FAST TRAVELING | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 54.

FAST TRAVELING.

The Lucania last Friday came into port at the close of a trip on which she averaged 21.81 knots an hour, the best previous record being her own, namely, 21.74 knots an hour. Her time for the trip was 5 days 7 hours 23 minutes, being 25 minutes less than the record. Two days before, J. S. Johnson rode a mile in Buffalo on a bicycle in 1 minute 35.4 seconds, which is 14 seconds less than the previous best bicycle record, and is one-tenth second less than the best record made by a running horse, Salvator holding that record. In fact, this speed on the bicycle has not been equaled by that attained in any other form of progression by man, except by a locomotive or perhaps an iceboat. The

fastest time by a locomotive was that made by 999, of the New York Central, last year—32 seconds. Next comes Johnson's bicycle record, a mile in 1:35.4. Then comes Salvator's running record of 1.35½. Then Robert J.'s pacing record of 2.01½. Then Alix's trotting record, 2.03¾. Then comes the record, probably, of one of the fast steam yachts, like the Vamoose or the Now-Then. Then the skating record, held by J. S. Johnson also, of 2.45¾. Thus in five different ways—by locomotive, by bicycle, by horse, by boat, by skates—man has succeeded in covering a mile in less than three minutes, and of covering it in three different ways in less than two minutes.—N. Y. Voice, November 1.