New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-13
srEAar TRAVEL.

STEFAN TRAy1sL%
Thsss y resllezs spirit in American men IN this
A. 81 Steam which will not permit them even 70
walk slowly and which would seem 70 indicate that
The summum honum Of existence Is to keep moving,
% that II b. rapid moston Everything even life, Is
nuiacsd II ths sasa struggle 70 get ahead; and
bG.inass siatssssls ~ mingled with the sporting
spirit which = : part Of American nature-until
discretion = discarded, and they tear through Their
earthly careers with the frantic energy OF madmen,
he allow ones among them being too few to even
contrast with the great mass Of afastn ones Loco
motion must keep pace with the universal feeling o.
progression, and the more steam that is cracked on
The better locomotives are put to their best mette
and rairoading Is considered good in proportion .
lie fast not as It is safe-vide paragraph recently
" going the rounds which was boast that the
trains on one Of the great Northern roads had aver
aged speed Of forty miles. an hour for several
months past The fierce stimulus Of fire spurs the
snorting engine to its highest speed, and in proper
ton TO his velocity the game spirit Of the American
rises until it revels In the intoxcation Of notion
Perhaps the next moment . hundred or 30 Of the
tries With lie may b launched from the shattered
cars in straight ahute to eternity, g in recent
bloody railroad catasrophes the casualty s the mat
ter 81 few days talk, and in few days more the
car VIII b. dsshing past the scene Of death q the
same needles speed, hurried on 70 similar tate,
maybe, BY the rampant demon Of steam which pro-
pels thsu, and which Ii The most opt physical type
Of the genius of ths fast age.
10 b sure there are laws which provide, in some
st, for the prevention Of accidents and for the pun
ishent Of olender, hut are they Of any availa Law
cannot s1ccefaly contend against capital for money
y ths soysreieneat thing on earth" and will buy
evea IL scales o jusce If It cannot make them kick
u beam % tie de Of wrong while still in the grasp
cf Tie bllndiold dame The laws put q value on hui
man 10 and limb, the company pays the damage and
orders IT. employees TO crack steam for II is more
profitable 70 go st and pay the expense in the shape
Of he value Of dead husband 70 widow, or lost
limb % it, owner, than 70 60 slow and do away the
risk Of such expenditures Perhaps majority Of the
public are with them in this view-the majority of
people are willing to RIM the risk for the sake Of
/" getting along. but those Of more quiet instincts
are - likely to be the sufferers % they. It is very
clear that the law Of damages and al such statutes
. are supposed to have an influence in preventing
fast men from committing railroad and steamboat
suicides, and involving slow men in the common des
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for the punishment Of the offence Of running faster
than the established rate, any one who detected
a. ;nfract;on Il mala compla;nt II Ia rro,ecu+ed
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tne commissioners ana !ne lessons OF opeoence 80
enforced would soon be well learned.