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Before I start with the small amount of Infliction which I intend to impose upon you, I merely want fro refer to a point that Mr. Worthington mentioned in his paper, and that was about the question of charges of American railroads as compared with foreign ones, and I thought it might possibly be of interest to you to have one or two exact examples Several years ago I was in Europe and I had occasion to go from London to Paris, and found that the lowest rate at which I could get a first class ticket was 50 shillings, $12.50, the distance being about 250 miles. If you should travel on almost any railroad of any size in this country and get the beet Pullman accommodations, the cost would be just about one half, it probably would be #5 for the railroad ticket and £1.25 for the Pullman, half of what they pay in Europe. Take another train, the Sud Express between Paris and Madrid; The distance is almost Identical with that beThat is Just on© tween New York and Chicago, I believe one is 908 miles and the other 907* By the special schedule that was in force some time ago the time between New York and Chicago was eighteen hours, and the cost, if you would consider your sleeping oar accommodations and meals, about $52 for the trip. The time of the Sud Express, Madrid to Paris, is 25 1/2 hours, and the cost on the same basis would be about #68. So we have two pretty good wxamples of the high cost of railroading in this country.
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