The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-09-25
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The train was brought to standstill,
without any passenger suspcctlng the
frightfu1 peril that had been averted by
the wonderful coolness and presence of
mind of the engineer. In a moment
more the engine would have been off the
track and the train wrecked. .....,3s,
However, there was hardly time to
recall this, when | caught sight of the
next mile post swooping down upon rs.
When exactly abreast | stopped the
watch and looked at the hands. They
marked precisely fifty and one-quarter
seconds. This is the exact time in which
the last mile was made Conductor
Silance now reached his slip of paper
over my shoulder, and handed it to me.
This is his record as he took it down:
First mile, 81 seconds; second mile, 81
seconds; third mile, 80 seconds max
ing the three miles in 2 M sc see,
which corresponds precisely with the
same run made a year ago over the same
piece of track, near, Menlo Park. 1t
! will be observed that, on the last mile,
we again differed by only one-fourth OF
second, and / am sure gave the full
time to the mile leOn reaching Jersey
City ] learned that one of the passep7,
gers stood at the rear of the train, and
timed the same three miles with stop
watch, marking down the record, which
| copied. 1t adds up two minutes thir-
ty-six and thirteenlfifteenths seconds,
from which it will be. seen that both he
and Conductor Silance hardly varied
from me, though the opportunity OF both
for absolute. correctness. did not equal
mine. / showed my record to Osmond,
who said: sIssGivei me two cars in-
stead of four, and III pledge myself
to make that mile in forty-five sec
onds. - u EH0L iuI 80 $z&.sH s3iagf
In conclusion, | may say that if have,
not established my assertion as to the
speed OF, which our lines are capable,
then I do not know How it can be done
There are o. dozen trains on the Penn-
sylyania Road which make mile a min
ute on every trip u Chales Lynch, when
RUNNING the newspaper line, Went from on.
New Brunswick to Trenton three times
i'm one week in 25 minutes, the distance
heing miles, 81 Yesterday an eXlr- e,lr
| President of the New Jersey Senate sat
| in the seat with me on the train which
leaves Trenton at three minutes after lO,
and we together timed the train for sew
era1 miles, each of which was made in
side of .minute.' On the day preeed-
inc, the same train ran from Elizabeth
| to Newark in 5 minutes, the distance
being. $40 miles,, The train has. run
from Trenton to Jersey City in l hour
and 9 minutes, making foul. stops, be-
sides slowing up in going through thlt the
cities. Allowing three minutes for stop
ping and starting, and remembering
! that the distance between the two points
| named is Il t1'ifie untler 81 miles, it will
| be. admitted than the train must have
struck a mile minute at Several points
| ON the route. 3tit xfisguga III or Hs
However, | submit, my figures as OBJ,
tanned to-day, on the run between Wes'
Philadelphia and Jersey City. ad They
were made with. the utmost; care; Sit
1 ting on the engine, I was enabled to SCI
the mile posts as we approached them
and being prepared with watch in hand
i / am sure That the record as I took it il
as nearly correct as it can possibly b'
made. As have already stated, an,
Il passenger on the trains leaving Jerse.
4 City at 3 :35 and A: :052 for Philadelphia
or the the latteE-eity At :35 in the morn
ing, can easily convince himself that !
mile minute is an ordinary speed, tan'
made onevery trip The mile posts ar
provided the entire way, and all the pas
senger needs IS a'reliable watch and D
careful eyes, d .s sAa fo 3HuJ.
: l should also add that the run thi
morning, as have recorded it, was th
ordinary one, which is made daily En-
gineer Osmond put forth no. special el
fort, but spun along just as he has don
| for more than IA year past, and as ne es
pects to do for an indefinite time t
| come, excepting, perhaps, with the pos
sible contingency that he may conclud
, to reduce the time. between the termir
of the New. Iork division. ..;.s
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