| Show THAT DOLLAR FARE TO CHICAGO A few days since mention was ade of a proposition by a new york paper for the railroads to establish dollar jahp rat over their roads during the world fair at that time we endeavored to t show how extremely improbable it was that the different companies como com anies vanies or any one of them would do anything of the th kind that such euch corporations were not no eleemosynary institutions and that while they might and of course woul would reduce their rates considerably it would only be so far as an would enable them to come out ahead by reason of at the greatly increased patronage W thought we understood too the subject awk weft enough by observation and exper lenos to be justified in speak speaking login in that gayy aril and aad think so yet the metropolitan I 1 luminary spoken of however does doe ia ot it keeps keep up the discussion and issue la huoh a k way as to cause one to believe that Is really expects to the lot burrl pose advocated this is in from a robat issue 1 when the mail and er express deals nj that a one dollar fare to C chicago cago jundef do conditions which it a specified po afi tied fied was n nota only possible but profitable it did not bass base the statement on the hazard of dubious estimate or conje conjecture oters abou i rate results result had bad been reached by official i investigation and the certified reports report were a part of public records in 1878 1879 the board of railroad broad commissioners for the state of massachusetts reported that tha although the railroads were wastefully waste folly conducted the total cost of carrying a passenger r miles was but eight cents ab abroad official investigations in england france and belgium have determined the total cost of transportation for the same distance is but five cents taking the latter figures as a basis the cost for 1600 1500 miles the distance specified by the maiz mail and express would bi be but 75 cents leaving a margin of 25 per cent profit the mail and then goes on to 4 show that the plan proposed is not nol in any sense a financial impossibility that if it could once be proved tha the railroads could afford to pay for the now new additional cars care required for do trains for workingmen the other I 1 features of the plan would wound necessarily follow that the raila railways ays could not only afford to pay for the extra oars care but bul would make money out of the tran sae tion with sixty two persons in sack each car which would just fill them it ft would take oars care on each line to transport one million people during the twenty six weeks in which the exhibition will be open each car ca would cost about or ale al together at one dollar per capita nothing but a deficit to is observable in the scheme far but editor shepard to is as farseeing far seeing amino as he to is erudite and moral when he bw suggests a plan for the ameli orai tion of the condition of his fello felloe man as well as enabling the raila rai railway lw companies to adopt the lagdan tion to put money in thy purse if may be taken for granted that the subject deot has received consideration from top to bottom with all its dips angles and tracings a and from start to finish he thus thua poes goes 0 bogl to show that the average life of a ea barj is ten years at the acknowledged pro r fit on the mere cost of running th these trains exempted from all share of cost coa of the railroad I 1 and its general ev ex the railroad company would got t back at least in the first dx months thus thug reducing the outlay for the additional oars cars to in four years this entire outlay would be returned to the company hence chere there remain six ix years in which the company may use the same cars care without evat for their manufacture thus it will bring as much money to the profit of the railroads themselves as aa in good to the direct beneficiaries of our plan nor are the details of the proposed dollar trip neglected or lost sight eight of 4 in another article the mail and espreu has a leaded editorial i headed meals on the way in aich the wideawake wide awake Faber wielder proceeds to show that bat enterprising contractors tare are alread already y on the lookout to provide 16 square meals for our working monig mens trains to chicago meaning I 1 of course for the he workingmen on the j was not literally as aa it reads those these necessary appendages to a successful and enjoyable visit to the lake oily city we are to be on a scale correspond correspondingly bagly cheap the suggestion being that they be brought down to an army basis lay twenty five to thirty five cents cent a 11 day per capita and even at this surprisingly low figure our temporary oo lives ivee forth a note of instruction that fann petition for supply supplying ink the commis flat will be lively showing tot purveyors as well as aa rail fade can be generous if they bey want to would be served says the maedje Mand fand A JE I 1 not I 1 buthe n the cities bu butout t 0 u taide eide iona sm and where temporary structures 4 light abt be conveniently erected the ane would stop atop three times a day at fth places paces but would make no other HH except for coal and water 1 been 30 now new york and albany there weald be no stop atop passengers from 10 hudson would meet the train at A i y this saying saving in time and out the special train and the gain in load jow fares to the railways would be no items the time ot or the gifts thus being fostered these specials not at all interfere with the ibler aral trains no it then goes on to show that while uri aft passengers were at heir meals a ep of attendants at how bow much a ds donld give the oars can a thorough clean toa thus thin insuring sanitation which be fully appreciated not a bow of it the whole project would be thoroughly appreciated and its in mtnor ator receive the benisons beni sons of a million I 1 people at if it could only be baffled out we repeat when a rail from now new york to Chlea chicago gos a 1100 of nearly a thousand miles mals pa mengers day after day for etral months over the entire distance one dollar it will be time to place kw W hou houses a in order sure enough speaking seriously the idea UN ami credit to col shepards Sh epards heart ww it if it does not reflect so favorably pon his judgment |
