Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-24
RIDING ON THE RAIL.
Il FILING TRIP FROM ST PAUL TO
NEW YORK.
How 1t Was Done and What Was Seem
The Famous Limited Train--NOtes and
ReflectiOns--Po,nts by the Wayside Min
gled With Gas.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe.
New YORK, Nov. 81, 1882.

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Saturday night, hating three hours in Chi
ago for business, pleasure, or drink, AS the
Ease may be, and taking supper in New York
,ity Monday night is the experience which
,he traveller can now enjoy any time he
pleases. Palace dining cars, powerful en-
yines, and especially fast time beyond
Chicago, is the programme. AS every one
in the circle of the GLOBE readers is famil-
lar with the ''Royal'' and other routes from
St. Paul to Chicago it is scarcely necessary
to multiply words beyond the statement
that with the single exception of slower
time card, no roads in the country surpass
and few equal the Accommodations offered |
the travelling public between St. Paul and |
Chicago.
But the ne plus ultra of railway travel
in this country is the New York and
Chicago Limited train. This is train
leaving Chicago every day at 5 p. M, and
arriving in New York, distance OF GA
miles at 1925 the following evening, making
the run in twenty-five hours and forty five
minutes. The train is composed of bag
gage aud luxuriant smoking car combined,
dining car and Pullman palace sleepers.
Passengers are limited in the amount of
baggage they carry in order not to over
load the train. In addition to the regular
fare of $50 each passenger must take
berth at So, (no doubling up allowed) and
S. extra for superb accommodate. ons,
making the total from Chicago to New
York, by the Limited" $50. But on the
theory that in this busy age slime is
money!" the extra cost is amply repaid by
the rapid transit. No ''dead-heads''
are allowed and, the man who has
a pass and wants to go on the
| ''Limited,'' must wait for the next train,
| which leaves forty minutes later, and ar
! rives t,celre hours after the lucky "Lim-
| ited'' man has been picking his teeth at a
New York hotel.
| There are. on this train, but seven stops,
and these only five minutes each, between
| Chicago and New York. Illinois is given
| clean cut, and the first halt is at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, AS miles from Chicago.
| Then there are no. more HOLSTERS in ours,
| and run of 142 miles more brings
US to the second halt at
Crestline, Ohio. Ohio being the
state noted for great men Il used to live
there myself is honored with a second
halt at Alliance, los miles from Crestline.
run of eighty-t miles brings us to
Pittsburgh at $50 in the morning. and this
being a sort of smoky terminus where
they have railroad riots and other amuse-
ments, five minutes more is given for a
change of engines and away we go
again on the rock ballasted, double track,
grand old Pennsylvania road proper.
Through the hills, over mountains, down
the valleys, whisking by the blast furnaces,
rolling mills, coal mines, and
all the industries for which Pennsyl-
vania is celebrated, no pent up Utica con-
trolls until we have made a run of III
miles to the foot of the mountain at Altoo-
ma. We climb the mountain with two
powerful engines, and at the summit there
is sufficient slackening of speed to en-.
able one engine to run ahead and switch
off without stopping our train, and down
the mountain we 60 with one engine and
the air brakes are at full head to keep the
train under control. We shot around the
famous horse shoe curve in grand style
and we're at Altoona in a jiffy where q
fresh engine stood. painting like thing Of
life, ready to bear US onward.
Harrisburg, the capital of the state
where the members of the legislature make
fortunes every winter by selling theil
votes, is 1872 miles from Altoona and thai
distance was made without skip, halt OF
break.
From Harrisburg to Philadelphia, 1OE
miles more, without stop, the only slow
ing up being in passing through Lancas-
ter, which was either tribute to the mem
DRY of James Buchanan, or out of respect
to city ordinance forbidding running
through the streets more rapidly thar
twenty five miles an hour. If I ascertain
which, I'll impart the secret to the GLOBE
!. The country from Harrisburg
, to Philadelphia might almost b.
said to be one continuou:
garden. I never so fully realized what /;
grand old state Pennsylvania is as during
my ride yesterday. Perhaps this was be
| cause OF the recent election result, but a!
my trip is not for the purpose of saving the
nation, will not intrude politics. TIT
| mountains. with their rare mineral wealth
teeming with laborers, and then the cult
: waited farms, on the eastern end o.
the line, the air of industry anG
prosperity everywhere visible, give:
one increased ideas of the
mammoth proportions of. country OF
which Pennsylvania is only little fraction
on the map.
Philadelphia, the gay old Quaker City
where John Hancock and several Other
chaps made vigorous display of pen
manship several years ago, dawns upon us
''on time,'' everything is ION time" with
the s'Limited.'' That is what it is limited
for. have not inspected Philadelphia be-
fore since I went down hundred years
ago, or in memory of a hundred years, q
am ''limited" in my opinion as to which,
to regulate matters at Fairmont park and
Independence hall. I was not exactly pre-
pared to alight at the depot and proclaim
that it is self evident that all men are Gre
ated free and equal, because I think
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