Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — From New York to the Mississippi River in Twenty-four Hours. [ARTICLE]

From New York to the Mississippi River in Twenty-four Hours.

The following analysis of the time made by the famous trans-continental fast train over the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, between Chicago and Omaha, plainly indicates that the general average time made by this train, from its starting-point, suffered no shrinkage at the hands of the management of the popular Northwestern, and it must be gratifying to every true Chicagoan to find that they possess in the above road a Western line over which equally as fast time can be safely made as any of the boasted fast time hitherto claimed by the Eastern lines as nn incident to the superiority of their roads over Western lines. Timewuswhenmis claim could have been allowed, but now that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, with its well-ballasted roadbeds, equipped with steel rails, and all modern appliances, can be compared favorably with any model road in the East, there is no longer any reason for the Eastern lines claiming a monopoly in fast running. The condensed time given below shows the leaving and arriving time of this fast train at terminal stations; the speed per hour between stations, and the speed per hour for the distance run, over me Chicago & Northwestern Railway:

Vis- Speed per tance Hour Be j from Leaving and At- tween Stations. Chi- riving Time. Stations. cago. Miles. Miles. Chicago, lv 10:30 p.m. Prospect P’k 22.5 10:ft7p.m. 50 Junction.... 30 11:04 p. m. 64 Arr. 11:52 p. m. 1 Rochelle.... 74.8 Lv. 11:59 p. m. f ou Arr. 1:00 a. m, i- - fit> Clinton 138.1 Lv. 1:14 a. m. f Arr. 2:03 a. m. j London 177.8 Lv. 2:20 a.m.) ' ' . Arr. 8:18 a. m. i Cedarß’p’ds 219.4 Lv. 3:25 a.m.) 48 Arr. 6:26 a. m I 800ne...j.... 340.4 Lv. 6:31 a. m. j 40 Omaha 491 Arr, 9:.*7 a. in.

Average speed from Chicago to Clinton (including stops); 55 miles an hour. Average speed from Chicago to Clinton (deducting for stops), 58 miles per hour. Average speed from Chicago to Omaha (including stops) 45 miles per hour. Average speed from Chicago to Omaha (deducting stops) 4834 miles per hour. Time from New York to Mississippi River (Clinton), 24 hours. Average speed from New York to Clinton (including stops), 43% miles per hour. Time from New York to Omaha, 8$ hours and 27 minutes. Average speed from New York to Omaha (in eluding stops), 42 miles per hour. —Chicago Tribune , June 4. Db. Samuel Birch, of the British Museum, says that one cannot, study history intelligently without first understanding the pottery of the people. This be true of original investigators, but hardly applies to the general public, who havene time for side studies. 1 i It ) When a young man in Hamilton, Ont>» forsakes a girl after an engagement qf twenty-six years, the courts make him pay her S7OO, or about $25 'pet yea*. Cheap enough.