Show SLOW TRAINS IN SPAIN The Traveler in Manana Land Content With Wit Eighteen Miles an Hour Madrid Letter to the Philadelphia Ledger Spain SI aln does not facilitate the progress ot of the traveler The tourist to that country roust must be rich in one thing which the tho aver avor average r rage age American signally lacks namely plenty of time In Spain there Is no stay staying ing ln over OV r a train to visit a cathedral or ora ora ora a gallery The points of Interest Int rest are wide widely widely widely ly scattered and a days Journey must not be considered as any hindrance to toan an inspection however cursory of even one cathedral This difficulty in getting about is due largely to an execrable train service The rhe cars in the south of Spain Spam are old fash fashioned fashIoned the tho are so badly made mad that the trains rock like a ship in a heavy sea The engineers either cannot or will not drive the engines at any rate which an American would recognize as speed Eighteen en miles an hour is Js the Spanish Idea of a lightning express fifteen is re rc regarded regarded as a working estimate that is Js good goodenough gooden enough en ugh for ordinary purposes The Spanish have all the time there is and see no reason why they should Imperil their lives hives and wreck their nerves by anywhere It may be noted however that if the trains are slow they are arc sure and for a train to be be behind behInd behind hind time practically Is unknown Wo Vo Women mon men traveling alone for instance need not hesitate to talie tahle a reaching a given point by 10 at night through fear that it will wili tot rot arrive until 11 or after afterward afterward afterward ward If It the timetable announces Its ar ax arrival arrival rival for 10 that train will enter the station on the minute In this connection may ma be told the story stor of an American who asked his guide the distance between Madrid and San Sebas Sebastian Sebastian Sebastian tian the chief watering place of Spain It was the Intention of the American to torun torun run nm up there for a few hours the distance did not look great gr at when studied on the theman map man manSan San Sebastian senor It Is about ninety miles away awa said the guide Ah a two hours journey said the American having in mind the express trains between en New York and Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia phia a similar distance The guide opened his eyes in surprise at such a mad idea No senor If you leave Madrid at 9 In the morning you ou will reach San Sebastian about 10 IQ I in inthe the evening It is a days s journey |