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Show uu REDUCTION IN PULLMAN RATES Chicago. Feb. 1. The reduction in upper berths In Pullman cars, which went into effect todav. had no marked offect on tho demand for lower berths, though one railroad reported , that a dozen reservations of upper t berths for points on the Pacific coast had been, received from the East. The, now rules mndo it possible for a person to ride in a Pullmun car between be-tween Chicago and the Pacific coast for $U.G0 less than he used to. providing provid-ing he takes an upper berth. The clerk of the United States Circuit court has received some 1,500 letters, inclosing receipts for Pullman tickets paid for at the old rates on tho lines out of St. Paul during the time the Interstate Commerce commission's rates wero enjoined. The receipts provided for a refund of the difference between tho old rates and the commission's com-mission's reduced rates, if the latter's orders were upheld. As they were not upheld but were modified in accordance ac-cordance with the general reduction ordered by the Pullman company" oL a lesser amount, a technical question has arisen as to the amount of the refund. |