The Oregon daily journal., July 21, 1907, Page 36, Image 36

J-J,' THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLANa SUNDAY .MuRNING,! JULY. 21.1 1907.
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trf road, ytngmging-mgocn 180.hora-ower macKne we2a9hing
Clangs Denma yyjl.sina vcvre yvu tun over roaj8 careening aroud curves, leaping,
loofc b)OUlut1imtyrrt by. jumping, flying and mad two miles An one
Bent forward, his lei:4rcad the pCarap-- One hundredgnd tynty an
nties
rate of over
T EP-Tft pause and take breath. . Fan your
I s-T self. Wipe away the perspiration. Cool
Speed crazy I weu, sit Dacic ana
looltsffiter-take a bird's-eye view of this old
earth. ancfrmrrilreR mnst conclude thateomo-
thinur is the matter.
Some strange and potent germ has got
into the blood of this planet, inoculating us
with an uncanny and incurable mania speed
mania.
It has turned the brain of old Jfothi
Earth, sent her reeling with a species of in
ity never heard of since the debut of A
and Eve in Eden.
It has sent her pulse fever-high, roused her
old heart to a dangerous palpitation and sent
her blood galloping through her veins with a
fury and force unequaled by cyclones and con
vulsions of nature.
In the battles of the ancients, Pontius
Galens, or "whatever his name might have been,
would have thought his galley made good speed
in retiring from a sea battle at six miles an
hour.
-. What if he could have slept through the
centuries to awake on board the transatlan
v tic liner Deutechland, which made a record
run equivalent to twenty-eight miles an hour?
What would he say to crossing the Atlantio in
v ' any firet-clasa liner in about five days?
It has fastened its grip upon us, has the
' speed mania. We eat, work and take our pleas
" tire t a ixty-mile-per-hour pace. Like an en
gine that has lost its governor, we are rushing
gallopingr plunging on on on I One of our
, chief sports is racing fast horses that could
make I thirty-five or thirty-seven miles in an
'. hour, could they race that long; we enjoy tear
ing about in automobiles that kill-chickens and
' children alike in their insensate speed; we wear
. out our hearts on bicycles, and thrill by taking
1 business - trips in trains capable of making
' ; eighty, ninety? or perhaps ,100 miles in sixty
ntnutes.
tf. If ,1 A
enme wouiu race lrom INew
seven and one-half hours.
On the laetjUjyfTfie auto carnival at the
Empiro-Oity-rfapk, Vew York, last year, Chris
tie rpp" pig "--Unrsfprtvpr direet-drn
twice around the mile tracl
seconds, respectively At Atlantl
made a record
the Florida races
erar J low one can
beedon the ice!
Nflsaen made a
ilclin 2 minutes
anrlA30 seconds.
MornV Wood, of
ihe Boawiii Skat
ing CluBT-
the
g cnxxapior
ship of the United
States. He mad
1280
an
running
hour,
mi
oi nityTive
javigate the water at
"comes to speed, electricity
steam outdone. Imagine two forces, like two
wicked genii, in a race. With the explosive
of a volcano, steam seethes and sizzles
and throD-thfugbw8pace ; electricitv. sharn.
quick, ia77iing.Tmrt-fiheqfi pn lightning winf
as H mieni oniy ojrus pHrpose.
ELECTRICITY!
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le Araneniemt-.ossen electric line, in
Prusoia, enw Aave attaine4-anedoi130.4
miles an hour, rnrw OlEywhizz Wiethe
tracks ! "
The fastest record i.i of a passenger
steam train in the United States was on the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway, in July,
1904, when a train ran from Egg Harbor to
Brigantine Junction, 4.8 Ves, at a speed of
115.2 miles an hour. The faFost time recorded
for a distance of over 440 miles was made by
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail
road, from Buffalo to Chicago, in June, 1905.
In 7 hours aud 50 minuter the train ran 625
miles, a rate of 69,69 miles an hour.
C. M. Dar
of New Yori
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cham
pions
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yards
3.720
up 1
swat
in
mile
was
aff' hour!" ' I LU" record swim oi
Caril in 21 minutee 11 2-0
seconds.
And still we are arettinsr ira steatn."
still in the furious race after speed. Breathless,
with strained muscles and wild eyes, we strain
ji1 UU, fUUlur and -faster) Nay, we hnva
United States are the New York Central "Em
pire State Express," which makes tho distance
of 143 miles between New York and Albany in
160 mjnutes, and --the "Congressional Limited,"
on the Pennsylvania, which makes a run of 227
miles from Jersey City . to Washington In 4
hours and 46 minutes.
What if George Washington could have
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Lrerywhere yu look you see a straining to Mount Vernon, to New Yorkl Imagine his sen-
not reached the limit of endurance.
Not long since a test, to a certain extent,
of man's endurance was made in France under
the supervision of scientists. A young man of
average strength, and whose bodily vigor had
been conserved by good habits, agreed to go
through an hour of strenuous exercise each day
for eight days. . The nature of the. exercise was
to be changed each day. ' -
On the first day he rode on a rough-riding
hunter, malcinir 10.66 miles in the hour. The
Among the fastest regular trains in the . second day ho rode a bicycle 19.88 miles in the
hour, And on the following day ran on foot in an
hour 8.69 miles .
On the fourth, day- he shot eighty-two"' pig
eons within an hour, and on the fifth walked five
miles. The next day he swam 1.86 miles in the
given time ; on the seventh day he played tennis,
and on the last day drove' an automobile 27.96
miles within an hour. ' The jury which was to
decide his physical condition gave him an aver
age of 80. , .
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