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The care of ones baggage, as matters are con.
Quoted at present on all our principal steamboat
routes, is attended by perpexity, vexation and ex-
penso enough to counterbalance all the pleasure
and cheapness of travelling. On eur North River
it is especially troublesome. A man leaves his
house here for the boat: he lives near the wharf,
but, as he has trunk, must pay fifty cents for a
cab. On reaching the boat saucy negro, en-
ployed on board, takes his trunk and coolly tells
him to cnll On Pomp or Jack when he reaches AL
bany. The trunk is then thrown down and remains
exposed till within few miles OF it's destinations
when the black fellow lugs it off to some snug cor
ner quite out of sight, and takes good care to be
in the owners way when he comes to look for it


you gave me your trunk. sir; twenty-five cents
ifyou please-fer taking care of it, Then another
quarter for taking it to hotel, and it has cost the
man two thirds as much to get his trunk there as
his whole passage advertised ut. Then the
same process is to be repeated on every fresh route
The baggage moreover, our boats is left wholly
exposed on deck-liable to be sacked stolen at
discretion. Why cannot as orderly an arrangement
be effected as exists the Lake Champain boats?
Aporter there takes special care ofthe baggage
has separate closet for the trunks for each prn-
cipal stopping place, and in that locks them up
until the place is reached and the trunk is called
for. There is here no extra charge, no confusion
and no risk Of loss. We wish the disposition of
baggage could be orderly all boats as on those
though this is, perhaps, not TO he expected, for
those boats, in every respect are the finest on our
inland waters. Something, however, might be
done to remedy the present trouble.