The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06

oV ip5SS sDO DOut IOr 0J0 1nlleS-anu yel
never run mile at rate that could bs
considered dangerous by the most con
servative. The whole secret Of the trir
rests in the fact that there is logic at both
ends Of the line, aud order all through
the route-binding the traias together
keeping everything adjusted, moving
everything on the stroke, losing no time
but husbapding every tick nf The clock
The problem is n simple one, and yet the
result is q mighty one.
The train must cover q mile every two
minutes from the time it leaves New
York till it stops in Atlanta. This is
easy enough to do, for trains are often
run mile in one minute for mere sport
and yet the steady work Of telling of
1t mile every two minntc-ouiy cIev-
en- seconds faster than horse has trotted
| it, and twenty seconds slower than q
score Of horses have run it--this steady
! work makes up the total Of 803 miles in
o84 hours-and gives Atlanta n miracle
in the way Of transportation.
THE PRATICAL benefits OF THIS.
But we may be asked what benefit At.
lanta gets from all this. The reply is
simple.
Z has been said that Atlanta could
have afforded to have sunk the 100000
she lost on the Air Linc, for the good
that road did the city the first year it run
through. We say that Atlanta could
easily have afforded to have lost twice
that sum for the single boom Of this fast
mail train.
We now get the papers from New
York the day after they are published.
That is, the Sunday papers are brought
into Atlanta at 1155 on Monday night,
so that we get them on Tuesdays morn.
ing. We get the papers the morning
after they arc printed that is, Sunday
Herald is on sale in Atlanta on Monday
morning ut $50. so there is just a day
saved.
A letter is now written in New York
City, on, say Saturday night. 1t leaves
New York Sunday morning and reaches
Atlanta Monday night at 1855 and can
bc delivered in Atlanta by Tuesdays
mail. Under the fast mail it will be de.
livcred in Atlanta by Monday mornings
mail ut 10 O'Clock. So there is II day
| saved.
The advantages are jus. ns apparent
for mails coming nothward All bunk.
ers and business men know what terri.
bic rush it has always becu tn get off their
days mail on the O'clock train. Indeed
the banks are often virtually days bus.
iness behind with New York. This mail
can now be prepared leisurely and placed
| on the $50 train al night-when it will
reach Washington and New York just az
soon as ifput on the 3o'cock train. This
is virtually day saved. OF course it is
the same with passengers IN with letters
by taking this fast mail from I to 10
hours can saved, which Is virtually u
days work. The advantages of the inst
mail are so obvious that they do not
n ,ed distussi II.
THE MEN WHO GAVE Us THE FAST MAIL.
II is only Just that we should know the
men to whom we arc indebted for this
a:s: mail. Dat o: ;.e large apt,roTTiii-
ton made for fast mails, Atlanta is the
only southern city that gets the benefit
of really fast schedule, such rs tho
great cities of the north and west have.
Colonel FOreacrc and Colonel Hous.
ton, Of the Airline road, and Colonel
Pope, of the Atlantic Coast Line, have
hcen persistent In their efforts TO get a
fast mail line established for tho past
several years. They have worked to
this one end, in season and out Of season.
They have shortened up thcir schedules,
quickcned their time, and in every way
tried to tempt the authorities to put on n
fnst mail.
AT length they succeeded in interest
ing Mr.. w. B. Thompson, manager OF
railway m:.ll service, and Mr.. Terrell,
the efficient Superintendent OF mai! ser.
vice stationed in Atlanta. These gen.
tlcmcn went to work in the matter, and
after repeated. trials succeeded i'm getting
what wss .Ireded. The result of the
experiment has excited much interest
and es-P0stmas'er General Key with Mr.
Terrell went over the route with the first
inst train to see how it would work.
And now what of the future? When
will this fast mal be colisiderc;! slow I
Under the present arrangement il could
lie shortened three hours. But we read
that two engines have just been made fol
Colonel Roberts, of Pennsy sylvnnia, that
have run GO miles MI hour easily, and &c
$50 miles without stopping. One oI
these engines could run from New York
to Atlanta in IL hours with all case
When shall We leave New York al
breakfast and take early supper in Al.
lanta?