Show I PAY OF PULLMAN PORTERS Company Separates Itself Isel Prom From 25 2 2 a Month and and and Traveling Pub Public lic lie Does the Rest Chicago Dec De The tipping g system particularly as it applies apples to the Pullman company compan underwent a fleeting Inquiry before Interstate Commerce Commissioner r Lone today toda This statement was made by Richard Dean general of or the Pullman company com pan into whose rates Mr r Lane Lne Is inquiring The witness d that the public tips the porter because ho he hois heis hois is underpaid and observed The tipping custom Is a result of the selfishness of oC persons who desire better service serice than tha their fellows and are willing willingto to pay for It I Counsel for the complainant asked Mr Ir IrDean Dean Vat is the salary salar of a porter They are paid pai 2 a month answered the witness Does the company furnish them their meals mals malse The e company does not notI not I think it takes that much luch to buy their meals then commented the lawyer General Manager Dean of the Pullman company compan testified that he lie preferred prefer the i upper berth berh himself and declared that his i company considered them as good as the th j lowers lower That the tue traveling public service j was generally the opposite however he admitted Mr Ir Deen said the experiment of or reducing ing the price of oC uppers 25 per cent had been tried some ago between New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Boston Boton Bo ton but had not proved sat satisfactory sati satisfactory A similar reduction on an ex cx excursion e between Chicago and St Paul had bad hadnot hadnot not proved popular as four lower to one upper were were sold A reduction of oC 23 2 2 per percent percent percent cent he said would necessitate the sale sae of oC 31 33 1 per cent more upp ys to main maintain maintain tain tam the present revenue But we want want a reduction of 30 i 0 per percent percent percent cent interposed Attorney Manahan rep representing representing resenting the complainant Mr Ir Dean said that the cars er are fumi fumigated fumigated gated once a week weck and in sections of or the country where the Ule tuberculosis patients patient are carried cared the cars cr are fumigated at the end nd of every trip He declared that out I of passengers carried cared on the new steel st l cars last year ear there was but one death from accident Mr Underwood told the co t that it costs the St St Paul road roa to build a sleeper of oC which the road has ha 10 and j that their ther rates tes were the t e same ame as those thoe of the Pullman company |