. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . urs. It happened onAugust 13, in the morning, that three hundred and sixty-seven sacks of important mail for were piledon the dock, beside which lay a new American ship,the Ventura. Because no good British ship was at handthat morning, the post-office authorities thought thatthey would let the vessel with the Stars and Stripescarry the mail. She did carry it, and on the evening ofSeptember 2 she laid down the bags on the pier atSan Francisco. The American railroads tried their hand at carryingthe British mail. The Southern Pacific took
. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . urs. It happened onAugust 13, in the morning, that three hundred and sixty-seven sacks of important mail for were piledon the dock, beside which lay a new American ship,the Ventura. Because no good British ship was at handthat morning, the post-office authorities thought thatthey would let the vessel with the Stars and Stripescarry the mail. She did carry it, and on the evening ofSeptember 2 she laid down the bags on the pier atSan Francisco. The American railroads tried their hand at carryingthe British mail. The Southern Pacific took it swiftlyacross to Ogden, in Utah. The Union Pacific seized it,two hours late, and said that the time should be madeup. The train raced a thousand miles to Omaha andmade up some of the time but not all. Then it was no FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY off for Chicago, where the Lake Shore road had aspecial ready to overtake the Fast Mail. It ran twohundred and forty-four miles in two hundred and sixty-five and a half minutes, and did overtake it. Then came. Fig. 43. The Observation End, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Buffalo, New York, Oueenstown, and London. The car-riers in that great city started out with the mail early inthe morning of September 14. If the bags had come bythe shorter route under the British flag, they would nothave reached London until September 16. This is whatgreat railways and great ships do in our time, — theymake neighbors of all men. CHAPTER X CITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY If we look at a map, we shall see that the Alleghenyriver flows southward from New York into westernPennsylvania. The Monongahela river, rising amongthe rough highlands of West Virginia, sends its waterstoward the north, and the two great streams join toform the Ohio, which flows on far to the southwest. Alltogether they are like wide-spreading branches of anapple tree uniting with the gnarled old trunk. In the great crotch of the tree Pittsburg is snuglyplaced. A narrow point of flat land lies be
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