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focus of activity is Trafalgar Square, where there is a statue of 
Lord Nelson, a cab stand, and a meeting place for the various 
ear lines. The motive power for these cars is in the form of 
mules, and the three or four lines radiate to various parts of 
the city. The cars are open, but with side curtains in case of 
showers. There are uniformed drivers and conductors, the lat- 
ter with the largest and most imposing punches that I have ever 
seen. A printed receipt is given for each fare, and the rate 
is ‘‘tuppence’’ per mile, the service being quite regular in its 
schedule. 
Rapid transit has its perils here as elsewhere, and prominent 
signs warn passengers not to get off while the car is in motion. 
A facetious citizen informed me that on one occasion a man fell 
in front of a car ‘‘and died of old age before it reached him.”’ 
Seriously, however, these cars are a great public convenience 
and the service is remarkably good. 
The cabs are most of them one-horse vehicles and have gongs 
which are quite musical, sounding like sweet-toned chimes, a 
distinctly more pleasant mode of warning than the outrageous 
klaxons and the other motor horrors. The drivers here turn to 
the left as in England. Many of them have a neat coachman’s 
uniform and the whole outfit is often quite stylish in appear- 
ance. Motor cars are abundant and are owned by a majority of 
the well-to-do white people. Gasoline at the time of our visit 
was forty-nine cents per gallon. | 
The Barbados Government Railway is a steam line which 
runs from Bridgetown around by the east and north coasts to 
St. Andrews, passing by Bath and Bathsheba, popular bathing 
places on the windward coast. Passenger trains are rather in- 
frequent and seem to run mainly for the purpose of accommo- 
dating week-end visitors to the bathing resorts. There are first 
second, and third class cars; the first class, according to one 
native informant, is used only by two classes of passengers, first 
by government officials who do not pay fare, and second by 
‘“strangers who do not know any better.’’ Sometimes ‘‘trolley 
parties’? are indulged in. The trolley is a small platform car 
with seats for usually four people and propelled by negro boys, 
who push it from behind. This method is preferred by some 
