CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL
CONTENTS
ECONOMY IN DISTRIBUTION.
THE VENDETTA.
WRECK-CHART AND LIFE-BOATS.
THE SALONS OF PARIS.
THE OLD CASTLES AND MANSIONS OF SCOTLAND.
AMERICAN HONOUR.
THE PARLOUR AQUARIUM.
A WEDDING DINNER.
SAVINGS-BANKS IN RUSSIA.
CALORIC SHIPS.
VIOLETS.
CHINESE LAUNDRY IN CALIFORNIA.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'SINFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.
| No. 445. New Series. | SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1852. | Price 1½d. |
ECONOMY IN DISTRIBUTION.
We had lately occasion to proceed by an omnibus from a country town toa station on a railway, by which we were to return to the city wherewe have our customary abode. On arriving at the station, we learnedthat we should have to wait an hour for an up train, the omnibusbeing timed in relation to a down one, which was about to pass. Hadthis arrangement been the only one readily practicable, in the case,we should have felt it necessary to submit uncomplainingly to the lossof our hour; but it really was not so. We had come in one of threeomnibuses, none of which had more than two or three passengers. Whyshould not one have come at this hour with down passengers, andanother come an hour later with up ones, thus by the same troublegiving more accommodation? We found that the three omnibuses are runby so many hotels, and that an arrangement for general convenience wasimpossible, as it might have interfered with the hotel business. Onthe continent, the government would have ordered matters otherwise:with us, the genius of laissez faire permits them to be as wedescribe.
It is in the same part of the country that a system exists amongstbakers, which we described many years ago in these pages. There arethree towns, triangularly arranged, about ten miles from each other.One or more bakers in each has a van, in which he sends bread everyday to the other two. As there is no witchcraft in the making ofbread, it might be as well for the inhabitants of each town to besupplied by the bakers of their own place exclusively, and then theexpense of the carriage would be saved.