754 EEPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Baggage-masters will allow agents of the Commission, when provided 

 with tickets, to ride in the baggage-cars, when it is necessary for them 

 to do so, to attend to the tanks which they may have in charge. 

 This order is good until December 31, 1873. 



A. J. CASSATT, 



General Manager. 



Pennsylvania Eaileoad Company, 

 Office of the General Manager, 



Fhiladelphia, Fa., January 5, 1874. 

 Agents of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company are requested to give 

 to the agents of the United States Commission on Fish and Fisheries 

 every assistance they can, without interfering with their regular duties. 

 Baggage-masters will allow agents of the Commission, when provided 

 with tickets, to ride in the baggage-cars, when it is necessary for them 

 to do so, to attend to the tanks which they have in charge. The tanks 

 will be carried free of charge until July 1, 1874. 



A. J. CASSATT, 



General Manager. 



The New York Central and 



Hudson River Railroad Company, 

 President's Office, Grand Central Depot, 



Neiv York, June 13, 1873. 



Dear Sir: Yours of the 9th instant, stating that you propose to 

 renew the experiment, inaugurated by Mr. Seth Green, of transporting 

 fishes to California alive for purpose of propagation, and asking if 

 we can carry them in cans on our express-train baggage-cars, is received. 



We will carry them, as you suggest, in our baggage-cars, charging 

 therefor the regular tariff-rates charged on all extra baggage carried in 

 same way, and allow the party accompanying them access to the bag- 

 gage-car for the purpose of aerating or changing the water to preserve 

 life, said party to pay the regular passage-fare. 



I inclose our tariff of extra-baggage rates from New York to all prin- 

 cipal points west. If you desire to have the fish-cans checked through 

 to points west of the terminus of this road, that is, beyond Buffalo or 

 Suspension Bridge, the freight must be prepaid as far as checked, but 

 if not checked you can pay freight only to either Buffalo or Suspension 

 Bridge, and from there to terminus of the next road, and so on to des- 

 tination. 



