The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-17
Passenger Fares TO Be Raised

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has taken the initiative which is to b,
followed by other roads, the result O
which will be raise in passenger rates
all along the lines. The changes will
take effect on the 10Th of December and
will be as follows:
| The 60-trip monthly ticket will be adj.
vanced 25 cents above the present rate.
The 46-trip school tickets will be adj
vanced 20 cents.
The 1O0-trip tickets will be withdrawn
| from sale.
The 1S0-trip quarterly ticket will be
sold at three times the monthly rate.
This ticket will be kept on sale for the
convenience of those who do not care to
purchase ticket every month.
The 5O-trip ticket will be withdrawn
from sale.
Strip tickets will be withdrawn from
SALE
Ten-ride tickets will be sold, good for
bearer. They will cost nine times the
one-way fares.
Excursion tickets to Atlantic City,
Cape May and other seashore points will
be advanced 25 cents.
All excursion tickets except those to
resort points will be withdrawn from sale.
Round-trip tickets will be sold at twice
the one-way fare, and will be good until
used, with stOp-Over privileges.
No changes will be made in any subur-
ban or local One-way fares.
Through fares have been revised on a
basis of q cents per mile as the maxi
mum rate.
Naturally this movement has created
comment in all quarters, especially
among the commuters and those who
have homes in the suburbs and who use
the trains twice day. Indignation
meetings are to be held, but it is not
likely they will accomplish anything.
When the railroads asked permission to
increase freight rates and were refused
the Interstate Commission suggested
that the freight should not pay all the
cost of conducting the roads but the
passenger service should contribute
something towards it. 1t is well known
fact that passenger rates have not done
much towards paying expenses for some
time. Travel by trolley and by automo-
bile has done much to keep the railroads
out of considerable cash.
Some of the changes to be made ap-
pear to be very harsh. The ten-ticket
strips that have heretofore been sold be-
tween Mount Holly and Philadelphia
for 1886, will be Withdrawn. The price
of straight fare between these two
places now is so cents A ten-strip
ticket will be sold for $3.50, but it will be
good for the bearer. Excursion tickets
will be taken off, with the exception of
those to the shore. If person wants to
go to Philadelphia from Mount Holly
and return by train he will have to pay
81. This ticket will be good until used
and will be privileged to stop off at diff
ferent stations.
There are all sorts of reasons given by
the general public for this increase in
the tariff. One is that the railroad COM
pany wants to force the Legislatures of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey to repeal
the full-crew law. This is possibly the
of some active brain. If,
however, that is a reason, it is a good
one, for of all the nonsensical. unjust
laws, the full-crew law is the limit. A
good example of the nonsense of it may
be seen on local trains, one of which
went from Mount Holly few days ago
and had one more member of the train
crew than it had passengers. The real
truth of the action of the railroad COM
panies is that they need the money and
that they have not been getting from
their passenger lines just proportion of
the expenses for operating.