The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-28

daily. A model of a waterworks basin
and pumping station shows that the
locomotives of the company use
100000 gallons of water an hour.
An idea of the amount OF
stone used on the road for baliist is given
by comparing it with the Egvptian pyr.
amid OF Cheops Cheops is go yards
square at the base and $50 yards high.
There is a reduced model of it given and
along side of it one that represents the
stone used in ballasting the Pennsyi-
vania road, the latter towers up above
the Egyptian pyramid at least five tins
Its height. Cheops would furnish bal
last for abous one division.
A large globe is used very effectively
to Illustrate the travel and amount OF
freight traffic over the conpany's lines.
There is figure continuously passing
around this globe every SIS seconds. a
miniature engine makes the trip around
this globe every two hours, which
means that the combined distance trav-
eiled by the Pennsylvania locomotive Is
l0I ,o00, 900 miles every year and II one
did i. all, 1t would travel enough to take
II around the world every two hours.
There is small object surmounted oy a
red fez. supposed 10 represent Citizen
George Fraucis Tram, Skipping around
this globe at a lively rate, passing
through Chicago without glancing at the
fair aud seemingly oblivious to 1.-THE
sounds that rend the Midway air. He
makes the trip every seven and three
follrths mintes, which represents that
the company hau!s enough passengers,
such distance, that If the work was
| expended upon one traveller 1t would
! take him around the world every seven
and tnreefourths minutes. AT another
place In the building there are number
Of wax figures, each dressed In the
proper uniform, representing each Class
of employees of the road. These are &C
companied by statement that the
company employs 104, 0a1 men and that
they are engaged in operating 3.140 To-
comotives, 1854 passenger and 122, l23
| freight cars.
| In the center OF the building upon a
great keystone are shown the 216 seals
OF the different corporations that form
the Pennsylvania system. Near this Is
a chart showing how the authority OF
| the company flows. The fountain head
| is in the 26,050 stock holders from these
| it flows down to the board OF directors
and from the directors to the president,
from him TO the various vice presidents
according to their rank and from them
to the general manager where il branch
es off TO the general passenger agent
| freight managers finally ending in the
minor officers of the company.
Another object that Is a great attrac-
ton to the sight-seers is the largest
check ever drawn in the United States.
1t is dated June 7th, 1881 and
was drawn by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in favor KID
der. Peabody & Co. of Boston and was
worth S14,G49. 052-2 30 10 that firm. 1t
was given in payment for the stock OF
, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more railroad. 1t was evidently cashed
during better financial time than at
present, for there is no record of the
New York bank being compelled to close
It's doors on presentation of the check.
In order to get the best results the
Pennsylvania company has brought into
use all the latest discoveries of science.
1t had the first railroad labratory estab
lished, and it is now one of the finest in
the country. They have developed it
into one of the departments of the road
and through it have taken advantage of
give. In it they have determined by
chemical and physical tests what are the
best possible material for use In the con-
struction of their roadbed, rolling and
floating stock, the greatest results to be
obtained, from fuel, the scientific ap-
plication OF new methods and new dis
ccveries in science, the use of electricity
and electrical machines, the sanitation
OF the road properties and thousand
other things that can only be obtained
by experiments and scientific research.
in this department are numerous prac-
teal examples of the working of the
test system. prominent among them is
cast iron car wheel thirty-six inches in
diameter and weighing 692 pounds hav-
ing this card attached: ''This wheel
has been broken to show the charater OF
the iron and the uniformity and depth
of chill.
According to P. r. R. specifications
cast iron wheels must stand without
fracture five blows of a weight of 14O
pounds dropped prom height of
twelve feet centrally on the hub.
This wheel stood the test until the
eleventh blow, when a small crack on
the fange was noticed; twenty blows
developed crack through the head and
the wheel was broken in two pieces
after twenty-siX blows.
1t was broken'in two more pieces by
large drop used for breaking car wheels.
In this department. Is shown an old
car wheel that is claimed as the most
durable car wheel ever known. In rail-
road history. 1t was manufactured IN
the Altoona shops and has seen service
from May 6, 1856 to March "a. 1898, and
in that time travelled some 146, 1873 miles.
To all appearances it is good for many
thousand more, but has been perman-
entity retired by the car inspector.
This department has developed a
large corpse of railway experts whose
services are considered indispensable
to the operation OF the road.
The results of this department are
remarkable when we take into
consideration the short length of time
since its establishment. The complete
ness OF its success is indicated by the
fact that MANY other roads and grea,
manufacturing plants have adopted It's
chemical and physical specifications as
standards to guide their construction
and manufacture.
These exhibits of the Pennsylvania
company cannot but make a profound
impression upon the sight-seers that
daliv throng the building. One Of the
greatest problems that faced the repub-
lie at It's foundation, one UPON whose
solution depends the physical prosperity
and unity of the nation, was the trans
portation problem. Lord Bacon placed
a means of rapid transit among thess
| things necessary 10 q country great