The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-23

York, holds the record having been
chosen by reclamation sixteen times.
The year 1900 has been successful, too,
IN smashing old railroad records. No
other train in the world has excelled the
long distance performance of the Paris
Calais express, which in the latter part
of October covered the distance between
those cities. Isl miles, in 1S4 minutes, or
traction more than a mile a minute.
On the Burlington road run from Chi
cago to Denver, LOIS miles, was made
IN l,O47 minutes, or at the rate of IS. "A
miles an hour, exclusive of stops, the
worlds record for such a distance. The
Adams cigar-shaped train, new inven-
ton, made a record for the forty miles
between Baltimore and Washing ton COW
ering the distance in thirty-seven minutes
and thirty seconds. The maximum speed,
attained in the last five miles, was 1925
miles an hour. The Northwestern fast
mail train ran fourteen miles in seven
minutes, or at the rate of 12G miles an
hour. On the New York Central there
is a record of a mile in thirty-two
seconds. The Pennsylvania company has
a train that covered little more than
five miles in three minutes, or at the rate
of 102 miles an hour. The Burlington,
however, boasts of the highest short dis
lance speed ever reached, a run of two
and four-tenths miles in one minute and
twenty seconds or at the rate of 100 miles
an hour. This run was timed by stop
watches. as there was no speed indicator
on the engine. It is said that out of
fourteen regular trains whose schedules
call for mile a minute and upward, ten
are American, two are French and two
are English. The fastest scheduled train
in the world are those which run be-
tween Camden, N j., and Atlantic City.
The average speed between these points
is from sixty-five to sixty-eight miles
an hour, the distance being a little less
than sixty miles.
With the aid of track-laying machine
contractors in Wyoming boast of having
beaten the worlds record by laying 49,,
600 feet in one day, the best previous rec
ord being on the Colorado division of the
Rock Island road, where 2S8 miles of
track were laid in five months and ten
days.
All the ocean-sailing experts will recall
the records for speed made by the Ham
American steamer Deutschland in
1900. The Deutschlands' greatest triumph
came early in September, when her time
from Sandy Hook to Plymouth was five
days, seven hours and ttNrty-five min
utes. The average speed was SO knots;
the greatest days run was $40 miles.
The total foreign commerce Of the
United States In the fiscal year ending in
preceding year, and for the first time in
our history exceeded 1000, DOC, 900.
The largest lumber deal of the year
was scored by a Wisconsin dealer. He
sold to a Chicago concern the seasons
product of two mills, 100000 feet, the
consideration being 81, 100000.
Beef at $1.50 pound on tie hoof was
the record price for this product, estab-
lished in December at the International
Live stock show in Chicago. A fancy
steer, four years old, and weighing 1,4SO
pounds, was sold for 81, 145. Queen Victo-
ria, it is said, held the previous record
in this line when she sold prize steer
for $3.50. At this show the highest price
in the worlds history for a car lot of
steers was recorded when fifteen head
were knocked down at $3.50 a hundred
weight. At this same auction Dolly a
four-year-old Hereford, brought IS, 49,
the highest price ever paid for a COW Of
that breed. In April, at a prior sale,
Dale, a Hereford bull, brought the rec
ord price of $500, the top figure pre-
viously paid for a bull in any country
being $500 for Sir Bredwell at a Kansas
City sale. In March, the queen mother
COW, Lucia Estill, an Aberdeen-Angus,
was sold there for $500. Chicago also
set price on shorthorn cattle in August,
when Mayf1ower VI. was sold for 81, 600.
The shortest murder trial on record
took place in Chicago last May In one
hour and nine minutes jury was obtain
ed, testimony heard, arguments made
and a verdict Of acquittal rendered in the
case OF Hiram Zee, accused of killing a
man of the name of Miller by kicking
him out of a third-story window in a
lodging house.
Mrs. E. NJ. Holland, Of Kansas, report