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Show HIGH CHARGES TO MOUNT VERNON Washington, Feb. 16, The Mount Vernon Anti-Fee association organized orga-nized to fight tho practice of charging charg-ing admission to the homo and tomb of Washington, has appealed to the Interstate commerce commission for a reduction of the electric railway fare between Washington and Mount Vernon. Ver-non. The faro iB now 75 cents for the round trip, 16 miles, and forty cents of the total Is charged for tho Journey baok and forth over thrc" quarters of a mile of road between Miller's Station, Va.f and Mount Vernon. Ver-non. In a brief filed with- the coin-mission coin-mission the association a6ka that the forty-cent charge be eliminated entirely. en-tirely. The case will come up for hearing March 13. 00 |