Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-06
ne,r western mail Immediately afte,


mail from cities surrounding New York,
manufacturing New Jersey and Connec'
ticut, is punched on this train, which
consists, perhaps. Of three specially built
mail cars. At 8 o'clock the train leaves
Philadelphia after taking on car con-
tanning all of the days western mail from
that city and tributary towns At Har-
risburg, 105 miles away, another car Il
waiting This had left Washington al
4o'clock and Baltimore at 8 with the
days mail from those two great cities,
and,with all that had reached them FROM
adjacent towns and the South Atlantic
coast.
Now the consolidated train, having
fifty tons Of mail and II necessary thirty
clerks and porters TO distribute and man
age IL, starts on its flying journey to the
west. Harrisburg is left at 1880 and
,Pittsburg. 249 miles west, is reached at
1:25 a. m. Here the country begins &c
broaden, and the question is how such
widely divergent cities as Cleveland, De
troit, Cincinnati and Louisville are TO be
served, as well as the central belt repre-
sented by Columbus. indianapolis and
Chicago.
! After taking from Pittsburg and sur
rounding country late night mail for the
west, the special runs to Alliance, eighty.
four miles, by 2.30 Cleveland, on the
great lake belt Of cities, is but fifty seven
miles away All mail matter for thes,
northern points has by this time been
placed in single car, and this is at
,tachcd to special engine or to the regu
L. IL. 4 g., nnx-
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 all northeastern Ohio as morning
trains from Pittsburg supply all eastern
and central Ohio.
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 theiI
western correspondence early in the day
to suit the conditions. Letters written
early in the day in all the chief New
England cities-Providence Worcester
Springfield, Salem, Lowell, etc.-car
reach this train at Boston or points far
ther west. At s in the evening the flyer
| is at Alabany, and thence on takes uT
the days mail from all central New
York cities-Utica, Syracuse, Rochester
and their hundreds of connecting points
and reaches Buffalo, little before mid
night and Cleveland at in the morning
Here, then, the two currents of flying
Intelligence, one from New York and al
far south as Richmond, and the Other
from Boston and as far north rs Maine
first meets Toledo, Detroit, northwestern
Ohio and northern Michigan, and theil
many connections are supplied early il
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 Chicago2 Simply
because there is an easier and less eXpen
sive way to accomplish this result. W.
have left our Pennsylvania special a
Alliance Mt the hour Of $50 a. M. TIL,
105 miles to Crcstline it runs by 5 O'Clock
or shortly after. and il finds awaiting |
there-what2 Why, the one or two carr
of New England and central New Yorl
mail brought by the other train. From
Cleveland to Crestline via the Bee Lin
road it Is only seventy-six miles, and /
two hours special run has brought tn
northern mail hither.
Now that the junction is made all he
comes easy. The Pennsylvania train give
the Bee Line special a car Containing Gin
cinnaii and southwest matter; the Bee
Line gives the Pennsylvania its one or TIVE
cars of mail from the north Together
at 5;15 or $3.50 in the morning, they steam
away. The Bee Limo train early serves
Columbus and all connections by regula
morning trains, as well as the importan
cities of Springfield and Dayton. Gin
cinnati and connections Qncluding regu
lar trains south to Tennessee, Alabama
New Orleans, etc. are reached by 0:3
in the morning, and Louisville and 1t
important connections at in tho after
noon.
Nor is this all The Bee Line carries
special to Indianapolis by 1915, givini
early delivery there and sending mai
over the fifteen railways entering tina
city. A fast train by the Vandalia reache
st. Louis at 4 in the afternoon or q httl
after, giving a delivery there durip
business hours of letters written durin
business hours Of the previous day in ia
away Boston, Providence, and Ricl
mond, Va At St. Louis connection
nre made with all regular evening train
FOR the west and southwest.
n IL 10 ftnrk kS.'s. Inn
In the morning, the great fast mail hs
2i5 miles to run to Chicago. All alon
It tosses off mail for thriving towns ant
their railway connections, and finall,
rolls into Chicago at high noon. All tn,
Chicago mail borne by it is already dis
tributed by carrier routes, and half |
hundred or more carriers seize the bun
dies and convey them TO counting room
and Office before o'clock. BY 3 o'clocl
there is a similar delivery in Milwaukee
To the great west and northwest the cur
rents of intelligence are sent by regula
trains. st. Paul, Minneapolis, Omahi
and Kansas City are all reached earl,
next morning, twelve to twenty-fou
hours earlier than formerly. A Who'll
day is saved on the journey to the Paciti
coast
For such fast mail service as thi
would berequired train specially built
steam heated, lighted by electricity, an
provided with all labor saving devices
For such speed and service the railway
would ask and deserve more compensa
ton than the statutory pound rates Blu
what would few hundred thousan
dollars year count against the almoS
inconccivable advantages of an owe
night mail between Boston, New Yorb
Philadnlnhia and WashinGtnn in the easl