Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-10-13
BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, OCT. l3 1898

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YOUNGSTOWN flood.
Another relief map shows the territory
between Altoona, Holiday and Johns
town and the line of the old Portage
railroad in use 1882 to 1852 and the main
line 1852 to 1892, built so as to avoid
inclined planes.
Still another relief map shows the
great Horseshoe curve, near the summit
OF the Allegheny mountains, and the
Chicago limited express with two loco
motives, and the 40 a grain train that
ran from Chicago to Philadelphia, in
1892, without changing locomotives. The
grade of this curve is $50 feet to the
mile. The track on one side Of the curve
is II feet higher than on the other. The
distance across the ravine is l,13O feet.
Another relief map shows the New
York terminal and it's unparalleled ad-
vantages.
Statistical maps show the traffic and
mileage of the road, which is equivalent
to one ton of freight being carried
around the globe, $4,000 miles in sixty
three seconds and one passenger in
seven and three-fourths seconds. One
of its locomotives may be said to travel
around the globe every two hours.
A chart locates every train in motion
on the Pennsylvania on Columbus day
in 1892 at 6 o'clock p. M, and a keystone
shows the mileage of each of the several
divisions aggregating 7,979.75 miles.
The chart shows terminals at Chicago,
st. Joseph, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Cleve-
land, Ashtabula, Grand junction, Erie,
Sodus Point, New York, Long Branch,
Cape May, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Indianapolis, Vincennes,
st. Louis and various other points illus
trating the extent of the system. An.
other keystone gives the organization of
the road, and still another shows the
seals of over 100 corporations which
have been merged into the Pennsylvania
Railroad company.
There are models of the old time six
miles freighters, coaches, Of passenger
coaches built after steam and canal boat
models and still others suggestive of a
crate of shed roof shanties and of the
ambulance cars used during the war for
the transportation of the wounded.
There are representations of the stand
ard tracks of to-day and of the pneu-
matte ~interlocking switches, signals,
steel rails and Pullman and passenger
coaches now in use. The Pullman
train shows cars fitted up with bath
rooms, barber shops, smoking and draw
ing and reading rooms and almost every
accommodation which it is possible to
supply the first class hotels and all
those together with celebrity and Ger.
tainty are furnished for the accommo-
dation and comfort of those who travel
on the Great Pennsylvania R. R.
In connection with their exhibit is a
bureau OF information where any infor-
nation in relation to the terminal sta
tons, the time and equipment of trans,
the conditions or limitations of tickets
or anything which any one may desire to
know in relation to railroad matters will
be freely given to all who may inquire
Here tickets for sleepers may be ordered
and papers from eastern cities are kept
on file for the benefit of those who may
call. The timetable of the Pennsylvania
railroad shows six daily trains from New
York to Chicago and the round trip may
be made, giving a full day in New York,
with the loss of but one day, taking in
Washington and Pittsburg en- route.
Skipped BY the Light f the Moon.
skipped by the Light Of the Motn."
the play that has made all America
laugh, will be seen for the first time in
Bismarck at the Atheneum Saturday
night, and if the large audiences they
have been attracting all over the state is
any criterion. Fowler and Warmington'e
company have a gold mine. The rewrit-