Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-11
NEARLY NINETY MILES AN
HOUR.
How the Australian Mail Sped
from Philadelphia 10 Jer-
sey City.
Philadelphia Times.

NV
Orders we're received at the Broad
street Station on Saturday night to
have a special engine in readiness to
meet the Chicago limited express on
its arrival from Harrisburg. The or.
ders further read that the engine was
to couple on to express car No. 80,
containing the Australian mail, which
left San Francisco last Monday after
noon at 3 o'clock, and make all posi-
bic speed to New Yerk. Word was
te~legraphed from Harrisburg that the
limited" had left there twenty min
utes late, and, as her arriving time
here is $50 pm, it would make her
due here at $40; but the train lost ten
minutes in running over the Philadel-
phia division, and did not arrive
in the Broad street station until $3.50
in the evening. Four minutes after.
ward, at Obj pm, engine 904 was
coupled to the express car that had
made the long journey, and was about
to start to Jersey City when it was
deemed advisable to put on a coach
to steady the express car, and at $3.50
pm. Conductor Costigan gave the
signal to start, and Engineer Gurney
pulled the throttle.
1.-THE special few over the ele
waited road and Numbered across the
Schuylkill bridge and dashed by Pow
elton Avenue Station like mad. Al
Mantue a stop Of two minutes was
made on account Of red signals. Then
the train of two cars Numbered over
the long stone bridge across the
Sjhuylkill at Girard avenue and
dashed by the station at Germantown
Junction at the rate Of sixty miles an
hour. At Tacony the special
was obliged to stop six minutes
on account Of the Trenton way
line ahead, which left Philadelphia al
5:26. From Uornwells to Schenck's
Station, a distance of three miles, the
ground was covered in two and a
quarter minutes. Coach $50 seemed
to be flying through the air as the
showers Of sparks few by and the en-.
CINE snorted and strained with a noise
that will never be forgotten by the
half dozen employees who rode on the
train. The u from Bristol, ten
miles, was made in nine aud a quarter
minutes.
At Trenton-east end-a stop Of
one minute was made, and again at
Deans two minutes were lost on ac-
count Of red signals. When the Brun-
swick bridge was crossed another slow
up one minute was made at Stelton
and then the train rushed on. New.
ark vas passed in a jiffy aud the train
rolled on into Jersey City depot at
seven minutes after eight, the great
engine putting after its long race with
time, having made the ninety.two
miles in one hour and ffty-eight
minutes.
The mail was FIVE days and four
hours in transit, which is the quickest
mail service ever performed between
/ san Francisco and New York.
Alarge part of the mail was from
Australia, and in accordance with
arrangements made by Postmaster
Pearson with the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company, a tug in charge
OF Superintendent Warning, of the
foreign mail department, awaited the
arrival Of the train at Jersey City ia
take the European mail from the ex.
press car and convey il to the steam.
ship Main, which was awaiting il
Lower New York Bay. The Austria.
Ian mail left Sidney October 5, anC
arrived at San Francisco October 20
two days ahead Of the schedule time
aid reached New York thirty day
/ from Sidney, still beating the bes
, record by two days. If the steame
!, Main makes time the record Of fort
> DAYS from Sidney to London will bea
8 The best record by either New York o
! the suez o,nal route,