15 DECEMBER 1900, Page 14

THE IMPORTANCE OF SPEED TO COMMERCE.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—You alluded some time ago to the numerous petty grievances which the travelling public in this country have to suffer at the hands of the railway companies. I meet almost every day with people who are complaining of the same sort of thing. Will you allow me, therefore, to make a suggestion to the Members of the new House of Commons ? There must be some of them on the look-out for a vocation; if they would like to earn the gratitude of their fellow-countrymen and render real practical service to the State, will some of them attempt to do for us in connection with the railways what Mr. Henniker Heaton has done in Post Office affairs P—I am,