The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-06-03
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fast trains recently to one of the shrewd-
est civil engineers employed on one Of
the roads entering Washington. This
employee has made railroading life
study, has inspected the railroads Of
Europe and speaks by the card. BE
said;
eff our railroads could spare the
money to elevate their tracks in cities
and at crossings, to say nothing of COM
pleting the work of Strengthening out
curves, now going on, |, for one will
predict that we can make an average OF
so miles an hour between New York
and Chicago l say this with the Allie
| ghany mountains almost staring me in
the face. We might lose time going up
that range, but engineers, as rule, like
to coast, and wouldn't they slide down
| the other side with roadbed minus
curves and grade CROSSINGS In the mat
Ter of cost in making improvements,
few people are aware of the expense at
tached thereto In round numbers our
road blew in fully So, 600, 600 in the
latter part of 1892 and the beginning of
| 1898. That was before the financial de-
preston set in. We are now resting on
our oars We cut one curve over a mile
long, and the work cost US fully $500,
000 Other roads have been doing like
wise, and with the return of a prosper
Gus period we will surprise the world,
and especially the English, with the av
erage speed our trains will attain.
Many people will be surprised to
learn that Germany and not this coun-
try or England furnishes the fastest train
in the world. The United States comes
second and England third. The German
train runs from Berlin to Hamburg, a
distance of 17S miles, in 204 minutes,
an average outside speed-that is, not
counting stops of over 30 miles an hour.
The Empire State express on the New
York Central road runs from New York
to Buffalo, distance of 40 miles, in
$40 minutes, and its outside speed aver
age is nearly 81 miles an hour. The
fastest English train, that comes third
On the list, is called the west coast fier'
and runs from London to Edinburgh, a
distance of 400 miles, at an average out
side speed of 30 miles an hour
The farther we go west the slower
the train service becomes, thing not
looked for ON account of the miles and
miles of track traYersing prairie land
The Burlington roads best train aver
ages about SO miles an hour. That on
the Milwaukee road, the limited, can
only reach an average of "a miles an
hour The Denver limited, on the North
western road, has to hustle to score an
average gait of 20 miles an hour.
Every few of the fast limited trains
in this country pay for the expense Of
running them, and it is an open secret
that the limited between this city and
New York, the limited between New
York and Chicago and the Empire State
express between New York and Buffalo
and the Chicago limited on the New
York Central road cost their respective
roads a good deal more than they bring
in, but they are great advertisers for
their respective roads.
1.-THE advantages of fast train service |
on we'll built and we'll equipped railroads
sengers swiftly from one point to anoth |
er They are felt all through the operat- |
ing department. of road and exercise |
an important disciplinary influence. The |
running of such extraordinary fast trains |
as the Congressional limited and the |
Empire State express has had a wonder
full effect in increasing the vigilance and
efficiency of all the trainhands. The |
schedules on which such trains are run |
require the most arbitrary enforcement, |
and they consequently keep the men all
along the line traversed constantly on
the alert. Each man is made to feel his
full share of the burden of responsibility,
and the never oeasing admonition to
watch for the fier' reduces to mini
mum personal inclinations to be slack
or neglectful The telegraph operators
have a suspension of 80 days staring
them in the face for the slightest delay
to the limited, and similar penalties are
on other employees.
Besides this stimulus to duty the
fast trains serve as an incentive to the
men to strive for promotion. Conduct
ors, engineers, fremen and other hands
on the limited get more pay than do the
men employed on the trains of subordi-
nate grade. That the 'fiier, in it's ge-
nerio sense, is actually ali improving in
fuence in railroading is evidenced by
the remarkable careers of the Congress
sional, the Royal Blue and the Empire
State express. These are the fastest
trains in this country and have been
running several years back, and, with
one unimportant exception, have met
with no mishap. These trains pass
through year after year without a sim
gle mishap, and l believe it is all from
he discipline put upon the employees ,
~ the fast service. The men take
pride in the fast trains. w Washington
Star.
The Wjfe's Separate Property.
Where the husband uses the separate
property of the wife in the support of
heir family she may recover it in the !
bsence of an agreement TO repay on his
art The dictum of the supreme court
t Indiana in recent case conforms =
nth the trend of late decisions. Such
ransfer is held to create trust, and j
ne onus is upon the husband to show -
nat it was gift.-American Woman's
ournal
Worlds Columbian Exposition,
I'll be- of valGe to the world by illus
ating the improvements in the noe
lanlcal arts and eminent physicians
i'll tell you that the progress in medi-
nal agents, has been of equal import
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lat Syrup of Figs is far in advance of L
others.