Telegram-herald., 1889-07-11
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ssrvA.son so~exs Of progress are abls -
ses -naS tns sleclricaI inseaters are sure
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railway Lxsia Aks LnaG designed and
bsslt ~ Ax. WesIns Of Baltimore. tray-
s4las s~o Asndrsd % more miles a. hoar.
Tor shs praseat al improvements ia the
SsspaEeA II ths public a4AIls must be
made upon existing raj Says.
The fast mail tran, so called. nov run
bstwesn New York and Chicago is a
easea. IL practically sNpediEes nothing.
Il leaves New York city at . o'clock Ia
ths evening, at least four hours hter
slzAa thers Is any excuse for, and SIX
hours later than would Do necessary If
uhe business community were given no
tee of an earlier departure. This fast
mall" train Uses nearly twenty nine hours
b. making the run from New York 70
Chicago, arriving Ia the latter city az the
sbsuKd hour OF lS.35 ia the morning.
The speed made L. about the same as that
o. a number Of regular trains On several
soads. For special train running with
sut stop sr hindrance. il Is really very
slow schedule. The mail it takes from
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81 next morning. when it Is assorted
and delivered So t2r as Chicago Is con-
eerned, ths train might Just as we'll ar
rive slx hours later. As ia New York
business men do not write letters az or
Sin the evening, 80 in Chicago they are
cot on hand % receive mail AZ or in
ths n0raAag
Service - the west from Chicago is
expediGsd oHly BY means Of special trains
t.asiag Chicago at 3 q M and arriving
~ Eiso chief terminal poinss-Onaaha. ST.
faai and Mlnneapolls-so late Ia the
afternoon that the delivery. even though
pron-sly made from the train itself. Is
OF Little value to the business cOmmu-
nifty. for none og these trains does the
governnent pay anything more than the
segulAr rAte Pee ton Of mails paid all
roads- AT present no New York.
BROOKLYN or PhiIadelphia business man
who on Monday writes letter 10 a Chi
eago correspondent soes 80 with the con-
scaousness that bis tni<sivc viii not reach
lbs destination till wednesday, and that
II the letter bs answered the same day
be viii not receive the reply till Friday.
This IL too stow for the times and the
country.
Chief Bell. Of the railway NAIL serv-
Ice, thinks it possible 20 arrange q fast
mail train that viii take letters written
n New York during business hours Of
,ons day and deliver thom Ia Chicago
during business hours Of the next day
Fven Boston and pretty much al New
Lngiand can DC brought into the same
over night service between east and
west. II Chief Bell succeeds in accom-
plishiny this he will create the greatest
fast mail train ever known Ia this or
amy other country, one which will stand
a. perfection tiH the Weems or some
other electric railway supplants it.
A great share of mercantile telegraph
ing u done by night messages" which
are ehsaoeF than day messages. II at
,s'cloek IN the afternoon a New York
,rnsrchaht sends a telegram to q manu-
lfscturer in Chicago. it viii not be deliy-
,srsd till the next forenoon. IL seems al
most incredible that a fast mail train
co1ld DO arranged - give by post sub
sfantially the same service as is afforded
By a night wire. but il is possible and
will sogae Say be done.
The fastest trains between New York
and Chicago now make the journey ia
twenty -fss hours. These are the "lim-
lied trains. on which an extra fare is
charged. Going west they gain an
hours time at Pittsburg. and therefore
reach Chicago in an apparent running
time of twenty -four hours These trains
are not remarkably fast. their schedules
calling for about forty miles an hour.
They are rarely late. even in winter. IL
from any cause they lose an hour or two
on one part Of the journey. tho loss Is
usually made up on another part
One recent Sunday the Pennsylvania
Ernited ran from Fort Wayne TO Chica-
go. 14S miles, In three hours and ten
minutes. carrying five heavy vestibule
cars. Eleven stops were made en- route.
making the acssd running time two
hours and forty minutes. or an ave
rage speed u fftv-five nilss an hour.
There are faster trains than these limited
expresses For years the Baltimore and
Ohio has r,sn regular trains from Balti-
raors 20 Warrington forty miles. and
with two Yards g. traverse at slow speed.
in forty five minutes. The trip has been
made ia forty minutes. Trains of the
same road regularly make atty miles an
hour between Philsslelphia and Washing
ton TIE Pennsylvania runs many reg
ular trains between New York and Phil
adelphia. ninety miles. in two hours or
les. Ia England large Humber Of reg
uiar trains travel from 6ftv % iity-five
miles an hour. soxae 0f them on long
Journeys.
Very fsst time cannot be male On a
rusd With many steep grades IN ies track.
Fast time cannot q made With heavy
trains of six or siehs ears. particularly
Il thsy are sleeping cars. winch weigh
nearly twice az nlgch as ordinary coach
g. Fast tire cannot "a made with frs-
guert sfs,pS st stations or grade crossing
Between New York and Chicago a tram
must sscp forty times in pursuance u
ne state laws. whirh require fgd hats
before crossing the tTac<s - 1fher roads.
These stops revrsseu loss II nearis
tsree hours tiine When once stopped
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