The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-06-11
NO. g.
ONE HUNDRED FEET A SEC.
OND.
n Train to New York thmt
Travelled nt the Rate Of
Seventy Miles un

ahVHE-
The passengers on the limited ex-
press train through from Washington
to New York, over the Pennsylvania
line, rode at speed. yesterday which
few of them realized until they found
themselves Bste, ddst-covcrcd and on
time in the Jersey City depot. The
train from Washington was fifteen
minutes behind time on reaching the
West Philadelphia depot, where tho
big, new locomotive, adoringly
named by railroadefs "long legged
l0,' was snorting under an enormous
steam pressure. The Washington
section was soon added to the other
cars and a string of seven cars soon
started out of the depot on gentle
roll. AS the last car swung around
the Geological Garden the speed had
increased to twenty miles an hour,
and as the wheels turned to cross the
northern end of the city the mile-
posts commenced to pass at the rate
Of one in two minutes. When Frank
fort was reached the trees and fence
posts seemed to skip back with in
creased speed, and the register
showed forty-flve miles an hour.
Then the engineer, patting his pet on
the throttle, let loose his hold and the
big thing started cut to make mp for
lost time. Schenck's station was
passed at the rate Of 65 miles an
hour, but so easy was the ridingtllat
none of the 400 passengers knew they
were shooting over the ground at the
pace Of more than one hundred feet o
second. AS Bristol wal sighted the
train slowed up with series qf
jerks, and pissed the station Mt what
seemed to the passengers to be
lazy swing. but which was, in fact, q
speed of 45 miles an hour. For q
few minutes there was no preccptible
change in the rate, except perhaps
that gentle pull showed that the To-
connective was improving in TING.
Tullytown whizzed past at sixty
mile pace. All this while the travel
ing was up grade. As Trenton was
sighted the mile-posts came along in
81 seconds, tho bridge over the Della
ware river was crossed, and Trenton
was entered at the rate Of 40 miles an
hour. -Four Of the lost fifteen mii
utes had been gained on the stretch
from Philadelphia, and after stop
Of - minutes to take in passengers,
the big thing moved off again across
the country. 1t was now difficult
task to pass from milc-post to post in
less than 80 seconds. After the third
mile had been reached the time be-
tween posts fell to 10 seconds. Law
renee was passed at go mile gait,
and Princeton Junction followed. Mt
the came pace. Then tho speed In
| creased to 65 miles an hour until
Monmouth Junction was reached.
Here the big engine was slowed down
to 55 miles, while taking up water
from track tank; then II miles
were gone over in IL minutes.
Down grades now helped to accel-
crate the impctus Of the huge mass,
and the mile posts before reaching
New Brunswick flew by in So Sec
| onds. At New Brunswick quite
crowd was gathered at the depot 70
| see the monster engine whiz through
the city at the rate Of forty miles an
hour. Menlo Park danced by with a
| sunlight fash from the row Of glase
globes covering the electric lamps
that line the track, and within the
next five minutes the speed Of the
train increased on straightway
dash to seventy miles an hour. Rah-
way, Newark and the Meadows were
skinned over, and the immense train
dashed into the depot on time, hay
ing covered eighty-nine miles In
nincty-fiv minutes.-I'hiladelphia
Record.