N&W in 1908 -- Two-cent fare

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STOP FOR PASSENGERS TO GET THEIR TICKETS
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Virginia Corporation Commission Entered an Order Affecting Trains Leaving Washington for South
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EFFORT WILL BE MADE HERE, IT IS SAID, TO BRING RELIEF
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    The Virginia corporation commission has ordered trains from Washington to stop at Alexandria so that passengers may purchase tickets from that city to Virginia points, it being the practice in Washington where you must have a ticket to go to the train, to make the passenger pay 3 cents per mile to the point he desires to go.  The agents claim that every outbound train makes no stops before Charlottesville is reached.  Now trains will stop at Alexandria while the passengers alight and buy their tickets to Virginia at the two-cent rate.  This has encouraged a movement in this city and section to ask that the eastbound trains on the Norfolk and Western stop at a point just over the line long enough to allow the purchase of tickets and the checking of baggage to Virginia points.  At present if you have no baggage you can pay cash to the conductor and ride at the two-cent rate, but if you have a trunk you cannot check it from Bluefield, or through this part of West Virginia, without a ticket, and this forces many passengers to pay three cents who under the law are entitled to the two-cent rate.
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Gordon Hamilton
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