. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 680 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 25, 1900. ment, which occupies about two-thirds of every railroad coach. In every direction j'ou read the words " raucher " and " nicht raucher," (smok- ing and non-smoking). It would seem as if the non-smoking people were rather the exception. But there is no chewing. This does not look much like an account of a bee-keeping trip, but the reader must remem- ber that we can not find bee-keepers every- where. We shall come across some of them by and by. I can not leave the railroad question with- out mak
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 680 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Oct. 25, 1900. ment, which occupies about two-thirds of every railroad coach. In every direction j'ou read the words " raucher " and " nicht raucher," (smok- ing and non-smoking). It would seem as if the non-smoking people were rather the exception. But there is no chewing. This does not look much like an account of a bee-keeping trip, but the reader must remem- ber that we can not find bee-keepers every- where. We shall come across some of them by and by. I can not leave the railroad question with- out making a comparison between our Ameri- can railways and those of Europe. Our railroad coaches are far superior, in my mind, to any- thing that exists in Europe, for in many instan- ces their " wagons," as they call them, are par- titioned off into compartments without any pas- sages, so that when you are shut up in one of them—ten persons in a compartment—you can not get out, and have neither drinking water nor water-closets, nor wash-stands, at your dis- posal. The better class of coaches, and espe- cially the international coaches, are now made with a passage along one side of the car, and are provided with these necessaries of travel, and the Swiss cars are in this far ahead of the French, tho still inferior to our United States cars. The excuse the Europeans give for their slowness in taking hold of the latest improvements, is the shortness of their trips, as compared with ours, and it is true that in four or five hours you can almost cross any of the European States. But if their coaches are inferior to ours, they make up some of the unpleasantness by the exquisite polite- ness and affability of most of their railroad employees, the excellence of their railroad beds, tracks, bridges, crossings, and railway stations. The politeness of their officials would perhaps be construed here as a useless waste of time and words. In America, when the conductor calls the pas
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