. The Street railway journal . g the adoption of a formof interchangeable transportation, and of a standard form of in-terline ticketing, expects soon to evolve a plan for the throughchecking of baggage, but there are phases of this problem whichare difficult to adjust. To charge or not to charge for bag-gage is a point which is being discussed by many roads. Themajority of interurbans in this district make a charge offrom 15 cents to 25 cents for each piece of baggage. This isnot objectionable on a short trip, but on a long journey over anumber of roads it counts up, and will undoubtedly prov
. The Street railway journal . g the adoption of a formof interchangeable transportation, and of a standard form of in-terline ticketing, expects soon to evolve a plan for the throughchecking of baggage, but there are phases of this problem whichare difficult to adjust. To charge or not to charge for bag-gage is a point which is being discussed by many roads. Themajority of interurbans in this district make a charge offrom 15 cents to 25 cents for each piece of baggage. This isnot objectionable on a short trip, but on a long journey over anumber of roads it counts up, and will undoubtedly prove aserious drag on interline business. It is a question if a greatmany roads are not actually losing business at the present timebecause they charge for checking baggage. The experienceof the Lake Shore Electric Railway tends to prove this. Thiscompany handles on an average of 2000 trunks per month onits 150 miles of interurban lines, all checked free. A neighbor-ing system of 100 miles, in a territory equally as good, handles. BAGGAGE CAR USED ON THE LiNE OF SCIOTO VALLEYTRACTION COMPANY only 250 trunks per month, charging 25 cents each. The latterroad collects sixty odd dollars a month for baggage, but howabout the 1750 traveling men whom it does not get? There isfood for thought in this proposition. The plan of carrying baggage on all cars, especially on lim-ited cars, is gaining favor, although a number of roads takethe opposite plan and carry baggage on locals and not on lim-iteds. Roads that have chair cars object to using space forbaggage, because chairs have already greatly reduced the seat-ing facilities. There is no denying that the majority of travel-ing men want to carry their baggage with them. There is noadvantage in making quick jumps from one town to another ifsamples cannot be carried. The Lake Shore, Indianapolis &Northwestern, Western Ohio and other roads that carry bag-gage on all limiteds have demonstrated to their own satisfac-tion that they would lose a g
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