Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-12-11

sible excess charge for baggage OF
S275. making total OF $G290, or a
| trlfle over two ana eight-tenths cents
! per mile. the average speed being
thirty eight and siXtcenths miles per
hour.
Reducing the calculation for Amer
/ lea 20 the distance actually Travelled IN
llurope we find the following result:
Travelling first class 2,l5i miles in
Europe at 80 miles per hour with
AN average of 1GS pounds of baggage.
cost $95,97, or 4.46 cenS per mile.
Travcling first class. 2.15i miles in
North America, at 3S.6 miles per
hour. with am average of lGS pounds
of baggage. including reserved seat i'm
parlor car, would cost S61 SO. or about
2S6 cents per mile.
In this hast calculation the cost of
extra baggage and of parlor car seats
is reckoned exactly the same az for
2.2ll miles. that Is respectively S2.15
and S9.70,
Under the above conditions. the
cost Of railway travelling in Europe is
over 90 per cent higher than IN North
America
To state the matter differently A
passenger with "a trunk in Europe
would travel first class 500 miles in
i6 hours and . minutes at cost of
S22.25, while "a passenger In North
Amerca with the same baggage
would travel in parlor car 500 miles
in ~ hours and 56 minutes at a cost
OF S14.30.
The charge for extra baggage with
the weights of less and over l50
pounds tcarried tree), distributed as
was actually the case in Europe,
would have amounted to S2.75 Ia all
making the total fare $500, or in
l... ...f.. "a IA a.
is 2,2S cents per mile for the ordinary
fare, q triflc over PAT cents per mile
Including baggage excess, and 2.S6
cents per mile Including the parlor
ear
a considerable part OF the travel
Ia Europe Is in the second class aud
third class compartments, second
class compartments may he compared
with the ordinary first class coach In
America. and an examination of the
second class fares is therefore neces-
sitrN To "a fair consideration of the
whole subject. Third class accommo-
uations. and consequently fares, have
no parallel In North America, exclu-
sive of emigrant trains and need not
ho considered.
The price of second class tickets
varies from sixty To seventy-five per
cent of the tirst class tickets. The
average is about siNty-siN and two |
thirds per cent The extra charge FOR
haueage in Europe is the same for a
second class passenger as for one |
holding first class ticket. and a 1
comparison may therefore be- fairly /
made with the first class fare IN 1
America. without o. parlor ear seat |
The actual second class fares on the I
eleven routes are the basis of the cnl- I
cnlauou. This gives the following re- /
suits.
The cost of travelling 2.t5l miles !
secund class iu Europe al 50f mlles /
per hour with am average OF 16S !
pounds of haggage. Is S69.26. or SCI /
cents per mile
The cost of travelling 215f miles I
first Gloss in America. at $50 miles .
fcr hour without parlor car sent 4
Win Hn nVerlcv ot 1858 pounds of bag /
snge, is Nai SO. cor 2.f1 cents ncr mile. !
ihr Traveller above referred 20 ALSO I
made sixteen Journeys in Europe with I
hnnd n1gRuee only. coNorlug 1851
miles for which Nrst cAss fare
mounting fo Sf6.T2 was -uaid. tho
average srecd hciur uine over rs
mllrs an hour This rate ugures out
a tfiilc over three and half cents "a
mlir ~ second class tickets had been
purchased fhp cost 40 thc published
rates Tor Tue s1mr routes with hand
ihE aEr only would have been
Ao Hi. nr ali cents uer milo
Al tnc rates auove stated traVCUng