What may truly be described as one of the greatest newspaper enterprises of the century was inaugurated in October' when, in the presences of n crowd of interested spectators, the Daily Mait War Express steamed slowly out of the London Terminus of the Great Central Railway, and commenced its initial journey to' the North.
The proprietors of the Duily Mait lave engaged this special train at an enormous expense in order to efficiently meet the Intely hugely-increased demand for the paper from the Midlands and the North of England, Hitherto the London newspapers have been unobtainable in the North until far too late in the day to be of service to the business man and others to whom they are most useful. Now, however, thanks to the War Express, the Daily Mail is delivered in Leicester, Nottingham, Sheflield, Manchester, andthe other grent towns of the Midlands and North of England, at practically the same time as in London—the paper reaching Manchester at 7 o'clock in the morning.
'The train, of course, only carries such publications' ax_are sanctioned by the proprietors of the Daily Mail. It consists of the fastest railway engine in the Unitot Kingdom, known to the Great Central officials as No. 268," and four newspaper vans, each of which' is packed to the roof with' Daily Mails warm from the printing esses. The most famous living engine-river is in charge, and for a considerable portion of the route a speed of eighty miles an hour has been guaranteed by the Great Central Company.
Mr. "Ned" Grain, the driver of the Express, is as well-known on the road us "No, 268." In fact, he is the prince of engine-drivers, and there is not a man who stands on a loco" footplate but has seen or heard of "Ned" Grain and hax a word of admiration for his skill and pluck. has probably driven more royal trains than any other engine-driver; people whose names are in everybody's mouth have ridden behind Grain, an: he can yarn in-compl paid him. He had gly of great folk and nice little
the honour of running the first train into London on the public opening of the Great Central Railway. It will thus be seen that the Daily Mail War Express is in good hands, The Daily Mail has achieved great thi in the journalistic world since its first copy was issued, and more information is given to the public for a halfpenny than had pre-enormous figure of 750,000, proves the extent to which its efforts are appreciated and its present enterprise for providing its country readers in the Midlands and the North with the latest news from the seat of war will, it may reasonably be hoped, enormously add to its present popularity.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.