Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-05-30
ENGINES WITH HISTORY
One Has Covered a Distance of 1000,
900 MiIes.

One Of the big engines Of the Lon
don and Northwestern Railway COM
pany has just completed distance OF
100000 miles. An English locomo-
10000 miles year, so this wonderful
performance is equal to a hundred
years service on an ordinary basis,
AS a matter of fact, the engine in
question has been worked five times as
hard as the average, and has accom-
plished its task within a period Of 20
years.
Quite how long well-built locomo-
tive will last in running order is hard
ly known. Six years ago the famous
Lord Of the Isles" was "scrapped" at
Swindon. She was one Of the famous
Great Western broad gauge engines.
and was built in 1912. She was in per-
feet running order up to the end Of her
long life of more than sixty years.
A carriage, If we'll used, has a very
long life. In the Museum Of Coaches
at Lisbon is coach in which King
Edward VII drove during viist to
Lisbon ten or twelve years ago. The
coach was built in 1921. y...-..
Ex-President Roosevelt owns and
uses a phaeton which was made to his
grand-father's order at least 20 years
ago. 1t is very comfortable and as
good almost as the day it was built.
Motorcars, alas! have no such long
life. A car is old at five years, and,
though there are some single cylin-
ders still on the road which date from
the beginning Of the present century,
they are stared at as curiosities. or
inventions for purposes of locomotion
none can match a ship for long life.
Only last year the Seal left Bideford
for Durham, a voyage Of 5000 miles.
The Seal was built at Southampton in
1916, and in 1923 was driven from her
moorings at Poole in fearful gale and
found in turnip field.
There are still afioat at least a doz-
en- sailing vessels which have weather.
ed the storms of century. The rec
ord is, or rather was, held by the Ital-
ian vessel Anita. Built in Genoa in
154S, she made her last voyage In 1902.
That was from Teneriffe to Naples.
She was thus more than $50 years old.
Alas! she has been broken up-a cruel
fate for such a wonderful old relic.
Steamships seldom last more than
forty years. or those built between
1915 and 1885 there is not, we believe,
a single one afloat. The life Of the
modern steel ship Is much shorter than
that Of her wooden predecessor. AS
for warships, they are usually scrap
ped at the age Of 20.
OF all machines made by man none
can compare for long life with the
clock. The life of a clock is as much
longer than that Of any other machin-
cry as the life of a man is longer than
that of q dog.
The French city of Rouen has great
clock which was built in the year 1889
and is still keeping good time. Except
for cleaning and a few necessary re-
pairs 1t has never stopped during a
period Of more than five centuries. 1t
strikes the hours and chimes the
quarters.
Ornaments last longer than any
thing else that man makes. There are
brooches and necklaces in our muse
ums more than forty centuries old.
Monuments, perhaps, stand second.
and houses third. The'lift Of furniture
Is shorter still. There is very little
furniture left in England which 1ates
beyond the year 1900. Pictures last
longer than furniture, and there are
paintings still in fair condition which
have weathered six centuries of life
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