
ng the receipt of new books, the pres
Mt books consisting of 40 rides will be
old for ST 40.
As already fully explained, the fore
ding rates OF fares comedies in every
articular with those set forth in the
rhcdule duly filed with the public serv-
e commission and posted and adver- Y
sed on June s, excepting that solely
ecause of the legal proceedings above
the company refrains for the
resent from enforcing its schedule in
aspect to fares wholly within the city
mits of either Barre or Montpelier"