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Show v RAILROAD PASSENGER SERVICE. , I It is announced at Washington that railroad passenger train" service will be generally curtailed during the war, so as to ship a surplus of locomotives and cars to our alhes I in Europe. Also it is desired to release locomotives for use in drawing freight trains as far as possible. Salesmen and others whose business requires a constant con-stant succession of railroad journeys will feel the change a good deal. They will wind up their business in one town and find they have several hours of fruitless waiting before be-fore the next train comes along. But inconveniences of this kind must and will be cheerfully home for the sake of promoting national efficiency. ' If we are to make a good showing in this war, we must adjust ourselves to changes in our plans in a thousand ways. , Pleasure travelers are fussy about their trains. Many such are run at a loss, and the cost is paid by the great mass of the public in freight rates. - The public would hardly be satisfied with a cutting down of passenger trains for the purpose of saving money for the stockholders. But if some of the locomotives and train crews could be shifted over-to the freight business so as to stop the congestion that has added to cost of living, the public would often be the gainer. In thickly settled sections where there are many trains many passengers never bother to look at the time-table. They just go to the station thinking that a train will come along, and then are angry if they have to wait. Here is where the railroads make a mistake when they cut out their advertising of train schedules in the newspapers. news-papers. If they constantly inform the public through the newspapers when their trains run people can look up the schedule without running to the station for a time-table. Thickly settled districts where train seiwice is abundant could often get along-with less trains if these were thoroughly thor-oughly advertised, and a well advertised train service in any locality may make a scanty service tolerable. |