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Show SPEED ON RAILWAYS. THE FLIERS ON AMERICAN, GERMAN AND ENGLISH LINES. Orrves and Grade Crossings the Great Drawbacks In This Country Limited Trains Do Not Fay Expenses, but They Benefit the Service In Other Ways. The writer broached the subject of fast trains recently to one of the shrewdest shrewd-est civil engineers employed on one of the roads entering Washington. This employee has made railroading a life 6tndy, has inspected the railroads of Europe and speaks by the card. Ha said: "If our railroads could spare the money to elevate their tracks in cities and at crossings, to say nothing of com-TJletins com-TJletins the work of straiahtenine out curves, now going on, I, for one, will predict that we can make an average of 60 miles an hour between New York and Chicago. I say this with the Alleghany Alle-ghany mountains almost staring me in the face. We might lose time going up that range, bnt engineers, as a rule, like to coast, and wouldn't they slide down the other side with a roadbed minus curves and grade crossings! In the matter mat-ter of cost in making improvements, few people are aware of the expense attached at-tached thereto. In round numbers our road 'blew' in fully $5,000,000 in the latter part of 1892 and the beginning of 1893. That was before the financial depression de-pression set in. We are now resting on our oars. We cut one curve over a mile long, and the work cost us fully $500,-000. $500,-000. Other roads have been doing likewise, like-wise, and with the return of a prosperous prosper-ous period we will surprise the world, and especially the English, with the average av-erage sneed our trains will attain. "Many people will be surprised to learn that Germany and not this country coun-try or England furnishes the fastest train in the world. The United States comes second and England third. The German train runs from Berlin to Hamburg, a distance of 178 miles, in 20-1 minutes, an average outside speed that is, not counting stops, of over 52 miles an hour. The Empire State express on the New York Central road runs from New York to Buffalo, a distance of 440 miles, in 620 minutes, and its outside speed average aver-age is nearly 51 miles an hour. The fastest English train, that comes third on the list, is called the 'west coast flier' and runs from London to Edinburgh,, a distance of 400 miles, at an average outside out-side speed of 50 miles an hour. "The farther we go west the slower the train service becomes, a thing not looked for on account of the miles and miles of track traversing prairie land The Burlington road's best train avei ages about 36 miles an hour. That on the Milwaukee road, the limited, can only reach an average of 84 miles an hour. The Denver limited, on the Northwestern North-western road, has to hustle to score an average gait of 29 miles an hour. "Very few of the fast limited trains in this country pay for the expense of running them, and it is an open secret that the limited between this city and New York, the limited between New York and Chicago and the Empire State express between New York and Buffalo and the Chicago limited on the New York Central road cost their respective roads a good deal more than they bring in, bnt they are great advertisers fo? their respective roads. - ' 'The advantages of fast train service on well built and well equipped railroad? are not confined to the carrying of passengers pas-sengers Bwif tly from one point to another. anoth-er. They are felt all through the operating operat-ing department of a road and exercise an important disciplinary influence. The running of such extraordinary fast trains as the Congressional limited and the Empire State express has had a wonderful wonder-ful effect in increasing the vigilance and efficiency of all the trainhands. The schedules on which such trains are run require the most arbitrary enforcement, and they consequently keep the men all along the line traversed constantly on the alert. Each man is made to feel his full share of the buiden of responsibility, and the never ceasing admonition to watch for the flier' reduces to a minimum mini-mum personal inclinations to be slack or neglectful. The telegraph operators have a suspension of 80 days staring them in the face for the slightest delay to the limited, and similar penalties are imposed on other employees. "Besides this stimulus to duty the fast trains serve as an incentive to the men to strive for promotion. Conductors, Conduct-ors, engineers, firemen and other hands on the limited get more pay than do the men employed on the trains of subordinate subordi-nate grade. That the 'flier, ' in its ge-nerio ge-nerio sense, is actually an improving in fluence in railroading is evidenced by the remarkable careers of the Congressional, Congres-sional, the Royal Blue and the Empire State express. These are the fastest trains in this country and have been running several years back, and, with one unimportant exception, have met with no mishap. These trains pass through year after year without a single sin-gle mishap, and I believe it is all from the discipline put upon the employees by the fast service. The men take a pride in the fast trains. " Washington Star. Yet They Were Not Inflammable. Farmer You had a fire at the manse this morning. Any serious loss? Minister Yes; ten years' sermons were completely foon.-2. irarmer (with the memory of many a weary Sunday morning) Faith, but they made a gran' blaze they were so dry, ye ken I London Tit-Bits. Electric Bitters Thia remedy is becoming bo well known and so popular as to need no special mention. 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