Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-03-21

.ns oi the state from the abolition of
,n'>e , Custom House myrmidoms would.
! ''n sure far more than compensate for
any possible loss TO the revenue from the
"'' oi am occasional il-conditioned pas
sV,ilSers. Nothing would more efTectu-
any serve TO hasten the conversion Of our
American cousins to the doctrine and
practice of free trade than to welcome
'hem to British soil without having to
undergo the forbidding ordeal they have
t present to encounter on landing on
their own shores
respectfully submit the suggestion to
inc consideration Of the Chancellor Of the
ENchequcr
but the most remarkable contrast was
reserved for my return to Scotland. Trav-
ehng down by night train, was half
frozen with cold till arrival at Carlisle,
where We were detained for an hour and
ana half for the London train, and
the ilre m the waiting room merely served
20 remind one how cold and how com
iortlesS the place was Sleep was out Of
Inc question and landed at. the Princes
street station stiff and almost numb with
cold. At the hotel close by | repaired my
reduced morale with hot bath and a
good Scotch breakfast But why should
one hc thus tortured with cold and rcn-
dcrcd miserable indifference to an ancient
use and won't that is now becoming OBJ
,oIcte among all civilized people, In
America. if detained, You do not warm
your toes at the fire, but sit in a comfor-
tabIy warmed room, and you finish a
Journey Of a thousand miles as fresh and
comfortable as when you started.
The climax Of my home experience was
reached at the Waverly station, to which
I drove from the hotel, directing the
cabman t6 drive as near the Fife train
platform as possible and the porter whit
came. up to take charge of my baggage
it to the Fife train Having no loos'
change in my pocket asked the cabmar
to wait till got my ticket. On my re-
turn, about five minutes afterward, Meth
cr cab nor porter was visible anywhere
and failing to find the latter on the plat
form or any sign of my baggage, one o
the officials and myself explored the sta
ton, as far as time would permit, bu
without success. Having written that
would be home by that train, and leaving
the cab fare with the official already re
lTerred to- | came away without my bag
gage, which only reached me two day
afterwards. Had this contretempS occurred
when on my way to embark at Liverpoo
for America, it would not only have oc
casioned serious inconvenience and della.
but possibly the forfeiture of my passag
money
1t is quite unnecessary to describe tn
American check system, with which al
the travelling world is now familiar
fist became Eacquainted with it as
boy thjrfy-fiye years ago, since Wheh
have been three times in the country an
have had on each occasion the more
admire this simple and admirable system
! which saves one from the worst worries
raw cling here.
.aeFisssns catsnot understand how v
We hsif frozen is az " n,
are very stutfy in summer and in whic
murder and other outrages may be con
mtted with impunity, while our baggag
system they regard OF simply barbaric.
| 1t is because agree with my America
friends that | have noted down thes
reflections, in the hope that they ma,
contribute in however small degree, t
rouse our railway directors to a recogni
ton of the disgracefully uncomfortabl
and inConvenient accommodations af
forded by them to the travelling public
| am, &c, ScoTUs.