The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-06
United State Railroad AID
ministration Withdraws
Order Against Com
mutation Tickets.
TO HAVE GENERAL HEARING
Protests Against the Plan to Send
Communication Tickets to the Dis
cards are so General That
Order is Recalled.

| The old ken0Sha Communication ticket
on the Northwestern road is going to
have its day in court and before it is
least into the discard and the people of
Kenosha who travel to and from Chi
1 eago are forced to pay the three cents
a mile rate the merits and dement's of
the communication tickets will be heard
by an appropriate tribunal.
Orders directing that the sale Of these
tickets in Kenosha and in other "sub-
Furban' stations in the Chicago district
have been recalled by the Federal Rail
road Administration and the curtailing
of privileges granted under such tick
cts has been indefinitely postponed.
An order issued several days ago ex-
tended the life of the tickets to
February 10th. The new order received
| in Kenosha today extends the life Of
these tickets indefinitely. The order
issued today means that there will be
mo changes in the price of travel be
tween Kenosha ard Chicago until after
a hearing before the Federal Admins
tration and after new order has been
issued. The ten ride tickets will be
honored on all trains just as before
and it is probable that the twenty-six
ride family tickets which were to have
been substituted for the ten ride tickets
will be taken from the market. These
q family tickets may come back again
after the administration has held its
full examination into the merits of
the commuters objections to the change.
Since the order was issued doing
away with the ten and twenty ride
tickets which have been sold at many
stations, Washington has been bonn
barded with objections from cities and
villages and from organizations of
business men. The Illinois Public
Utilities Commission formally took up
the matter with the Federal officials
and fled protest on the part of the
Illinois people and plans were being
made to have a similar protest fled in
| the name of the Railroad commission of
| Wisconsin. The formal notice extend
ing indefinitely the time for the new
order to go into effect was sent to
Kenosha this morning from the West
ern Passenger Traffic Committee and
it is signed by P. s. Eustis, Chairman
of that committee. The formal order
Says
Before decision in this matter was
/ reached, the Public Utilities Commits
sion of the State of Illinois was con
suited as to the propriety Of the action
proposed. It was pointed out that the
actual cost Of maintaining the service
| by the steam roads was greater than
the revenue now being derived, that
that it was reasonably certain, at the
present time, that it would equal two
| cents per mile.
The Utilities Commission responded
that if this particular rate referred to
was advanced by the steam roads the
! Commission would under all circum-
stances prefer that the Federal Admin
listration assume the responsibility. As
result of this correspondence, it was
assumed that there would be no objec-
ton to the action proposed by the Fed
eral Railroad Administration, and an
nouncement was made accordingly.
I'm view of subsequent develop
nents, the Director General has today
/ instructed that the changes proposed
be postponed, pending an opportunity
for full review before an appropriate
tribunal. /"