The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-04-08

passengers.
A first-class passenger is allowed 12O
pounds Of baggage and the third.class 10
pounds. The charges for excess baggage
are very high, hut you can take oil the
baggage you can carry into your CON-
partment, so that the English traveller Is
always loaded down with bags, bundles,
and even trunks with handles on them
like a satchel.
/ saw a woman board a London &
Northwestern train with at least 200
pounds Of baggage around about her.
Men will get in crowded compartment
and pull package as big as trunk after
them to be slowed on the passengers foot.
An Englishman would scoff at the sug-
gestion OF taking brass check as an equiv.
alent for his baggage. No; he is going to
look after 1t himself, and he does. 1t will
be a great many years before the English
man will improve on his method OF travel
ing. He is 80 conservative that he would
rather endure numerous discomforts than
try something new. As the Arab says,
"Heaven forbid tha, shall want anything
better than my fathers had"
Travelling first class costs trife more
than 8 cents mile. The third-class rate
is about IA cents. il has been said that
fools, princes and Americans trayel first
class, but the wise tourist will ride third
class, which is just as fast and about as
good as first. The English banker won't
travel with his clerk, and the clerk won't
ride with the laboring man, 90 they have
widely different prices on the same train,
and each gets into his first, second or third.
class cage, as the case may be, and is very
secluded and very grand.
While the passenger coaches are very
laughable affairs, the freight cars are
dOubly such. They are mostly little four
wheeled gondolas about fourteen feet In
length, and everything but the most per
ishable freight is carried on them only
covered with an old piece Of oil cloth
The freight cars for all purposes are very
small. A horse car will, with a LITTLE
crowding, hold three animals.
\ The American conductor is an encyclo
pedia on matters pertaining 10 railroading
He can tell you anything you may wan
to know. The English railway employe
however, knows little or nothing about tn,
running Of the trains except bis routin,
work. The guard takes up the tickets
aud there his usefulness ends. Ask hin
what time the train reaches certain sta
tion and he knows nothing about 1t.
inquired repeatedly for information, bu
never got II. They would iell me 10 Sc,
the station master when | asked abou
connections, but as couldn't hunt up tha
dignitary in the short time oi stop, why
just trusted to Providence and gave NJ
trying to learn anything from guards.
While the European railroads are def
cient in. many respects II would be difi
cult TO excel their roadbeds on our bes
roads. They are far ahead Of us IN thi
respect Not only are the roadbeds per
feet but they are dnched throughout ant
you don't see blade Of grass or sticl
anywhere on fhen-cyerything as neat a
q pin. The roads are all double tracked
curves are few, and all highways ar,
crossed above or below. Every precauilor
Is taken against accidents. I think thH
the government has more direct super
vision oyer the railroads there than here
Forty five miles an hour Is the ayersg,
speed Of their trains. In this country !
Is 80 miles. On the London & Northwest
ern railroad they make 75 OF the 20i mile,
from Liverpool TO London at the rate o
"a miles an hour. One OF the fastest run
in this country Is made on the O., II. q ID
from Toledo to Cincinnati, a distance o
2Ol miles, at a ratc Of AZ miles an hour
which Of course includes numerous stops
The great speed Is due TO the excellen
roadbeds, light trains, and the build o
their locomotives, which are constructs
with view to speed. The drivers are 81,
feet In diameter.
One thing / was sorry 10 see, and that
was the poor accommodation for the en-
gineers and nremen. They have no shel
ter, and in the coldest weather are exposed
to the fury oil the elements, We have
more feeliog Tor our men in America.
When landed on good Uncle SAM
soil again and saw our handsome Amer
ican passenger trains with comfortable
parlor cars, dining rooms, libraries, ele
giant sleepers and all the modern conyen'
fences, | thought Of European concerns
J as terrible nightmare"