New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 25, 1924, Page 17

PONY EAPRESS DID WUGH T0 WIN WEST Glorious Days of 1860 Recalled by Unveiling of Tablet Washington, D, €, July 25 the people of California and Utah of 1860 and 1861 the ‘Pony Kxpress' ider, whe brought them war news nly & week old, was almost as great + hero as Paul Revere or Lieutenant Maughan, y& & bulletin from the Washington, D, C, headqu ™ of he National Geographic society in segard to the organization to which + memorial tablet was recently un- eiled in Balt Lake City, “The name, ‘Pony Fxpress' raises v faint suggestion of romance in & ‘ew minds today,” continues the sulletin, “but with Macready and Kelly and Maughan fiying from ocean o ocean In a matter of hours; with sur night-fiying postal airmen; with allway trains that cross in four with our telegr delivered within the hour; and able as we are to hear and recognize a voice while it 1s speaking 8,000 miles away; the accomplishments of the fearless post riders of 63 years ago are likely to he passed by as rather simple, The es- tablishment of this weekly—and later semi-weekly-—service, clipping 10 days from the mall time across tho continent, was, however, an accom- plishment of extreme importance, Tt has been credited even with keeping Californfa in the Union during Civil war days. Nation Tied With Thongs of News “At the time the Pony Express came into bging the accepted mall route to Californin was by steamer from New York to the Isthmus of Panama, across the isthmus by mule conveyance, and by ship from Panama to San Francisco—28 days. Later the mall stage line from St Louis over the Santa Fe trail, via Yuma, and thence into southern Call- fornia took letters between the two terminal cities In 18 days. Beside these records the 10-day letter and 8-day telegram schedules of the Pony Express represented as great a stride forward as the transcontinental train service made over existing methods nine years later. “The winning of the West had ad- vanced only as far as the Missouri river in the central section of the country in 1860. Beyond lay track- less prairies, rugged foothills, barrier mountains, and Indians. But farther on, beyond the Rockies, along the Pacific coast and in the Great Basin region, were half a million Americans building up another section of the United States far removed from its parent block. Rallroads al- ready conneeted the East with St. Louis to St. Joseph, Missouri. The latter city, then, was the rail head of the United States and the ultimate western outpost of the ordered civil- ization of the East, Beyond it a few military posts and some scattered frontiersmen , existed precariously among hostile Indians. © The problem was to bridge this gap and tie the ‘two United States’ together with the powerful thongs of news. Left to Private Initiative “‘St. Jo' was also the western end of the telegraph line from the east. On the Pacific side a telegraph line extended from San Francisco through Sacramento to Placerville near Lake Tahoe. News could be flashed from New York and Washington to St. Joseph, could be carried from there to Placerville by pony, and could im- mediately be wired on to San Fran- cisco. This enabled the Pony Ex- press to make a two day .shorter schedule for telegrams than for mail “Though government officials recognized the keen need for a fast mail serVice to the west coast and though the Westerners petitioned for it, the bills introduced into congress for federal participation were killed. A private firm put the thing through: Russell, Majors and Waddell, owners of a freighting service and predeces- sors to the big express companies that grew up with the railroads. They organized the enterprise quietly and surprised the nation with advertise- ments in the spring of 1860 offering to carry letters to the Pacific in 10 days. The first riders to gallop west from St. Joseph and east from San Francisco April 3, 1860, were given enthusiastic and. noisy ' sendoffs and when the relay riders came in—on schedule—ten days later both termi- nal towns suspended business and had glorious celebrations, Hoofs Never Idle a Minute ‘“What the Pony Express really did was to stretch a ‘telegraph line' of flesh and blood from frontier to fron- tier and to keep it functioning In spite of weather, Indians and des- peradoes, Riders were mortally wounded by highwaymen or savages; but they carried on to the ncxt sta- tion, their comrades took their places, and the mail sped on. Horses were changed every ten to twelve miles at stations established by the service. | Néders had ‘runs” of approximately 75 miles. At the end of his Jun a rider would be relicved, would" sleep and rest, and would then be ready to carry the next tail in the opposite direction to his starting point. Only a fraction of a minute was required to change the saddle bags from one mount to another, Every minute of night and day hoefs were pounding somewhere between ‘St. Jo' and ‘F'risco,” and the mail was moving at as fast a gallop as horse-flesh could move it. “The route which the Pony Express made famous was so well chosen that todky lines of steel cover it almost exactly. Leaving St. Joseph it paralleled the present north houndary of Kansas for about a hundred miles, struck across to the Platte river at its southernmost dip in Nebraska, fol- lowed the South Platte valley to the present northeast corner of Colorado, went up the North Platte to It Taramie in Wyoming and from there crossed the Rockies by South Pass and on to Salt Lake City. The worst section of the route lay west of Salt Take across the deserts and alkall plains of Utah and Nevada to Carson City. From Carson City it was only a few miles, though rough ones, to lLake Tahoe, and from there to Placerville Gave Way Only to Electricity, “The famous service—which offi- cially was 'The Central Overland the |dinance increasing the salary of Dr. |day, bringing his total te Lieutenant Hroders rapidiy and at the same time federal government started & sub: |C R Witte, Councilman A. N. Ruth: |4 possible 2,700 sidized dally stage mail line over the lumm & member of the ordinance For the last few months Pony route, Pony Express |A. M of its existence the operated between the fast approachs |tion ing ends of the telegraph line On | October 24, 1861 when the wires me and it became possible to flash . | sag immediately from ocean to ocean, the Pony Express, as romantic an enterprise as American history dis closes, gave up the ghost It had hankrupted its pro |u|ru but it had helped win the the W JO For |Ga, n | presse KEEVERS HINTS AT = IGNORING COUNCIL, |Will Not Favor Obedience to Law | Regulating Choice of Firemen Chalrman John E, R, Keevers of [the <hoard of fire commlissioners at. tended & peting of the committee on ordinances last night and opposed | passage of a law requiring candi- dates for the fire department to serve at least one year on the substitute | force, The chalrman argued that it would |not increase the efficiency of the de- partment wsince the commissioners would not be allowed to go outside the substitute ranks to get a man who might be far more. efficient than any of those eligible under the pro- . posed ordinance, Discussing the dis- satisfaction that arose following the appointment of a man who has not been on the substitute list for more | than five minutes, Mr, Keevers said the appointee had experience as a driver that would make his more val- uable than those then on the substl- tute list. He also pointed out that a man might be on the substitute list | for a year and do not more than a few weeks actuai duty, In reply to a suggestion by Coun- cilman D, L. NAir that the men be lectured and drilled, Chairman Keev- ors sald that department has not the facllities for this work, The coun- cilman recommended that a request be made for an appropriation, but Mr. Keevers informed him that this had been done repeatedly, In reply to a question, Chairman Keevers said he would not favor obedience to such an ordinance if it is passed, sincs the charter gives the fire commissioners power to make rules governing the department, After dismissing the commissioner, the committece voged to recommend the proposed ordifance and allow the councll to set the date when it shall hecome effective, The committee also drafted an or- terday Lieu 424 MAIN STREET 9 to 11 A, M. 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