New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-23

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In 1881 before the Pennsylvania Road had any Chicago
connection the other rival lines put on quick time
table by which passengers brought through In 81
hours; but after eight months trial 70 abandoned
account Of the greatly increased and tear OF ma
chinery. Since them by tac consent the through time
upon all the routes has stood at about hours But the
Pennsylvania Central having leased the Pittsburgh Fort
Wayne and Chicago Road for years. has now through
line from GO to 81 miles shorter than those Of the other
companies Practically the difference in its favor ranges
only from 40 to 10 miles, will not permit trains via
Allentown make any better through time than those
via Philadelphia. STILL 40 miles is good DEAL even In
long race and few weeks ago the pennsylvania CON-
paDy made sensation among railroad men by announc-
ing owe propose avail ourselves Of this advantage In
distance and take passengers from NewYork to Chicago
in hours!" This woke up the Northern lines tee'
grams few back and forth from NewYork to Chicago
three men who carry miles Of railroad apiece In their
pockets met at Niagara for few hours talk, and then
the NewYork Central put forth the bulletin: We shall
carry passengers through IN 20 hours" The Erie 1t was
fanced would reduce fares, and not try to compete in
speed but its managers promptly responded: "We will
make the time as the Central"
on Monday, Aug. 80, the new schedules went into
effect All the lines claim nearly an hour TO which they
have no valid title, for they count their departure from
New.York by New.York me and their arrival here by
Chicago time. which is 81 minutes slower The actual
running schedules, by NewYork time, are:
Line. LsaIss.Y Arrive Chicago. Through time
gs.r and Eh. Pm sis RRSas 5Sa%
Tbs number OF stops the entire journey, and the
average rates OF speed, Including all soppa0es are:
Lac. Stops Miles per hour
Central G:s n w ssar! md s @hsan s Ssai5
P,ahsyvahia and Port wayne 70 lao
pap1x~a nta iua mn n
average nearly 81 miles hour, and accompanies the
entire Journey 29s hours This is the moot remarkable
running ever done In America for the heavy grades and
sharp the Aeghanes cannot be passed at
higher speed than % miles an hour, even by dividing
trains and using the most powerful locomotives The
delay has TO be made up on the Fort Wayne, which
Is almost airline and has no considerable grades
came West by this route could detect only differ
ence between riding upon the fast train and ordinary
express In setting up all machinery, from the hugest
steam engine the tnest watch care is taken TO have
no pivot fitting exactly in It's bearings, but to leave
little freedom both for the "endshako" and the side
shake" Upon this train the "sdeshake" is very lively
AT times the car rocks like cradle and the motion Is
not gliding but gaoping Where the track is crooked 1t
produces nearly as much sea'sckness as rolling ship
At great speed upon straight line, an inequality
I'm rail- of half an inch in hundred feet may make the
car-wheel bound like ball.
The swaying motion is greater Gpon this than upon the
inch and a half wider than that OF the Pennsylvania
and cars hug the track closely as far as Pittsburgh
have liberal side shake for the rest OF the way to
Chicago the Western division the train runs 50 miles
An hour including all stoppages Passengers aver that
tho wheels do not touch the rails more than about once
I'm hundred feet and who lives beside the track
declares that he has only been able 10 catch glimpse OF
the passing train twice within week, though he has
watched for every afternoon. The Michigan Central
one Of the best OF American roads in character equip
ment and cement does not lag in the race more than
once. When receiving the train late from the Great
Western IL has made up almost an hour and half upon
this fast timetable in 2sI miles 1t Illustrates admirably
the gain which weconducted lines have made during
the last dozen years comfort and security for passen
gers Upon through trains IL runs the Pullman cars,
which are simply Incompatible. Its first-cass day
coaches are built with unusual and strength The
company boast that though they have carried ten mil
lions Of passengers in these coaches within fourteen
wears they have never drawn drop OF blood from
person inside OF OF them People who kept outside
have been hurt as passengers ought!to be they Will
stand on the platforms.
Last month when the new timetable went into effect
II f. Sargent the superintendent sent out circulars en-
Joining the utmost vigilance and care upon all employees
and he went out on the first traln watch In hand The
responsbility for q hundred thousand lives is an
oppressive weight upon any man, be he general steam
boat pilot or railway engineer Every engineer had
been specially instructed to avoid excitement 10 Keep
his train well in hand, and under no circumstances to
mass any point ahead of time But one, In his nervous
ness forgot how handle his brakes. ran by dining
statIon-where he should have stopped-four minutes
ahead of time tore cylinder of his engine upon the
corner OF freight train which was just getting upon
siding and narrowly escaped great disaster He was
careful man. who had been eleven years In the employ OF
the road and had never even scratched the paint OF his
locomotive before but he was discharged on the spot
The two greatest improvements we have mace IN inc
way of safety are patent platforms and patent brakes
yhIoha bOt
ought TO be upon every road In the @ M Of me ear
are the weak spots OF train In collision they oa ~
up like waste paper, leaving the bodies OF the ooaonTs 70
run into each other Ia telescope ana carry , sCa
ton and death among the passengers Inc new ,ng
~Mier's-s ON level with the stills ana lts st,ohg
| thinkers abut directly against them. lnsteau vi
the old play Of foot or eighteen inches between r0
two leaves only s0OG. SnS and ' in any shock
helps hold the train firmly 70 the S 5a .Ss or
Roth enable the engineer in any sudden danger to ap,
ply the brakes simultaneously and nrmy 10 every h
hm inc With The Myers second pull OF the cord takes
the brakes and permits the train 10 oaCn Ur so T
their posts to unlock the wheels again But 50 great Is
the momentum OF an ordinary tram OF aVo Satse
brakes 10 cannot DO stopped IN less tbsn oo ieet In
SnF Sa1 ss hSSS Keeps o and
spring which, in Summer makes the door ny open auto
a GT hS Te e s Sens
for the passenger TO come In and close behind himl m
Of S0 &aeps s 5 Soa
dcut feat than IL In 1857 for the trains then ran
only two passenger coaches while they run four or
Ave on all the lines many people rush for the fast train
because it fast but the following seems 70 mo fair
statement OF its points compared with the which
consumes % hours In the journey from New-fork 70
Chicago: Comfort, materially less Coming by spoils
two days brings here a the dsagreeaDlo hour OF
midnight Passage by the slower train occupies one day
and two nghs but the traveller makes his toilet on the
alec ping the second morning AMI arrives ready
for breakfast and good days work Danger, but very
alehty increased At some points the train runs %
miles an hours but that Is not uncommon upon an
ordinary express for short distances Much tho gain
a., time through the number and length OF