Fast Traveling

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 35.

NEARLY every one is fond of fast traveling. In fact it would seem that most of us are born with a desire to get over the ground as fast as men can devise means with which to carry us. So it happens that the railroad companies are continually trying to increase the speed of their through trains, and thus to lessen the time it takes to go from point to point. Some time ago a fast train was put on between New York and Chicago which makes the run of nearly a thousand miles in twenty-four hours. Of course the passengers have to eat and sleep while going forty and sometimes sixty miles an hour. An old stage driver said, with kindling eye, the other day, that he used to drive a coach and four from Springfield to Boston, 100 miles, in one day. Our grandfathers called that fast traveling.—Sel.