The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1901-11-08

rfrently before the information.
commercial congress at Phil.
,d.lphia, "underiies material pros
nerty in every department Of
commerce.; without transportation
y nmerce would be impossib.e; those
.ta.es and nations are rich, powerful
INA enlightened whose transportation
abilities are the best and most COM
ur,hensive; the dying nations arc
those with little or no transportation
iacilties."
Then the speaker uttered these two
memorable sentences:
"Trade follows the flag"
Trade follows the mail"
II these statements be true, too
treat Importance can hardly be
placed upon the recent achievement
~ an American Pacific liner and OF
thc five great railroads making up the
nanscontnental system between San
Francisco and New York, of which
Mr.. Charles Barnard gives graphic
account in the -Four Track Series"
AZ the post Office of Sydney, n. 8.
". there lay. early in the morning Of
August 10, 1901, 367 sacks of the most
rmporiant mail matter ever sent from
Australia to England. There are two
routes by which such mail could go.
one is an all-British route by way Of
tae Suez canal. The other Is prac-
;cnlly an all-American route, by way
IN samoa, Hawaii, San Francisco. New
York and thence to London. OF
course. under the present arrange
ment. the last lap, on the bosom OF
the broad Atlantic, is sailed under
tie British flag. The British route 10
the older one and also the shorter,
being 1880 miles, while the distance
Tie other away around is 1857, .
difference Of over a Thousand miles.
That morning, the 18th of August.
the American flag was flying on .
new ship. fresh from the American
slip wards on the Delaware. She was
the best available ship that day in the
south Pacific. The only thing to do
was 10 place the important mail ON
board the new American. twin-screw
steamer Ventura" Of the Oceanic
steamship company, which was done
~ Ten o'clock In the morning. From
sydney the Ventura steered straight
fof auckland. and entered that har-
lol on the 18th. Taking on freight,
mails and passengers she again SEQ
SAIL making for the beautiful and POI
etc islands Of Samoa. thence for Ha-
waii and San Francisco. At seven p.
w. September 2, she anchored at
quarantine in San Francisco harbor.
having made the voyage in 90 days
and hours Had the Ventura been
urged il is possible she could have ar
rived a few hours earlier and landed
those precious mail bags that day.
IS il happened they could not b
larded till $40 on the morning OF the
2d. They were at once transferred
by teams to the Market street station
Of the Southern Pacific (Ogdenroute).
md at ten o'clock they began their
cventful journey across the continent
to New York. 3.3ss miles away. The
officers OF the Oceanic Steamship COM
pany and Of the Southern Pacific were
naturally anxious that the mail
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 hours late.
The mail was transferred to the
mail car of train No. of the Union
Pacific. 1t was still late when
i reached Omaha. The Chicago,
burlington a Quincy put the single
nail car containing his majesty's
mail behind special fast engine. IL
was night run against time for No.
lp>i. On and on. 60 miles an hour
steady. The train entered Union sta.
ton. Chicago. Mt 9:0s A. m. on the
eth Five hundred and eight miles in
SIS minutes.
No. is the Lake Shore-New York
Central fast mail'-the heaviest fast
Wall train in America. She had left
e' 70. That train had to be over
iah,n A new special. two cars and
NIX 800, would try IL IL had to chase
~ m the way into Buffalo. At pre-
c,tly 9:59:30 .. m. she pulled out
from the Lake Shore station-and
No one hour and 29h minutes
ahead. As the special ate up the
miles. IL became evident that she was
making up the lost time. She would
overhaul No. 6 at Toledo. Two hum
dred and forty-four miles in 265h
minutes. The thing had been done.
The two hours lost 1000 miles away
had been made up.
1T Buffalo. the precaution was
taken TO make up the New York Cen.
tra''s No. 6-the fast mail--into two
sections. sending on those mail bags
rom Australia, together with Uncle
sans mail. in the first section. This
was the fifth and last of the railroad
INES forming the route across the
United States. The train pulled into
the Grand Central station the morn.
ing OF the 7th at 9:s7-three minutes
ahead Of time.
The Campania sailed 1T noon. with
ms majesty's mail on board. 25 days