Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-05-23

Richardson condensation Of all material
istic philosophy in three words.
|, Never since ''the evening and the
morning were the first day." was time so
valuable as in this age of steam and cleo
tricity, of mighty undertakings, and
gigantic activities. In all the world s
busy centers of trade and finance minutes
are bankable wealth, and fortunes may
depend upon a trihing difference in
watches. If he is blessed "who makes
two blades of grass grow where one grew
before" how infinitely more worthy OF
blessing must be the agency that yields
to riien or nations two hours, or days, or
wears, or centuries of extra time for every
one possessed before!
And this is Just what the Oregon Rail
road & Navigation Company has done
and is doing with its new and superb
| flyers between Portland and Chicago, be-
tween the Northwest and the East. Take
your pencil and do little figuring.
The fastest regular train that ever
crossed the continent up to April az, 1900,
took 80 hodrs and 30 minutes to go from
! Portland to Chicago. Now the magnih-
cent "Chicago-Portland Special" makes
the 23I4-mile trip in "a hours and IS min
utes. That is saving of II4 hours OF
time to every passenger. Say that, in
Guiding both east and westbound travel
by all routes. 400 900 people cross the
continent in a year-and that is an under
rather than overestimate. The aggregate
saving of time would be 4, 500 900 hours.
That is 5I3 years, s months and 20 days
or, counting 10 hours as business or
working day, I232 years, 10 months and
30 days-of time saved in single year
by one grand change of railroad schedule
Nor is that all. 1t is scarcely start in
the marvellous mathematics. The 500, ooc
24-hour days give total of 70, zoo, oooc
hours. Computing the working day, as
before, at ten hours, this would be $40.
| 600 days, or 523o years, months and ten
}days-according to orthodox chronology
nearly all time since the Creator leaned
the wet clay of Adam up against the
fence of Paradise to dry--saved to the
busy, rushing public in one year of trans
continental travel!
And the saving is accomplished with
every conceivable concomtant of com
fort and convenience An invalid, lady
or child may now start upon long
transcontinental journey without mo
ment's fear or hesitation. 1t Is Simply a
flying holiday, without jolt or jar
and surrounded with all the accessorie.
of luxurious ease, while the scenic grand
eurs of and glories of half hemisphere
are whirled before the travelling picnick
er's enchanted eyes. The scenery in
cludes, in one vast, majestic panorama
all that is wild, sublime and beautiful il
mountain and stream. crag, cataract ant
cascade, sky-scraping forest, lonely deser
horizon bounded plain.
And the train would dumfound tn,
T gorgeous old romancers Of 1.-The Arabian
Nights" 1t is a whole city of palaces
with parlors and drawingrooins, slumbe
chambers, banquet halls, cafes, barbe
shops, baths, libraries and writing room
all Respondent with gliding and cary
ing and tapestry, and radiant as thou
sand meteors with gas or electric light
--hying 40 miles an hour--swifter thar
any wind short of cyclone-over space
vaster than the known world Of Haroul
al Raschid and Aladdin, or Hesiod an,
Homer. From cotton engine to the las
day coach the whole train is first elias
and yet second class passengers are car
ried at second-class rates. 1t is the mode
among all transcontinental trains--thi
Chicago Portland Special of the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation Company
and its time is unrivaled! Think of S
centuries saved in single year!
p. DOMAIN.