The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-30
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For q stream OF its size, the Harlem
river probably costs moro to cross than
any other river In tho country. Tho
city has spent millions on its bridges.
Tho park department Is about to spend
many thousands moro and tho Now
York Central Railroad Company has
just paid $4,000 for u temporary draw
bridge 10 be used during tho construc.
ton OF tho grand span which will take
the Park avenue viaduct across tho lit.
tic river. The draw in question is the
largest OF Its kind in the country. The
tower is 120 feet above tho rails OF tho
track. It only takes twenty seconds
for this heavy machinery to do ita work
OF clearing the channel.
An expert has been assuring Boston
audience TINT n four hours trip between
that city and New York is by no means
an impossibility. 1t would require an
average speed Of sixty miles an hour,
with occasional spurts Of seventy miles;
tho tracks must DO Strengthened. full
speed maintained in passing stations,
and tho weightof trains greatly reduced.
This expert estimates that n train car
rying two hundred passengers need not
weigh over seventy.tivo tons, which
would be 4 reduction OF ono hundred
and fifty tons from tho weight OF trains
now in use; this no regards as ono OF
the chief factors in tho problem OF q
four hours trip.
Republican Franco at the present mo-
ment is overrun with royalties. Tho
queen OF England, tho queen OF Saxony,
tho widowed queen OF Wurtemberg
and tho Empress Eugenia arc all in the
Riviera, while Queen Natalie is at Bar
ritz. They include, moreover, tho king
Of Saxony, ex-King Milan, tho roigning
duke Of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, the reign
ing duke Of MISUNDERSTANDING the
prince and princess OF Wales. besides
many others. All arc in France for
either health or pleasure, and are able
to bear witness to the excellence OF
French republican institutions.
During the coming summer there
will BIO more gold mining than ever in
Alaska, and n number of miners are al
ready.there fitting out for the season.
A belt of rich gold ore begins north OF
Fort Wrangel and extends for at least
200 miles ut a distance of from three to
five miles from tho coast. The devel-
opment OF these deposits will be- slow
and expensive, for the country is ex-.
tremely rough and it is almost inacces-
sible.
Bryn Mawr has sent Vassar a second
invitation to join an intercollegiate.
athletic league to hold private contests
in tennis and gymnasium work. The
purpose of the league is to increase the
interest Of college women in athletics
and to increase intercollegiate life.
The students of Bryn Mawr have the
full approval of their faculty to such a
league, and desire to hold their first
contest at Vassar early in June, 1892.
frances war with Germany in 1870
cost her over $4,000, 100000. Yet, to-
day, after a lapse of but twenty-five
years, she has no difficulty in meeting
her annual interest charges without
special taxation, and there is a large
surplus in her treasury.
One of the most eminent senators OF
the Italian kingdom has just been SEN
fenced Mt the criminal assizes of Santa
Maria di Capua to five years OF solitary
confinement and to a fine Of 81, 1000 for
embezzlement and forgery.