The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-27
PTS DAILY FLYER.
A Railroad Speeder Will In
sure Prompt Delivery.
1T WILL CATCH EASTERN MAILS.
Tacoma. Olympia, Valley Towns and
Eastern Washington VIII Get
the News at Breakfast.

The Posi-Tnteiligencer will hereafter ne
delivered 10 its thousands OF subscribers
along the Northern Pacific railroad IN
both Eastern and Western Washington
with unfaiIing punctuality every day, Tor
/, will be taken out along the line by a
Kalamazoo railroad speeder. which has
Just been added 10 its already splendid
facilities for collecting and distributing
the news Of the world throughout the
state. The speeder is designed especially
for newspaper work, and Will he used De-
tween this city and Tacoma. 1t is war
ranted TO run at the rate OF twenty miles
per hour, and with two men aboard it will
bowl rapidly along the railroad track and
deliver the morning paper 10 SUBSCRIBERS
long before some OF them get UP in the
morning for breakfast.
The use Of the speeder as paper car
favorable railroad time table, and
the POst-Intelligencer has secured
the machine in order to catch
the early train from Puyallup and
get the daily issue into the section of
country east of the mountains as soon as
possible. From now on. patrons of the
Post-Intelligencer living in the Ellens-
burg and Yakima regions will receive
their papers promptly.
The first trial of the speeder was made
day before yesterday, and the two opera
tors made the run easily and quickly. The
machine leaves this city at O'Clock a. m,
ard delivers papers along the line accord
Ing TO the following schedule:
orlilia ........... 40. Puyailup ........ $50
OBTien ......... 4:20. Tacoma ...... go
Kent 4:30I Olympia (Sun-
Auburn $1,000. 800 days. ... 900
summer $1,000. 5:35l
Heretofore the practice has been to send
the papers to Tacoma by boat. with the
expectation of catching the O'Clock train
out OF the latter place. But many were
the delays and disappointments under
that system, for whenever the steamer
was not up to its schedule the Eastern
Washington patrons Of the Post-Inteili-
gencer were compelled TO wait twenty
four hours for their paper. Henceforward
the train Will be met at Puyallup, and the
papers will be regularly put on board
The time table given above will be short
ened, IL is expected, by thirty minutes on
the run between this city and Tacoma as
soon as the operators are thoroughly
trained TO their work. On Sundays they
VIII run through to Olympia and will be
able TO deliver the papers at O'Clock in
the morning.
The new flyer is kept while in this
city in the barn of the Seattle Transfer
Company. 1t is trim little machine set on
wheels about twenty-five inches in diam
eter. and while light i'm weight it is strong
in build. The propelIing power is COM
municated TO the front wheels by
means or cogs. which are operated by an
upright propelled by hand and foot Di-
rectly above the fore axle is a long.
cushioned seat tor the operators. with the
lever in convenient reach, and with a
foot rest on either side. There is a foot
brake on the left side. Behind the seat
is broad, shallow bed, capable OF bear
ing load of several hundred pounds
The entire speeder is painted red, and is
a finished machine
The speeder is so light and so swift
that IL imparts 10 the run between here
and Tacoma the character of an excur-
sion. Although the operators start out at
8 a. m, they find the morning air most
pleasant and invigorating. and the forty
mile trip is at an end before they have
time to think of fatigue.