M. AND H. B. RAILWAY SMOKING
SALOONS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.

Sir, - I think I can hardly be said to be availing myself of the Briton’s acknowledged privilege to growl at trifles when I complain of the want of attention shown by the M. and H. B. Railway Company to the comfort of those passengers who indulge in tobacco.

If the company allow smoking on their lines, surely they can provide sufficient accommodation, instead of crowding the unlucky votaries of the fragrant weed like cattle in a truck.

Other carriages provide for a certain number of passengers, beyond which the guards may not go; but the smoking saloon is a sort of “hold-all,” containing just as many people as can get in. Thus, on the St. Kilda line we find occasionally 25 or 26 pipes going in a place originally meant for 14, and the result of this crowding is the production of a volume of smoke, which, like the Egyptian “thick darkness,” may be felt. I suppose there is no reason why this should not be altered, so I beg that you will ventilate this subject of ventilation. – I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant.

NICOTINE.

Market-buildings, Aug. 27