The times., 1898-11-13
FAST RIDING.
Chicago Reached In Twenty Hours
Ont of New York

froni the Brooklyn EssIe)
Dr. Depew has broken several records
for speechmaking and STORYTELLING and
now he has ruptured the figures for fast
railroadins- He has been carried from
New YORK to Chicago. nearly thousand
mics, In nineteen hours. He sat out q
dinner OF remarks in the Windy civ
stayed until the last horn blew. then paek-
up, took his train. after nidnIght. and
next evening he was at tho. theater in
Manhattan. He has Travelled sc1D miles
IN hve days and made speeches all over
the place and seen the Omaha exnihition
and gathered up statistics about wheat
and foreseen a Republican victory and
told Eastern investors that Western
farmers were paving off their mortgages-
thing they had not discovered for them.
seiNes-and happened on traces OF Bry-
anlsm and seen no end of fresh vege-
tables This is doing vastly more than
George Washington could have done i'm
MS day; argal, Dr. Depew * n greater
man than Washington. He is too, IA
his way. Which is "A different way. The
significant episode in this little railroad
picnic IS the development OF speed. If a
train can ran from Chicago TO Manhat-
tan In nineteen hours, carrying several OF
the heaviest weights in the land. we be-
speak the setting Of day for the estab-
lishmert NJ nineteen hour trains for iight-
WelSht& and common folks.
Some things must be done before
train like that will be entirely safe.
What is left Of the Delavan House in Al
bany will have TO be moved farther back
to keep from rubbing against the cars,
and the careerinG of locomotives through
the principal avenues Of Syracuse with
out ringing the hell must be discontinued.
The network of other peoples tracks that
surround Chicago, and lap over into Indi-
ana and Wisconsin. viii have to be sur
mounted on stills. The hoId-up men and
tramps that occupy the country for IS
miles around Chicago and gather on the
trucks of the Pullmans. until like 5arna-
Giles they delay the progress OF the train,
will have to be brushed of by some auto
matte contrivance. and those who are not
crushed viii be swept on so as not TO
make the tracks greasy and the atmos-
phere sitting with the fumes Of liberated
whisky. 1t viii give a FLIP TO railroadins
all over the country when the new time
IS adopted on the Central road.
The days when the cows used 10 climb
up on the back platforms and come i1to
the ears and bite the passengers are
nearly over Only on the trans that used
to run to Camp Thomas from Chattanoo-
"a was that kind OF thing usual this year
on other roads the speed adopted IS such
that the time tables Of twenty-five years
ago look like schedules for stage coach.
When our railroads are made entirely
safe. as those have been in Europe, by
the abolition OF grade crossings and the
separation OF the tracks from fields and
highways by fences and entertainments.
there will he practically no limit to speed
except as determined by the power Of
tsie locomotive. II Chicago can b
reached in twenty hours in safety and
comfort. San Francisco can be rsached
in three days. The ends Of the earth ara
coming together fast. Pretty soon there
won't be any ends. for the Garth will bv
round.