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Show dlOIXCI'X TIIAVEL. Advantages Over the Old Modes ! of Transit. The Marked C oiiirast Itet ween .the Methods Meth-ods of Truiisiiortiition Fifty Yeard Ago iiml Those vf the 1're-ooit. The projected elect rio railway between be-tween St. Louis and Chieago," over which, passi'lu' .1 , are t.) be.eouveved i'l loss than three h-un -. excites amazc- a eontva. t. Ihe l'-lri-.vingHistanees. f.und iu ill- :,L. i.a. lost-Di-rat-h. t'a.-.-;l.r h'V- -'ds l.i.a'e of like eharae-t. eharae-t. rmay he eited ill i-i tv.sir.ition of the P- tk.i-Ut.njrv-in tr.in.-il that have re-plaeed re-plaeed tho-,e of pioneer days: la J2.s twenty-live e,-.nPanies of regular reg-ular troops which had Uu-n for some time stationesl jn (Ireen bay, some si voni.y-h've miles north of Chicago, received re-ceived inareliing orders to proeeed to -St. Louis. With the present facilities of transportation the trip' could be made in ten or twelve hours, but at that time it eonsumej more than twice that number of davs. thomrh made v.-lvlh- hv waver. A suitable number of W.s v-ere eon ..trueted for the ex- p. .ilKI'im The troops embarked un the n ar the IV:-: rivi r a oorta-i'e of t ...'.y-e'-'e h-,n..l'--i v.-r-'s. over whieh vhev-.l barrai'.:-. v.'as soon after Comii'-.- r.-.v.T, bi a later peri-d. a v'ot-.-h a -lie-tbi-ri-'t. of Ihivt Lothian, "';e i.i'.i a :'- i'l.",,, ,,i i"e- r but the |