WHAT EVERY TRAVELLER KNOWS.
[TO THE EDITOR OW THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The suggestion which you make in the Spectator of May 11th that the seats in third-class railway carriages should be numbered, and that when a passenger bought a ticket he should also be supplied with a numbered-seat ticket, appears to me objectionable. It would add to the expense of travel. The companies could not organize and carry out such a system without charging extra. In France one can hardly obtain a seat in a first-class railway carriage without bribing the guard since the system of booking seats in advance on payment of one franc was introduced, because the guard labels all the seats as engaged, when many of them are not, in order to extort a tip for taking off the label.—I am, Sir, &O.,
TRAVELLER.
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