Scribner's magazine . persons as the English, in sixyears. This question of safety is mostly aquestion of cost, and it is possible topay too much for safety ; indeed, thereare good observers and students whothink that the English railroads have. Corridor Train (first-class), Great Western Railv/ay paid too much for this element ; at anyrate, they liavc cost something like fivetimes as mucli a mile as ours. If ourrailroads had cost as mucli. or anythinglike as much, we should not have nownearl} as many miles, or as low rates. or as much ser-^dce. Had the restric-tions of the British Board of Tr
Scribner's magazine . persons as the English, in sixyears. This question of safety is mostly aquestion of cost, and it is possible topay too much for safety ; indeed, thereare good observers and students whothink that the English railroads have. Corridor Train (first-class), Great Western Railv/ay paid too much for this element ; at anyrate, they liavc cost something like fivetimes as mucli a mile as ours. If ourrailroads had cost as mucli. or anythinglike as much, we should not have nownearl} as many miles, or as low rates. or as much ser-^dce. Had the restric-tions of the British Board of Tradebeen laid upon the railroads of theUnited States for the last twenty-fiveyears, the develoj^ment of the countiywould have Ijeen retarded beyond cal-culation. Granted that the Englishman travelssafer, does he travel cheaper ? Here weplunge into very deep water, as it seems, there are no sta-tistics of passenger-rates in the twocountries that can be compared accu-rately, and all that any student has yetbeen able to do is to make more orless close guesses. We know that in1892 the whole passenger traffic of theUnited States, leaving out the elevatedrailroads of New York and Brookl^Ti,paid an average rate of cents amile
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