The Osceola times., 1880-08-14
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ana shouted IN the Herald mans eo,,
Seventy miles an hour now ,Ta' ,Tdi'
Herald man nodded through the sbo,ae ne
of cinders that he thought so Too 'er Ier
before this interchange of statement anI Dut
Endorsement could be completed so,'u ,'u
one cried: "Look outt" Eyerv ',uie @
peered out and behind the train o one
were impressed with the fact that iu anu .
were mail bags, human feet-ahort
dozen of them-human heads-aho,'st
six or seven of them-newspaper n,cI'
ages-at least fifty OF them-ali goiI', ,i,
and down together as ii they were ~
some fierce boiling pot which FOSSIL
them to the surface and dropped tberi
down again. There was a suguestinn nr
a cry or scream, for the novices IN f,St
mail trains were frigl tened because tbo,,
thought somebody was hurt, but the oI3
hands sneered at their ignorance ami
said:
People get in the way of il. Tbo0o
fellows wont be there Tomorrow b,,
somebody else will be-" '''
After that one of the hairless ampso.
ments furnished by the journey was n
watch the collision of men standing and
boys falling. They were frequent Al
Sing Sing there was a great crowd. Tho
sun had begun TO touch with his earliest
ray the hills on the other side of tbe
Japan Zee, and the prison guards had
stopped on their way to duty to see tho
fast train go by. They only caught
glimpse of 1t, and only a brief plance
was afforded the crowd that stood ON
the platform.
Al Croton, Portland and Crugers. three
or four miles south of Peekskill. the
train slackened speed with sharp iolt
Everybody looked out; it WAS seen that
! the black semaphOre showed red sic.
nal indicating that the way was not
clear There was long delay before
| the white target showed, and the train
which held the track only by right of
emergency, was shouted out of the wav.
| Then No. II steamed up to the water
tank and took a long, hearty drink.
| Meanwhile she blowed off steam and
Kisses, as If proud of her performance.
and Farrcl circled around her with n
great oil can in his hand with which he
anointed her, and loveingly he land his
hand on the bearing of her axics to see
whether they were too hot or not II
| didn't take long to find ont, and once
more the fast mail was under way
Through highlands, garrisons, Cold
| Spring, where a ton of Ncwburg mail
was dropped, the fast mail train spceded.
at rate only occasionally falling short
of fifty miles an hour, and frequently
reaching siXty-three. The sun was well
up and the day quite awake when the
train ratified through the Poughkeepsie
tunnel and a moment later stood un-
covered in front of the dcpot. Farrell
climbed down to feel of his machines
hot places and compared watches with a
score of people. To the eager questions
he replied abruptly:
"Seventy-three miles. Exact running
time less than ninety minutes"
What ever the fast mail deserved in
name below Poughkeepsie it sacrificed
to Albany. II required three hours to
travel that distance of sixty-nine miles,
but il reached there in time TO give the
Saratoga train a mail to deliver at late
breakfast in the big hotels. Troy got a
mail and 50 did Fort William Henry,
Glen Falls, Whitehall, Fort Edwards,
North Adams and Bennington and Rut-
land before noon. The fast mail forms
a part of the fast express train from Al
bany west II is ninety-six miles to
Utica, which place was reached in trifle
over two hours after leaving Albany.
There train on the Utica and Black
river was waiting to take the mails to
st. Lawrence county, Ogdensburg and
Malone. A little while aitcrward Rome
was reached, and the Oswego shore went
out with Watcrtown's pouches to 90
over the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens-
burg road and to the Thousand Islands.
Guests at that summer resort read their
Herald and smoke their after-dinner
cigar at the same moment. At Syracuse
the mail car went of on the old road to
supply Auburn Canndaigua and towns
in the Seneca lake region. Over the di-
rect road the express crdwlcd with the
through mail, making stops rs If it liked
to, and Rochester is reached at five
o'clock, city time. A few minutes later
fast trains are taking the load IN West.
People at Niagara held their Hcrald5 at
supper, and 50 did the BulalonIans. II
is noted that not a pIcknKe was carried
; by. Because Of the day being a holiday
and Monday as we'll, the service was
light comparatively, but the first days
experiment shows its uses and shows
that those who planned it planned it
wisely and well
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