Telegram-herald., 1889-07-11

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sno~s tue k.,s.F, aaa al letter ~ritiag =
arranged - s4eet tie eondlE.ons. IusI as
/ bassasax raza aid GAAkers arrange their
nscal matters foF the clsariaz hOzss E0er
y nOon- CcEresP0adsnee clerks get on
thsir western m2I Immediately after
l4A1hsOn.
There - a special eollsetion IN the
business district Brooklyn s<Eds over
several saczs Of letters. AL the western
naall from critics surrounding New ! 0rx,
manufacturing ses Jersey and Counec-
I ticut, is bulched "a this train, which
sOElsists. perhaps. II three specially built
El2li cara At ; O'ciock the train leaves
/ Pnil2dslphi4 after taking on ear con
tanning al u tbs days = estera mail from
sh4L city and tributary towns. At Har-
rtsoarg. l0J miles away, another e.-r Is
waiting. This had left Washington At
I 1 O'Clock and Baltimore at 5 with the
I Gly's mail from those two great cities,
and with all that had reached them from
I al iacent towns and the South Atlantic
coast
Now the consolidated train, having
hfty tons OF mail and II necessary thirty
Z clerks and pOrters % distribute and man
age it. starts 90 its dying Journey To the
wesG Harrisburg Is left at 7:30 and
Pittsburg 2i9 miles west. is reached at
l.25 a. u Here the country begins 10
broaden, and the question IS how such
widely divergent cities as Cleveland, De
trOit, Cincinnati and Louisville are 10 be
served, as well as the central belt repre-
seuted by Columbus, indianapolis and
/ Chicago.
After taking from Pittsburg and sur
rounding country late night mail for the
west. the special runs % Alliance, eighty
four miles, by $50. Cleveland, on the
| great lake belt Of cities, Is but fifty seven
miles away All mail matter for these
northern points has by this time been
/ placed in a single car. and this is at
taehed to special engine or TO the regu-
lar night express for Cleveland, reaching
/ the latter city before O'Clock in the
morning, giving early delivery there and
/ making connection with all regular
morning trains east, west and south, sup
/ plying al northeastern Ohio as morning
trains from Pittsburg supply all eastern
and central Ohio.
I But according TO the plan this is not
the only fast mail arriving in Cleveland
| in the early morning. Boston, northern
and central New England and New York
/ state must be taken care OF. The New
/ England flyer leaves Boston at noon,
taking all forenoon accumulation from
the surrounding country and the mer
/ chants Of the Hub dispatching their
western correspondence early in the day
TO suit the conditions. Letters written
early IN the day in ell the chief New
England cities-Providence, Worcester.
Springfield, Salem, Lowell, etc.-can
reach this train at Boston or points far
ther west. AT 5 in the evening the flyer
is at Alabsny, and thence on takes up
the days mail from all central New
| York cities-Utca, Syracuse. Rochester
and their hundreds of connecting points
and reaches Buffalo little before mid
! night and Cleveland ut 3 in the morning.
Here, then, the two currents of flying
| intelligence. one from New York and "a
far south as Richmond. and the other
from Boston and as far north as Maine,
first meets Toledo, Detroit, northwestern
Ohio and northern Michigan. and their
many connections are supplied early in
the day by regular mail trains.
But the Boston train has brought one
or two car loads of mail for far western
and southwestern points Why not run
the train through TO Chicago: Simply
/ because there is an easier and less expen-
sive way to accomplish this result. We
have left our Pennsylvania special at
/ Alliance at ;he hour of 2;30 a. IN. The
/ 100 miles 10 Crestline it runs by 3 o'clock,
/ or shortly after. and it finds awaiting it
there-what' Why, the one or two cars
/ Of New England and central New York
mail brought by the other train. From
| Cleveland 10 Crestline via the Bee Line
| road it is Only seventy-six miles, and a
two hours special run has brought the
northern mail hither.
Now that the junction is made all be-
comes easy. Tho Pennsylvania train gives
/ the Bee Line special car containing Gin
| cinnati and southwest matter; the Zee
/ Line gives the Pennsylvania its one or two
/ cars Of mail from the north. Together,
/ at 5:i5 or $50 in the morning. they steam
away. The Bee Line train early serves
/ Columbus and all connections by regular
morning trains. as well as the important
/ cities ~ Springfield and Dayton. Gin
I cinnsti and connections Including regu-
I lar trains south to Tennessee. Alabama,
I New Orleans. etc are reached by $50
4 in the morning. and Louisville and its
I important connections 1T IN tho after
noon.
Nor is this all. The Bee Line carries
special to Indianapolis by 1915, giving
early delivery there and sending mail
over tie fifteen railways entering that
city. A fast train by the Vandalia reaches
s. Louis at in the afternoon or a little
after. giving a delivery there during
business hours Il letters written during
business hours Of the previous day IA far
away Boston. Providence. and Rich
moad. Va At St. Louis connections
ara made with al regular evening trains
for the west and southwest
Leaving Crestline little after 5o'clock
7 in the morning. the great fast mail has
as miles 70 run 70 Chicago. All along
( Il tosses otf mail for thriving towns ana
their railway connections, and finally
rolls into Chicago az high noon. All the
/ Chicago mail borne by it IL already dis
triouted bv carrier routes. aad half A