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coupled with the favorable climatic conditions, are much sought after when the trying winter season of the north, especially along the eastern coast, settles down in true earnest in December, continuing through the months of January, February and March.

Pinehurst is practically in the center of this famous region with an altitude of 650 feet above sea level and is only 350 miles south of Washington.

By reason of the New Union Station at Washington, in which all of the lines entering the Capital City must enter, the splendid

through trains of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad now have most excellent facilities for reaching this famous resort via the Seaboard Air Line or the Southern Railway. Especially is this so from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore and New England points. The Famous Royal Limited," the magnificent all Pullman train of the Baltimore & Ohio, leaves New York City at 4.00 p. m., reaching Washington in five hours at 9.00 p. m. This beautiful train which is made up exclusively of Pullman buffet smoking cars, parlor and observation

cars and exquisite dining car service, is the best connection from the northern cities with the through train of the Seaboard Air Line leaving Washington at 9.30 p. m., affording a most comfortable connection and reaching Pinehurst about noon the next day.

The "Chicago-Pittsburg Limited" arrives Washington at 4.42 p. m., allowing ample time for a perfectly sure connection.

Pinehurst is amply supplied with most excellent hotels; many cottagers go down as early as October and stay until May. Accommodations can be provided for about 1500 persons. Besides the four hotels there are about fifty cottages and apartments which can be rented for the season; many of them are comfortably furnished for housekeeping and are supplied with modern paraphernalia; there are also several excellent boarding houses where accommodations can be obtained at reasonable rates.

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Schools have been provided for children. who can have the full enjoyment of out-door life during the winter months and at the same time have the advantage of the schools.

As a fashionable resort this delightful place has become more popular each year; it has become the prominent center for golf tournaments and each winter an elaborate program is prepared, the annual mid-winter tournament taking place in January at which time many of the prominent golf clubs of New York and Boston enter into the spirited contests. Pinehurst has a handsome country club house with every modern convenience and memberships are sold for the

N these days of long distance traveling it is interesting to note how journeys are made on the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the longest railroad in Europe and probably in the world.

The time required to make a journey from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg is about eleven days, while the journey to Paris or London will take at least fourteen days. The favorite trains between Moscow and St. Petersburg are those operated at night, the service being similar to that between Washington and New York, leaving in the evening and arriving in the morning. The postal trains in Siberia and Russia do not make as fast time as the express trains or trains de luxe.

The trains de luxe which leave Vladivostok twice a week, are composed of first and second class sleeping cars, dining and baggage cars. These trains reach European points by way of Moscow or St. Petersburg. Dinner and lunch are served family style. Breakfast is served a la carte with good coffee, tea, eggs, omelets, bread, etc., at a reasonable price. Dinner and luncheon cost 75 and 50 cents respectively. Special dishes with wines, tea, etc., are charged for separately.

The sleeping accommodations are comfortable, but toilet facilities are not as luxurious as those we have at home, and tourists are advised to carry an ample supply of towels, soap, etc.

The Trans-Siberian sleeper is divided into compartments, with a passageway along the side of the car. Russian berths are more commodious than those we have in America, the cars being larger and the railway gauge being wider. Many Russians on account of their physical proportions require greater berth space than is usually requisite for comfort on American roads.

The Wagon Lits service (similar to our Pullman service) can be had west of Irkutsk, the extra charge for berths, etc., being nominal, equivalent to about $15.00 per berth and accommodations on board the Wagon Lits train, first class sleeper, for

the seven day ride from Irkutsk to Moscow. When there are no women or inexperienced travelers in parties, Russian postal trains may be found satisfactory. Those desiring to study the country and conditions carefully find the slower trains more to their

purpose.

The baggage regulations are very strict and very little is carried free, only one pood or about 35 pounds being allowed. Excess baggage is charged for at the rate of $1.32 per 10 pounds from Vladivostok to Moscow. Russian sleeping cars, also Wagon Lits sleeping cars in Siberia and Russia are decidedly roomy and twice the number of packages and grips can be accommodated as on the ordinary Pullman. Passengers on the Trans-Siberian railway route are liberally provided with hand baggage and this is rendered desirable and necessary on account of the great distance and time required to make the trip. Many second and some first class passengers on the trains de luxe carry a supply of tea, sweets, crackers and other eatables, together with a small teapot, and by paying the car porter a small fee, usually 5 or 10 cents, are supplied with hot water when tea and light refreshments are desired in the coupe. A small steamer trunk can frequently be carried on a wire shelf over the passageway of the compartment sleeping Over this passageway, on some of the Wagon Lits cars on the Trans-Siberian route, a number of grips and small boxes can be stored from inside the coupe.

cars.

It is notorious that all the European railroads have a poor baggage system, and none of them have the checking system that American roads have. Your baggage is brought to the station and dumped on to the platform, from which it must be put on board your train by a porter under your supervision. Numerous complaints have been made that small articles of personal apparel and money have been stolen from Siberian railway stations. Some instances of these complaints, however, were traced to causes that might ordinarily result in the separation of the traveler from his money or goods in America or elsewhere throughout the world.