. Book of the Royal blue . oon has at lastproved a success and Darius Green and his flyin machineperhaps may yet appear among the classics. Even yet moreastounding, as the year was fast closing, wireless telegraphyreached its triumph in a successful demonstration of com-munication between America and England across the AtlanticOcean. May we not yet live to see the day when we can talkacross the seas to our Englishneighbors without the botherof a telephone wire? The year was full of sadness as all years are, but America,the home of the free, was bereaved as no other nation, in theappalling assa
. Book of the Royal blue . oon has at lastproved a success and Darius Green and his flyin machineperhaps may yet appear among the classics. Even yet moreastounding, as the year was fast closing, wireless telegraphyreached its triumph in a successful demonstration of com-munication between America and England across the AtlanticOcean. May we not yet live to see the day when we can talkacross the seas to our Englishneighbors without the botherof a telephone wire? The year was full of sadness as all years are, but America,the home of the free, was bereaved as no other nation, in theappalling assassination of President McKinley. Scarce hadwe mourned with England over the death of their good QueenVictoria, than sorrow came to our lot, and all the nations ofthe earth stood aghast at the crime which threw America intodeepest mourning. The prospects for 11)02 are flattering. The railroads havemore freight than they can handle quickly—an excellentthermometer to indicate the temperature of the business ofthe country. m. WHERE THE MONEY WAS SPENT ON IMPROVEMENTS ON THEBALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. IT is a far cry from the transportationfacilities enjoyed by Father Adams grandsons, which we are taught werelogs carried along with the current, to themagnificent trains of moving palaces of thepresent day. It took seventeen centuriesof preparation to evolve Noahs ark andforty centuries more to bring into being aRoyal Blue Line train. The result of theseages of preparation was identical in bothcases, in more than one way, inasmuch asthe Ark and the Royal Blue Flyers areknown as the safest and best means ofpublic conveyance of their respective co-temporaneous ages, and each augmentedthe public welfare. Probably no other great public work inthe worlds history developed so rapidlyfrom its crude inception to its crowningperfection as the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road. This result was brought about inonly one way, namely, the judicious expen-diture by the management of the moneyinvested by t
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