Show JAINS NOT SLOW ITON MAKES COMPARISON OF Id RAILROAD SPEEDS a K l fast TIme Made In England as In f the United States He Declares Improvements In A Twenty Years L a Englishman who visited this atry in the interest of a railroad Mention had this comment to make L a American railway speeds and e cards as compared with those In a British Islands Our fast express trains aro taken a rule as fast and much inure erous than yours Their distance q lot course not so great Our cross y trains which exist on local flc entirely are much abused by Orleans who have to uso them andy y reall and-y deserve their reputation for Isrely movement But I have os rl ad roads In this country that use Ie time to accomplish shorter Jour I 61 than any we have In tho British t lads Hero Is one whose map and a edule I will show you In the curt t cur-t Issue of the Official Guide of always of the United Spates It Is i Chicago Illinois Westorn rail t 1 d operating 11 miles of railway Itlwest from Chicago and having ram section with 18 trunk lines Its ar seager train runs from ono term en II J to the other In three hours and 30 a utes moving westward which Is ° Itjr flow Hut they movo eastward n Willow Springs to McCook 11 n ° s mind you in just seven hours a e i Is their schedule depart at 11 d anJ arrIve at Hawthorno nt six at Can you beat It as you say instates I In-states 1 top Then i there Is tho Tonopnh Tide for l er Railway company operating a 17 miles from Ludlow Cal to nont Nov Passenger trains run ugh in precisely ten hours There f 1t Jilso the Oberlin La Grange Rail I company out In Ohio operating miles passenger schedule time cl hours and 53 minutes with one dd Thero Is also the Sumter sh > taw railway In Alabama which I I Iks one train both ways dally mak fig 31 3 miles In precisely seven hours Inlng time Then thoro Is tho Wy a jotte Southeastern railway out In ansas that boldly and truthfully 01 lertlses an Irregular schedule over J miles of road I was eight hours Ing a transit over that line and n bad I no accident nor other remark e1a i i delay ce r e 11 l only speak of these lines to lllus yet e the error that crosscountry rail lines in England aro tho slowest ni f 0 years tho roads In this country it Improved vastly and particularly P in south Twenty years ago I was Ion o days from Meridian Miss tot to-t Ittauooga Tenn over the Chatta to p Great Southern 320 miles pod > It Is part of a fine trunk line ands and-s lo mled the same djstanco In nine n rs In tho greatest comfort I par Orst class trains are thoso run fbj1 several routes from London to er how and Edinburgh 400 miles In I r ft t hours They are very heavy a us and aro usually drawn byes by-es Ifrhewlcd engines make few stops r encounter no delays over a track p r 1 clear for them at least 20 mill ye10 Alter they loso their 20 minutes have to look out for themselves ont No they never pick It up Hero r t different I came oast on tho fast t OUr train from Chicago to New iiL k t and wo wero an hour behind lUbe ort Wayne Hut we got to New bull k on time to the second The dls llrfl e Is about double but tho trains the same running tlmo hour by del i move about tho same weight 4 i the fame power and have prac cum I1 Iythe same accommodation After CQ here Isnt much Improvement In a t JIll pan over a firstclass carriage 1 lei lavatory in Kngland for tho dls ram P tNew York Press |