The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-01-16

Paris to Marseilles took eighty hours, the
roadway distance being five hundred and
thirty miles In 1867 we leave Edinburg
at seven o'clock in the evening, the next
evening at six we are in Paris-six hun
dred and ninety-seYen miles-and the fol-
lowing day at noon we are at Marseilles.
Yet Edinburgh and Marseilles are one
thousand two hundred and thirty nine
miles apart-our pace, including breaks
while traversing the whole distance; ex-
elusive of breaks and stops, five-and-
thirty.
Roughly estimated, the number Of per
sons who travelled by mai, and stage coach
es throughout the United Kingdom In 1887,
the year before the partial oI ening Of the
railways between London, Birmingham,
Liverpool and Manchester, vas 1855, 600.
If to these be added twenty five per cent.
as representing travellers with post horses,
II wagons and canal boats, we have gross
total of land and canal travellers CT about
1850, 600; or an eighth of the total popula-
ton of the kingdom at th at time. In 1865,
the latest year for which the Board Of
Trade returns have yet been issued. the
number Of passengers carried on railways
Gncluding an allowance Of one hundred
journeys for each annual ticket HOLDER was
261 1851, 415, more than eight times the total
population of the kingdom. The number
of persons travelling on public roads to
and from railways is believed to be fully
as great as it was by roadway conveyances
in 1887. In other words, land travelling
in the United Kingdom has de jacto in
creased nearly ninety fold in eight and
twenty years. Comparing the population
at the two periods, the increase has been
sixty -four fold.
In 1865 the number of third class trav-
elers by railway, in England, was 154, 416,
300. There is something marvellous
about the development of this third class
traffic. In the seven years between 1859
and 1865, both inclusive, the yearly aver
age increase Of first-class passengers was
1,494, 1872; of second class, 3,775, 9S5, but
the average yearly increase of third class
was 9,316. 432. This increase must, how
ever, be looked at in another way. In the
four years 1859 to 1862 its average was
1898, $40, but the increase Of 1858 over
1862 was 15,617917; of 1864 over 1860,
1929, 1873 of 1866 over 1854, 15,114,6SS.
! At the end of 1865 there were Z, Ala To-
comotives in working order, and during
that year they ran 139, 527, 1877 miles with
trains behind them. They evaporated as
much water IS would supply both Man
chester and Liverpool with thirty gallons
per inhabitant for each day in the year.
In this generation of steam they only con-
sumcd about 2,e25 900 tons of coal.
The progression of the railway system
of Great Britain has been as follows: On
the LIST of January, 1S43, 1857 miles were
open for traffic at the same date In 1S49
they had increased to 5,OO7 miles; on the
1st of January, 1856, there were 1904
miles eight years afterwards. that Is, on
the 1st of January, 1863, 1901; that day
twelve months they were 1892; on the
1st of January, 1866, they were 1890.
The latest statistics show that there are
about SO, 900 miles of railway in Europe.
The following were the lengths opened in
different countries at the commencement
of the present year: The United King
dom, Is, 362 France, $3.50 Prussia, 5.483 !;
the Austrian dominions, including the non
German provinces of Austria, 4.00l |;
Bavaria, 5,206; Saxony, 1887; Belgium,
1910; Italy, 1910; Spain, 1915; Russia,
1898; North and South America, 81 $3.50
(of these 32.o96 belong to the United States,
and about 10000 miles are in course Of
construction there); India, 4,070; Australia,
$50. Railways are completed for opening
all over the world at the rate of about
10000 miles per annum; thirty-five miles
for each working day throughout the year.