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Show It Is Different Here, Senator. 1 Senator La Folletto was disappointed una a I trifle irritable because the train on which ho came 1 to Salt Lake was some hours late. The senator I should bo considerate. The train that he. came on I had to haul him up into tho air a mile and a I half high and then let him gently down more than I half a mile. Then tho weet has grown faster 1 than the roads could keep up with them. They I have a vast carrying trade and only single tracks. I Then a locomotive's hauling power is reduced on a 1 two per cent grade more than 40 per cent over I what it can do on a level track. This makes a I vast difference between railroading east and west 1 The s nator can take a train at Madison for Chi- B cago, any little old locomotive can haul him; in- I deed, tho train will, when tho brakeB are off al- jl most run by gravity to Chicago. There Is not I much wear on the track; there are no sharp I curve or heavy grades, and If anything happens I on one road ho can take another. There Is no croBS- I ing tho back-bone of a continent there; over tho II long, level stretches there are no obstacles, and II I the trains move as easily as does the tongue of tlie senator when lie "is making his appeal to a suffering constituency. We think with him that the mountain roads should change the time on their schedules; that I they are trying to rim too fajit, but there the over- laslng competition come in. It cannot he done unless all the overland roads agree to it. We will have more roafls after -a while and some double tracks. tfnli that day comes travelers wiil have to do liio best they can, and to comfort com-fort them they should try to keep in mind that to climb and descend veat mountains and turn sharp curves is not, fen a locomotive, like taking tak-ing a speed" away for a few hours over a level course on straight tracks. |
