Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-09-23
VIVA. Company to Apply
TO I. c. c. For Right
To Change
TO SELL 26 TRIP BOOKS
Monthly Books On Sale Any Time
To Establish New Freight RaFns-
Other Changes Sought

The Washington-V Virginia Railway
Company, which company several
months ago was granted an increase
in rates by the Interstate Commerce
Commission shortly will make applfs
cation to the same commission to
permit decrease in certain rates.
This announcement is made by NJ.
G.. Strattcn. general manage" CT
the company
The changes in rates vii! be f!lad
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission within the next eight or ten
days il is stated and it is expected
tha. a decision will be rendered b. the
commission within a month after ap.
rlica ton is filed. Whether or net
TIE rates can be put into operation
will, of course, he governed by the
decision Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The clC. rate on the trolley line
was nineteen cents each way.
The proposed change Of the trolley
line will ask the Interstate Commits
sion for permission to put into ope>
ration is that the fiftytwo trip book
of tickets, known as the monthly
book, will be put on sale any day and
will be good for one month from
date of purchaser This will also De
true of the present forty-six trip book
known as the school ticket. The
company also proposes to institute q
new twenty-siX trip ticket which will
te cr sale any day, good for ore
person, and good for one month from
the date of purchase and q rate II
sixteen and one half per cent per trip
above the present rate per trip Of the
f;fty-two ticket. making the new
rate % cents for round trip.
The company also proposes 10
change the time limitation of the
present round trip ticket so that t
Will be good for five days from d2tc
Of purchase instead Of two days aa
now.
Il is further announced that where
extra charges have been made On
tickets purchased by passengers VINO
have boarded trains at stations where
thc ticket office is open, there VIII
b5 . change 50 that these rassenGrs
raying a fare on the cars WI Il be
charged a uniform additional price CT
five cents and will be given a rebate
check by the conductor which VIII
cntitle them to rebate of five cents
OF any ticket office on the system OF
the company. It is also reported -
reduce the prevailing freight rate
ard milk rates, interstate, 6etW@ei;
Washington ard Alexandria ana
Washington and Mt. Vernon to 4
basis approximately to what It was
before the increase cf 1920.
It is further proposed to eStab,.:n 4
new freight rate between WashlnTg-
ton and Fairfax by way CT RosSIyn
and Clarendon, daily excepting, sun
days. At present, it is stated, the
oriv service between Fairfax and the
district terminates at Rossl!yn This
il is declared will give shippers =:
iailv service tc Fairfax by way CT
Washington and a daily service to the
tho neo0I, of Falls Church DIVISION
from tha center Of Washington IN
stead Of from Rosslyn. -,
The company so far as known new
ovar does not propose to cut the
price of the round trip now f3rtE. OILY
e;qht cents and the price, of the fl1.y
two trim book tickets will remain un-
changed The fifty two tl1p ticKets
frrmer,lv sold al $4. 46 and are now
s. as The prevailing rate for the
twenty-five trip family ticket IS now ON
81 % against S2.75 formerly charged