New-York tribune., 1900-12-04
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. TUESDAY DECEMBER l. 1900
THE PASSING THRONG.

Passing through Cumberland Nd" said J. H.
sahIberg OF that city. AT the Hotel Imperial yes
terday afternoon. 'fs the Old Ma
THE OLD tfonal Pike. the great connecting
NATIONAL, Ink between the East and the
TURNPIKE. West IN the ante-rairoad days
Boldly and directly Il flung its
white length toward the land OF the setting
and passing through Brownsville. long a town OF
the first Importance the Monongahela River. IL
reached into Kentucky. and ena bled the produrzs
of the Ohio River Valley TO reach the markets of
the East. well conceived and magnfcenty con-
and its hard smooth roadbed Of to-day bears testi-
mony TO the efficiency and skill that It's makers
Of to-day find fault with 1t on the ground that fol-
lows TOO direct line. with too little regard TO
Peers peer on the ground that it was no great feat OF
was to sight from hilltop to Hilltop and run the
road between That is practically what they did
for so constructing it, The vehicles that rolled
along the oFd National pike in it's heyday were
much harder TO move than are their successors.
That's That Is to move on the level In other words i
nfiy to eighty years ago on the Natiopal Pike than
that self same pike The initial force 70 be ex-
pended in starting and on the level was greater
difference Loaded teams carried not so much and
the question Of grade consequently did not make
extent eliminated. the pike engineers followed the
to hilltop"
AN analogy exists to-day continued Mr.. stahl-
berg, 'in the transportation the railroad and
transportation the m ldern road
ANOTHER by horse power. The grades Of the
RELIC OF road are greater than those of the
OLD TINE railroad. and II is for the reason
TRANS that. while less tractIve force is
PORTATION. required 10 move a ton on the level
the railroad than the road.
when grades reached their resistance is pro-
portiOnately greater on the railroad than on the
road. q M Iavpl a m a
traetive power OF one hundred pounds. To a
ton on a railroad requires tractive force OF ten
pounds. That is, while one hundred pounds tract
I've power a road will move ton. the same
power on railroad win move ten tons. But when
grades are reached their resistance TO the tractve
what they are on the road The Romans con-
stTueted roads on this principle and with fully as
famous old Roman roads in England go from point
70 point IN as direct line as possible, and with
works out. We also have another relic Of past
lS ClS'GoGs , OF transportaton IN SumseTan nd, The
IS still In use, and follows the left bank of the
went still further south being carried across the
on beio the many 4g years and Vas
a bridge rel replaeed the old one The memory Of the
is Is called Aaueduct Bridge in memory of the uses
II crossed the Atlantic last summer" said NJ III
Small of Boston. az the Murray Hill Hotel yester-
day, with couple Of fellow coun-
SATISFIED trymen who nothing good
AMERICANS. save that Il be American I suppose
you know the type; they are for
ever instituting comparisons. II you show them
some peculiarly beautiful view. building. work Of
art or anything else IN Europe they will straight
way say, But you ought 10 such and such
thing In America They're really an awful bore
but you inclined TO forgive them for on oc
casions they are very funny. although usually un
| Intentionally The two I travelled with mad,
| every one cross with their eternal twaddIe abou
/ the wonders of America. and | for one wa.
| heartily glad when saw their backs after our ar
! rival at Southampton. Two days later I was tax
/ ing in ST. Paus Cathedral, when I them enter
/ Wondering what they would compare St Paul.
i with In America or find 10 say about H. / fell n
\ behind them within listening distance. After {
| moment or two Of gazing around. one turned q
the other with, 'HUInph. II doesn't strike me as =
/ much Why. IL wouldn't take Niagara Falls tw,
| ed Orrtf