New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-09-17
The lightning Mail Train.

| new 1ork special to the Chicago Iuter-
Ocean, dated September ID, gives an inter
esting account of our improved postal sys-
TEN:
The fast mail train on the Northern. or
! New York Central line will leave the Grand
Central depot at Ais "A. NJ. on Thurs.
Day. The first stop will be made at
Poughkeepsie for change of engines: the
next at Albany. where little longer delay
VIII occur in order TO make connection with
| the mails on the Boston and ALBANY rail-
road. The time schedules of the New York
Central road have not yet been received BY
your correspondent, so that the precise
| hour OF arrival at each of the stopping
places can not be given, but stops will be
made bet ween Albany and Buffalo at SYRIA
cuse and Rochester. The train will reach
sufaio at 80 2. NJ. of the came day, leav-
| ing at 40; Cleveland at 1:25, leaving at
| 80 Sandusky at 9:Oi, leaving al 9O6: To-
| !edo at lO:4I, leaving at 1857 Elkhart at
5:o2 A. M. OF the next morning, leaving at
| 800: Laporte at 4:2j, leaving at Az, and
| arriving IN Chicago at 6;55 A. NJ Fri
day, the seventeenth instant, making
| the journey OF almost a thousand miles
In little over twenty-six hours. The train
| will be run into Chicago on Columbus time.
| 80 that the Chicago time OF arrival will be
| $50 A. NJ. The eastward and westward
| bound trains will meet and pass at Sedan.
which is Isl miles from Chicago. Notwith,
standing the approximately fast time
| which this train will N AXE, avera ying about
| fortytwo miles an hour, the rail wav officials
| announce taat If the train reaches Toledo
| behind time it Will be rUn at al increa sed
rate OF speed between that point and Chi.
| cago, and the schedule time made, if pos
s,1ie, upon Its arrival in the latter city.
The postal cars upon the New York Cen
tral and Lake Shore lines are models of
| finish and convenience. Several are in the
| process of construction at the shops of the
New York Central railway, which will be
| finished in short time. The Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern road have completed
six cars. which are not wholly new but are
the former cars refitted and ia some in
stances considerably enlarged They are
about sixty feet in length, and of the width
of modern parlor car. Each car is fitted
with all the necessary appliances to secure
comfort to tie clerks and thorough service
to the public To attract attention, ad-
! yertise the new scheme. and distinguish
the fast mail from all others. George
5. Bangs, the general superintendent of
the railway mail service, has hit upon
9 novel expedent.a The cars are to be
painted pure white, with lettering OF
gold leaf. The effect will be good. The
cars on the Lake Shore division are to be
named after the Governors of the different
States traversed by the railway lines: Gov
ernor Beveridge," which will leave Chicago
on tho first fast eastward bound train, after
the Governor of Illinois; governor Hen
bricks after Iudianas Governor; Coy
ernor Bagley. Michigan; Governor AL
len Ohio; Governor Hartranft," Pennsyl-
vania, and Governor Tilden," New York.
The cars will De divided into three sections,
two at each end tor the storage OF the mails.
and also accommodations tor the clerks.
The centre portion of the car, which Will
occupy about half of the entire space. will
be occupied by the cases. The cars are OF
two different hlnds-One for the distribu-
ton OF paper mails and the other tor
correspondence. The paper car holds
bat one case, of a semicircular form,
and built iaterally in the car Its
dimensions are sufficiently large TO allow
three or four men to work at it. The letter
mail car contains two cases, which are also
arranged latera'ly, and which will afford
room tor five or six working postal clerks
The letter car is also divided into sections
for the storage of the mails and apartments
tor the clerks The cars for the New York
Central end of the line will not be CON-
pleted in time for the first few trains. So
that meantime portion Of the cars built
by the Lake Shore Company will be used
upon this road. These cars. when COM
pleted, will be painted and Iettered in a
similar manner and named after selected
individuals. The fast mail train will have
special precedence over all other passenger
trains that may be run upon the roads.
The fast train from this city will have at.
tached sleeping coach for the benefit of
few favored guests, who will consist of the
representatives Of the press and postal and
railway officials. The number on the first
will be limited to about twenty, perhaps a
half-dozen less, and on subsequent trains
no passengers will be conveyed. This is
not the case with the Pennsy lyania compa-
ny's fast mail tran, to which sleeping
coach for the transportation OF through pas
sengers will be coupled. A similar excur-
sion will leave your city on the same
morning, as near as can be ascer-
tanned, about nine O'Clock, which will
consist of forty - perhaps a few
more-inyited guests, composed of journal
lists, government and rail way officials and
prominent mercantile men OF Chicago. The
Chicago excursionists will be conveyed in a
special car attached to the regular morning
express, and will remain in Toledo until
they are met by the fast mail train from
New York, thus giving them an opportunity
to appreciate the rapid time to be made by
the new mail train. At Elkhart, Indiana,
two men from the Chicago Office will meet
the fast tram, to distribute mail for city dis.
tribution, which has been done at this end
men will be specially detailed TO meet the
fast mail every morning at Elkhart for the
purpose.
The mail route from New York to Chica-
go is divided into three divisions; from New
York to Syracuse, from Syracuse to Cleve-
land, and from Cleveland to Chicago.
Upon the entire line about 1873 postal
clerks are employed, or forty-four upon
each division. This apportionment will be
observed under the new plan, and five or |
six men will be detailed for each postal |
letter car. If present intentions are con.
it is very likely that an excursion |
party will be carried on the train from |
Chicago to New York, leaving thetformer |
city on the morning Of the twentieth in
stant, to give the public, favored with invi-
tations, to see for themselves the value of |
the service, the work performed, and the |