Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-06

MIDNIGHT NILE-A-MINUTE TRIP OVER THE NEW
NnRK IENIR

MIDNIGHT NILE-A-MINUTE TRIP OVER THE NEW
YORK CENTRAL.
While Henry Ward Beecher was lecturing
before a large audience in Canandaigua. n.
| Y. short time since. locomotive stood
steaming before handsome ear at the de-
pot, waiting specially to take the speaker
and Mr.. Pond. his manager. to Rochester at
the conclusion of the lecture. Rochester IL
! twenty mine miles west of Canandaigua, and
it IS the nearest point where thorough
I sleeping car for New York can be reached.
| John oughtallng, the oldest conductor on
| the New York Central railroad. II not the
oldest in the United States, walked Impa-
tently up and down the platform. The
usual running time to Rochester is an hour
| and ten minutes; the train To be caught
was due in Rochester at Hos and 1t WAS
already more than quarter past ten Go
ing up to where Mr.. Beccher was seated
talking 10 some friends, the lecture being
/ over, the old rallman said
! 1--WE have little time left. Mr.. Be, cher"
" Plenty of time. plenty ol time, my
| friend" said Mr.. Bcechrr. And II We
had only hall as much. such an old hand at
tho business a. yourself would bring us
through all right
We will have TO run yerv last to catch
! the train now, sand the conductor.
None too fast to suit me, said MIR.
/ Bcecher, very cody.
" But then there are such things as coal
trains and freight trains, and shat not, IN
/ the way, urged the conductor
And there lro such things ps telegraphs
to get them out of the way replied MIR.
Beecher
well" said the veteran conductor in
/ despair. " it you like to ride last. You shall
| 20 from Canandaigua to Rochester quicker
than ever man went before; and will
see that the track is cleared
/ \ timely despatch 10 headquarters sent
| two coal traIas of on side switches and lett
l the twenty nine miles ut track clear tor the
| flying special. IL was 1890 exactly when
/ the wheels began t. move. and the gray
haired railruadcr stood has lantern in the
aisle and seated himself with IL thug, As IT
he would have said. when you want to 90
fast III your man.
In iess than minute the car was going
like the wind. lt rocked and swayed and
Jumped. anu waiting passengers rushed To
the depot doors a. It dashed through vii
lages and towns, leaving theIr sight almost
before they could set eyes on It,
I'VE have Just past PitSiord, " said Con
duct0r Hong htalInE, watch in hand, IN
lew minutes, Seventeen miles &, time, nine
teen minutes Ii seemed almost the next
moment, when he added proudly
We've crossed the Rochester line, TWEEN
ty-Six miles from CanandaIsua, IN Just
twcnty->ix minutes. I've run on this road
since the first tram went over it. and new
cr came from Cdnandalgua tO Rochester 81
quick ~ that before
The engineer Stacked NJ a little IN going
the next three miles, through the suburbs
ot the city. and the ear stopped IN the
Rochester depot at II O'Clock precisely, OF
Just thuty minutes after leaving Can
unialgua.
A large party were waiting IN the depot,
knowing that Mr.. Hcecher waSrxpcctcd, and
handsome parnr was ut once put at the
lecturers disposal by the propretors OF the
Crockett House.
The express for New York reached ROch
ester about ten minutes later, and Mr..
BeCcher was in New York in time for break
fast. having lcctured on Monday evening IN
SYRACUSE on Tuesday in GOuvCrneur, ON
Wednesday in Watertown. besides riding
nearly all day on Thursday to reach Can
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