Show A rast fait steamer out in the state of washington there is a steamboat which lets no grass ras grow under her feet if the hibernian editor may inay be allowed a figure of speech it is the flyer a screw steamboat feet long carrying passengers gers on puget bound she ran miles during the I 1 year 1891 1894 which is believed to be one I 1 of the best records ever made by a boat of that kind this vessel makes four round trips daily between seattle and tacoma 27 miles or miles a day the rhe round trip of 65 55 miles is made in three hours the distance between these two cities by rail is about 10 40 miles but tile the flyer makes calces such good time lime and is so punctual that she is is aid taid t tob to be more amore popular than the railroad trains tho the aggregate of lost time ionly during tho the year is ia sald said to have been becu only 43 minu teil |