“Personal Luggage”

The sack of flour, the baby elephant, the parrot in the cage and the performing seal have all at one time or another been classified as “personal luggage,” but this ubiquitous term has never been applied more freely than in its recent extension to include motor cars. Yet it is reported that last year's innovation of the German Railway Company on the Hamburg or Bremen to Basle or Munich routes, for transporting passengers' motor cars as “personal luggage,” but at half ordinary luggage rates, has now been extended to seven other lines. In England the same principle is proving successful, as car owners are discovering that it is better to get out of the centres by rail—thus avoiding road congestion—and to commence from a country station their road tour through the more beautiful unfrequented places.