FIRST-CLASS SLEEPING CAR FARES COST NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH ON THE CON- TINENT AS HERE; SECOND-CLASS ONES COST CONSIDERABLY MORE THAN FIRST-CLASS4rA.w HERE. WHY? .

THE AMERICAN TRAVEL ER FINDS MOST THINGS CHEAPER IN EUROPE, BUT HERE'S ONE STRIKING EXCEPTION MOM= PULLMAN SERVICE IS A CHIEF LINK IN EVERY TRAVEL CHAIN

Most of the world's de luxe rail carriages are operated in the United States, by the Pullman Company. They are the world's standard for safety, comfort, luxury. Why this American leadership? Because Pullman gives so much more for so much less. American vs. European Sleeping Car Rates STANDARD sleeping car between terminals of equal importance, faresintheUnitedStates were compared, both first class and sec- " are less than second class ond class railroad and sleeping car rates sleeping car rates in Europe. being set down for the European European sleeping car rates aver- trips. The seven trips presented in age about 56 per cent as much as the the tabulation are representative of railroad fares; in the United States, European travel conditions; the only 28 per cent as much. seven American trips are equally rep- The following table gives a com- resentative of con- parative showing of railroad and ditions on this side. fg L 1 1 sleeping car rates in Europe and The figures on the lllllll1 here. European and American trips next page will prove of substantially the same length the case. RAILWAY FARE SLEEPING CARS

Route and Miles 1ST 2ND 1ST 2ND CLASS CLASS CLASS CLASS Paris-Rome 900 $29.30 S20.09 $16.66 $14.08 t' \, N. Y.-Chicago 908 32.70 9.00 Paris-Berlin 794 29.02 17.56 11.56 9.02 Chicago-Washington 784 27.78 8.25 Paris-Vienna 871.7 33.64 23.87 15.48 12.39 j.,• St. Louis-Washington 893 32.54 9.00 uute 11 1 1 Paris-Geneva 375.9 10.91 7.37 9.41 7.52 N. Y.-Rochester 369 13.35 3.75 L -1415; 4'7't Paris-Amsterdam 285 11.27 8.44 7.54 10.41 3-75 -- 1Jl•••••'.1"1-7 1.- Chicago-St. Louis 285 661.;' -1 • _ ••, - 0 Parts-Strassburg 312.5 9.06 6.43 6.18 4.15 4 ---- .--- • Chicago-Cleveland 340 12.26 3-75 Paris-Stresa 457 16.25 1 x .2o 11.71 9.34 NOTE-European currency converted to dollar values as of Oct. 9, 1930. Chicago-Duluth 470 16.41 4.50 r— I isr CLASS Jst CLASS Miles 1 5tintre R401.1,1 Far. Sleeping Fares - Seven European Trips 3,995-5 $139-45 $78-49 4,049 145-47 42-00 41 Seven American Trips

Europe's rate structure is so compli- present one railroad and one sleeper cated by national regulations that com- ticket, at the rates shown in the table. parisons with the simple American One person occupying a double room rates is difficult. In the foregoing table must present two railroad and two the American rates are for lower berths; sleeper tickets. But there are exceptions; the European for a berth in a compart- in Germany, one person may get a ment containing two berths. The two double room for one railroad and one occupants may be strangers. Each must sleeper ticket, provided that if a second person demands accom- $25.38; total $54.68. New York-Chicago modation he must be ad- railroad fare would be $52.88, sleeper $18; mitted on presenting one total, $70.88. This is for extra fare trains; railroad and one sleep- on non-extra fare trains the American total er ticket. The American would be $59.73. In either case the Euro- sleeper rate is in every pean railroad ticket costs less than Ameri- case lower than either the can, the European sleeper decidedly more. first class or second class The illustration is generally applicable. European rate. Four times as many sleeping cars oper- On certain European ate in this country as in Europe, though de luxe trains a single room may be had Europe has four times our population; on one railroad fare plus an exceptionally and even at that a large share of European high sleeper fare. Thus, from Paris to sleeper travel is by foreigners journeying Rome a room can be had on a regular there. European rates are a mass of con- i14 railroad ticket, $29.30, and a sleeper ticket, tradictions. One may sleep from London

• • EURO PE UNITE D STATES 1 480,000,000 122,000,000 1 POPULATION POPULATION

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2000 SLEEPING CARS 8000 SLEEPING CARS to the Scottish border for fifteen shillings, sleeper 146 francs The sleeping car rate but the wheel's turn that takes him over in some cases is higher on a slow train than the border adds five shillings. On one on an express, while on other trips the re- French trip railroad fare was i i5 francs, verse is true. Excepting Denmark and Po- vance. Wise travelers cable for space on a land, two railroad tickets, plus Riviera train before they leave New York, of course the sleeper charge, and in some cases, despite this precaution, are required to secure a two- have to run considerable hotel bills in Paris berth room for one passenger. before they can be accommodated. Tele- A "booking fee" adds to the grams involved in making reservations ticket's cost. Reservation mon- must be paid for by the traveler. For a trip ey is refunded—less booking Paris-Belgrade-Budapest-Vienna-Berlin- fee and stamps—only in case Paris, this item alone was about 162 francs. first, that cancellation is noti- All these "supplemental" charges must fied 48 hours in advance, and be added, in determining the cost of tra- second, that the tickets are then vel in Europe, to the rates quoted in our resold. During the "season" it table. The American journeying there, is necessary to make reserva- utterly unused to such things, does not itJ tions a week or ten days in ad- realize, unless he is lynx-eyed, that all these things are in his bill; but they are. had to pay $14.08 for indi- The continental sleeper's berth is 5 vidual berths from Paris to feet 1 1 inches long, 2 feet 3% inches Rome—second class at that. wide; standard Pullman berth, 6 feet 23A For first class they would have inches long by 3 feet 53/io inches wide; had to pay $16.66 each. More- that is, the continental berth has 13.5 over, they had an excellent square feet area against 22.8 square feet chance of being put in dif- in the Pullman's. This bears directly on ferent rooms, each with a expense of accommodations, for the total stranger as room mate. roomy American berth will comfortably It is such experiences as this, accommodate two persons and frequently constantly encountered by the does, no extra charge being made for the large proportion of American second occupant. Thus two sisters used a travelers who tour Europe on berth from Chicago to New York at a modest allowances, that give cost of $4.50 each; but a few days later acute realization of the dif- ference between European and American take the entire room on three railroad sleeping car costs. and three sleeper tickets; or three strang- In some European countries heat is ers may find themselves in it. Yet from locomotive steam; in others from a another plan places two or three chair coal-burning water heater at the car's beds in a room; at night the chair backs end. A variety of car arrangements will are pulled forward and down, making a be encountered on a European tour. One bed. Only the arm-rest separates the car has two seats for six passengers in a sleeping passengers. A woman demand- compartment; day-time passengers may ing a berth when there is none available use these until a certain hour, when they save in a room with a man, gets it if he must be made down for night passengers assents; and vice versa. The most ardent —two lowers, two uppers. In some cars friends of Pullman service are those who, of this type no bedding is provided. being thoroughly familiar with it, are Another arrangement affords three sleep- also acquainted with sleeping car service ing places in a room; one patron may abroad.

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