Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n average rate of 2.14 cents amile. But we do not know the rate permile in England, for the length of jour-neys made is not published. After all, averages from general stat-istics would, if we had them, give usonly an abstract ideaof the public seivice ofthe railioads ; and weshall do better to makethe comjjarison speci-fic, examining actualfares for actual dis-tances. From such anexamination we findthat in our WesternStates the local fares,say for 100 miles, moreor less, are about 8cents a mile, and in theEastern States they areabout 2^ cents. Forlonger distances theyare 2J cents in theAVest, and 2 cents inthe East. This is with-out sleeping-car ord r a w i n g - r o o m - c a rfares, and these are therates at which the greatmass of the people trav-el. For the present wewill leave out of the analysis the sub-urban njovement at commutationrates ; and we may also neglect the ex-tra fare movement, for the relativenumber of tho.se travelling in sleeping-or drawing-room cars is very smaU.
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4:04: RAILROAD TRAVEL IN EXGLAXD AXD AMERICA Here again statistics are lacking, butcareful inquiry leads nie t(j believe tbat.outside of tbe suburban zones, aboutninety per cent, of all passengers arecarried in day coaches, paying no ex-tra fare. The great, typical Americanpassenger movement is, then, at faresof from 2 to 3 cents a mile, varyingwith region and distance. Similarly,the characteristic passenger movementin England is third-class. Leaving outthe season ticket-holders, eighty-nineper cent, of all the passengers in theUnited Kingdom, in 1892, were third-class, and but three and one-half percent, were first-class ; the rest were sec-ond. The uniform third-class fare is 2cents a mile, varying slightly above orbelow that, and all but three or fourspecial trains carry third-class passen-gers. The English first-class fare is entire- highest south of the Thames. It ninsfrom about 3J cents a mile up to 5.This must be compared with our ordi-nary fare plus sleeping-car or drawing-roo

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