STATE ROAD NO 1 CAN NOW BE COVERED IN COURSE OF TWELVE HOURS, IT IS ANNOUNCED
JACKSONVILLE, May 29.
State Road No. 1, the Old Spanish Trail, is so well advanced toward completion between Jacksonville and Pensacola that the run of nearly 400 miles can now be made comfortably in twelve hours according to the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. An attache of the Chamber, in a motor trip from Pensacola to Jacksonville this week, driving at night, made the run from the ferry landing at Mulat, to Jacksonville in eleven hours and ten minutes with one hour and eleven minutes devoted to stops along the route. His running time was 9 hours 59 minutes for the 373 miles. The ferry trip across Escambia Bay requires about fifty minutes while the distance from the ferry landing to Pensacola is nine miles.
We are enabled, through the courtesy of Mr. Waghorn, to present our readers with a detail of his route from India to England; and as the subject involves considerations of vast importance to this country as well as to Europe generally, we have selected it for illustration in our present number. This gentleman has now long been known to the world as the indefatigable and persevering author of the overland route to India. Brought up from an early age in the pilot service of the East India Company, and having distinguished himself in the Arracan expedition, he was in the year 1827 recommended by Lord Combermere to the Court of Directors, as a proper person to open steam intercourse between this country and India. To this he devoted himself; and in 1829 his views had attracted so much public attention, that he was selected by the Company to take out despatches, and report upon the route by the Red Sea. For his successful accomplishment of this duty, he received, on his arrival at Bombay, the thanks of the Governor General in council; and the circumstance of his having proceeded down the Red Sea in an open boat, when disappointed of his steamer, the Enterprise, at Suez, was particularly adverted to, as indicating the zeal with which he had applied himself to the service of the public. Since the year 1831, the endeavours of this gentleman to accomplish his object, by the formation of establishments in Egypt, for the passage of mails and passengers, have been unceasing, and are at length crowned with perfect success. Upon one occasion, in the year 1836, it is recollected that he succeeded in getting a mail from Bombay to London within 60 days, and the rapidity of his method so impressed the public, the Government, and the Board of Directors, with the advantages to be derived from his line of route, that steamers were forthwith placed at his disposal for facilitating his plans; and so successfully had he availed himself of the resources opened to him, as well by the patronage of the Government at home, as by his personal intimacy with Mehemet Ali, that the Indian mail of July 1841 passed from the post-office of London to the post-office of Bombay in 30 days and 10 hours. There can be no question that this gentleman is eminently entitled to the gratitude of his country, or, we may justly say, of all Europe, for the genius, zeal, and self-devotion by which he has so materially shortened the distance between two points of the globe, so important and so essential to the welfare of each other.
New York. May 13.—(AP)—The Norge's feat in sailing over the North Pole has once more brought the possibilities of a trade route over the top of the world into discussion.…
New York April 23.—(AP)—The famous White Star fleet of trans-Atlantic liners, including one of the world’s largest ships, the Majestic, probably will pass to the control of British interests, who have submitted an offer for the line to the International Mercantile Marine corporation. The transaction, it is understood. will involve approximately $35,000,000 and will eventually place the White Star ships under the operation of the Cunard Line, although the Furness-Withy interests also were reported to be bidders.
Directors of the Marine Corporation considered the offer today, but J. H. Thomas, vice president, announced after the meeting that there were no developments which called for comment.
The facilities offered by the great building and extensive grounds of the Crystal Palace have many times, since its primary employment as the domicile of the first Great International Exhibition of all Nations in 1851, been turned to good account in fostering the industries of this nation.
There exists at the moment in this country an industry—that of the manufacture of self-propelling vehicles for use upon common roads—which is scarcely yet beyond its nascent condition, but which is far more advanced, and indeed has assumed considerable magnitude, in other countries, and in regard to which proper publicity and demonstration cannot be given in this country under existing legislation, except in extensive private grounds such as those attached to the Crystal Palace.
Dr. Ramsay’s Buick Is Overturned in Darkness Between New Brunswick and Metuchen.
TWO TAKEN TO CITY HOSPITAL
Mrs. Ramsay and Chauffeur Conquest Brought Here-Miss Brennan, of Metuchen, Taken Home.
Mrs. Ramsay, wife of Dr. William E. Ramsay, and Alexander Conquest, proprietor of the Packer House garage, are in the city hospital at the result of an automobile accident between Metuchen and New Brunswick about 6 o’clock last night. Miss Olive Virginia Brennan, a niece of Col. C. C. Weber, of Metuchen, who wae also badly Injured, wag removed to her home.
As a result of the accident Mrs. Ramsay has a broken collar bone and is suffering from shock, but her injuries are not regarded as serious. Mr. Conquest has a slight concussion of the brain and is bruised about the body. The latter, when seen by a reporter this morning, said that his head hurt him and there was a soreness all over his legs, and his back pained him considerably.
