Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-04-02


sengerS bartered socks, shoes and
clothing to the peasants for bread and
meat, as paper money was not accept
able.
There was no railroad train to
Czecho-Sl0vakia for a 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
valuables, herding them like cattle
and hurting their luggage violently
about
In Germany railroad traffic was bet
ter hut there were few trains and nos
through service. Such trains as did
run were shamefully crowded. They
we're unheateG and sometimes even
unlighted. 1t was only about a year
ago that one of the infrequent trains
which left Vienna in the direction of
Switzerland had accommodation for
3l0, but 800 or more crowded into it.
People were jammed into it like cattle
being shipped to the packing house. In
fact everywhere throughout Central
Europe 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 imperceptible 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 a 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 a day coach in
Vienna and not be compelled to leave
it 9util he has 10 board the channel
boat.
In Berlin. city ticket Offices when
were closed not So long ago viii 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 viii put you into
London next morning at 10 30. by way
of the HOOK of Holland. German
sleeping accommodations, with two
persons in a compartment, which were
eagerly sought not long ago (and did
not exist mt all Immediately following
tha arnistice) are now regarded as
second-claSs. A first class ticket calls
for a whole compartment, the upper
berth being unused.
There still remain imbecilities OF
customs inspections and occasional
rudcness; 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 If
/ having Polish money refused for
/ fare on train in Polish territory, but
everywhere there has been ameliora-
ton of the Reorganization which fol-
4 lowed the armistce 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.
10 Prague. to Warsaw. to Danzig, to
/ Berlin and to London accomplished
the trip of q months duration at an
expense for both, including hotel bills,
Of approximately $500.
II traffic and transportation condi-
tions are slowly becoming better, 50
too are political relations improving.
Signs Of Returning Order.
These are some Of the symptoms Of
OXIDE, gradually. very gradually, re-
establishing itself There are still
hu-c problems Of reconstruction that
must be met difficult adjustments that
pust be- mnde There will certainly be
qore minor eruptons before there is
q settling down but there must be- a
beginning Of au things and, comparing
the present with what existed ia the
very near past one cannot fail to re-
mark tangible structure emerging
cut If the general wreckage
The t.oughtless, who expected hat
the lislocations Of war would be- rs
easily SIS washing the CRIME
from ou,s bands. betray ignorance Of
the durqnon of natural processes. and
the Ieremiahs whose mouths Hre tl.ed
with .amentation take 50 much Joy 10
bem0eunc the gliferlug shell If a
deed tyrepng that they fail 10 note me
leeHatrg beginnings OF new free
dom.