"Seconds" at Last

Millions of not-over-rich travelers have sat up all night when crossing France, rather than pay the exorbitant charge for First Class sleeping berths, there having been no seconds. Last week, for the first time, second class sleepers ran from Paris to the principal frontiers and to Marseilles. But in Scandinavia and Germany there are even third class sleepers, not yet to be found in France, Spain, Italy, Balkans. Citizens of the U. S. could have similarly cheap sleeps, en route, were they not democratically unwilling to lie down in a class inferior to "Pullman." Russians have got round the class distinction by installing "soft" and "hard" sleeping cars.