Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-10
China Dept. Special
HAYDEN BROS.

trains. undoubtedly the fastest are from
Camden to Atlantic City Here some very
fast time has been made over an ideal
country for fast time, by both the Reading
and the Pennsylvania The Reading has
set the pace and the Pennsylvania followed.
The best Reading time is 56k miles in
fifty minutes, or over sixty-six miles an
hour, while the best Pennsylvania time is
fifty-nine miles at the rate of sixty-four
miles an hour
Moderate Pace in the West.
These constitute all the fast regular
trains in the United States. The fastest
run in New England outside the Boston
New York run is from Boston to Portland
at the rate of forty-four miles an hour, and
the showing is still poorer in the west and
south. Chicago, in many respects the
greatest railroad center in the world, has
no fast trains outside the New York Cen
trail and the Pennsylvania trains referred
20.
Throughout the west, while the best
trains are very luxurious, perhaps the most
up-to-date in the world, the runs are all
short, averaging about thirty miles be-
tween stations, and the speed nowhere
averages forty miles an hour. Throughout
the south there are no really first-cass ex-
press trains other than those from New
York City or Chicago carrying the tourist
travel at certain seasons of the year.
Next 20 speed may be considered the fire.
uuency of trains, their appointments, etc.
In this respect a still more pronounced diff
ference appears in different countries with
almost equal population.
Why should the people OF one region
crowd hundreds of trains daily and those
OF another Cegion be satihed with only two
or three trains? Thus more trains leave
the great south terminus in Boston in one
day than are moved in one direction on all
| the roads of Spain and Portugal in two
weeks. From one terminal in London more
trains leave daily than move in ten days to
supply 125,OCo,OOO people OF all Russia, in
| Europe and Asia.
| II would probably surprise New Workers
/ to know that the south terminal in Boston
not only is the largest station in the world
but sends out daily more than 400 trains
nearly twice the number despatched from
the Grand Central station by the three
roads starting from there. The next larg-
! est number sent from any station In this
country is about $50 from the Boston &
/ Maine terminal in Boston, and the next
about 325 from the Broad Street station
/ Philadelphia. Then come the Grand Contra
station, New York, and the Reading terml-
nal, Philadelphia.
London franc.
| But these figures do not equal those OF
the great London terminal. There one sta
ton sends out 100 trains daily, the great
est number from any one station in the
world and all Of the twelve great terminals
send out large numbers OF trains as the
suburban travel is great and the trains
are often smaller than in America.
| Including all suburban trains, such as
those OF the staten Island road. which Is
still operated with steam, and figuring or
a mean average Of winter and summer. the
regular scheduled trains leave the fouI
great oenters In the following number
daily. the figures being for all roads and
approximately correct: New York City
J. 100; Boston 100; Philadelphia, $50; Chi
oago, $50. No other American city has 400
AS might be expected the roadbed and
the operating equipment are better In Eng
land and some parts OF France and Ger,
many than in America. and owing 10 ths
ever-prevailing precautions taken both By
the roads and the state accidents are only
about one-dfth as frequent as In America
All the principal roads in England have
two tracks and many main lines have four
In this respect Americans are making
great improvements now as the Pennsyl
vania Il fOur-tracked from New York q
Pittsburg and the New Haven from New