Show WESTERN ASSOCIATION A Number of Important Passenger Matters Considered Yesterday CHICAGO May 11The lines of the Western Passenger association for the purpose of clearing the market of outstanding out-standing 2000 mile tickets has resolved that the chairman shall be authorized to redeem all such expired tickets of the issue of lines parties to the agreement issued prior to June 1 1896 which may be presented to him by any one between June and June 5 1895 inclusive at the best figure obtainable not to exceed the basis of redemption as fixed by the agreement agree-ment viz Two cents per mile plus 10 refund Lines will honor the chairmans draft in redemption of such tickets of their issue is-sue at cost to the chairman The provisions pro-visions of the agreement as to giving notice no-tice within time limits for all such tickets tick-ets to be suspended during that period Nothing in the resolution will prevent any road from taking its own tickets off the market within the period named but it is not intended that any line shall negotiate for any other lines issue of tickets during that period Vicepresident Truesdell of the Rock Island who acted as chairman of the recent re-cent meeting of the executive officers of the western lines called to consider the mileage book question announced today that all of the lines had signified their approval ap-proval of the propositions submitted and the agreement will go into effect on June 1 Notice was given today by the Atchison Atchi-son road that it will meet the rates made by the Southern Pacific for the meeting of the American civil engineers at San Francisco It will moreover apply the rates to business from Chicago and make d rate of 73 from Chicago to San Francisco Fran-cisco and return |