The Worthington advance., 1876-09-14

CENTENNIAL YEAR.
The accomplishment of the extraor-
binary run from New York to San
Francisco i'll so hours, and almost One-
third OF the entire distance over the
TT. Wayne and Pennsylvania. Railway.
was q most fitting fulflllnent of the
promises made by the management of
this great line, that in the One Hum
dredth year of our existence as Il Ma
tion, a railway, for the completeness of
its structure, the perfection of its
equipment, the most exact expedients
for speed, all modern improvements for
comfort and ingenious combinations
for safety OH the face of the globe should
be the Great Ft. Wayne and Pennsyl-
vania Road. How well, truly and
faithfully has that pro mise been kept,
may be judged by the crowning triumph
in the great race against time of the
Jarrett & Palmer Special San Francisco
Train, which ran from New York to
Chicago in less than 2l hours--a dis
tance of 912 miles. Four hundred and
forty y-four miles between New York
and Pittsburg, was run by one l0coanO-
tire, 0nt ectth:ut u single stop-a feat ell
tirely without precedent in the annals
OF railway history, and teaches us that
nothing is impossible Oh the Great TT.
Wayne and Pennsylvania Railroad, and
that it has ontstripped the progressive
railway rivals, not only Of America,
but the old wo:ld. Foreign newspaper
correspondents, visiting our Centennial
overlook the great Exposition and its
world OF wonders, and fill their first
homewarl-bounl letters with the a(l.
ylnced IDEAS of the Pennsylvania and
TT: Wayne Railway system, and inva-
riably and unhesitatingly pronounce it
the model railway of the world, and
America's fitting representative of ra-
tional engineering, shrewd official OBJ
all ideas advancing the interests and
comforts of it's patrons. PuIlman,s 3
New Palace Sleeping, drawing. Room
and Hotel Cars, are ruin upon alI trains
and the line being many miles the
shortest from Chicago to New York.
Philadelphia and Baltimore, the ;,tlvan-
tages of low fares are in its favor. 1t
must be borne i'll mind that trains7 Oh
this road run direct to all the above
cities, and into the Centennial grounds.
Low fare tickets may be purchased 1T
the General Office, 65 Clark Street. Chi
cago, or ut the Depot, and information.
ny mail, furnished. ~
NEWSPAPERS Ar THE CENTENNIAL.
The Special Correspondent of tile
London Times says it would be difficult
to find all apter illustration of the big
way in which the Americans do things
than that furnished by tie ''Centemni;,l
Newspaper Builtling," in the Exhibi.
tion grounds. Here you may see any
one, or il you like, all of the 8, ,l29
newspapers published regularly in the
United States, and see them, one and
all, for moth ing! You are not only per-
mitted as a favor to see them, but i'll
vited, nay pressed, to confer the favor
of entering the building and calling for
what paper you like. It is about as
cool and agreeable Il place-quite apart
from its literary attractions-as a vis-
itOr to the Exhibition could wish to be
offered a chair in. He may, at first
wonder how, among 1000 papers among
them such mighty sheets as the New
York Herald, lie is to get at the small,
loved print OF his home, thousands of
miles away, it may he, over the Rocky
Mountains. But tile management is SO
simple that, by consulting the cat:,-
logae, or even without the aid of the
catalogue, any one c;ln ut once find
whatever paper he wants. They are
! pigeon-llOled OIL shelves in the alpha
| betical order of their States or Terrific
ries and their towns, the names of
which are clearly labelled Oh the shelves.
The proprietors of the Centennial
Newspaper Building are advertising
agents, the largest in all America
MeSSrS. G. p. ROWell & Co.. of New
York. Their enterprise will cost alto.
gether about $4,000, including the
building and the expenses of running
it for six months. The 5000 and odd
American newspapers are declared, by
the same authority, to exceed ''the
combined issues Of all the other ma.
tiOnS OF the elrth.''
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