The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-17
fortnight
ON RAILWAY
j; OR $3.50
Ride Every Minute of the Time
if You Want to-How's This
For Vacation Travel in a Land
Where the People, Not the
Trusts, Own the Railroads.

ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. ID
Fifteen days railway travel for $3.50!
Sounds absurd, doesn't it?
In America you can't travel Is days
on freight trains for that, counting as
money the time served on stonepiles
working out fines and costs. On a
passenger train ordinary fares will
put you back twice $3.50 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 $3.50. Folks are a
little sore because it costs so much
that's all. Until about year ago you
could do it for $3.50. The high cost OF
living has pinched even the Swiss fed
eral railways.
First, you go and have your picture
taken. Regulations say that the pic
ture must be unmounted carte-de-
viste size. and that the head must be
at least three-eighths of an inch in
height. That costs a franc, 20 cents.
SO really, to be quite exact, it costs
you $3.50 for your Is days travel.
Then you go to the nearest station
15-day general Announcement" third
class. You present your photograph
and plank down so francs, $3.50. CAT
ter a while you get a 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 fifteen 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 to the man who has a
general Announcement" in his vest
pocket.
You are armed with a pass good for
IS 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 it gets you a 20 to SO
per cent reduction on tickets on most
Of the privately-owned mountain rail-
WAYS, 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.
II figures out As cents day.
II you want to go in for years
riding on Swiss railroads you can ar
range 1t on a basis of 20 cents a dav.
You will do all this only If 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 Ameri-
cans" and spend $3.50 for railway
fare in one day instead OF Is.
The native Swiss, when he chooses
to travel in his own country, travels
third class. It is cheaper and really
pleasanter than travelling first 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 oui
own.
II you choose to follow the native
custom, TO travel third class on a Is
day season ticket and put up at hum
BILE hostelries, you can spend two
weeks in Switzerland with a total out
lay much less than it 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 {
"rucksack" (the Swiss knapsack) anC