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Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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, and not electricity. V CHAPTER XII ALL CHANGE! OU liave heard that cry many times. YouI have seen a train draw up at a platform,and have heard the porters calling outthe name of the station, followed by the injunction,All Change! That is just the stage at whichwe have arrived in this volume. We are about tochange; not from one compartment to another, oreven from one railway system to another; wepropose to continue our journey by an altogetherdifferent method of progression. We are exchang-ing the iron road, that often costs immense sumsper yard, for Natures own world-wide path thatis free to all, that costs nothing to repair; if itswhims and fits of contrariety would not sometimesdevelop into very bad tempers, it would be a roadthat was just perfection. All change ! Out swarm the passengers on tothe platform. All change! Into this chapter,almost haphazard, fall all kinds of odds and endsthat will round off our numerous railway excursionshere and there on tlie face of the globe. J So
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PLATE XXVNI. 1. SUSPENDED MAIL BAG. CATCHING THE MAILS. 2. THE CATCHER. 3. INTERIOR OF SORTING VAN. ALL CHANGE! i8l One of the greatest blessings of modern life isthe penny post. Facility of intercourse promotesorderly and kindly fellowship between man andman, and assists the moral and intellectual progressof the nation. The locomotive has given bothspeed and cheapness to our postal services, sincethe mails were first carried by Act of Parliamentin 1838. For a moment we will watch the sorting opera-tions at the General Post Office. When the stampshave been obliterated the letters are sorted intowhat are called railway divisions to suit the variousrailway routes ; thus a letter for Carlisle will goWest Coast, while one for Newcastle-on-Tyne willgo to the Great Northern for the East Coastroute. Attached to the mail train is the sorting tenderor travelling post-office, with a staff of sorters, whowork while the train is travelling at from 50 to 60miles an hour. The letters are rapidly so

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  • booksubject:Steamboats
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