The Railway system of the Continent has been thrown out
of. gear by the war. Complaints of uupunctuality are incessant, and the Tines publishes daily accounts of robberies of luggage. To the English traveller, however, the most serious of annoyances is.
the time lost in securing baggage-tickets. You have first to secure your passenger tickets, an operation taking from ten to twenty minutes, then show them to time lug- gage clerks, whose elaborate calculation as to the amount to be deducted occupies, with waiting, weighing, &c,, as many minutes more. All this is needless. If the Railway companies would charge so much per kilo. of baggage, allowing no deductions, but slightly reducing the fares, luggage could be weighed and. labelled all day, and half the time and all the confusion would be saved. It is the effort to be too fair which makes the muddle.
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