Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1898 — Push Ahead! Full Steam! [ARTICLE]

Push Ahead! Full Steam!

Cows used to throw trains off the track because the engineers, in a panic, blew down brakes and equalized chances. In these latter days, asserts an Eastern writer, a whole herd of cows could not harm a train. If a thousand w€re to get in the way of a locomotive the engineer would “pull her wide open” and go scooting through. When the Captain of the Paris sought to reassure his passengers on the last trip from England he said, with much nonchalance: “Under full headway the Paris can cut through fifteen Spanish warships.” That was a slight exaggeration, of course, but experience has proved more than once that safety in a collision at sea depends'on the speed of the moving body. A steamer of 10,000 tons displacement traveling twenty knots an hour goes through an ordinary vessel like a hot knife through butter, escaping without a scratch.—Kansas City Journal.