Show HA TES TO BE increase RAISE FOUND NECESSARY IN onder TO MEET HIGHER COST OP OF FUEL AND WAGES railways of nation will spend ahls year more for wage agge than last year and vast sums for fuel and equipment Was washington liln ton EstIn estimates intes niale made moll tiny day by railroad administration official indicate that an increase of at least east 20 5 per cent lu in freight and passo rotes rates will he be feces necessary ary this year 11 meet the higher costs of fuel wag ivancs equipment a and lit other operating 06 now set nt between ami more than last year aleco nimen dation that rates be raise by approximately tills this percentage ha liaa been made by director general sip ile adoo by ills adviser ad vi sera he Is expected to act within the next six weeks ant am to 0 o put increases anto effect immediate ly will be permitted to ap peal to the interstate commerce coni colu mission under the rat ran roads act nall final decision will wilf be with president presided wilson such an increase as Is proposed trill be the biggest in the history of 0 alpert american railroads as tile the pereen percentage tag e lj 13 larger than tiny any ever sought by th rall railways ways under private management and would apply alike to the C etire country both class and commodity 14 c would be affected passenger fares would be raised under the plan suggested to about 3 1 cents a mil from the e existing exi stino general rate of a little less than 2 12 cents the proposed iacre a se it Is esti mu would yield about t ft in freight and 9 in passenger revenues it Is roughly esti estimated mateLl by railroad administration officials that the road this year will spend between i and more for wages than last year between and more for coal and between and more for cars locomotives mils ties terminal facilities barges for inland waterways and other supplies and equipment these figures may bt b lowered by later developments but officials fici als who have studied the situation closely are arc inclined to believe they are ar more likely to prove higher the estimate of increased wages J it based on 0 n the probability that the dl doctor dector general will approve ii a general scheme of higher pay for workmen in ili accordance with the railroad wage commissions recommendations which called for an addition of t q the payroll of last year |