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Amsterdam and Rotterdam Of
fer Centres for Wide Dis
tributing Areas.
TRAIN sERvICEEXTENDED
Hotel Accommodations In
Principal Cities Listed for
Use Of Tourists.

Travellers who wish to lay plans for
trade with various territories which are
recpened to American trade probably
will find II most convenient to make
their headquarters in Rotterdam, which
is the great transshipment port for that
part Of Europe.
Those who are going Holland In
connection with the purchase Of Dutch
East Indian products. or to confer with
Dutch financiers and bankers, or to es-
tablish local markets for American
products, will, In many cases. md II
more convenient to make Amsterdam
their headquarters. Holland is such
small country that any part Of 1t may
be reached In less than one days Jour
ney from either Rotterdam or Amster-
dam.
There is a regular train service be-
tween Rotterdam and Amsterdam via
The Hague. the city where the Neither
lands Oversee Trust oflces and the
Netherlands Export Company. as well
as most OF the government bureaus are
located. Trains run about once an hour
and require from one hour and thirty
minutes to two hours to make the Jour
ney. The last train In the evening from
Rotterdam leaves at s:40 o'clock and
the last train from Amsterdam leaves
at 10. All trains stop at The Hague,
which is about one-third Of the way from
Rotterdam Amsterdam.
Some of the principal hotels in Rot
terdam frequented by commercial travel
ers are the Mass Hotel. rooms from
$3.50 up per day: Hotel weimar, rooms
about the same price. or with meals.
$3.50 per day; Hotel CoomanR rooms
and meals about the same as at the
Weimar; Hotel de France, rooms $1.2o
and up; Hotel Zuid-Holland, about the
same.
Amsterdam and Hague Hotels.
In Amsterdam, the following hotels
may be mentioned: Amstel. rooms $3.50
up. with bath. S3.20 and up. meals. 81
and up. Prices at the Hotel de rEurope
and at the Bracks Doelen Hotel are
about the same as at the Amstsl- Hotel
des Pays-Bas, rooms. S1.40 and up; bath
extra. meals, $3.20 and up: Hotel Vic
torial. rooms, $3.50 and. up, with bath,
$2.60 and up. meals. $500.
The Hague hotels are: Hotel des hides
rooms 50 and up. with bath. So and up,
meals. 81 per day and up: Hotel vieux
Doelen. rooms sac and up. with bath,
$3.50 and up; Hotel Twee Steden, Hotel
Central, and Hotel Paulez, rooms $3.50
and up. with bath. $3.50 and up. meals.
ga 20 and I'M
A regular daily train service between
Amsterdam and Paris has been started
as follows:
Leave 20 Am. Amsterdam. Arrive a:2s pm.
Leave :3s am. The Hague. arrive :os .. m.
Leave :l2 am. Rotterdam. arrive 12:ss pm.
4rrivc <: 20 pm. .srusseis' =. leave 80 ann.
Arrive s:4s pm. Paris (Gare du Nord)
leave 10 10 pm.
The railway fare from Amsterdam
to Paris is about Sl2. Sleeper accom-
modations Con the return trip) should be
reserved several days In advance.
The International Transportation Bu-
reau in Amsterdam has announced that
a direct railway passenger service be-
tween Amsterdam and Rome, by way
Of the occupied German Rhine provinces
and Basel (Switserland) IL planned. II
Il stated that this service will consist
of one train a week In August and will
only be continued thereafter In case a
sufficient number of travellers use the
service.
From Holland to Cologne.
There Is now one train every day
from Holland to Cologne by way of
occupied Germany. The train leaves
The Hague about A NJ and leaves
Amsterdam about A. NJ. 1t arrives
at Cologne at e:25 p. M. The return
train leaves Cologne at noon and con-
meets with trains which arrive In Rot
terdam. Amsterdam or The Hague short
ly before midnight
Accommodations for travel between
Holland and Scandinavia are bad. As
| II Is not possible to go TO Denmark by
rail, on account Of the fact that the
railway passes through unoccupied ter
ritory, the only possible way to 70 to
Scandinavia is to proceed first to Eng
| land, thence by boat to some Scandi-
navian port, or to take one of the
small boats that run between Scandi-
navia and Holland. Accommodations on
these lines are such, however. that few
American commercial travellers go from
Holland to Scandinavia by boat
The Royal Netherlands Steamboat
Company occasionally runs a boat be.
tween Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Sail.
inxs are irregular, however. Some OF
these boats are able to accommodate tive
or three passengers. Inquiries should b,
made as long . time as possible In ad
vance. The fare either way is $50. The
steamship Zeta OF the Bergenske Damp
skibselolxat, which sails from Rotterdam
| for Bergen every two weeks, has accom-
modations for q few passengerR Tn,
| face Is S72. The Gotha Line, which rum
between Rotterdam and Goteborg. hai
one or two vessels each month. which ar,
able to accommodate passengers. TIL,
sailings are. irregular. First class far
Is $s4; second class, $40; third. $50.
There are three steamboat lines be
tween Holland and England which TAX
passengers. They are the iceland Line
which plies between Flushing and Graves
end; the Batavier Line, which operate
between Rotterdam and Tilbury, and tn
Harwich Line. which runs between Rot
terdam and Harwich. The fare on tn
first two lines is about s24, and on tn
third about $14.50. The boats OF tn
iceland Line leave Flushing on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays. an
leave Gravesend on Tuesdays, Thursday
and Saturdays. They depart from elthe
pert In the early morning and thus max
the crossing by daylight. Passenger
leave London the evening before sailin
Il going TO Holland. and leave Amstel
dam, Rotterdam or The Hague late
the evening before sailing II going frol
Holland to England.
The Batavier Line has vessels sailin
from Rotterdam to Tilbury every Tue
day, Wednesday and Saturday. and fro
Tlbury every Monday Wednesday ar