The Florence tribune., 1897-08-28
{ RAILWAY MURDERS,
Dangers of Isolated Carriages in
 England.
0ner Representatives. for Thieves and Murderers to Commit Crime The American System
 Is Preferred.

The arguments in favor of the cor ridor" CT American" system of travel ing for general railway passengers in England every day grows more eTi- phatic and incoatroyerHble The newspapers contain almost daily ae- counts of awful murders or attempts 70 murder by persons usually unknown who have made rood their escape from he ht5le Isolated carriages and left their victims to be discovered" in some casual fashion. Only a few days ago mother horrible tragedy, that might have occurred to anybody in the same situation, took place during the short railway ride Of not mere than 20 minutes between Hounslow station and the great London terminus, Waterloo. A woman, a barmaid from tavern close to the Hounslow station, got into a carriage alone, and her body was found on the arrival of the train at Wa terloo stuffed under Q 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 the English method of travel. The up pernost object of the ordinary man or woman who travels long or short dis tance is to get into q carriage alone. In the small, cramped compartments you feel in too close quarters to want to be bothered with strangers, therefore you naturally do your best to get into a carriage where you won't be ''wor- 1ied." But recent dreadful events have made people nervous of the lonely car riage. Women shun it because of awful stories of violence and deaths that have come unawares upon some poor soul who has set out in good health and spirits, while men shun it because of the stories of blackmail and siander of which unprin- eipled Homen frequently make tbe@ the victims The days of tha old Eng Ish 'conpartmeptsa are indeed, nTiTus berea, and it viii not is-i5T. f't.7r1 srffe. before American trains" are the rule on every line in tbe kingdom
 Travelling h England Is very expen- size 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 cannot buy Pullman car ticket. To be entitled to purchase superior ac- eommodation of this kind you must pri- marily invest in ''first-class" ticket, which costs three times the amount of third-class, and not until then are you allowed to buy Pullman car accommo- dations. If you are going for long journey tor as long a one as you can take in England) this makes the cost about four times the amount you would pay if you did not have a luxurious soul and long for springs and cushions.
 hear, however, that to meet the de- mand of the vast body of Americans who are coming over here for the diamond jubilee" there is to be a complete bouleyersement of the train service in Great Britain, and cars such as Vt. are accustomed to in the states, and prices to match, will be one of the white stones marking the latter elo- ries of her majesty's sixtieth year upon the throne.-Chicego Times-Herald.