Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1915 — Make Better Time Now. [ARTICLE]

Make Better Time Now.

When it came to traveling, the folks back in 1700 tried to burn up the road, just like the speed fiends of the present day. A newspaper dated March 10, 1787, in the library at New York, tells about a flying trip made in 14 hours between New York and Philadelphia. Eighty miles in 14 hours does not seem to us such breathless speed, but the same paper says that in order to accomplish this feat, “John Butler, with his wagon, must needs set out from the sign of the ‘Death of the Fox’ at daybreak and drive at top speed (the horses being changed at ayrh stage ere the coach stops rocking), to meet the ferry of Rubin Fitsrandolph, which delivers passengers in New York by night." For those leisure this was indeed “going