. Review of reviews and world's work. edistance across the American continent on thefastest trains that can be secured. The mailtrain that leaves Chicago at 3 now arrivesin San Francisco about noon on tlie third day,thus reducing the time of the fastest train here-tofore run between those points by ten improvements have been put into effectwhich result in distributing mail to a large pro- 262 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REFIEIVS. portion of tlie West inany liours ahead of theschedule heretofore in force. Only seven yearsago, the transcontinental time was reduced toninety-tw
. Review of reviews and world's work. edistance across the American continent on thefastest trains that can be secured. The mailtrain that leaves Chicago at 3 now arrivesin San Francisco about noon on tlie third day,thus reducing the time of the fastest train here-tofore run between those points by ten improvements have been put into effectwhich result in distributing mail to a large pro- 262 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REFIEIVS. portion of tlie West inany liours ahead of theschedule heretofore in force. Only seven yearsago, the transcontinental time was reduced toninety-two hours, and that was regarded as aremarkable development. The new schedulereduces the time to eighty-one hours and forty-three minutes, and it sliould be noted that thisgain in time is not confined to points on themain line, but affects hundreds of tri])utary dis-tricts. So marked a reduction in time sched-ules could not have been obtained except forthe recent marked improvement in the motivepower, roadbeds, and general equipment of. iMK. FKANOIS L. KOBBINS, OF PITTSBURG. (Representative of the bituminous operators in conductingncKotiations with tlie Miners Union.) our AVestern railroads. Among business menthroughout the country, this improvement hasbeen hailed as one of the significant achieve-ments of Mr. Cortelyous business-like adminis-tration of his department. < Karly last month it was announcedVoaistrZ that the joint conference of soft-coalminers and operators, which had beenin session for some days at Indianapolis, hadfailed to reach an agreement, and that a generalstrike would probably be declared at the expira-tion of the present agreement on tlie first dayof Api-il next. It was undcMstood, at the sametime, that certain demands woidd be presented
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