Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-17

the telegraphs and telephones, and to
d large extent the railroads. Each OF
these branches Is worked at profltand
they add materially TO the government
revenues The revenue from the rail-
ways last year was about g56,0000O0,
and that from the telegraph &O0OOOO.
The railroads are managed in the in
terests Of the people and more especial
~ for the lower classes. The different
roads have worldngmens tickets, by
which a ahorer may go to his factory
ana back II a Is within fifteen miles
for 81 cents a week every day by train.
There are also reduced tickets for school
children and a half rate for school eX-
cursi0ns where the children are taken
away under the charge OF the teacher
for instruction purposes. The ordinary
rate for q bicycle taken along with a
passenger Is Il cents, and dogs travel
at third-class rates.
The Swiss system OF yearly passes az
q fixed rate prevails here. For about
$i25 YOU can get a ticket that viii al
low you to travel throughout the yea"
second class on any of the state rail-
WAYS. and tickets for a shorter time at
proportlonately low rates. AZ present
there are more than $500 miles of rail-
roads IN the country with a passenger
traffic numbering about l400OO0OO rides
per year
find the cars very good. although
they are generally filed The service
az the stations IS excellent There are
plenty of portors, dressed In blue jeans
and black cloth caps with numbers on
them. who take your baggage, weigh
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into the trains for 10 cents, or even less,
per person. have been riding second
class and | find II comfortable. The
cars are divided ~ into compartments,
with seats facing each other 80 that
each compartment viii accommodate
six. The seats are cushioned with felt
or leather. and their backs are uphol-
stored 10 high above your heads The
fares are remarkably low,
PosToFFICE AND THE SAVINGS
BANKS.
The Belgian postotllce department
manages also the telephones and tele-
graphs as we'll as the savings banks.
The telegraph rates are much lower
than ours. and the service Is quite as
good. You can send fifteen words for
10 cents. nftv words for a cents, pay
Ing only two cents FOR every ten words
thereafter. There are now about 1000
miles OF lines in the country, with
enough wire TO reach around the world.
There are 81 900 miles of telephone wire
and y 000 stations. The CONVERSE
tons last year were almost forty mil
lions
The national savings banks are pa
tronlzed nv all classes The books
number more than million and half,
ord me dnrosits approximate 100000, =
600. In addition to this there Is a fund
| Of government annuities amounting to
, 500 600 600. so that the Belglans have In
their own savings banks about Sl5OOOO
600. The most Of such accounts are
small and the savings come from the
moor More than 80 per cent of the
| books have q total of less than $40
and fully three-fourths Of them are IN,
der 500. Taking the whole population
into consideration there is one savings
bank account for every four inhabi-
tants or on the average above one per
family. The accounts are steadily In
creasing and the people deposit thus
more and more every year. The sys-
TEN enables deposits TO be made In the
smallest villages, and every laborer has
a safe place TO put his savings II he
wishes II. 1t is a pity that some sim
liar arrangement cannot be made for
the United States.
THE BELGIAN CAPITAL
| like Brussels. 1t Is one OF the best
built and best managed cities OF Eu-
rope II has only about 100000 people
In the town proper but with its sub
urhs tie inha Infants are more than half