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Show REDUCTIOn IS DELAYED Railroads Object Jo the Lowering ,of the Pullman Rates Chicago, Dec. 2. Country-wide reduction re-duction of upper berths in Pullman sleeping cars, as well as numerous lower berth reductions will not go Into In-to effect until the railroads and attorneys at-torneys general of the several states hae had an opportunity of presenting evidence, according to announcement "by the Interstate Commerce commission commis-sion today. Chief ol' the railroads which will enter statistics to support their claim ' that there should be no redaction, ! even such as the Pullman company ! has offered, aro the Great North ?m and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, which operate their own sleepers and which would have to meet the Pullman Pull-man company's induction. James Peabody. statistician for the Santa Fe railroad, on the stmd. declared de-clared that that road lost $S5 57 1 lat I year on a transcontinental train cir-rying cir-rying four standard Pullman slee )-ers. )-ers. a composite car and a diner. He j paid the road was willing to lose i a certain amount because of the val-I val-I ue of the sleepers as an advertlse-j advertlse-j nient. |