The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-11-20

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Mail Train Across the COns
tinent.
AMERICAN enterprise has just achieved
a triumph which furnishes another illus
tration of the superior efficiency of the
mail and postal service of the United
States. The feat accomplished presents
a picture of an American steamer with
British mails on board hurrying across
oceans from the :,ntipodes to the West.
crn Hemisphere, and arriving home two
DAYS in advance of her scheduled time;
a mail train starting from the Pacific
coast some hours before the steamship
had reached her destination; special
train with the foreign mails dispatched
on flying trip of LOCO miles to over
take and transfer the mail matter to the
regular train, in order that it may be
placed on board q fast transatlantic
steamship which leaves this port to-day,
and through which it is expected the
mails will be landed at London in about
tour and hall days less time than they
were ever carried before from Australia
TO the British capital. The details
which follow were obtained yesterday
from Postmaster James, of this city.
The steamship City of Sidney, carry
ing the Australian mails, left the port o.
sydney on September 8, and after an
cxtyaol dinarily rapid voyage arrived at
San Francisco forty-eight hours ahead
of schedule time, bet too late for that
DAYS train eastward on the Central
Pacific Railroad. Having been imme-
dia,e,y notified of the arrival OF the
steamship at San Francisco, Postmaster
James was very anxious to nave her
mails reach the steamship Arizona,
which sails ut noon to-day for
Queenstown. On the It'll inst.
he called upon Mr.. Sidney Dillon,
President of the Union
Pacific Railroad. with whom he found
Mr.. Towne, of San Francisco, the Gen.
eral Superintendent of the Central Pa
ellie Railroad, and Mr.. Clarke, Of Oma
ha. the General Manager of the Union
Pacific Road. Colonel James, having
laid the matter before Mr.. Dillon. the
latter turned to Mr.. Towne and asked
"Where is the passenger train that LEFT
San francisco ON October 81" the re-
ply was: cit is on the Humboldt Di
vision" "Then," said Mr.. Dillon
telegraph to put on special, take TIN
mail and overtake the train that lef
San Francisco on the 9TH" "Why,'
interposed Mr.. Clarke, tive shall hav'
to run 900 miles at an expense OF owe
$1,000 to overtake that train" "Neve
mind.' replied Mr.. Dillon, "put on TIL
special" Having been thus assured q
hearty cooperation in his praiseworth,,
design, Postmaster James lost no tim
in sending u dispatch to MIR. William h
Thompson, General Railway Mail Su
perintendent at Washington, maxim
him acquainted with the arrangements
Superintendent Thompson accordingl
gave instructions to the postal clerk
along the route, as well as to the Pos
masters at Omaha, Chicago and Pitt!
buryh, to facilitate by every means i
their power the dispatch of the Au
tralian mail. That the officials allude
i. to were on the alert was soon nantes
On the 9th inst. Postmaster James n
ceived a telegram from Postmastt
Thomas F. Hall, at Omaha, settin
forth that the Australian mails had q
| rived there and had been dispatche
in the train which left Omaha at
, quarter to five o'clock on that dat
, From Chicago Superintendent James
White, of the railway service, telegraph
e ed Postmaster James on the 10th ins
+ that 243 sacks of foreign mail had bee
}. forwarded from there at ten minutes
i four D. IN. on that day via Pittsburg
9 The next dispatch, bearing date of ye
a 'crday, was sent by Mr.. Cunningham
G local postal agapt at Pittsburgh. to b
G chief, x. c. Jackson, Superintendent
o the Railway Mail Service Division
Y this city. This set forth that the forei!
mail arrived at Pittsburgh by train N
&. on the Pittsburgh and Fort Way
% Railroad, at 1880 yesterday mornin
e and was forwarded by train No. 8,
Q he Pennsylvania Railroad, at S:45 q.
,. The latter train arrived at Jersey Ci
= about 10 o'clock last evening, and t
,e British mail will be duly transferred
/. the steamship Arizona this morning.
,e IS expected that the latter will make t
a trim to Queenstown in seven days, tn
$. making the time from Sydney to Lond
,e forty.one days. According to the lat
Of report of the Postmaster Generalof N
ne Zealand, the average time consumed
ly the voyage from Sydney via San Frs
r. cisco has been forty.five days and abt
$, six hours, and by way of the Suez Ca
n. forty.six days and about four hours.
at will therefore be seen that the City
is Sydney has reduced the time Of the "
te age nearly four and one-half days
is Neu York Herald, Oct. II.
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use at one.third the price Of gas.