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A Story WItli a mural. As evidence of the interest with which the American public has come to regard all matters pertaining to improved railway service and the vast strides which have been made tovvard perfeotion in the art of passenger transportation, the article by Albert Franklin Matthevvs, published in Harper's Young People of January löth, may be acoepted as conclusive. The article describes the writer's experienco on a 143-mile trip from New York to Albany on the engine of the New York Central'fe famous Exposition Flyer, and while the story is told in a most way, it contains much pratical information of value to every traveler. After describing the operation of the engrine and the beautiful scenery along the Hudson, Mr. Matthews summarizes thus: "If you like figures, it may interest you to know that the driving-wheels of your engine have made exactly 33,540 revolutions between New York and Albany ; that 5,544 gallons of water have been made into steam, at the rate of 38.8 gallons per mile ; that the weight of the cars on the train is 515,600 pounds and that of the engine and tender 204,000 pounds ; that at the rate of seventy miles an hour you were going 102. 66 feet per second. It may interest you know something of the record of this train, whieh is the fastest longdistance train in the world - meaning by thatadistance of more than flve hundred miles from start to ultímate destination. In June last the train was on time twenty-two days: ahead of time, five days ; and from one to five minutes late three days. In July it was late only once, tourteen minutes ; and in August late once, twenty-four minutes ; and so the record goes, a fine testimony to the skill oí the engineer and the safety of American railroading. " All tbis reads very much like an advertisement of the New York Central road, butas it is well known thateverything of that nature is rigidly excluded from the columns of Harper's periodicals, tne only fair conclusión is that the writer simply pays a deserved tributo to the facilities of "America'a Greatest Railroad." 71