Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-15

in c. at the right time, so that I save |
the money, you shall have FIVE thousand |
dollars Understand il, Harry2 Five |
thousand dollarsP lr
"Of course l understood it. saw now
the reason why the wages had been cut
down; l understood it all, and my blood |
boiled l felt that would save the road if
l lived and told Roberts so.
"'See that you do it, Henry, he replied, |
as he climbed up the steps Of the coach |
which was coupled to my engine.
81 sprang up into the foot-board, got up |
the switch-tender to help my fireman, opened |
the throttle, and, just as she commenced
moving, looked at my watch. 1t was just |
eleven o'clock, so that | had one hour to /
make my seventy-ive miles in.
"From Y to C there were few |
curves in the road but there were several |
heavy grades. was perfectly acquainted |
with every rod Of it, so that knew exactly |
what had to encounter and when saw
how the engine was moving, had very lit |
tie fear of the result.
"The road, for the first few miles, was an
air line, and so smooth that my engine flew
along with scarcely perceptible jar.
was SO busy posting myself up as to the
amount Of wood and water aboard, etc., that
we danced by the first station almost before
| l was aware Of it, having been five minutes
! out and having five miles accomplished.
6" You are losing time yelled o voice
| from the coach looked around, and there
stood Roberts with his watch in his hand
II knew very we'll that we would have to
increase our speed by some MEANS if we
carried out our plans of reaching c. by
midnight, and looked anxiously around to
see what l could do to accomplish that pur-
| pose. She was blowing off steam iercely
! at one hundred and ten pounds, so turned
| down the valve to two hundred, for knew
| she needed it all to make some Of the heavy
| grades which lay between us and C.
at was three miles to the next station.
With the exception Of q few curves, the
track was as good as the last AS we darted
around what commonly seemed to be o
rather long curve, at the station, but which
was, at our high speed, short enough,
| looked at my watch, and we had done it in
| two minutes and half.
| 'Gaining,' I shouted back to Roberts,
who was standing outside, on the platform
Of the coach. %,
"Look out for the heavy grades" he re-
piled, and went inside the car.
"The next six miles rose gradually from a
, level, the first, to ten and a half feet grade
the last, which lay between us and the next
station. My fireman kept her full; and
now she began to get hot. The furnace
door was red, and the steam raised continu
ally; so that she kept her speed, and passed
the station like streak of lightning, in five
, | minutes.
"Now came nine miles like the last, ovel
, | which she kept pace with her time, ant
passed the station in seven minutes.
, "Here, for ten miles, we had a twenty
foot grade to encounter; but the worst of i
[ all was, at this place we would be obliged
!, to stop for wood. Twas just going to speal
to Roberts about it, when 1 looked arount
and saw him filling the tender from tn,
| coach, with wood which had been placed
, there before starting, while he was gont
after me.
II believe he would have made his ter
| | miles at the same speed as before; but
( | through the carelessness of the fireman, tn
t fountain valve, on the left hand side of tn
r engine, got open, and the water rose in th
/ boiler, so far as to run the steam down
/ one hundred pounds, before l disc0vere
), where the difficulty lay.
r "At first Roberts didn't appear to motto
l the decrease of speed and kept at work a
the wood as if for dear life. But present.,
|
r had decreased, he shouted:
e "Harry, we are stoppingp
: H "And then, coming over to where was
9 he said:
"'Why, here we have been ten minute
= on the last ten miles, and | believe we vii
G come to q dead stand if something is no
s done. The speed is continually slackenine
!. What is the matter2'
81 explained the cause. He was appa
= rently satisfied with my explanation, and
J after having tied down the safety-valve, h
(; climbed back over the tender, exhorting m
t to put her through, for Gods sake, or w
are beggars together
} "Just then we passed the next station
having taken nine minutes for eight miles
We were now more than half over the road
, and we had lost nearly ten minutes tint
r and had left only twenty-seven minutes t
!. do thirty-four miles in
C 81 had shut the water off both my pumr
/ little back, when l discovered what wa
Il the matter, and she was now making steal
s. finely down n slight grade. From less tha
l. one hundred, with which we started owe
o that ten mile stretch, she had two hundre
IS before we finished it; and as the gage ind
p Gated no higher than that, and the valV
e. was tied down, could not tell how muC
es over two hundred pounds she carried; b,
she certainly carried none less the rest
e, the journey. And well might she carr
le such an enormous head Of steam; for aft
s. passing over that ten miles in eight mil
in utes, there lay ten miles of five feet L
y grade, and fourteen miles of tWenty-to-th
l. mile depression between us and c., an
it was now eleven o'clock and forty-seve
u minutes.
n snow the engine was hot in earnes
e The furnace door, smoke-arch and Gimme,
IS all were red while she seemed to fly OF
II ward, as if the very evil one himself ope
re ated her machinery.
ID "Six minutes carried us over that te
n miles; and we darted by the last static
r that had lain between US and C. No
l. we had fourteen miles TO 90, and my tin
$ showed eleven o'clock and fifty three mi
to utes.
We "If live said to myself 4 will NAL
ry it" and we plunged down the twenty fe
.el grade with all steam on. Persons who SO
the train on that wild run, say that it W
49, so soon after they heard the first sound
le, her approach, when the strange obie
a which looked as if it was fame Of fl
darted by, and then the sound of its trav
n ing died away in the distance, that tn
be could hardly convince themselves that tn
nd had seen any thing. 1t seemed more like
d. creature Of wild dream than sober
ee ality.
st dAnd now let me tell you that no engine