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Last October Pullman Co. asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to up its sleeping-car berth rates 20% when two passengers slept together.† Organizations of traveling salesmen protested. So did theatrical producers and agents who frequently send their chorus girls on tour "doubled up" in Pullman space. Last week the I. C. C. denied the increase...
...prime reason was that such an increase would automatically add to the surcharge of 50% already collected by the railroads from Pullman passengers. Declared the Commission: "Under the tariffs the second passenger in a berth does not occupy the space free. The sleeping car charge for a berth is for occupancy by two persons. If one person occupies a berth, that person is receiving less than the charge includes, but does not ... receive a reduction...
...Texans who had not seen each other for 34 years met last week in the aisle of a Pullman at Fargo, N. Dak. "Hello, Bill," said Farmer George Thomas Murray of Berthold. "Hello, George," said his brother, Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma. Vith true Texan restraint, the reunited kinsmen briskly shook hands and sat down to talk politics...
Abandoned also was the Manhattan office of International Sleeping Car Co. (Cie Internationale des Wagons Lits et des Grands Express Eurapecas), famed from Peiping to Paris as the operator of pullman and restaurant cars...
...Upon Pullman Co. the Mexican Government levied a fine of 50,000 pesos (some $20,000). Last October, it was charged, Mexican Foreign Minister Genaro Estrada boarded a train at Monterey to return to Mexico City, found two Americans in a drawing room he had reserved and paid for. They refused to surrender it. Foreign Minister Estrada & wife slept in berths...