The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-09-30

was also very TO- The Lake
Shore and Aic1 kan outhern The
|perty trlgeIed q Che ee Of forty.
four - IN ~ $40 miles.
Iinclod tveatj even Dps. Much
~ th6 distance OaD e11veled at the
faee d . mile Q minute, and f.sssr.
The party. Continuing West. made
ths 6stast tine ever oeds besweea
Chicago and Council Bluff. Tbis
over the Chicago and Northvestesn
Railroad. The actual running time
between Chicago and Council Bluff
ftransler grou0ds). 491 miles. wss ten
hesars and twenty ose ninuees, forty.
sssea and t0ur-teotAs miles IN hOur.
During the run q stretch IT twelve
miles vas made in thirteen and hall
inmates.
WHITAKER fRANsCONTrNENTAL
TRAIN.
A special train secured by Hon.
John Whitaker. Member Ut Congress
from Orgou. 70 enable him to Be
present and make up . quorum al
the opening Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives Especial session last March },
made . remarkably last run for q
long one. He was ton late for The
regular train. and % hired . special.
On which he LETT San Francisco ou
Wednesday at 10 O'Clock in the
oorning aud arrived h Washinkton
on the iolIo~ing Monday morning 1t
8 o'clock. The through time was
four days. nineteen hours and forty.
eight minutes tho route being via
the Ceutrsl and Unioo PAci6e Rail
roads ;. the Chicago. Darlington and
Quincy Pittsbure and Fort Wayne ;
Pennsylvania. North Central and
Baltimore aud Potomac Railroad.
The fastest time made on the route
F1FTY-ONH MILES Al HOUR,
but large part of tho distance il
wss under forty.
The discssion Of speed. however,
has thus Ear been cou6oed to
passenger trains, but . DeW phase b
here added. By reporting the remark
able epeed Of vhat may b termed .
freight train. II nay b coosidsred.
and especially BY those Who doubt
stories Of locomotive speed, that It u
impossible to run
FREIGHT AT FIFTY MILES Az hour.
but nearly that rate Of speed was
reached o. the route Of what y
known - the tobacco trais from
New York to Chicago. A Wholesale
firm 10 New York-shs name Vas
suppressed, bat It y understood to
have been Lorillard Broa.-was
desirous Of placing City tons Of
tobacco On sale in Chicago. last MAY.
the earliest possible moment after the
new lav in relation to the tohncco
tax vent into eject. The 6rm hired
. special train, consisting Of Eve
freight can. each loaded with ten
tons of tobacco. and . passenger
coach. The train left Jersey CITY at
7:46a Q. N. Pennsylvania time). and
arrived 10 Chicago 1t 8:35 next
morning. The route vas over the
Psnnsylvania and the Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne lines. On the former
road very lively runs we're made
between some Of the stations, - for |
instance thirty-three miles In forty.
i've minues. and twenty four miles |
% thirty ono minutes.
4 FAST STOCK TRAIN
. slso not among The impossibilitia.
y was recently shown By . through |
,attle train over the Vandalia. which |
made jersey City, from East St.
Louis, in eighty-two hours, including |
even hourS delay 10 Indiannapolis
md Eve hou1 stop In Pittsbarg. II
. related Of this train that Il
beat . fist passenger tr,in
oto jersey City. The latter was
rot. however. the fasteet train on
he Psnnsylvania Rod. that pretty
makes Lightweight miles 10
10 hour and City minutes, including
slowing up" in passing through