The Detroit times., 1910-07-15
1lVEL IS CHEAP
lin SWITZERLAND
"a csn Buzz Around That Country
fifteen Days on Federal Rail
roads for $3.50.

ZURICH. Switzerland. July A.
<Ifteen days railway travel for $3.50!
Sounds absurd. doesn't it?
In America you can't travel Is days
81 freight trains for that, counting
- money the time served on stone
tticB working out fines and costs. On
passenger train ordinary fares will
{ <a< you back twice $500 In 10 hours.
Elk or eight hours riding viii easily
eat up $500
But ia Switzerland there is nothing
absurd about the Idea OF riding on the
ears Is days for $500. Folks are a
Ntfio sore because IL costs SO much,
hats all. Until about a year ago you
rouid do II for $3.50. The high cost
1f living has pinched even the Swiss
federal railways.
First. you go and have your picture
f1ken. Regulations say that the pic
<Qrc must be unmounted, carte-de'
tisite size, and that the head must be
~ least three-eighths of an inch In
height. That costs a franc. 20 cents.
10 really. 10 be quite exact. II costs
you $3.50 for your Is days travel.
Then You go to the nearest station
~ the federal railways and ask for a
day third-class ticket. You present
Hpur photograph and plank down so
francs, $500. (After while you get
dollar OF this back.)
Presently they give you a 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
rain because one train is as good as
another.
Some Rebates, Too.
Yop are armed with a pass good
Tor 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 ii gets you 20 10
~ 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
tontes every hour of the p for half
month.
Il figures out As cents a day.
II you want to go In for a years rid
ing on Swiss railways you can arrange
k on basis OF 20 cents a day.
You Will do all this only If you have
Eumption enough to do as Swiss do
when you are In Switzerland. If not
4ou will elect to ride first-class, after
me fashion of, Lords. Fools and
americans" and spend $3.50 for rail
way fare In one day instead of in 10.
The native Swiss. when he chooses
~ travel In his own country. travels
third class. II is cheaper and really
Dleasai1ter than travelling first or sec
Qnd. The third class coaches are rs
good Ia every respect as our ordinary
day coaches. and In one respect bet
Ger. The seats are made of clean pol
Ished oak. not OF unsanitary plush as
IRE the seats In our day coaches. The
#Wiss cars are corridor cars. like our
&Wn.
Expense viii Be Light.
II you choose to follow the native
tastom, 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
I8y much less than Ii will take to live
36 days In an American hotel where
rooms are dollar day up.
You Will get stout cane and a
+rucksack" 1.-THE Swiss knapsack) and
with these and your magic ticket you
ran see almost everything worth see
Ilg In Switzerland. You will sleep un-
der eiderdown above iplaid floors in