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A HINT TO RAILWAY DIRECTORS.
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I pay. Of course I always do save the 6ti and trouble
the company, and advise everybody else to do the same,
as the best means of putting an end to such absurd
anomalies. It is a common practice to charge more for
what is called a "through journey" than for the same
journey broken into several stages: thus a passenger
who makes a given distance in a dozen stages, thereby
employing a dozen porters for his luggage, a dozen
ticket clerks and collectors, and using a dozen tickets,
pays no more—sometimes less—than he who makes the
same journey in one stage, and employs only one porter,
one clerk, one collector, and uses only one ticket: and
this by a mode of travelling where the mere conveyance
or traction cost is ridiculously small; for when a
passenger is once in a train, and the train started, the
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difference of cost for carrying him ten miles or a
hundred miles scarcely exceeds one penny. The
present system of railway charges has all the anomalies,
exorbitance, and absurdities of the old postage system,
and of course both the public and the shareholders
suffer. If a much lower charge were made for
mileage, and a charge on each ticket for station expenses,
there would be some relation between the amount of
work done and the charge made for it.
Hammerfest, situated in lat. 70° 49’, is a small town
of one street, composed of the usual straggling wooden
houses, some of them, however, of considerable size.
There appear to be about as many Lapp inhabitants as
Norwegians ; or, at any rate, quite as many out of
doors.
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