WHAT'S TIME IN RUSSIA.
To most people, especially when they are on the road, time is money, but time-tables are not convertible into cash. Ifi the pages of "Through Savage Europe," Harry de Windt gives a curious and amusing experience on a Russian railway some years ano. The patience of the Russians is in marked contrast with the impatience of British and American travellers.
"All Russians have a rooted antipathy to fast railway travel, if one may judge from an incident which occurred some years ago when I was travelling across the Caucasus from Batoum to Baku. We had reached a tunnel, at the entrance of which the train waited for at least twenty minutes.
" 'There is something wrong ?' I remarked to a fellow-traveller. " 'Oh, no,' he replied, 'we arc only making up the time. This tunnel was recently made to avoid a long bend round r range of hills, and as it now cuts off several miles a short delay is necessary so as to fit with the scheduled time.'
" 'But surely we should save time by going on ?' I urged. " 'Perhaps so,' said my friend. 'But then, you sec, they would hare to alter all the time-tables.' "
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2928, 25 July 1911, Page 2
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