The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-09-03

could not have gone any faster or even maih-
tanned the speed he had attained, and reach'
ed the end of fifty mile
run alive. An engineer can't breathe while
going at such a furious rate.
A Long Island engineer agrees with
the Erie man. He has often heard, he says,
of the mile-a-m minute runs; but his twenty
years service at the throttle valve assures
him Of the falsity Of all such stories. Much
prominence was given to the run made by
engineer Frazer, in 1862, between Sufiern
and Jersey City. II was reported in the
papers at the time, (and has been con-
sidered marvel ever snco) that the thirty
two miles was made in twentyeght min
utcs. The Long Island engineer was a
passenger on that very train, and he de-
clares that they were thirty-fve minutes.
making the SO miles. "Cheeky as Mr..
Frazer is" continues the Long Island man,
"hell not deny this assertion The engine
j. l., Colt was in use, and she certainly
made remarkable time; but at no time did
she reach mile minute"
But railroad engineers, like doctors and
preachers and other people, disagree most
palpably. An engineer Of the Pennsyi'
vania Central rushes into print, and declares
that any five foot driver is capable OF more
than mile 4 minute. II should, " says he,
like to give some facts in regard TO a run
made by Joe Losie, with engine 81. On
the 10th Of October, 1874, special train
with members of the Pennsylvania Coal
company on board left Easton at 20 p, NJ,
and arrived in Jersey City at 2:j31a, De
Quoting ten minutes for three stops, the run
was made IN, one hour and eighteen min
utes, the fastest part Of the run being made
between White House and North Branch.
where the train made four miles and nine
tenths in three inmates and ffty-sevcn sec
onds or at the rate of "A 34.15 miles per
hour
While the public has been given to the
belief that mile minute is among the
possibilities of railroad travel, common
credulty is not equal to the work Of gulp-
ing down the story last above related.
Nearly seventy-fye miles an hour To &C
complish that speed five foot driver (and
the same engineer declares that five foot
driver is capable of as great rate of speed
as seven foot siX-inch one) would
be required to spin around
at the rate of four hundred
and forty revolutions minute, or nearly
eight revolutions to the second The trucks
would be compelled to get along at the
rate of a thousand revolutions minute
To accomplish mile minute fve-foot' !
driver must make three hundred and fifty |
two revolutions, and the trucks over seven
hundred revolutions. II is, if we take |
Familiar Science" as authority, to be
questioned whether the power of cohesion
in the particles Of iron or steel, will sustain
such a racket A wind that courses along
at the rate of seyenty.ivc or even sixty
miles an hour, is equal to the work Of up
roofing trees, unroofng barns and OF playing
eternal smash with things generally; but
whether or not railroad trains may safely
move at an equal rate Of speed, is a matter
that has certainly had a practical demons
tranon, The trouble seems to be that the
engineers can't agree upon results.
What say the men Of the |, G., |, NJ, G.
& V. and NJ. c.? Leaving the 7j-mile man
out Of question, is sixty miles an hour at
tainable2