The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-09-01

TnE FAST MAfL.TRAIH.-stens sra ha,n
Z takens at the hfehsfa iafteYs of the nos,alssy
vice, both In Washington and New, YorI
Tor The early introduction OF such clappes 4
the transportation of the mails Id win revn
lullontze the system. g ,ssi5I'ss,
These changes include fast mail alon,
the shores OF the lakes to the West. Tt viii
run from New York to Chicago la twenty
SIX hours-a gain Of twelve hours on tn
present rate of speed. Distribution will r.
done chiefly on the cars. Newspaper, vii
be taken by the bundle, and folded and dis
tributed en- route.
Relays OF clerks will be stationed aIops
the line. The new arrangements with thu
| companies entail no extra expense, They
will come into operation on the lst of Octo
Der. The following is a description of thu
train:
1t will be composed of four cars, which
are now being rapidly constructed. The frs,
car will be fifty feet in length. 1t will con.
tain 1000 pigeon.holes fol- the distribution
OF the letter mail, and boxes sufficient fol-
100 separations OF newspaper mail. In this
car will be safe compartment for registered
valuable matter, and an Office for the chief
clerk in charge OF the train. The entire
letter distribution for the line will be in this
car. The second car will be sixty feet long.
1t will be managed for the distribution oil
through newspaper mail and for storage. Ii
is estimated that between New York and
Chicago twenty tons Of mail will be assorted
and distributed in this car. The third car
will be fifty feet long, and will be devoted to
undistributed mails. The fourth car will be
torty.eight feet long, and will be used, when
necessary, for heavy mails. The train will
be white, and will be called "The New York
Central and Lake Shore Railroad Post
Office"
The train will arrive in Buffilo in eleven
hours, at Cleveland in fifteen, at Toledo in
eighteen. and at Chicago in twenty.siX, as
stated above. 1t will leave and take mail at
every station. 1t will stop only for wood
and water and at the junction of railroads.
1t will neither carry passengers nor express,
nor will it do any business but carry the
mails. 1t will carry letters, newspapers,
packages, and newsdealers' picks. 1t will
connect with every post-oftice line between
New York and Buffilo. AT Albany it will
pick up all the mail from New England.
The timetable will be so arranged that the
fast mail will connect with the latest New
England trains. 1t will leave the mail Of
the morning at nearly every town and ham
let in New York before shutdown. At But
fa|o it will overtake the train leaving New
York on the Erie road the previous evening,
and will receive from it for the West the
mails of Northern Pennsylvania, Southwest
New York, and the tributary country. AT
Cleveland it will connect with trains which
will deliver the mails to the country fed
from Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapo.
lis early in the morning.
The mail will arrive in Louisville in time
to connect with all parts of the South, Civ
ing the South the advantage of all the time
gained north Of the Ohio river. 1t will ar
rive in Indianapolis at 6 a. NJ. at lafayette
and Loyansport at half-past I, connect
ing there with trains for all parts of Indiana
and the adjoining portions of Illinois. At
Toledo it will drop the mails for the Wabash
country, for Southern Indiana, Illinois, and
Missouri, and also for Michigan and the
North. The train will arrive at Chicago in
time for early outgoing, will reach Mil~au.
kee at noon, and Dubuque, Clinton, Rock
Island, Davenport, keokuk, burlington,
Quincy, and Hannibal before sundown. The
mail will be ut Omaha the morning OF the
second day from New York, and in the af-
teruoon at Kansas City, St. Paul, and Min
neapois, and will make direct Pacific coast
connections. Returning, this train will
leave Chicago late in the evening after all
trains are in.