Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-06-04
HOW RATES ARE RAISED
PAssENGER RATES

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PASSENGER RATES.
Passenger fares are increased from
the basic rate of 21a cents mile to 3
cents.
Tourist and round-trip rebates are
abolished except in tvo specific cases,
conventions of the G. A. r. and Con-
federate veterans.
Communication rates will be increased
10 per cent.
Tickets and mileage bought before
June 10 will be redeemed at the orig
inal price.
Soldiers and sailors on leave at their
own expense pay l cent mile.
PULLMAN RATES.
Three and one-half cents mile will
be charged in addition to Pullman and
parlOr car rates.
Two adult tickets for a drawing
room and two adult tickets for COM
partment must be bought.
Five adult tickets must be bought
for exclusive use of parlcr car draw
ing room.
FREIGHT RATES.
Wheat, other grains and flour in
creased % per cent, not to exceed 9
cents a hundred.
Live stock-Increased % per cent,
not to exceed cents hundred.
Meats-Increased % per cent, except
that the rates from Mississippi river
points to Mississippi river territory
remain as the rates from st. Joseph,
Mo.
COal-Increase of Is cents a net ton
up to 30 cents, where the rate Is So
or more.
Coke-Increase of 10 cents a net ton
up to 70 cents, where rate is So.
Sugar-Twenty-fiv per cent increase
without fiat rate variations.
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic at Portland, Ore, and the
United Confederate Veterans reunion
at Tulsa, Okla. Both of these or
CARNATIONS are permitted rates of one
cent a mile, and for various state
meetings of the veterans two cents
will be charged.
Children under five years of age
will be carried free, as at present, and
those between five and twelve will be
charged half of the new higher fare.
Communication fares, which are raised
ten per cent, are construed to apply
to persons having daily or frequent
occasion to travel between their homes
and places of employment or educa-
tional institutions.
To discourage the use of heavy
sleeping and parlor cars the new or
der provides that the following mini
mum number of tickets should be
bought for drawing room compart-
ments or sections:
Two adult tickets for a drawing
room in a sleeping car; two adult
tickets for a compartment.
One and one-half ticket for Sec
ton; five adult tickets for exclusive
occupancy of drawing rooms in par
lor car.
by rail and water are to be increased
proportiOnately with the higher rail
charges.
Excess Baggage Charges.
The basis for computing charges for
excess baggage is to be one-sixth of
the normal passenger fare, with
minimum of Is cents per 100 pounds
and minimum collection of % cents
per shipment.
The director general provides fully
for the redemption of tickets and mile
age books purchased before June 10
and rendered invalid after that date
when the higher fares become effec-
tive. Unused portions of mileage books
and unused or partially used tickets
will be redeemed at their original pur-
chase rate.
The % per cent increase in freight
charges will apply generally to class
and commodity rates, but minor varia-
tons will be necessary in many cases.
For instance, where certain relation
ships exist between rival commercial
centers the % per cent increase will ap-
ply to the longer distance and the rate
to the nearer locality will be the same
number OF cents less, as under pres
ent schedules. In this way charges
for many short hauls will be raised
more than % per cent.
100000 Get Wage Raise.
General pay increases for nearly
two million railroad employees were
announced by Director General Nc
Adoo, effective June 1 and retroactive
to last January 1, carrying out substan-
TALLY recommendations of the railroad
wage commission. The aggregate of
the increases probably will be more
than $500, 100000 year, half of which
will be distributed within a few weeks
as back pay in lump sums ranging
from about 500 to nearly $500 EACH
Scale of Increase.
Train employees, including members
of the leading brOtherhoods, will re-
ceive approximately the following pro-
portional increases over 1915 pay, or
lllciI N1lSh pay 10 DdSSu Ou
miles operated: Passenger engineers,
IL per cent; passenger firemen and
helpers, % per cent; passenger conduc-
tors, Is per cent; passenger baggage
men, SO per cent; passenger brakemen
and flagmen, 40 per cent; freight engi-
neers Is per cent; freight firemen, and
helpers, "a per cent; freight conduc-
tors, 20 per cent; freight brakemen
and f1agmen, 10 per cent. These men
must aso deduct increases granted
since 1915.
Special rates of pay are provided for
office, messenger and chorc boys, and
similar employees under eighteen
years, as follows: Twenty dollars in
| crease a month where the pay in De-