The Detroit times., 1910-07-14
TRAVEL IS CHEAP
IN SWITZERLAND
You Can Buzz Around That Country
Fifteen Days on Federal Rail
roads for $3.50.


Fifteen days railway travel for $3.50!
Sounds absurd. doesn't Il?
In America you can't travel Is days
on freight trains for that, counting
as money the time served on stone
piles working out fines and costs. On
a passenger train ordinary fares will
put you back twice $500 In Is hours.
Six or eight hours riding will easily
eat up $3.50.
But in Switzerland there is nothing
absurd about the idea of riding on the
cars Is days for $500 Folks are a
little sore because II costs so much,
that's all. Until about year ago you
could do IL for $3.50. The high cost
OF living has pinched even the Swiss
federal railways.
First, you go and have your picture
taken. Regulations say that the pic.
tnre must be unmounted, carte-de-
visite size, and that the head must be
az least three-eighths of an inch in
height That costs franc. 20 cents.
So really. TO be quite exact. II costs
you $3.50 for your Is days travel
Then you go TO the nearest station
Of the federal railways and ask for a
Today third-class ticket You present
your photograph and plank down so
francs, $3.50. (After a while you get
dollar OF this back
Presently they give you little
folder OF stiff paper, with your photo
pasted therein. This you sign.
Then you hasten to get on the first
available train and go some place.
You hasten because your 10 days have
begun to file by and you want to make
the most OF them. You take the first
train because one train Is as good as
another.
Some Rebates, Too.
Yop are armed with a pass good
for 10 days on all the regular steam
roads in the republic OF Switzerland,
on some OF the electric lines. and on
most Of the steamboats, plying on the
Swiss lakes. Also II gets you a 20 TO
so per cent reduction on tickets on
most of the privately-owned mountain
railways, on which fares are usually
very high. You are privileged to ride
over 2,775 miles of rail and water
routes every hour of the "a for half
month.
1t figures out 4S cents a day.
ing on Swiss railways you can arrange
1t on basis OF 20 cents a day.
You will do all this only il you have
gumption enough to do as Swiss do
when you are in Switzerland. II not
you will elect to ride first-class, after
the fashion OF Lords, Fools and
Americans" and spend $500 for rail-
way fare In one day instead of in 10.
The native Swiss. when he chooses
TO travel in his own country, travels
third class. 1t is cheaper and really
pleasanter than travelling flrst or sec
ond. The third class coaches are as
good in every respect as our ordinary
day coaches. and in one respect bet
ter The seats are made Of clean pol.
ished oak, not OF unsanitary plush as
are the seats In our day coaches. The
Swiss cars are corridor cars, like our
own.
Expense Will Be Light.
IL you choose to follow the native
custom, to travel third class on a 10
day season ticket and put up at hum
bic hostleries, you can spend two
weeks In Switzerland with a total out
lay much less than 1t will take to live
Is days In an American hotel where
rooms are a dollar a day up
You Will get a stout cane and a
'rucksack" (the Swiss knapsackl and
with these and your magic ticket you
can see almost everything worth see
ing in Switzerland. You will sleep I'M
der eiderdown above inlaid floors In
marvelously clean rooms, which cost
you 40 cents day. You will break
fast for a franc. and dine literally for
80 cents. Your lunch of Swiss cheese,
bread and milk will cost you five
cents.
Thus you will see the glories of the
Jungfran, cross the indigo blue waters
OF Lake Lucerne, traverse the chalet
dotted wales of the Bernese Overland,
look with wonder upon the immacu-
late asphalt of Zurich, and pluck for
Blumlisalphorn.
All this time your magic ticket will
be to you as the wonderful carpet from
King Solomon's throne. II bears you
hither and thither as you will Board
any train anywhere, going In any di-
rection and II insures you transporta-
ton thence to the border. That Is, as
long as you continue to maintain a
reasonable resemblance TO the photo
pasted therein. Don't grow a beard, or
shave OF a beard, or work any other
rash and radical change In your per-
sonal appearance. II your face doesn't
match your picture you must hit the
gravel.
When your fortnight Is up, and you
have turned I'm your ticket and have
pocketed your dollar rebate. you go
away wondering. You wonder how
they do 1t. You wonder how they can
run a railway system that Is a system;
how they can run trains everywhere
almost every hour and make perfect
connections all around
Most OF all you wonder how they
can do II and AFFORD to carry you about
Is days for $500.
And you wonder how Il would feel
TO ride from New York to- San Fran
cisco and back for $500.
Those Pies OF 5oyhood.
How delicious were the Dies of how