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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



THE WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF WOOL IN 19O1. 



Of the world's wool production 2,118,884,704 pounds are of classes one and two, washed and unwashed, and 

 581,000,000 pounds of class three of the American tariff classification. 



* Fleece washed. Great Britain and Ireland, product of 1900. t Washed and unwashed. 



RAILROAD SPEED. 



NOTABLE FAST RUNS OF PASSENGER TRAINS FOR LONG DISTANCES. 



DATE. 



Railroad. 



May, 1848. Great Western (England) 



July, 1885. West Shore 



1888. L. & N. W., and Caledonian 



1891. New York Central & H. R , 



1892. New York Central & H. R.* 



1892. New York Central & H. R.* 



1892. New York Central & H. R.* 



1893. New York Central & H. R.* 



1893. New York Central & L. S 



Augi, 1894. Plant System, Atlantic Coast Line . 

 Aug., 1894JPlant System, A. C. L., Pa. R. R.. . . 

 April, 1895. : Pennsylvania 



Aug. 

 Sept. 

 Mar. 

 Nov. 

 Nov. 

 May, 

 May, 



April, 1895. Delaware, Lackawanna & Hudson. 



Aug., 1895. ! London & Northwestern 



Sept., 1895. New York Central & H. R 



Sept., 1895. N. Y. Central " World Flyer " 



Oct., 1895. ' Lake Shore & Michigan Southern . . 



Oct., 1895. Long Island 



Mar., 1896. Phila., Wilmington & Baltimore .. 



Feb., 1897. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 



Mar., 1897. Central R. R. of New Jersey 



April, 1897. Lehigh Valley, Black Diamond Ex. 

 May, 1897. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 



July, 1897. New York Central & H. R.* 



Aug., 1897. Union Pacific 



Feb., 1898. A., T. & S. F., " Santa Fe Route 



May, 



July, 



(Jet., 



May, 



Dec., 



1898., Chicago & Alton. 



1898. Lehigh Valley, Black Diamond Ex, 



Terminals. 



Dis- 

 tance, 



Miles. 



INCLUSIVE. STOPS. 



Time. 

 H. M. 



London Didcot ..................... 53.25 



East Buffalo Frankfort ............. 201.7 



London Edinburgh .................. 400 



New York East Buffalo .............. 436.32 



Oneida DeWitt ...................... 2 1.37 



Syracuse Utica ...................... I 51.67 



Chittenaiigo-Schenectady ........... 110. 1G 



Syracuse Rochester ............ . 8 ).38 



New York Chicago .................. ] 964 



Jacksonville Richmond ............. j 661.5 



Jacksonville Washington ........... ! 760.9 



Camden Atlantic City ............... 58.3 



Binghamton East Buffalo ........... j lift 



London Aberdeen ................... | 640 



New York Buffalo ................... 436.50 



Albany Syracuse .................... 148 



Chicago Buffalo ..................... 510 



Long Island City Amagansett ...... 104 



Baltimore Gray's Ferry ............. !-'.5 



Chicago Denver ................ ' ..... 1 ,025 



Jersey City Washington ............ 231 



Alpine, N.Y. Geneva Junction, N.Y. 43.96 

 Mendota Chicago .................. 79 



Syracuse Buffalo .................... 149 



North Platte Omaha ................ 291 



La Junta, Col. Dodge City, Kansas.. 204.4 

 Willow Spring Springfield .......... 1C.8.1 



Sayre Buffalo ........................ 177 



Mendota Clyde . . . 



. 



1899. Burlington Route 



1900. Burlington Route .................. ] Burlington Chicago ......... 



19nO. Burlington & Mo. River ........... | Ravenna Seneca 



Mar., 1901. Sav., Fla. & Wes. (Plant System). . . Fleming Jacksonville , 



74.3 

 205.8 

 130 

 149 



0.47 

 4.00 

 7.38 

 7.195 

 0.17% 

 0.46 

 1.50 

 1.11 

 19.57 

 12.51 

 15.49 

 0.45 :! 4 

 3.05 

 832 

 6.47 

 2.10 

 8.1 

 1.40 

 1.28 

 18.52 

 4.8 

 0.33 

 .76 

 2.23 

 4.39 

 3.44 

 2.46 

 2.59 

 0.65 

 3.08^ 

 2.5 

 2.10 



per 

 H P our. 



68 



504 



52.4 



59.56 



7J.C.9 



6738 



63.38 



68.45 



48.20 



51.48 



4937 



76.50 



00.645 



6328* 



64.33J 



68.3 



65.7H 



589 



63 



58.74 



60 



80 



60 



62.5 



63.49 



56.7 



60.7 



59.32 



68.88 



65.5 



66 



68.8 



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 10 

 26 

 34 

 

 2 

 3 

 2 

 

 5 

 2 

 1 



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* By " Empire State Express." t Six minutes, t Including stops. Excluding stops. IT Exclusive of stops, 

 or 63.61 miles per hour including stops. Made the trip from Chicago to New York, 952 miles, in 17 hours, 4:. min- 

 utes, 23 seconds (or 54.20 miles per hour, including 10 stops), (a) Including "slow-ups" for taking water, chang- 

 ing engines, etc. (b) A delay of 7 minutes at Anselmo should be deducted from running time. 



In making a comparison between English and American trains, certain conditions must be taken into con- 

 sideration. In the former instance the average weight of the train making the record between London and 

 Aberdeen in August, 1895, was between 105 and 120 tons. The "Empire State Express" in the record of Sep- 

 tember, 1895 New York to Buffalo was similar in make-up to the train that made the English record, but 

 weighed 250 tons, a vast difference and necessarily an important factor in speed. London to Paris On a special 

 run over the L. C. & D. Ry. to Paris. 287 1 /* miles (via Calais), for the Grand Prix, running time 6 hours, 30 minutes, 

 12 seconds, or from 57.5 to" 60.1 miles per hour. 



AVERAGE SPEED, INCLUDING STOPS, OF FOREIGN EXPRESS TRAINS PER HOUR IN MILES. - 



England, 61.75: Germany, 61.25; France, 49.88; Belgium, 45.04 ; Holland, 44.73 ; Italy, 42.34; Austria-Hungan , 

 41.76. 



