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Show TWENTY-EIGHT-MILE RIDE FOR A NICKEL CHIOAGO. Jan. 31. Tho longest street car nde in tho world for a nickel, twonty-eight miles, will bo offered, beginning be-ginning February 1 by tho street rail-way rail-way systom of Chicago it was announced an-nounced today. Universal transfers and single faros throughout tho citv on surface sur-face linos will bo put into effect, despite de-spite a suit by a minority stockholder to prevent the innovation! The elevated railroads recently established es-tablished a single faro within tho citv limits, nnd tho unifications of the two largo systems of surfaco lines now makes it possible for the street cars to compote with the clovated linos at the same price. Leonard A. Busby, president of the Chicago surface lines, said that New York gavo a maximum rido of nine miles and Philadelphia less than thirteen thir-teen miles for a nickel. Under ihe uni-lied uni-lied operation plan, 250 miles of double track out of 450 miles in Chicago will bo used as through routes, allowing travel without chango between tho north, west and Bouth sides of tho citv ! |