The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-03-18

II stopped anywhere when II got tired,
mere was no food aboard. and pas-
Seigers bartered socks shoes and
clothing TO the peasants for bread and
meat, as paper money was not accept
able.
mere was no railroad train to
czecho-Siovakia for long time and
no communication by boat along the
Danube. When traffic did begin spas
medically, savage customs officials met
travellers at the frontiers and treated
them to bodily search for money and
vaiuabes, herding them like cattle
and hurting their luggage violently
about.
In Germany railroad traffic was bet
ter, but there We're few trains and no
through service. Such trains as did
run were shamefully crowded. They
we're unheateG and sometimes even
unllghted. 1t was only about year
ago that one of the infrequent trains
which left Vienna In the direction Of
switzerland had accommodations for
so, but 500 or more crowded into It.
People were jamnied into 1t like cattle
being shipped to the packing house. In
TACT, everywhere throughout Central
Lurope travelling, when possible at all.
meant delay. discomfort and peril.
Improvement Is Marked.
Such was the situation in 1919, but
new the Improvement, which has been
gradual and imperceptibe perhaps to
persons of single experience, is
marked. Clean, comfortable trains with
dining car service run between Buda-
pest and Vienna in about five hours :;
there Is through train to Berlin by
way OF Prague in fifteen and a half
hours and other through trains with
sleeping cars to Rome, Trieste and
Warsaw. One has the choice Of two
direct routes from London to Vienna
and Vienna to London by way of eth
er Calais or Ostend. The traveller to
England can even take day coach in
Vienna and not be compelled to leave
1t antil he has to board the channel
boat.
In Berlin, city ticket offices which
were closed not so long ago will now
sell tickets through to London, to
Paris, to Rome, to Vienna or to War
saw. A train which leaves Berlin at
eight in the morning will put you into
London next morning at 10 80. by way
of the Hook of Holland. German
sleeping accommodations, with two
persons in compartment, which We're
eagerly sought not long ago land did
not exist at all Immediately following
the armistice) are now regarded as
second-class. A first class ticket calls
for whole compartment, the upper
berth being unused.
There still remain imbecilities of
customs inspections and occasional
rudeness; there is the annoyance of
having TO buy new tickets at some
frontiers In the money of the country
entered and there Is the surprise of
having Polish money refused for a
fare on a train in Polish territory, but
everywhere there has been ameliora-
ton of the disorganization which fol
lowed the armistice and a tending to-
ward the normal.
If one is not too exacting or petu-
liant he may now travel over Europe
in comfort. And amazingly cheaply by
American standards. Two persons who
recently journeyed from London to
Vienna, to Budapest. back to Vienna
to Prague. to Warsaw, to Danzig, to
Berlin and to London. accomplished
the trip of months duration at an
expense for both, including hotel bills
of approximately $3.50.
If traffic and transportation condi
tons are slowly becoming better. SC
too are political relations improving
Signs Of Returning Order.
| These are some of the symptoms OF
order gradually, very gradually. re
establishing itself. There are still
huge problems of reconstruction tha
must be met. difficult adjustments tina
pn,At be made. There will certainly b,
nore minor eruptions before there /.
a settIing down. but there must be /
beginning Of all things, and. comparing
the present with what existed In tn.
very near past, one cannot fall to re
mark a tangible structure emergin,
cut OF the general wreckage.
The t,.oughtless, who expected tina
the flslocations of war, would be Al
easily remedied as washing the grim,
from, ones hands, betray ignorance o
the duration Of natural processes. an,
the Jeremiahs whose mouths are fille'
With lamentation take so much Joy Il
bemoaning the glittering shell Of
dead tyranny that they fail to note IN
hesitat!rg beginnings Of . asw fres
dom.