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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
Department of the State Corporation
Commission
Case No. 1909
Case No. 1929.
City of Richmond, August 9th. 1920.
WHEREAS, amended and supple
mental petitions in the above entitled
proceedings have this day been filed
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, the Southern Railway Com
pany, and other railroad carriers on
behalf of themselves and all other
steam railroads operating in Virginia,
asking authority to make the follow
ing increases in intrastate freight
rates and charges, passenger fares
and charges, baggage rates, ETC., in
Virginia to correspond with similar
increases authorized and ordered by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
on interstate rates. fares and charges
under its decision in Docket Ex Parte
"a:
list. All passenger fares and charges
to be increased twenty per cent (2O)
The term passenger fares" to be
considered to include standard local
or interline fares; excursion. conven-
ticn and other fares for special occa-
sions; communication and other multi
Pile forms of tickets; extra fares on
limited trains; club car charges.
End. Excess baggage rates to be
increased twenty per cent go per
cent?. Provided that where stated
as percentage of or dependent upon
passenger fares the increase in the
latter will automatically effect the
increase in the excess baggage
charges.
Ord. To impose surcharge upon
passengers in sleeping and parlor
cars, the same to be made fifty per
cent go per cent? of the charge for
space in such cars, such surchargc to
be collected in connection with the
charge for space and to accrue to
the rail carrier.
4th. All rates on milk and cream
carried in passenger service, to be
twenty per cent go per
cent?.
5tll. All freight transportation
rates and charges. switching charges,
charges for transit, weighing diver
sion, reconsignment, lighterage,
floatage and storage mot including
track storage) and transfer to be
increased forty per cent (40 per
rent), that being the increase au-
in interstate freight rates
and charges by the Interstate Com
merce Commission in Elk Parte IA
within Official Classification territory.
which territory, in said petitions. is
said to embrace practically the whole
Of the State of Virginia. If author
ty to include the whole of the State !
If Virginia in the Eastern group
taking an advance Of forty per cent |
40 per cent? in all freight rates and |
charges be not granted them, as an
alternative the amended and supple
mental petitions of the carriers seek
authority to increase all interstate /
'reight transportation rates. switch
ng and other freight charges above |
to the extent of forty |
per cent (40 per cent? within that
part Of the State of Virginia lying on
md north of the line of the Norfolk
md Western Railway Company from
Norfolk through Petersburg, Lynch
,urg and Roanoke to Bristol, includ-
ng all branches OF the Norfolk and /
Western Railway Company in Vir-
,inia between Norfolk and Bristol.
md including also the line of the
Virginia Railway lying south there
If; and in that portion Of the State
# Virginia lying south of the line of
he Norfolk and Western from Nor
ok through Petersburg. Lynchburg
md Roanoke to Bristol, but excluding
he line of the Virginia Railway and
he above mentioned, branches of the
Norfolk and Western Railway Com
,any in Virginia, ali freight trans
,ortation rates and switching and /