Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-10-31
GREAT AMERICAN VICTORY.

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Burlington Fast Mail Helps to Cut Down Time
Several Days.
American mail trains and steamships
sailing under the American flag have es-
tablished the supremacy of Americas
transportation systems by demonstrate
ing that the route between London and
Australia via San Francisco and New
York is quicker and better than the
routes via the Suez Canal or Vancouver.
When the steamship Campania sailed
from New York, September z, she had
aboard important Australian mail in
tended for the British Colonial Office
which was delivered in London several
days earlier than was ever done before.
The steamship Ventura, OF the Oceanic
line, had carried the S47 sacks Of mail
from Sidney, New South Wales, Aus
tralia, to San Francisco in twenty.one
days, the former time for the trip being
twenty-six days.
Special mail trains, racing $3.50 miles
across the continent over the Bur-
lington Route and the other mail carry
ing roads, delivered the mail in New
York barely in time, and the mail sacks
were hustled aboard the Campania only
a short time before she sailed.
Officials of the railroads carrying the
mail across the American continent were
elated, for their claim that the shortest
route between London and Australia was
via New York and San Francisco had
been substantiated.
The Burlington and its connections
with the fast steamships of the Oceanic
Steamship Company, have cut down the
journey from Australia to London to
about thirty one days. This is gain of
several days over the other routes. Mail
has heretofore been carried from Aus
tralia to England on p. & 0. line steam
ships VIA the Suez Canal. Attempts
have been made to shorten the journey,
and only two years ago the route from
Vancouver via the Canadian Pacific line
to New York was tried. The American
railroads have beaten the record made
then.
Grade from Australia and the Orient
belongs to this country, and it is only a
question of time when we will get it,"
said the official of one Of the American
roo1o tbo< corr., tho ,,,oil
"When the Oceanic Steamship line
was opened John d. Spreckels went to
Australia, where he had talk with the
government officials, to whom he ex-
planned that Australian mail could he
carried more quickly via the steamship
line to San Francisco and thence to New
York, and now his statement has been
abundantly proved"
Through delay west of Ogden, the at
tempt at breaking the record was nearly
frustrated. The lost time was regained,
however, by means of special train
over the Burlington Route from Council
Bluffs to Chicago and another special
over the Lake Shore railroad from Chi
cago to Toledo.
The Burlington special left Council
Bluffs at 10 :55 p. m, September s, and
reached Chicago at 9:08 4. M, Septem-
Der 6, the 200 miles being covered in
6l3 minutes, an average speed OF 1894
miles per hour. Deducting 81 minutes
for delays, the actual running time was
562 minutes, rate of 1888 miles per
hour. The fastest time on the run was
made from Galesburg to Buda, Illinois,
the 45.S miles between those points be-
ing covered in As minutes, an average
speed Of 81 90 miles per hour. The run
from Burlington to Galesburg, 49, miles,
was made at speed Of $500 miles per
hour, that from Buda to Mendoza, 1919
miles, at speed Of $3.50 miles per hour,
and that from Mendoza to Aurora, asa
miles, at a speed OF q SO miles per hour.
Fast as this run is, it is but few
minutes faster than that made every day
in the week by the three exclusive fast
mail trains Of the Burlington between
Council Bluffs anI Chicago. Between
these points the Burlington has handled
the trans continental mail for nearly
eighteen years, and it is rare indeed
that the Fast Mail in either direction is
late.