West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-05-31
LIGHTNING on WHEELS.
h ''Iime is Money" the New Chicago
Portland especial" Saves the Travel
ing Public Millions n Year.

millions for an inch of time - gasped
England's great virgin Queen. as her inn
perious soul hung lowering on the border
line between two worlds. clock-tick of
time is all that divides life in full flush from
pallid death. The fate of invividuals and
of empires often hangs upon moment
"lime is money is Poor Richard .ish
condensation of all materialistic philosophy
in three words.
Never since 'the evening and the morn
ing were the first day." was time so yalu-
able as in this age of steam and electricity,
of mighty undertakings, and gigantic
activities. In all the worlds busy cen,ers
of trade and finance, minutes are bankable
wealth, and fortunes may depend upon a
trifing difference in watches. II he IS
blessed "who makes two blades of grass
grow where one grew before, - how infinite
ly more worthy of blessing must be the
agency that yields to men or nations two
hours, or days or years, or centuries of
extra time for every one possessed before.
And this is just what the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation Company has done and is
doing with its new and superb flyers between
Portland and Chicago, between the North
west and the East. Take your pencil and
do little figuring.
The fastest regular train that ever crossed
the continent up TO April ~, 1000, took So
hours and 80 minutes to go from Portland 10
Chicago. Now, the magnificent "Chicago-
Portland Special" makes the 2SI4-rnile
trip in u hours and IS minutes. That is a
saving of II4 hours Of time to every pas.
senger. Say, that, including both east and
westbound travel by all routes, 400, 600 peo-
pie cross the continent in year-and that
is under, rather than over, estimate. The
aggregate saving Of time would be 4, soc, 900
hours. That is 5IS years, 8 months, and
20 days, or, counting 10 hours as business
or working day. 1899 years, 10 months and
20 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 300, 600
74-bour days give total of 10, zoe, 900
hours. Computing the working day, as
before, at 10 hours, this would be ,o2o, 900
days, or 523o years, : months and 10 days
according to orthodox chronology, nearly
all time snce the Creator leaned the wet
clay Adam up against the fence OF Paradise
TO dry-sayed the busy, rushing public in
one year Of transconlinental travel
And the saving is accomplished with every
imaginable concomitant of comfort and con
yenience An invalid, lady or child
may now start upon the long lrauscontncnial
journey without moments fear or hosi,a-
ton. II is simply flying holiday, without
jolt or jar, and surrounded with all the
accessories Of luxurious case, while the
scenic grandeurs and glories Of half a hemi-
sphere arc whirled before the travelling pic.
nieker's enchanted eyes. The scenery in
cludes, IN one vast, majestic panorama, all
that is wild sublime and beautiful in noun
tain and stream, crag, cataract and cascade.
sky-sciaping forest lonely desert aud
horizon-5ounded plain.
And the train would dumfound the por.
geous old romancers Of "The Arabian
Nights II is whole city Of palaces, with
porlors and drawing. rooms, sluniber cham
bers, banquet-hslls, cafes, barber shops,
baths, libraries and writing -rooms--all
respondent with gliding and carving and
tapestry, and radiant as a thousand meteors
with gas or electric lights-hying 30 miles
an hour-swifier than any wind short Of a
cyclone --over spaces vaster than the known
world Of Haroun al Rashcid and Aladdin.
Of Hersiod and Homer From Izo.ton
engine 20 the isat day-coach, The whole train
Is frst-class and yet second class passengers
arc carried al second.class rates Il Is The
model among all transconiincntal trains
"Chicago Portland Special" Of the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation Company-and its
time is unuvaled Think Of s. centuries
saved in a single year T. DoNAN.