The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ARE OF SPECIMENS AT THE
an PARIS EXPOSITION.

Dlhe' mat in This Countrywide Old
IT, -,d Not Up to the Modern Lux
YES which Americans En]oy-fhe
paople Seem Satisfied.
F1,om the Washington Star.
,.-nox Aug. San acre or two OF
LO'D The Paris exposition is given up to
'ps s8w = If rolling stock of railways, Passen-
SsDV caches. freight vans and locomotives
l guosrinu the example of the American
fo ,.as the railway managers OF England
rain Continent have been for some years
snu 'it0 novelties in the way OF com
lnu'1 Cor travellers. Parlor, dining and
ioi'S coaches are exhibited at the expo
49, which represent the furthest advance
90, aJa along the line laid down by the
T'1,1,.,ons and Wagners in America. some
~ 49, coaches shown by the great
~ erd French lines are nearly as
EnglSH American Pullman, but they are
loDs a. narrow. Something like yes
10" o. oor il made by incloslng the plat
upuioN The fondness of the European Tor
loi.L.,1or+nents exerts its influence upon !ne
go-;lTn of the interior OF the coacnes, WHICH
ueo' s1snally partitioned of into small sec
49, a.U Comfort is added IN the way OF
CONTINUOUS upholstery ana luxurious easy
cnan lI > ,r;tb beds. which are made up into
VlleT lounges by dav. There is no American
easI car shown in the exposition. This,
Pai ~, informed. is due to the hight
si7a of these cars, whlch
ada it impossible to take them
tL.or,gh the tunuels on any OF the lines
snnroacbing Paris. The only conspicuous
pPibit of american railway material Is a
section of a freight car sent by the Fenn-
SyIvania Railway Company. one OCCASION
oIiv sees an American parlor car on an En-
glish railway, placed there especially TO ap-
neal to the patronage OF the sIream Oh
PEG or r n tourists constantly passing over
+bo grsat Ines. The Englishman himself
, T-t the old-fashioned coach. There
hos heen no marked change for years in the
design of the ordinary railway carriage In
Englend or on the continent. Short coaches
On fonr wheels with three compartments
are the rule.
DIvrDING PASSENGERS INTO CLASSES.
There are three classes in England-frst,
second and third-which are distinguished
mainly bv the difference in the character
and comforts of the upholstery of the seats
and the number of passengers permitted IN
a compartment. Often the same coach will
have a first. a second and third-class COM
nartment. The frst-class compartment
NAV be provided with easy chairs, but
usually it has one long seat on each side OF
the compartment, softly cushioned and IN
tended for four passengers. In the second
and third-class compartments the seat OF
the same length Is expected to accommodate
five passengers. The second-class compart-
ment is a little less elegant and the cushions
a little less soft than those i'll the tirst-class.
The third-class compartment on many lines
is provided only with uncushioned benches,
but some Of the great railways, In competl-
ton for third-class patronage, have fitted
those compartments with cushions, which
render them scarcely less comfortable than
the second class. On the German lines a
fourth class is added. which consists OF
compartments bare of all benches or adorn-
ment. Their interiors are as uninviting as
freight cars In such coaches, which are
attached only TO the slow way trains,
poor peasants take their short journeys,
standing uplike cattle. In England the great
mass of travellers go second or third class.
Merchants, lawyers and respectable men
and women of al callings travel third or
second class at about one half or two-thirds
of the cost of first-clasS travel, leaving the
tirst-clasS coaches to the nobility, swells,
persons of wealth who love show and Ameri-
can tourists The right of travellers are
recognized and jealousy maintained by the
persons themselves. In each compartment
is generally posted a placard stating how
many passengers the compartment is in
tended for. In a third-class coach, where
the seat is intended for five, if q sixth
person crowds in you will instantly see one
OF the crowded five thrust his head out
OF the window and yell for the guard.
When the guard comes the protesting pas
senger complains that there are six passen-
gers on the seat. The guard then has to
provide a place elsewhere for the superfous
passenger, even if another carriage has to
be added to the train. The Englishman
never allows himself to be crowded. On
the other hand, the rights of the rail way
company are protected by law, and heavy
penalties are imposed upon persons who at
Tempt TO defraud a company by riding in a
coach OF higher class than that called for
by their tickets
THE LONDON UNDERGROUND
The same style of coach and the same di-
VISION OF compartments into classes is found
0 W, the underground railways of London.
Ihere are upward of $50 miles OF railway
INSIDE the metropolitan district of London
traYersing the great city in every direction
through tunnels and trenches. One can fiad
an underground railway station within five
minutes walk of any point in the center of
LONDON. The stations are dark and smoky.
Aue Heht OF the sun never reaches these
Iaii"ays, and the drivers, stokers and other
AWAY employees live constantly in a foggy
gloom; The journeys taken by passeng gers
over these lines are usually short. varying
rom I'VE to twenty minutes in length 4:
hence the uncushioned third-class conpart-
nmehVs are patronized largely by all classes.
ne SEE city merchant, the coatless artisan,
Slo uniformed messenger boy, and the
aILAe on shopping tour will touch
o,9o"s oD The same hard scat. The fares
oio" eeu average about penny a mile third
ms A man buys his ticket at the station
N ~. order to gain admittance to the rail wav.
b ttl' uicAeI Is never examined, but taken 10
~ gateman at the station where he
~I-Snes % leave. He cannot get out upon
0r 'SreetS OF London without a ticket.
tbo naFlhg penny ticket he can ride on
fnan Underground all day long provided he
+;ai'y IeaVeS 1t by the station for which his
49, 49, was purchased. Such an under
tonnlIs' however, would soon lose its in
;o' lot IN the course of an hours
unn9y one would get well begrinned and
cas- "el u nigh asphyxiated by the smoke and
eN ST Oh the tunnels.
mn lIe speed of tho English railway train is
thai t ta about. 1t is seldom, however,
eynroe1 am Is run faster than many of the
the eos4t udlhs between the great cities ct
o; Eastern states are run. One of the
quickest runs made recently in EnoIapd ;S
y Vne special train which bore Messrs
~ 4;ucdulre and Z. c. Glover, the repre-
tha Se .iYes or the Corcoran art gallery at
at tbo- ie1in sale, from Chester to London
newsr,o' ate Oh slxty-four miles an hour. The
rrr P~PeTs nave already exnloited that