Show ASKING FOR TOO MUCH now comma comes the new york staff and with the suggestion that the railroad during the worlds world pa fair fai r enrich themselves while enriching mankind by putting the show within the reach ot of all possible visitors the plan proposed to IB for the roads to fix a minimum rate for which a train of passengers pae can be taken from gotham botham to chicago and the paper quoted bated thinks this need not exceed one aillar dollar per capita it is ie urged that inasmuch as the proceed pro peed train would form a separate classification from any now existing it would in no DO wise in with existing arrangements nor open the way for rate demoralization all of which la Is very fine but the truly good editor of the A mid and E R ought to knor if he does not that railroads are neither built nor run that way that their stockholders stockholder are not in the the business for the sake oak e of af conferring boona boods upon mankind but as an colonel ellerbeck Eller beok once ex preB fled it for the purpose of declaring dividends dividend and there would not be touch much of the latter lu in eight as the result of a dollar rate for a thousand mile ride of course the roads will make a reduction but it will only be to such euch extent as Is if likely to bring the receipts up to or above the normal through the increased patronage dont ap apply ply to railway corporations for public charities or any other kind because you will not only lose your time and labor but be burdened with the humiliation of refusal besides 1 A good many people in this corner of the republic would be awfully well pleased if they could got get the corporate highways charitable this class to Is a very respectable one embracing nearly every merchant or dealer of any kind in the country they have petitioned remonstrated sup everything but prostrated themselves but the heavy weight bt bf charges which amount in some cases to petit and in others to grand larceny from a business point of view to is still upon thew them nobody here asks aska for a dollar or even a ton ten dollar rate to chicago what all do ask for and ought to have la in a tariff schedule that will enable both the railways railway and themselves them to realize something upon shipments and it if so modest a demand hangs fire so no long how much time will a request like that of colonel shepard be likely to consume in acquiring a propulsive movement I 1 |