New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-06-26
WHITSUNTIDE.
AND HOW TO SPEND IT AT SEATTLE SOUTH
WESTERN AND THE NORTH
GERMAN LLOYD


is good place TO get away from. 1t has many
points Of departure, and II within easy reach Of
hundred points on the Continent. If il has
climate of its own which Is not always quite
perfect, it has quick access 70 other and better
climates The French coast, the Channel islands
the Channel itself, the belgian coast, the Dutch
coast, even The German coast, are all near. When
you have breathed os much London air as YOU
think your lungs will stand. there is a choice be-
tween all these other and lighter atmosphere
If you have week or O fortnight, you may 90
almost anywhere II only two or three days, there
ore Still good trips to be made Even in one
DAY, change may be had. II is possible to leave
London at ii In the morning lunch at Calais and
return In time for dinner at 80. which is now
the usual dinner-hour In London. You will have
had four hours journey by rail. two hours and
half for the Channel. hour and half al Ca
lais; with the probability of meeting more pco-
pie than II you had stayed In London. There is no
better way Of using vacant Sunday.
The difficulty in the way Of longer sea Journeys
is want Of good steamships. You may cross 10
Ostend but that ts emily little over three hours
by sea; the boats tolerable: two of them very
good. You may go from Queenboro TO Flushing;
eight hours and good steamers from Southamp-
ton to jersey, eight hours; and on but they are
all short voyages II you have ns much three
southampton TO Bremerhavcn ny the North Ger
man Lloyd steamships which. coming from New
York: touch at Southampton Tuesdays, take you
TO Bremerhaven IN twenty four twenty-six
hours, where you just catch the returning ship,
end arrive again ot Southampton on the Wednesday,
quoted the other day the remark Of an emf
ncnt railway chairman to the effect that Sir
George Findlay, General Manager Of the London
and North Western Railway, is the greatest ralwa;'
manager living This Vas said, no doubt, from
the English point Of view. not less eminent
American Railroad President once declared, after
some experience of English railways, that Eng
land had not much TO teach American railroad
mon The remark might be Qualified. She could
perhaps teach them how railway ought not to
be managed. IN American who cared TO learn
much as that would go, not to the North
Western but TO the South Western a road which
has long been byword for unpunctuality, and
confusion and 6ld-fashioned rollinS-stock and
many other demerits
The English seem TO have but one way of
dealing with such matters. II things go wrong,
they write to "The Times letter or two
may make little impression on the managerial or
directorial mind. a dozen complaints have
chance Of being listened to- II they are often
repeated, there may even be an attempt at re-
form; in the course of years. But if the directors
have committed themselves in brick ard MORTAR
reform becomes costly business. That is one
Of the things the London and South Western pro-
pie have done. They have built Their London
terminus in three divisions. There is the Central
Station, the North Station. and the New Station
each at some distance from the other; each with
q separate entrance some Of them with two
entrances, or three, and one with lofty
staircase. How is the arriving traveller to know
IN which NJ tho fbrco hp Ouuit IN on II he bp
stranger, he can but commit himself to his
cabman; who will DE tOlerably sure to taka him
wrong. II he be an old hand, he may sometimes
hit the right one, but il is case in which en-
perience Is no sure guide.
Once inside. the confusion beats anything to
be seen elsewhere ] good specimen Of it
the Saturday before Whit Monday, on my way
TO Southampton. asked from which platform the
:55 express started No. >, said the porter
No l., said inspector. Your resource IN such
o case Is to find the Guard of the train. lie
must know. II proved 10 be No. 2. Meantime,
my luggage had been sent 70 No. !, and the porter
who took it had vanished. lie rcappcarcl before
the train started, and put il cheerfully into the
wong van. The train, being long one was TO
he divided; the first half going to Bournemoath
the second 70 Southampton. Sure 1t is the right
van?' "Oh, yes, sr, with accent Of con-
vici0n, as IL he had special revelation, and away
he Went. Much iourneying in England, however
teaches you TO he sceptical. | looked into the
van. The rest OF the luggage was labelled
Bourncmouth, and appealed again to the Guari.
"Wrong van, SIR the prompt answer and
not less promptly he had it out and put il where
it belonged. We left, not at 80, but at $40,
and arrived; not at : :05 according TO the time
table, but at :45; only forty minutes late :
which, for the South Western, is rather punctual
11,nso rf,.ia .
not much affect the business of the company in
those districts where it has monopoly of the
traffic. But the spirit Of management is
the came In big things and in little. II
Is enough TO say Of the South Western Com
pany that II drove away from Southampton
the greatest single shipping business the port ever
had. The Peninsular aud Oriental Company, with
its vast fleet, ransfcrred itself to London because
it could not get fair terms from this roed fer
its London traffic. The loss to the South Western
Company itself very large; to Southampton
as a port II was much larger, and is irreparabe.
The place looks by comparison with what it was
when the P. and o. fleet crowded its docks half
deserted.
The North German Lloyd il line 70 which
the American abroad owes much. II brings each
week Tuesday mail from New-York-ar the
mails, that is, between the previous Saturday and
the Tuesday; and sometimes the Saturday mail
also. II has had hard measure from the English
Postofflce which alse accords hard measure to the
English public, 70 such part of it has CORE
spondcnce with America. The American travelling
public redresses the balance In part and the Ger
man. The Englishman will not believe You if
you tell him, but il is the fact. that the number
Of passengers carried BY the North German Lloyd
to and from New-York far exceeds that Of any
English line. The double weekly service accounts
for this In part but the Cunard Company has also
double weekly service. The difference is that the
German company, runs good boats on both SER
vices: the Cunsrd Company are content with old
ships for the intermediate service. What accounts
more completely for the magnitude Of the North
German buncss is, perhaps, the attention 10