131 Miles an Hour.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 267, 28 December 1903, Page 4

131 Miles an Hour.

Dahlwitiz, a small station on the military railway between Zosseo and Marieirfelde, in Germany, saw a large gathering of military and civil celehjrities, foreigners, motorists, and peasants on the morning of Oct. 23, all waiting to see ainotlier trial tour of the fast electric train, and rapidly the police cleared the road. The hundreds of spectators stood motionless and , breatWess, with strained eyes. A trumpet-call sounds, and a second llaiter one perceives a peculiar buzzing in the ear. Then away in the distance sometbimg like an immense projectile comes flying over _ the rails, the buzaing swells into a waveof noise, and flames and lightning issue from tho approaching monster. Now it is upon us, hissing snorting, and thundering; its enormous tentacles flaming and turning the wire above into a long fiery line. Before the eye has time to receive an impression of the great two-stor-ied motor-car's outh'ne ft has gone again ; th ■ noise <ii«l away ; and a black spot i-u lite far distance marks the disa-ppoaring monster. At tlie end of the line it was found that the record toad been broken since the car sped at the rate of 131 miles per hour. At the former trial 120 miles per ho.ii- was covered. Heir Willielm von Siemens, who was one of the iiesseugers on the I train, said, at the end of the last of the four trips, that a further increase of speed was not desired