The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-15

there are ies trains: from to .. M 30
trains. or sixty-six per hour.
There are ten platforms ana sixteen
tracks at the Waterloo station 10 handle
this immense business, consequently II
II not surprising that the Times and other
Londen journals contain numerous COM
paints OF serious delays In the train
movements. The average southwestern
srain Is given twelve coaches. many of
them equal In length TO two ordinary
ones. This gives s.epd coaches for an or
binary days work. but when the specials
are required there are as many as f.0s
trains run out, requiring i,e6 coaches In
ana out Of the station Ia twenty hours
twenty thousand people make huge
crowd, yet IL IL claimed that sixteen
times a. many enter Waterloo each day
Add 10 this the great piles OF baggage
and the station must be very active
locality
A notable feature Of the London steam
railroads are what are designated as
wofkingrnenss trains" Thess 3-cent fare
sains were decreed q few years ago by
parliament to enable workingmen to get
away from the squaiia quarters Of the city.
1he Great Eastern. for instance, was COM
pelaed 10 run train out aud tn for twenty
miles, on which the fare for part or the
"aeie ciaiance ID a penny. or only . cents.
$500 1s% iaSt kHN EfWtSt la1 titN
world Although the railway managers
bitterly complained Of and denounced this
act OF Parliament. compelling them 20 run
z-cens-sare local trains, the result has been
tnat instead OF only the NUMBER that par
lament actually required Of them they
nave themselves voluntarily added hun
dreos to the number. and the larger roads
are carrying from 5000. 60 to s,e6o Geo upon
inese trains each year. As evidence OF
81 rs araf
fare the railways. though not compelled
oy the parliamentary act 10 return the
woikingsnen until or after o'clock, the ac-
'lal tact IL that most OF them allow q re-
turn trip any time after the noon hour.
Some OF the London railroads sell q sea-
son ticket fer i2s year good fer a dis
lance Out OF four miles. which the holder
can Use as often as he p.eases. One of the
railroads. the Great Eastern. referred 10
atove. has recently expended In enlarging
and improving Its Liverpool street station,
which accommodates a daily average Of
iis,oe0 Passengers. $io.0U0ol0 for the pur-
pose OF better accommodating its suburban
traffic. Other roads are expanding millions
upon millions TO increase their acccmmo-
datons 20 this class of business. One cor
poration Is promoting the construction Of a
trolley line largely upon its own locations
Tor the purpose CT relieving its main lire
Of its suburban traffic. which In so rapid,x
increasing. Al the recent seu1i-ennual
meeting or stockholders OF the London rail-
ways more than one chairman in speaking
or this suburban business claimed that II
was of very profitable character and war
'anted the large expenditures 1t required.
All tails In Ia marked CONTRAST to the
local railroad policy developed at recent
nearing before our own railroad commits
sion, where. In behalf Of our Boston rail-
road, figures were submitted that appar-
ENTITY showed that tho suburban traffic
within the fifteen-m limit OF the huh
+. coat upward OF 100000 last year more than
was received for II. with no allowance for
the large capital employed In its manipu-
iasion. And while representatives Of some
OF the other roads submitted no figures,
they did not hesitate to claim that higher
rates upon suburban traffic should be Oh
tained.-Doston TRANSCRIPT