The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1901-11-07
a RACE ACAINsT TIME.


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The American is almox tiuvsgixhiy
q winner. He holds oil the most izn-
porsant worlds records froaa yacht
me- down to cycling. Juas the other
lay aa Ohio man broke all the auto.
mobile records from one to ten miles,
But this IL not prominently a sport
,ns age. though good healthy sport
holds an important place In our mod
sfn life. IL ix an age Of busincss ems
tsFprise. Especially, and NOT inap-
propriately, has II been styled an age
3f transportation, eTransportafion,s
said speaker recently before tss
commercial cOnwfe7a
at Philadelphia, ''underiiea material
prosperity In every department az
commerce. without transportation
commerce woaid be impossible: these
states and nations are rich, powerful
aud enlightened whose tFansportatica
facilities are the best and moRs com
prehrnaive; the dying nations ARE
thoae with little or NO transportation
facilities"
Then the speaker uttered these TIVE
memorable sentences:
Trade follows the flag"
TRADE follows the mail"
II these statements he true. too
grsat Importance can hardly be
placed upon the recent achievement
Of an American Pacific iluSr ard Of
the ave great railroads making up the
transcontinental system between San
francisco and New York, of which
Mr.. Charles Barnard gives a graphic
aceount in the ''Four Track Series"
At the post oiisae Of Sydney, N. 8.
w., there lsy. early in the morning OF
August IL, 1901. So7 sacks Of the most
important mali matter ever sent from
Australia 20 England. There are two
routes by which such mail conid so.
One is an ail-ss;ssss.ss==h route by way OF
the Suex canal. The other Ia prac-
tieaIly 40 all-American route. by way
of Samoa, Hawaii. San Francisco, New
York and thence 10 London. OF
course. undcr the present arrange
mcnt. the last lap, ON the bosom OF
the broad Atlantic, Is sailed under
the British flag. The British route Ia
the older one and also the shorter,
being u, 900 miles. while the distance
the other way around Ii l., AT. differ
rner Of over q thousand miles. Hith-
erto the difference In time has fa-
vored the EnglIsh transportation sys.
TEN. the regular time, when boats
and trains we're son time" being IS
days and some hours. The American
route took two extra days, or ~
days and some boEra.
That morning, the 18th of August,
the Americas Aag was flying ON
new. ship, fresh from the American
ship yards on the Delaware. She was
the best available ship that day In the
South Pacific. The only thing 20 do
was TO place the important mail Q.
beard the new American, twin-screw
steamer Ventura" Of the Oceanic
Steamship company. which was done
at ten o'clock IN the morning. From
Sydney the Ventura steered straight
for Auckland and entered that har-
Dor on the nth. Taking on freight,
mails and passengers she again set
sail. making for the beautiful aud pc.
etic islands of Samoa, thence for ilA'
wall and San Francisco. Al seven p
ma, September g, che anchored at
quarantine in San Francisco harbov,
having mAdc the voyage In 30 days
and hours. Had the Ventura been
urged II Is possible she could have ar.
rived few hours earlier and landed
those precious mail bags that day
As II happened they could not be
landed TIN $3.50 on the morning Of the
Sd. They were az once transferred
by teams 20 the Market street statlor
Of the Southern Pacific Ogden rautel
and at ten o'clock they began theiI
eventful Journey across the continent
TO New York, s.sss miles away. The
oficerE of the Oceanic Steamship com.
parry and of the Southern Pacific were
naturally anxious that the mat
should make good progress and were
kept informed by telegraph of the
progress of the train during that day
and evening.
Suddenly the unexpected happened
The train arrived at Ogden, Utah
two dreadful hour. iute.
The mali was transferred to the
mail car Of train No. 9 Of the Union
Pacific. Now the lost time must be
recovered. But with all It's Kpurts
Of speed the train was not gaining
fast enough. IL was still Iate whcr
u reached Omaha TIE c.....-=->>
burlington Il Quincy put the single
mail car containing his maieaty's
mail behind special fast engine. II
was q night run against time for No
iose. On and on. 60 miles an bouf
steady. The train entered Union sta.
ton, Chicago. at eos n, M, on the
9Th. Five hundred and eight miles liz
SIS minutes.
No. q In the Lake shorc--%ew Yort
Central "fast mail''~-the heavieat fast
mail train in America. She had left
at e:s0. That train had to be over.
taken. A new special. two cara aud
No. SEQ, would try II II had 70 chase
II all the way into Buffalo. Az pre-
etseiy a:5e;5o u. m. she pulled out
from the Lake Shore station and
No. . one hour and roy miuutss
ahesd. As che special ate ap the
miles. Il became evident that shc was
making up the lest time. she would
overhaul No. Q at Toledo. Two hmm
dred and forty-foar miles in assI5
minutes. The thing had been dene.
The two hours lost 1000 miles away