Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1916 — MORE AIR IN GERMAN CARS [ARTICLE]

MORE AIR IN GERMAN CARS

New Rules Permit Open Windows in > Coaches Under Certain Conditions. London. —“Anybody who has ever fought for fresh air in a German railway carriage,” writes a correspondent In the Daily Mail, “will be Interested to hear that, even amid the preoccupations of war, the authorities are making an effort to solve so weighty a problem. The Berliner Tageblatt learns that henceforth In a compartment separated from other compartments by a swinging door, windows may be opened only if all the passengers in the compartment consent. “In other compartments any one passenger has the right to demand the opening of a window. “These regulations are now printed on the window themselves, and it is hoped that the violent arguments which have hitherto resulted from at-, tempts to let fresh air into stifling 1 compartments will be less frequent.”