Show S Railway Prosperity rity Mr Eastman thinks the railroads ds would profit prom by materially reducIng reducIng reducing ing their fares The rates he su suggests suggests sug sug- are 1 2 11 12 cents per mile for local journeys 3 cents J per r mile for lor distance travel 3 cents for sleeping and parlor parlor cars and nd perhaps 5 cents for tor de trains These rates rate would include sleeping car service for the coordinator offers the drastic drastic drastic dras dras- tic suggestion that railroads furnish furnish furnish fur fur- nish this themselves of ot farming farmin it out The present method method meth nieth- od caused an unnecessary cost of at least last year he as as- The public has gradually lost the railroad travel habit because of ot the greater convenience and lower cost cof of competing services Some such steps as Mr lr Eastman outlines must be taken if it the rail lines Unes are to rc recapture re- re capture the lost business business St. St St. Louis Loui I Post |