Evening journal., 1891-09-03
ABIG RACE AGAINST TIME.
Ninety-hve Miles in Only Ninety
Minutes.
BUSTING THE JAPANESE MAILS

Across Coztinene and Two Great Oceans
in Twenty Days Es the Record That
WIN Probably BE Estsbliahcd by the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
NEW YoRK, Sept s.-From Yokohama
10 Queenstown in twenty-one daysl This
Is dizzy race against old Father Time,
but it is just what the European mail
from Yokohama, Japan. proposes to do II
the steamer City Of New York, which
sailed from this port yesterday with the
aforesaid mail on board, makes anything
like an ordinary fast trip.
II Was Great Hustling.
But this last named part of the business
is only tribe compared with the hustling
which was done by the railway mail ser
vice Of the United States postofflce and
the Canadian Pacific and New York Cen
tral and Hudson River railroads.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad company
now has three fast mail steamers running
between Yokohama and Victoria
They are the Empress Of Japan. the EN-
press Of india and the Empress OF China
The Empress Of Japan left Yokohama on
Aug 10 at a quarter TO . a. m with ise
European mail on board She arrived ia
the Royal roads of Victoria on Aug % az
twenty-four minutes past a, m, having
crossed the Pacihc-a distance something
like $500 miles-in the remarkably fast
slime Of little less than nine days.
To Guido All Records
As soon as this astonishingly quick pas
sage became known the Canadian Pacific
resolved 70 Guido all prior records in the
transportation Of the mail across the con
tinent
They decided that they would make an
effort either TO place the mail on the Ham.
barg-American steamer Columbia, which
leaves here today, or, better still, to catch
the City Of New York, which is now plow-
ing the ocean blue with the mail from Yo-
kohama on board.
Eolipsed by Ten Days.
The success which has crowned their
efforts up TO the present time has already
passed into history as the greatest achieve
ment Of the railway mail service. The Of
fcials Of the Canadian Pacific say that II
the schedule Of twenty-one days is accom-
plished by the trip OF the City of New
York all former records between Yoke
hama and Europe will have been eclipsed
by the enormous quantity of ten days.
The Railroad Trip.
The Canadian Paclfc's special train,
with the mail on board, left Vancouver at
p. m. on Aug. %, and made the run
70 Brockville, Just across the St. Law
renee on the Canadian side a distance OF
3, 1908 miles, in seventy-seyen hours and
twenty minutes. This gave an average
rate Of speed, including all stoppages and
delays, Of S6S miles per hour A special
train was waiting across the Sc. Lawrence
At Morristown, n. Y, to carry the mail
whizzing through the Empire state As
sistant Superintendent " j. Bradley, OF
the railway mail service. had gone to Nor
ristown to superintend the run to this
city.
Mr.. Bradley left Morristown with tn,
mail at a quarter to 10 o'clock Tuesda,
night The train consisted Of an engine
baggage car and passenger coach. Tn
run from Morristown to Utica, distanc
of 1913 miles, was made In 1853 minutes, al
average speed Of ass miles an hour.
FASTEST Time in America.
The schedule time given for the run o
ninety-five miles from Utica to ALBANY
was l05 minutes, with instructions to Gu
this down If it could be done safely. Thu
the best time ever made In America fol
the same distance Engineer Edwary
Chase was at the throttle. with Conductor
Reynolds in charge Of the train Engnee
William KIRK hitched his engine to TIL
train at Albany and did some pretty goo,
work over the Hudson river tracks.
He covered the distance Of IA miles il
two hours and forty-one minutes, an aver
age speed OF $50 miles per hour
Some good runs were made. The twenty
one mixes from Poughkeepsie to Coli
Spring were covered in forty minutes
From Croton to Yonkers, a distance o
nineteen miles, Engineer Kirk ran Ga
train in sixteen minutes
The Grand Central depot was reached a
ts4s a m. The mail was of for the steame
at s:5l a 10. Il was delivered on board a
5:10 just ten minutes later than the sal
ing time. The City Of New York waite
those ten minutes with pleasure for be
people We're tremendously interested
the issue Of this great race against time.