Show A I 1 i S f wa farea aboss greatly reduced in hungary A recent number of the century magazine contains an article on the system recently adopted in hungary tor mini k tying and regulating the passenger ra teson railroads in that country the writer says the method of ballot j which isso widely adopted weare ina to australia and now from a reform in railway management which promises to revolutionize the passenger business put in hungary citone ast 1st of august it has therefore but a brief experience to justify its cabi lity but effi results thus been that iest success seems the in thod coh ats of the territory of Hungar yinto fourteen nc zones budapest the capital beings the center the first zone includes all within 25 kilometers 10 adm the center the second all more than 25 and less than 40 fall the zones except the first and the thirteenth aro 15 kilometers or a little more than 0 miles in width the three named are 23 kilometers n breadth and the four teen all stations more than kilometers from the capiau the fare is regulated by the number of zones which the traveler enters or crosses during his journey reducing gullens guldens ta cents the rate is 2016 and 10 cents per zone third class passengers respectively if one starts from budapest and crosses three zones he travels therefore 55 kilometers or about s if he goes first class his fare will bew cents if second class 48 cant il third class SO cents local traffic when the traveler does not cross the boundary of any zone there are special if he goes only to the the charges will C and cents if to the second s starting point alg 8 tand if station sto tion the full rates of the zony are charged the p reduction however is for all stations more than 35 kilometers ISO mils broto rate sare the same beyond thai distance df stance 40 reckoned in the fourteenth zoned it costs no from budapest to brasso which is kilometers distant than to the distance of only to i this farthest point miles from the capital the fares of the three classes only about and the third class fare about the hungarian railways between the two points now dundei 1150 ahe fare Js less than one fifth of what it was under the old system y I 1 it is in the selong distances that the reduction is most sweeping but even thea shorter journeys are greatly cheap i ened vo arad which is kilometers from budapest the former fare for the three classes was SO 16 and the present of almost 50 percent besides toe reduction the in the way of convenience and 4 tion the number of distinct tickets on sale in every important kotel office was formerly about the greatest number required in any office this considerably the expense of printing and hand ahng licE ets akey are now sold like at cigar shops and other such places any traveler knowd what his 1 fare ahl be iche knows how many 1 zones he is to cros he simply multi plis ae number of 0 o 1 enter br cross by the normal of fare per zone which is as has been exi ex i sixteen and ten cents for respectively arfora hayg number of places within fifty five kilometers of boks from thirty to sesty at rates a group of stations about twenty one Buda pesta books are sold which make thi trip fares cen and beigh cents these books are transferable and owner of the book may pay with these tickets the fares of persons accompany j ing him evidently the purpose of this system is to extend these concessions and conveniences as widely as possible and often m americano Ameri cato limit and circumscribe them so that the small est number of people shall get the advantage of them the readar will be interested in know response has the hungarian public to these liberal measures the hungarian public is not particularly ticul arly responsive the population of is sparse home keeping people but they seam to atno when they see it the increase in the passenger trams has been for the first eight months of the new months f he previous year as it ade abe the long distance rates fijn th e the gaffi Tain th abe 1911 Ot uh pa he old system triin this vast increase of business hasi ln mpa receipt a from passengers the first bis the ne ysis tem t ii 11 i i ra i wt ss s s j the previous ye arwe fiad a gain of lus also stated that there t davs were abt tara fun v it is not to be wondered at th ithai world are to hungary tox it Is of ofa ti JV V v S r hungary aun gary made available in cato say part of ahe hungarian railways belong states but part ofa under the control of private companies it would appear liow feer that the right of the stata to regulate fares must be conceded the document from which this information is derived is published 1 by thet hungarian government and it consists of an elaborate but very intelligible compilation of the rules and methods of classification under which the business is done one fact is clearly demonstrated that reduced passenger fares greatly 1 traffic ad companies there are indications enough of this fact in tha experience of american railways but the managers are slow to acae upon them perhaps this striking illustration bronit hungarian railway history may their apprehension the economic and industrial advantages of such low fares should be obvious to all whatever tends to promote the mobility of labor is fai the interest of thrift ans peace especially is this true in these tunes when through changes of fashion production is constantly if the ork people thrown out of one place could easily and cheaply remove ib some other placa where are wanted suffering should be relieved paup erista diminished bonges r 0 labo rout of which many biffi i arise greatly reduced the high rates of prevents the free movement of baior and aggravate many of our social ills |