luxurious, the runs are all short, averaging about 30 miles
between stations and the speed nowhere averages 40 miles an
hour.

Next to speed may be considered the frequency of trains,
their appointments, etc. In this respect a still more
pronounced difference appears in different countries with
almost equal population.

More trains leave the great South Terminal in Boston in one
day than are moved in one direction on all the roads of
Spain and Portugal in two weeks. From one terminal in London
more trains leave daily than move in ten days to supply the
whole population of Russia.

The World's Largest Station.

The South Terminal in Boston not only is the largest station
in the world, but sends out daily more than 400 trains,
nearly twice the number despatched from the Grand Central
Station by the three roads starting from there. The next
largest number sent from any station in this country is
about 350 from the Boston and Maine terminal in Boston, and
the next about 325 from the Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia. Then come the Grand Central Station, New York,
and the Reading Terminal, Philadelphia.

But these figures do not equal those of the great London
terminals. There one station sends out 700 trains daily, the
greatest number from any one station in the world, and all
of the twelve great terminals send out large numbers of
trains.

Including all suburban trains, and figuring on a mean
average of winter and summer, the regular scheduled trains
leave the four great centers in the following numbers daily,
the figures being for all roads and approximately correct:
New York city, 1,400; Boston, 1,000; Philadelphia, 850;
Chicago, 850. No other American city has 400.

Good Road-Beds Abroad.

The road-bed and the operating equipment are better in
England and some parts of France and Germany than in
America, and, owing to the ever-prevailing precautions,
accidents are only about one-fifth as frequent as in
America. All the principal roads in England have two tracks
and many main lines have four.

In this respect Americans are making great improvements now,
as the Pennsylvania is four-tracked from New York to
Pittsburgh, and the New Haven from New York to New Haven,
while the New York Central is three-tracked part of the way