Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-06
F|VE-CENT FARES TO Be
CHARGED IN NORFOLK
Sale of Six for % Cents and Labor
Tickets Is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Tickets Continued.
PETERSBURG ALSO AFFECTED
New Order Does Not Apply to Rich
mOnd Lines, Where Franchise Con-
ditions Specify Present Rates, Tx
ccpt on Westhampton Line.

Increases In the cost of railway ma
terial. varying from 10 to 800 per cent.
and general increases In the cost Of
operation, were assigned by the Vir-
Sinia Railway and Power Company
yesterday as the reason for AN order
serving notice that beginning next
Monday the sale OF six quarter
tickets viii be discontinued in Nor
folk and Petersburg. The company
will also on that day discontinue in
these cities tho sale OF labor tickets
now sold between certain morning
hours at 2iz cents
Sx-for-25- tickets are obtain
able now in Norfolk o,ly at certain
specified stations scattered over the
city. Their sale by conductors is pro-
hibited. The new order aboiiShes the
six quarter ticket altogether in
Norfolk and Petersburg. and substi-
tutcS therefore II straight scent fare
The discontinuance Of the labor
tickets Will affect relatively larger
proportion of the travelling public in
the cities affected, than the suspension
Of siX-for-a quarter tickets. since a
large proportion of the passengers We're
already in tho habit of paying the
nickel fare on the cars. the trip to the
ticket agencies involving considcrabl bile
Inconvenience. The labor elements arc
expected TO protest against the with
drawal Of a privilege they have en-
joyed for years
NO PART Of NEW ORDER
APPLIES TO RICHMOND
No part Of the new order applies to
Richmond. since tho franchises under
which the Virginia Hallway and Power
Company operates in this city require
the sale Of six tickets for IS cents on
the cars. and school and labor tickets
at 2ls cents. Until the franchise re-
quiremcnts are modified by the Coun-
oil these rates of fare must remain in
FORCE. The only exception is the West
hampton line. operated under a fran
chisc obtained from Iicnrico County.
in which cial-privilcgc tickets are
not specified. The line has been ope-
rated. however, as part OF the city's
traction system, subject To all the
ticket conditions applying to the rest
or the system. The company would
not say yesterday whether a departure
from this policy was contemplated
While the six for "A quarter and labor
tickets VIII be withdrawn in Norfolk
and Petersburg. the special 2L.-cent
school tickets Will be retained OF.
hccrs or the company yesterday JUS
tined the discrimination between these
two classes OF cut-ratc fares. on the
ground that while special school
tickets may be regarded as a Droner
concession in the interest OF popula r
education. labor tickets represent a dis
| crimina ton between classes which
cannot be defended
while the power company has on
sundry occasions Indicated 10 Conner
committees that a revision Of tn. f.res
In this city TO meet changed conJitjous
W"uld sooner or later he necessary.
| inc Iouncil has repeatedly declined Ia
entertain any proposal for curtailtnrnt
OF the present spesial-tickct privileged
ana II is not regarded as probable tina Z
a measure directed 10 this end would
ma much support among the law
makers.