the transportation of passengers or property and hence subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission. Opinions General Counsel, 3 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 463; Harlow vs. Northern Central Rwy. Co., 3 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 299. SAFE, ADEQUATE AND REASONABLE SERVICE. The Commission has power, under its authority to require proper service, to investigate street blockades. Opinions General Counsel, 1 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 104. 106. A steamboat company must keep on its boats readily available for immediate use when they are boarded by passengers, a sufficient quantity of substantial, serviceable and reasonably comfortable seats. Opinions General Counsel, 1 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 44. The contract of a carrier of passengers is one not only to furnish the passengers with transportation, but also with a seat. Ibid. All persons using electric car lines are entitled to a seat provided the company can reasonably furnish it. Parkville Improvement Association vs. Baltimore and Bel Air Electric Railway Company, 2 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 329. The contract of a carrier of passengers by railway is one not only to furnish passengers with transportation, but also with a seat. The passenger need not surrender his ticket until he is furnished with a seat. If unwilling to ride unless a seat is furnished him, he must get off at the first opportunity and may recover as damages such sum as will compensate him for the breach of the contract, including such damages as are the natural and immediate result of such breach. Opinions General Counsel, 3 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 462. A suburban railway line will not be compelled to erect shelters along its route. Walker vs. United Railways Co. 3 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 81. A railway company will not be required to maintain a waiting room in the built-up business centre of a city, such requirement would be an unjust and unreasonable burden. Wheeler et al. vs. Cumberland etc. Railway Co. et al., 3 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 156. د لله Switch Connections with Lateral Roads. When to be Failure to A railroad must provide its stations with separate accommodations for men and women and for the convenience of the public comfort. Hunt vs. Western Maryland Railway Co, 3 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 302. Definition of "Adequate and reasonable facilities." Atlantic Coast Line vs. Wharten, 207 U. S. 328. CHARGES. This section does not confer power on the Commission o establish rates; it can only say that a rate is unreasonable, but not what rate is reasonable. Opinion General Counsel, 1 Pub. Serv. Comm.. Reps. 51, 62. Opinion General Counsel, 2 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 397. A charge by a railway of 10 cents for checking hand baggage is not unreasonable. Harlow vs. Northern Central Railway, 3 Pub. Serv. Comm. Reps. 299. SWITCH AND SIDE-TRACK CONNECTIONS. Ibid. Sec. 426. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That a railroad corporation, upon the application of any shipper tendering traffic for transportation, shall construct, maintain and operate upon reasonable terms a switch connection or connections with a lateral line of railroad or private sidetrack owned, operated or controlled by such shipper, and shall, upon the application of any shipper, provide upon its own property a side-track and switch connection with its line of railroad, whenever such side-track and switch connection is reasonably practicable, can be put in with safety and the business therefor is sufficient to justify the same. If any railroad corporation shall fail to install or operate any such switch connection with a lateral line or railroad, or any such side-track and switch connection as aforesaid, after written application therefor has been made to it, any corporation or person interested may present the facts to the Commission by written petition, and Hearings. the Commission shall investigate the matter stated in such petition, and give such hearings thereon as it may deem necessary or proper. If the Commission be of the opinion that it is safe and practicable to have a connection substantially as prayed for, established or maintained, and that the business to be done thereon justifies the construction and maintenance thereof, it shall make an order directing the construction and establishment thereof, Commission specifying the reasonable compensation to be paid for the construction, establishment and maintenance thereof, and may in like manner upon the application of the railroad corporation, order the discontinuance of such switch connection. May Order TARIFF SCHEDULES. Ibid. Sec. 427. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That every common carrier shall file with the Commission having jurisdiction, and shall print and keep open to public inspection, schedules showing the rates, fares and charges for the transportation of passengers and property within the State between each point upon its route and all other points thereon; and between each point upon its route, and all points upon every route leased, operated or controlled by it; and between each point on its route or upon any route leased, operated or controlled by it, and all points upon the route of any other common carrier, whenever a through route and joint route shall have been Carriers to File and Print Rates. Joint Rates. established or ordered between any two points. If no joint rate over the through route has been established, the several carriers in such through route shall file, print and keep open to public inspection, as aforesaid, the separately established rates, fares and charges applied to What Sched the through transportation. The schedules printed as ules Shall State. Schedules to be Posted. Form of aforesaid shall plainly state the places between which property and passengers will be carried, and shall also contain the classification of passengers, freight or property in force, and shall also state separately all terminal charges, storages, icing charges, and all other charges which the Commission may require to be stated, all privileges or facilities granted or allowed, and any rules or regulations which may in any wise change, affect or determine any part or the aggregate of such aforesaid rates, fares and charges, or the value of the service rendered to the passenger, shipper or consignee. Such schedules shall be plainly printed; copies thereof for the use of the public shall be kept posted in public and conspicuous places in depots, stations and offices of every common carrier where passengers or property are received for transportation, in such manner as to be readily accessible to and conveniently inspected by the public wherever and whenever so ordered by the Commission. The form of every such schedule shall be prescribed by the Commission, and shall conform as nearly as possible to the form of schedule required by the Interstate Commerce Commission under the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to regulate Commerce," approved February fourth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and six, and other amendments thereto. The Commission shall have power, from time to time, at its discretion, to determine and prescribe by order such Form. changes in the form or such schedules as may be found Changes in expedient. Rates. Notice. Unless the Commission otherwise orders, no change shall be made in any rate, fare or charge, or joint rate, fare or charge, which shall have been filed and published by a common carrier in compliance with the requirements of this Act, except after thirty days' notice to the Com- 30 Days' mission and publication for thirty days, as required by Section twenty-five of this Act, which shall plainly state the changes proposed to be made in the schedule then in force, and the time when the changed rate, fare or charge will go into effect; and all proposed changes shall be shown by printing, filing and publishing new schedules, or shall be plainly indicated upon the schedules in force at the time and kept open to public inspection. The Com- Waiver of mission, for good cause shown, may allow changes in rates without requiring the thirty days' notice and publication herein provided for, by duly filing and publishing in such manner as it may direct, an order specifying the change so made and the time when it shall take effect; all such changes shall be immediately indicated upon its schedules by the common carrier. Notice. Rates by Other Carriers. The names of the several carriers which are parties Acceptance of to any joint tariff shall be specived therein, and each of the parties thereto, other than the one filing the same, shall file with the Commission such evidence of concurrence therein or acceptance thereof as may be required or approved by the Commission; and where such evidence of concurrence or acceptance is filed, it shall not be necessary |