Daily camera., 1897-08-02
RAILWAY MURDERS.
Dangers of Isolated Carriages in
=, Eng nd.
VneA Opportunities for Thieves and
f1urderers to Commit Crime
The American System
Is Preferred.

The arguments in favor Of the "cor-
ridor'' or American" system of travel
ing for general railway passengers in
England every day grows more en-
phatic and incoatrovertible The
newspapers contain almost daily ac-
counts of awful murders or attempts to
murder by persons usually unknown,
who have made good their escape from
the little isolated carriages and left
their victims to be discovered in
some cass:al fashion. Only a few days
ago another horrible tragedy, that
might have occurred to anybody in the
same situation, took place during the
short railway ride of not more than 20
minutes between Hounslow station and
The great London terminus, Waterloo.
\ woman, barmaid from a tavern
close to the Hounslow station, got into
carriage alone, and her body was
found on the arrival of the train at Wa
terloo stuffed under seat, the head
horribly battered. She had started out
to meet her lover, and in the train must
have been attacked and murdered by
some brute, whose identity up to the
present is undiscovered.
The horror of the thing must appeal
strongly to every woman who has ever
been in London or is acquainted with
permost object of the ordinary man or
woman who travels long or short dis
tance is to get into a carriage alone. In
FNAe small, cramped compartments you
eel in too close quarters to want to be
1 Npthered with strangers, therefore
you naturally do your best to get into
4 carriage where you won't be ''wor-
/ rie1." But recent dreadful events have
made people nervous of the lonely car
kriage. Women shun. it because
N2f awful stories of violence and
Seaths that have came unawares
some poor soul who has
set out in good health and spirits, while
men shun it because of the stories of
blackmail and SANDER of which unprin
cipled women frequently make them
the victims. The days of the old Eng
lish compartments" are, indeed num-
bered, and it will not be long, am sure,
before american trains" are the rule
on every line in the kingdom.
Travelling in England is very expen-
sive work, at any rate. The fares be-
ing divided into three classes, the very
poorest and meanest accommodations,
which they call third class" cost about
the same rate which in America is
charged for the ordinary train. If you
/ have third-class ticket, however, you
toannot buy Pullman car ticket. To
ioe entitled to purchase superior ac-
Ecommodation of this kind you must pri-
knarily invest in 'first-class" ticket,
(which costs three times the amount of
b third-class, and not until then are you
allowed to buy Pullman car accommo-
Nations. If you are going for long
Tourney (or as long one as you can
| .a,in England) this makes the cost
las 5,f times the amount you would
~ If You did not have luxurious soul
land loag forsprings and cushions.
/ hear. howeyfrs that to meet the de-
mand of the usst body of Americans
who are coming oyer, here for the
f"diamond iubilee, there is to be a
complete boulevetsement of the train
Iservice in Great Britain, andcars such
as we are accustomed to in the states,
= and prices to match, will be one of the
white stones marking the latter glo-
ries of her majesty's sixtieth year upon
Ne throne.-Chicago Times-Herald.