| Show YOKOHAMA TO LONDON IN TWENTY DAYS THE steamship city of new york arrived in queenstown Queene Queens town at 2 p in on OB the ath dinst having crossed the atlantic in 5 days 22 hours and 50 minutes she had bad on board the mails of the canadian pacific railway from the steamer empress of japan which left yokohama on august the history of this voyage is more than interesting it is marvelous inasmuch as it brings london and yokohama in japan within twenty days travel of each other on august the the steamship empress of japan left yokohama with the chinese and japanese malls mails on auguet 29 she sh arrived at victoria B C there a canadian pacific special train took the mails and started across the continent the special made the run to brock vine ville on the st lawrence in three days the mails were speedily trans berred beyond the river to morristown N Y where a new york central special train was in waiting which took the malls mafia and add started for new york city the special left brockville brackville Broc kville at on the evening of sept the let arriving in the grand central depot at next morning from utica to albany 95 miles was made in 90 minutes miu utes from to gold spring 21 miles in 20 minutes and from croton to yonkers Yon kera 19 miles in 16 minutes the city of new ne w york was to sail a at t 5 a m on the 2nd and the mails were transferred from the grand central depot and placed aboard of the steamship in 27 minutes and the great ocean greyhound grey bound started at a in she bhe arri vedas the dispatch this morn ing states in queenstown Queens town at 2 p m on the ath dinst so that there lot is ample time for the malls mails to reach london la in twenty days it should be remembered that the overland train averages for long distances fifty five miles an hour this shows that our canadian neighbors are fully as competent as we are in the management of railroads and that their great continental highway is also as fully equipped as an ours it is questionable whether any of our roads could Der perform forni this feat in the time mentioned the world moves and marvels increase increate with its progress |
