Show railroading abroad proberb P porter the american statistician iati ician cian is in england writing lette letters r 3 home concerning the miserable railway service in england and on the continent compared with the comforts of the railroads in this country he can hardly aty things mean enough concerning the foreign railroads but an american traveler abroad will agree with him sir mr porter proves that third class fare in england is about the same as first class fare in this country as it is third class that 95 per cent of the traveling public take with thud claa are no sleeping cars and the public is thereby put I 1 to great incon vien ces thus he says 1 if 11 1 I am going a journey say of two hundred miles I 1 have the alternative of pay ad 4 third class or say about certainly the first class would not be less than As I 1 have said in a former letter in order to secure a small stuffy bed on the night train from london to edinburg or glasgow I 1 must practically pay 12 instead of and then in addition the as 63 or as for the berth in the sleeping car |