Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-06-06
RAPID TRANSIT.

RAPID TRANSIT.
All honor is due to Messrs. Jarrett
Il Palmer for their enterprise and
pluck in inaugurating and successfully
carrying u the recent lightni ng trip
across the continent. The several
railway companies along the route all
did their work we'll, hut had it not
been for the stimulus afforded by the
energy Of the theat rical managers the
work would not have been done at all.
1t has ever been the rule Of progress
that to private enterprise the world
owes every step in advance. Great
bodies are slow of belief as we'll AS
slow of motion. Calico, Columbus,
Stevenson, Fulton, Morse-every great
national benefactor of his species
attained success not because of aid
from the powers that be, but by their
own energy and ability and in spite
of the strenuous opposition and ridi-
cule of those who faucied themselves
the leading spirits Of the age. The
Government and the great railway
corporations should take a lesson from
this example. The rapid transporta-
ton OF mails and passengers is of vital
importance to the business interests
of the entire country, and those that
control the transportation system
would not only benefit those interests
but benefit themselves by doing every
thing to solve as far as may be the
problem of the humiliation of space.
OF course in a race of individual en-
terprise the New York Herald could
not be left behind. Accordingly we
find that an edition of the Herald was
struck off shortly after midnight and
forwarded by the the lightning train
which left Jersey City at n O'Clock
Thursday morning. The SENTINEL's
copy of this edition reached Palisade
before six o'clock Saturday evening.
It did not however reach this office
until too late for our Sundays issue.
Should this rate of mail transportation
be established, q morning paper pub
lished in Eureka would receive its
New York exchanges in time for notice
in the sams issue in which San
Francisco and Virginia City exchanges
ofthe same date are now noticed.
We extract from the Herald Of
Thursday, June LIST, the following de-
count of the START y of the train:
This edition of the Herald sill be
carried as far rs San Francisco in
q special train that left New York at
midnight. This train will be under
the patronage of Messrs. Jarrett q
and Palmer, the we'll known theatrical
managers, who take Mr.. Barrett, the
tragedian, and several actors of their
troupe to play in the tragedy of
..IIenry "" in San Francisco on
Monday evening. If the schedule
time is preserved the train will arrive
at Pittsburg, Pa, this morning at ten,
al Chicago this evening at eight,
crossing the Mississippi during the
night, reaching Omaha at ten to.mor-
row, Salt Lake about noon on Satur-
day and San Francisco at noon on
Sunday, allowing the actors time TO
renodrSo tnelr parts ana Dc OH Tie
stage armed for the dreadful fray at
Agincourt ON Monday evening.
1t Gems almost incredible that a
train should cross the American con-
tinent in eighty-four hours. Yet the
feat is possible, allowing this train a
much slower rate Of speed han is per-
mitted to the fast trains on English
AMI Continental railroads. The mail
trains from London to Dover and from
Dublin to Queenstown 60 at a rate
much faster than our adventurous
voyagers will attain ontheir trip. So
that even if there should he some de-
lays on account of grades or other
obstacles moi anticipated, the trip could
be made. All railroad travel now
looks to swift time. In ten years we
shall 60 from New York to Philadel-
phia in as. little time as was necessary
q short time ago to go from New York
to Peekskill. The time is coming
when it will he as much a custom to
have the Herald in Chicago on the
evening of publication as in Washing
ton and Albany.
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