The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-03-06
|. 8 n. TO REDUCE
PASSENGER FARES
ON ALL ITS Lines
Order to Go Into Effect AS
Soon as Tariffs Can Be
Revised
p IL CENTS PER MILE
ON PAYING LINES
Action of the Railroad Com
pany in Reducing Rates
is Voluntary

The Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road Company announces it's inten-
ton to reduce, in the immediate fu-
ture, the passenger fares on it's lines
in the State of Kentucky to a maxi
mum of 21s cents per mile.
This action on the part of Ken
tucky's principal rail carrier is volun-
tary, and is taken in order to equaliZe
the rates in it's home State with the
rates effective or to be made effective
on or before the date mentioned in the
States of Tennessee and Alabama.
This Company adheres to its belief
that a three cent fare is not wholly
remunerative and is not unfair to the
public. Nevertheless, in Difference 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
promises heretofore given to the poo
pie of Kentucky it proposes to place.
Kentucky 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.
Tibet reduction to be made will ap-
ply to all of the lines operated by the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com
pany for it's own account in the State
of Kentucky, with the exception of a
few branches and new lines on which
the passenger business is not now re-
muneratiye or is conducted at loss.
The reduction will be made effect
i've on lines which are now 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 Ken
lucky will not only apply on interstate
travel between points within the
State, but will also apply on inter
state traffic over the same lines to
and from poins within the State and
through the State; also, as similar
reductions have been or are to be
madeon the principal lines of travel
in the States of Tennessee and Ala
bama, the effect on interstate travel
on the lines Of he Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad Company will be to sub
stantially establish a maximum rate
Of 21a cents per mile from the Ohio
River to the Gulf of Mexico.
Some idea of the reductions to be
made by the Company in it's passen-
ger fares may be had when it is I'M
derstoOd that the reduction in Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Alabama will
represent an annual reduction in pass
enger revenues of about 100000. In
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in revenues will amount to about
$4,000 on interstate traffic, and
about $250,000 on intrastate traffic. or
TO total amount of about $380,000.
The following list of the existing
fares and the proposed new fares is
illustrative of the reductions which
will be made:
From Louisville to Bowling Green,
present fare, $3.41; new fare, 1924.
From Lebanon to Louisville, pres
ent fare, $2.02; new fare, $1.68.
From Corbin to Williamsburg, pres
ent fare, SO cents; new fare. A cents.
From Middlesboro to Covington,
present fare, 1914; new fare, $574.
From Louisville to Guthrie, present
fare, 1852; new fare, $4.10.
From Owensboro to Russellville,
present fare, s215; new fare, $3.50.
From Henderson to Hopkinsville,
present fare, 1922; new fare. $1.s5.
From Louisville to Worthwhile, |
present fare, S1.62; new fare. $1.45.
From Frankfort to Lexington, pres |
ent fare, sc cents; new fare. 70 cents. |
From Anchorage to Shelbyville. |
present fare, 81 cents; new fare, As |
cents.
From Paris to Richmond. present |
fare, $116; new fare. 96 cents
From Louisville to Nashville. Tenn, |
present fare. $3.50; new fare. $4.67.
From Louisville to Memphis, Tenn. !
present fare, $11.40; new fare, $9.51 |
The proposed reductions will be |
made effective as soon as the tariffs |
can be compiled and issued giving the |
notice as required by law. 1t is now
estimated that the new intrastate tar
ifs will be made effective about April |
1 or shorty thereafter Certainly not |
later than Nav 1. 1914, and that the |
interstate tariffs will be published inn
media tely thereafter to be effective
not later than July 1. 1914. The great
maoritv of interstate fares are joint |
with other railroads and such cannot
be compiled until the various State
tariffs in the several States are COM
piled; the interstate tariffs renuire
the co-operation of all connections.
and as the fares in these are far more
involving many thousands
Of figures which have to be, calcu-
lated. there is naturally some delay.
The legal notice REQUIRED in connec-
ton with interstate fares is 80 days.
MRS. MARY J. HARo'S
ADMINISTRATORS NAMED.