The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-06
Fast Time on English railways.

Fast Time on English Railways.
There is considerable rivalry between
the Midland and the North Western rail-
ways of England, which serve common
points remote from London. The rivalry
led last summer to a series of races be-
tween express trains of the respective
roads, in which the record for long dis
tance speed was established. The time
between London and Manchester was re-
duced to four hours and fifteen minutes.
The effect of the races was felt even in
this country. Several of the roads on this
side of the water sent trains against the
English record. with some degree of sue
cess, but without beating the record for
the length of the run. 1t is believed by
certain railway authorities that the in
creasing of the speed of regular trains in
England will induce American railway
managers to speed their trains faster;
they will wish to keep UP with the times,
as they have done heretofore.
If they do So however. they will have to
exert their very best efforts. For the Eng
lishmen are getting ready to clip off more
minutes from the record. Transport, a
London railway publication, reports that
both the Midland and the North Western
roads are building new locomotives de-
signed for the express purpose of run
ming at a very high rate of speed for a
number of consecutive hours. 1t is nota-
BILE that in the construction of these fast
engines they have discarded the COM
pound cylinder type and will use the
'bogie" single cylinder type. The cylin-
ders will be extra large, having a dame
ter of 1912 inches and stroke of % inches
The boilers, of extra size, will be con-
structed to carry a pressure OF 200 pounds
to the square inch. The tenders will take
1900 gallons of water and five tons of coal
A concession to American ideas will be
made in the valves. The piston valves
will be of the American circular type
which are thus pronounced to be the
highest achievement in piston valves for
high speed engines The locomotives and
tenders complete and loaded will weigh
100 tons.
With these new engines the roads cal
culate that they will be able to run from
London to Sheffield without stopping. and
do the distance at the rate of 100 miles
in 100 minues The North Western people
promise that they will reduce the time
between London and Manchester from the
present figures, AIS, to S:45, or maybe to
$3.50. The Transport says that there is sure
to be some very lively and exciting rail
road racing in England next spring.
South Carolina is raising coffee. 1t will
be remembered that she is also raising
tea, and some other things The other
things are of incomparably more conse-
quence than the tea or the coffee which
South Carolina is raising. But it is HUI
man nature generally, and South Caro-
lima nature especially, to attempt to do
things which are to a greater or less
extent regarded as impracticable. The
South Carolina coffee plantation is at
Cordesville, on the Cooper river. and the
crop produced last year amounted to
about one bushel. The beans are said to
look just like the coffee raised in Java
and Brazil Parched and ground it is
said they will produce a decoction that
tastes very like coffee. Some of the pro
dueer's guests who drank of the home
raised coffee at a New Years dinner.
pronounced the flavor and aroma equal
to the best Rio. 1t is to be hoped that
the coffee experiment will prove more
promising than the tea experiments have.
1T has been demonstrated that tea. can
be produced in South Carolina, but only
at cost which precludes its cultivation
as an industry.
Yahoola postoffice. in Hall county, has
been discontinued. 1t may be remarked