Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-09
BIG THINGS IN RAPID TRANSIT.
The Philadelphia Saturday Evening

BIG THINGS IN RAPID TRANSIT.
The Philadelphia Saturday Evening
Pos summarizes a number Of facts in
the world $ progress al the close of the
bigness and rapidly in transportation,
just about Ten years ago a young
woman Went around the Wo,ld in.
eighty days and everybody. whe read
5slesN spapsrs MAS ialkug Of her perfpi.7
5r.ahct. Before the present yearfis oNss
II VIII be possible To make the trip in
.Itorty days, and before the earth is
VERY much older man will probably get
\ around il Mitnin the limits OF a month.
4 ,l'hesofle Tremendous maker Of miracles
has been transportation, and ii Isl till-
ing this very Year with wonderful per-
lsiernaasss On the ocean the Wiif1ia
tendency Is toward big.ness. The
/ North German line had scarcely fin
lsished the kaIser Milhelii. der Crosse.
| 1880 telis ard 1900 horse power be-
fore the White Star liIe had tho
/ 0eeanlc, With 1000 tons and 1900
/ horset pow3sii, and NOW ,iNa atils,. lines;
are building SHIPS that Win exceed
5botiliof these leyiathans ENery ship
yard in the World is busy NJ wport
I NeAs, which q generation age was a
4 ccrrfield, is NOW a center. Of ceasetess
ACTIVITY, with 5000 men building four
teen vessels, SONS of which have a
Tonnage ri nearly la.o0o. There are
nearly ,oGo men a { work On Vessels III
the Urien iron Works al SAN Francis
A co, and in the yards of8tne Cramps, a,
fiaIy
4 than 100000 skilled wark1men are III.
4 ga geti at the different yards m the tw,
a coasts. Insadditian TO ali this, the gov,
]. ships either on. the stocks or undeI
Il contract.
8 To- quicken our commerce. vas
schemes are under WAY the greatest 8
them being q canal across The isthmus
ssNaich Will save more than 10000 mile.
5 i'm the "trip from New York to Sal
a Francisco, and which will cost, accord
ing 10 one of the estimates, a leas
q Igs12E.noo. coo.
/. For land transp orta tion the project
: Ie&ceed everything in the history of TIN
!, world. The longest tunnel on earth i
3 now being built thru the Alps TO ope,
( q new route between north and soutl
Europe. I will be twelve and two
= Afths miles long, will be completed ii
live and one-half years and will cos
3Sl4,0O0.0o0. In this country a great tun
incl is to be built under New York at /;
3 cost of sS5,0oo.000 for the local traffic o
that crowded city.
PLAGUE SPREADING IN INDIA
The bubonic plague Is creating havo,
.iI3among the population of Asia, as re
/, ported by the London Lancet, which
says:
The plague has now taken hold o
. Bengal and is Spreading fast. As pre-
-l.dicted there is ii recrudescencc in Cal
Icutsa. The plague mortality has beer
i rising steadily since the end of Jan,iar
land the returns for las, week show IS
3 deaths. The outbreak in Calcutta lla
! not yet alarmed the native mind an.
large numbers still refuse to believe tina
!, 4 the disease2is plague at all. but comfor
themselves with thestitle of bubsnic fe
liver, miider forms Of which they thinl
I they have known in Bengal for man,
Years The. regulations being SO mill
! there is no ground for any complain
AGAINST Inc 5aulnoTltleS. Snoulu plagu
really develop seriously, as in Bomba.
and Poona, the organization must sho,
1 itself as helpless as IT is insufficient
r The rate Of general mortality now ex
leeds SO per 1000 per anEu.n, the norma
being about 81. There is every indie
a ton of a very serious development. TIL
-ioutbreak in the Patna district has nluc
increased. but 1t does not seem to hay
attracted much public attention. Nearl
600 deaths occurred last week. TIL
Z lpeople refuse TO follow the traditiona
8 plan of evacuation. Some one appear
i to have poisoned their minds Just in TIL
S same way as some one poisoned til
minds Of the people OF Calcutta With re
! igard to incubation. The consequence