The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-27
RAPID Running BY Raj.
!Iow Train Travelled Three Hundred Miles an
Hour.
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(From the San Francisco ChTonicle.)

(From the San Francisco ChIonicle.)
When George Stevenson asserted his
ability to run passenger coaches at q
speed of twelve to fifteen miles an hour,
scientific and practical men deemed him
fit for lunatic asylum, but time has
shown that trains may be run at a much
greater velocity without materially add
ing to the dangers of railway travel. The
fight of the fast express on the Penn
syIvania railway is marked example Of
the possibilities in the way Of sustaining
high rates Of speed. This road now runs
the fastest train in America. Nine hun
dred and twelve miles, including seven
stops, are accomplished in %! hours,
and the average time is $3.50 miles an
hour. A portion of the distance is run
at the rate of Is miles an hour. At a
speed of 60 miles an hour the driving
wheels of the locomotive on this train
make 25Sl revolutions minute. VIM.
Vanderbilt's squirt of 81 miles in 81 min
utes on the New York Central is declared
to be the highest rate Of speed ever at
tanned in this country, but this speed
was not surprise to good engineers,
many of whom are firm in the belief that
100 miles an hour will yet be accom-
plished on American roads.
Thirty-one years ago Colonel Meiggs
read paper before the New York Farm
ers' Club on Culture Travelling" in
which he expressed the belief that rail
road cars could be safely propelled by
steam at the rate of 800 miles an hour.
He said: 'sThe Emperor of Russia has
taken the first great step toward what l
deem the ultimatum of railroad travel.
Instead of cutting what I call mere
drill through the country and going
around everything in the way for a
straight line, he has cut broad way for
500 miles from St. Petersburg 70 Mos
COW. He has made it all the way 200
feet wide, so that the engineer sees
everything on the road. This is part Of
the future railroad from point to
point with mathematical line; tie rails
ten times stronger than are now used;
the locomotives on wheels OF far greater
diameter; the gauge Of a relative
breadth; the signals ald times perfectly
settled; the roads on 9th sides during
the transit OF trains having the gate OF
the walls all closed-then instead OF
travelling 100 miles an hour, we shall
more safely travel 800 miles an hour.
One OF the latest etfo1ts at improve
ment in locomotives is that of a French
man named Estradc, who has construct
ed an engine which he calls La Parisi-
enne. La Parisienne, when watered and
fired, weighs y tons. Its driving wheels,
sly in number, are s. feet in diameter.
The cylinders are outside, with valve
boxes on the top. The diameter OF each
cylinder is Isl inches, and the length OF
stroke is feet and ). inches. This en-
CINE is built for high speed, and viii
carry a pressure Of POO pounds to tie
square inch above the atmosphere, CT an
absolute pressure of 2i5 pounds. Is
trades engine is designed to run at the
average rate OF IS miles an hoG!r.
1t is said that tnc latest now among the
Young ladies is little brush broom. THIS
thav Use to dus: The coats Of their lovers,
where they have laid their pretty powdered
faces.
1t is conjecturcd that the Feticcncc OF The
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