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Show COMFORT ON TRAINS TRAVELING PUBLIC HAS LITTLE CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT. Railroads Make Consistent Efforts to Please Their Passengers Some Minor Deficiencies That Might Call for Correction. Attention of the railroads has been called to the deficiencies of the dining Bervice, Kathleen Hills writes in Leslie's. Les-lie's. Among others the suggestion has been made that a. neatly framed sign be placed In each car announcing the time for the respective meals and the kind of service a la carte or table d'hote to take the place of the noisy "calls" so familiar to all travelers, and that when a train nears Its final stopping place around meal hours no table In the dining car shall be dismantled dis-mantled while any passenger remains at a table. On some lines, It has been noted, the starting and stopping of trains is done in a jerky manner, which does not conduce to the comfort of passengers pas-sengers and the coupling of sleepers in the night is often accompanied by crashes that awaken the traveler with fright. It has been suggested that when lines traverse interesting scenic or historic country, trains should be equipped with Bmall phonographs to announce points of interest, or that informative placards be conspicuously displayed stating on which side of the train the various points of interest lie and at what hour the train is due to pass them. At way stations, where two or more trains pull through at approximately ap-proximately the Bame time, instead of having an announcer call the trains and their various stops, the use of a small sign on each car might give the train number, the various stops to be made and the destination. There is another side to this situation situa-tion which most of us do not consider. We pay for our tickets and think it should buy everything for our comfort; com-fort; we give little heed to the fact that the transportation companies take great pains to make us comfortable comforta-ble as we would be in our owi .homes often more so. Small electric lamps with frosted globes to relieve the glare on the eyes nre furnished for one to read by in his berth there is plenty of distilled ice water provided, with individual drinking cups, individual individ-ual towels and soap, and on some roads and steamships even electric curling irons for women. There are screens for the windows, comfortable seats, hassocks for the feet, steam heat and electric fans. On Christmas and other holidays every endeavor is made to make the journey noteworthy. On all through trains and all first-class first-class passenger steamers there are menus particularly appropriate to the day. Sometimes these are elaborate and are given to the passenger in the way of a souvenir, and can be mailed to friends free of charge. This year we noticed holiday banners and posters post-ers wishing the traveler the season's greetings. If anything for the comfort com-fort of the traveler has been overlooked, over-looked, it would almost seem to be accidental. |