The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-14

we're pubic acts granting pGuSlOIS
paying claims, SC. The best previous
record was 1923 bills in 175 days. One
private pension day in the house that
body broke all records by passing 1870
of these bills. Among congressman
who have been unanimously renomina-
ted, John B, Ketcham, of New York,
holds the record, having been chosen
by reclamation sixteen times.
The year 1900 has been successful, too,
in smashing old railroad records, No
other train in the world has eXcelled
the long-distance performance Of the
Paris-Calals express, which in the lat
ter part of October covered the distance
between those cities, 1876 miles, in 1874
minutes, or a fraction more than a
mile minute. On the Burlington road
a run from Chicago to Denver 1,025
miles, was made in 1,047 minutes. or at
the rate of 5S.74 miles an hour, exclu-
sive of stops, the worlds record for
such distance. The Adams cigar
shaped train, a new invention, made
record for the forty miles between Bal
tlmore and Washington, covering the
distance in thirty-seven minutes and
thirty seconds. The maximum speed,
attained in the last five miles, was 1928
miles an hour. The Northwestern fast
mail train ran fourteen miles in seven
minutes or at the rate Of 120 miles an
hour. On the New York Central there
is record of a mile in thirtytwo sec
onds. The Pennsylvania company has
a train that covered little more than
five miles in three minutes, or at the
vol ,f Nl,o JOI,I,
lington, however, boasts of the highest
short distance speed ever reached, run
of two and four-tenths miles in one
minute and twenty seconds, or at the
rate of 1870 miles an hour This run was
timed by stop watches, as there was no
speed Indicator ON the engine. 1t is said
that out of fourteen regular trains
whose schedules call for mile a min
ute and upward, ten are American, two
are French and two are English. The
fastest scheduled trains in the world
are those which run between Camden,
N. j., and Atlantic City. The average
speed between these points is from six
ty-five to sixty-eight miles an hour the
distance being a little less than sixty
miles.
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chine contractors in Wyoming boast of
having beaten the worlds record by
laying eighteen thousand feet in one
day, the best previous record being on
the Colorado division of the Rock Is
land road, where 2SS miles of track were
laid in five months and ten days.
All the ocean-sailing experts will re-
call the records for speed made by the
Hamburg American steamer Deutseh
land in 1900. The Deutschland's great
est triumph came early in September,
when her time from, Sandy Hook to
Plymouth was five days, seven hours
and thirty-five minutes. The average
speed was 1886 knots; the greatest
days run was $40 miles.
The total foreign commerce of the
United States in the fiscal year ending
June surpassed by 1919, 729, $50 that of
any preceding year. and for the first
time in our history exceeded two bill
lion dollars.
The largest lumber deal of the year
was scored by a Wisconsin dealer He
sold to a Chicago concern the seasons |
product of two mills, forty-five million
feet the consideration being one million |
dollars.
Beef at $1.50 a pound on the lloof was
the record price for this product, estab- |
ished in December at the International |
Live Stock Show in Chicago. A fancy
steer, four years old, and weighing 1,430 |
pounds, was sold for $2,145. Queen Vic
toria, it is said, held the previous rec
ord in this line when she sold a prize |
o.. = Ii, ~, IT.
price in the worlds history for a car
lot of steers was recorded when fifteen |
head We're knocked down at $3.50
hundred weight. At this same auction |
Dolly, q four-year-old Hereford, /
brought $3.50, the highest price ever
paid for COW of that breed. In April, |
at prior sale, Dale, a Hereford bull, |
brought the record price Of $500, the |
OPP figure previously paid for a bull in
any country being S5,100 for Sir Bred |
we'll at a Kansas City sale. In March, /
he queen mother COW, Lucia Estill, an
was sold there for
$500. Chicago also set a price on
,horthorn cattle in August. when May
lower VI. was sold for 50, 900.
The shortest murder trial on record
ook place in Chicago last May. In one
lour and nine minutes jury was OBJ
aimed, testimony heard, arguments
made and a verdict of acquittal rem
Tered in the case of Hiram Zee, ac-
used of killing a man of the name of
Miller by kicking him out of a third
tory window in lodging house
Mrs. e. NJ Holland, of Kansas, re-
ported the prize servant girl record for
he year. She has had her servant,
Ann Mason, for more than twenty-one
ears. This paragon of house servants
ooked the first meal Mr.. Holland and
is bride ate when they went to house
eeping and has cooked every one since
hen New York Sun.
THE ELKS' MINSTRELS.