Evening star., 1922-06-11


TINE 10000 American tourists
now rushing over Europe for
get that there has been
war. in just one case-when
their travel conveniences are inter-
fered with Who. indeed, can blame
them. when the highest American
railroad officials, coming to Rome for
the international railway congress
commit the same error of forgetfUl-
ness?
The Italian authorities blame
supposed May day demonstration for
the incident. but the fact remains
that at Modane (the frontier) ltal-
ian territory aHds and French begins
and there were no railroad strikes
in France last May day
X X i: X
TERE is the story. 1t is typical Of
lists in Europe are going on about
The congress was a great success.
Leaving Rome on Sunday by the
Rome Rapide. supposed to be the
crack express train of the continent.
the delegates. bound for Paris. ar
rived at Modane early on May day
morning-"guests all. of the Italian
roads
There. at Modane going into
France, INSTEAD Of finding customs
officers waiting at the carriages Cfor
export examinations). travellers were
informed that they were in Turin,
and that all traffic had ceased
Trips were made round the city,
hotel rooms engaged and hasty
bridge games organized" Every
method of killing time was employed,
but the day dragged on and the
train remained stationary. Only aft
er a delay of twenty five hours was
it possible to proceed across the bor
der and eventually arrive in Paris"
Now, in an interview given in Par
is, Samuel Q. Dunn. editor-in- chief of
the Railway Age, has intimated the
true explanation of the mystery
just shortage of sleeping cars. The
Italian government officials, to save
their faces" got up this story of May
day!
One has no difficulty in travelling
in the United States these days" SAID
Mr.. Dunn. There is not the slightest
difficulty, for instance, in getting
sleeping-car accommodations. A man
may get at least an upper berth for
practically any point up to the min
ute of the starting of the train. IL
the sleeping cars are sold out, others
are added instantly. In America
there is always an abundance of
sleeping cars. There is a tiexibility
in that service, over there. that ap-
parently does not exist in Europe
Just at this moment"
The interviewer European edition
New York Herald) adds, that he who
runs may read:
although Mr.. Dunn did not say so,
it is known that there was some dis
satisfaction among some of the
American visitors to the railway con-
gress, over difficulty in securing
sleeping-car accommodation
IKE a simple tourist. Mr.. Dunn
l. forgot that there has been a
war. Magnificent new sleeping and
parlor coaches, in the early days OF
1e14-1915. were blood-soaked. battle
Scared and worn to the scrap heap.
In addition, Germany and her allies
seized all the rolling stock of the
international Sleeping Car Company
wherever found, and, instead of re-
turning it to it's French-Belgian own
ers after armistice, TRANQUILITY hand
ed the cars over to similar German
corporation!
You can get good accommodation
in Germany. Mr.. Dunn. Germany has
lots of cars-French built! AS for
France and Italy, they have built
hundreds of new cars and must build
hundreds more, because the rush OF
travel in these sweet and honest
lands is beyond all whooping!
Whenever a tourist asks me, ad-
wise her Che can rough IT'D to take
the through, rapid trains de luxe, on
which you can surely secure reserva-
tions. @
You may have. to wait from two to
ten days. but there are no surprises
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