Mitropa's “Rolling Hotels.”

Five times round the earth at the equator—or approximately 125,000 miles—is the average daily mileage covered by the dining and sleeping cars of the “Mitropa” Company, of Berlin, the efficient undertaking responsible for train catering on the German railways. In the west, the “Mitropa” cars run as far as Amsterdam, Flushing and Hook of Holland. In the south, they operate to Zurich, Interlaken, Lucerne and Lugano. “Mitropa” cars likewise go to Vienna and to the spa centres of Czecho-Slovakia, page 19 while the Company also operates the sleepers and diners on the Scandinavian lines. More than 650 cars are actually owned by the undertaking, and it has its own car-building and repair establishments.

“Mitropa” is the biggest hotel and restaurant enterprise in middle Europe, serving more than 40,000 travellers in its dining-cars every day. More than 3,000 beds are made up every night for the guests of “Mitropa's” rolling hotels. Good catering is an immense aid in the securing of railway passenger business, and the German railways are indeed fortunate to have placed their catering interests in the hands of so efficient an organisation.