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Show RATES ARE tVestern Rates Should Be Advanced.SaysThayer of Pennsylvania New York, Spt. 12 John A. Thayer Thay-er vice-prculdent of the Pennsylvania, railroad, today told the lntert.iti Commerce commission, which is In-ouiring In-ouiring Into the question of the tariffs tar-iffs by the eastern roads, that the rates between the east, and weal have been for years toe low and that the tariits chould have been raised in J 9 "i S . The adjustment was delayed until the depression had passed, the w it-riess it-riess said. ' .Mr. Thayer said that passenger rates were uot compensatory for the service rendered, but that the public, pub-lic, through its legislatures, jwoull not stand for advance in through passenger rates. 17e said that ti e rates ou through traffic had been too low in comparison with local rales. Considering tho matter of freight tariffs. Mr. Thayer said: "A car of flrat cbxa freight from New York or Boston, 1,100 miles to Chicago, would, at high speed, brine Just $75. A car of steel from Pittsburg Pitts-burg to New York, less than half the distance loaded and unloaded for u?e, brings twice the revenue. "On everything from Boat on to Chicago, Chi-cago, we only get 55 cents a hundred pounds nn.l have to pay the New Haven Hav-en railroad 25 per cent of It for bringing It to Jersey City." Mr Thayer said In conclusion: "The estimated increase of this advance ad-vance on lines cast of Pittsburg h $::,immj.000. which Is a large sum. It must be remembered, as tar as the peruii.v Iv aula Railroad company is concerned, that we deal with very large and huge figures and after all i hat the amount only represented 2 li ld per cent of our gross earning from freight traffic and 1 610 pv tent of our total gross earnings from all sources, bo that It !s net a lorg.-standard lorg.-standard advance in our opinion, but n mere adjustment of rates to bring up a portion of the revenue we mint have In order to meet demands now made on us." |