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

RAPID TRANSIT.
All honor is due { o Messrs. Jarrett
d Palmer for their enterprise and
pluck in inaugurating and successfully
carrying out 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 real managers the
work would not have been done at all.
1t has over been the rule of progress
that to private enterprise the world
owes every step in advance. Great
bodies are slow of belief as well rs
slow of motion. Calico, Columbus,
Stevenson, Fulton, Morse-every great
national b~enefactor 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 q lesson from
this example. The rapid Transports
ton of mails and passengers is of vital
im portance 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 q race of individual en-
terprise the New York Herald could
not be LETT 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 one 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, a morning paper pub
lished IN Eureka would receive its
New York exchanges in time for notice
in the sans issue in which San
Francisco and Virginia City exchanges
ofthe same date are nov noticed.
We extract from the Herald OF
Thursday, June LIST, the following de-
count of the START x of the train:
This edition of the Herald will be
carried rs far ~ San Francisco in
q special train that left New York at
midnight. This train will be under
the patronage Of Messrs. Jarrett &
and Palmer, the we'll known theatrical
managers, who take Mr.. Barrett. the
tngsdian, and several actors of their
troupe to play in the tragedy of
"HeDry w." in San Francisco on
Monday evening. II the schedule
time is preserved the train will arrive
vt Pittsiurg, Pa, this morning at ten,
ut Chicago this evening at eight,
crossing the Mississippi during the
night, reaching Omaha at ten 10. NOR
row, Salt Lake about noon on Satur-
day and San Francisco at noon on
0uiudSs ui'p"iuS thO oOeoio thAo W
rehearse their parts and be on the
stage armed for the dreadful fray at
AgincOurt IN Monday evening.
1t seeins almost incredible that a
train should cross the American con-
tinent in eighty-four hours. Yet the
feat Ia possible, allowing this train a
much slower rate of speed than il per-
mitted to the fast trains on English
AMI Continental railroads. The mail
trains from London tn Dover and from
Dublin to Queenstown go at a rate
much faster than our adventurous
voyagers will attain N their trip. So
that even II there should he some de-
lays on account of grades or other
obstacles not 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 ~ little time a. WAS necessary
= short tims ago To go from New York
to Peekskiil. The time Is coming
when II will he as much a custom to
have the Herald in Chicago on the
evening of publication IS in Washing
ton aud Albany.