Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1903 — Our Roads Astonish Foreigners. [ARTICLE]

Our Roads Astonish Foreigners.

The development of passenger transportation in the United States astonishes all foreigners. Edwin A. Pratt, a representative of Vhe London Times, was making some investigations yesterday at the Grand Central Station with a view to writing a eomprehenalvo article on Americab railroads. lUs Inquiries developed the fact that the •New York Central has 'eight passenger trains a day between New York and Chicago, and when he learned that the distance is 980 miles he remarked that it is a marvelous thing. He was still further astonished to find that four of the eight trains make the 980 miles in twenty-four hours, and that one, the Twentieth Century Limited, goes the distance every day, in either direction. In twenty hours. His amazement grew When he was informed that the westbound Twentieth Century Limited carries only Chicago passengers, and will not take a passenger for any other point. He remarked that his people would be equally astounded on learning these faet6.—From “On the Tip of the Tongue” Column in the New York Press.