The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-03-18
Ew BLooMFIELE PA, TUESDAY, MARCH 49, 1879

continually Stacking. What is the mat
ter 2"
explained the cause. He was ap-
parently satisfied with my explanation,
and, after having tied down the safety
valve, he climbed ack over the tender,
exhorting me to at her through, for
Gods sake, or we are all beggars to-
getherl'
Just then we passed the next sta
tion, having taken nine minutes for
eight miles. We were now more than
half over the road but we had lost
nearly ten minutes time, and had left
only twenty seven minutes to do thirty
four miles in.
I" had shut the water Off from both
my pumps, a little distance back, when
l discovered what was the matter, and
she was now making steam finely down
slight grade. From less than one
hundred, with which we started over
the ten-mile stretch, she had two hun
dred pounds before we finished it; and,
as the gauge indicated no higher no
higher than that, and the valve was tied
down, | could not tell how much over
two hundred pounds she carried, but
she certainly carried none less the rest
of the Journey. And well might she
carry such an enormous head of steam
for, after passing over that ten miles in
eight minutes, there lay ten miles of
five-feet up grade, and fourteen miles of
twenty -feet-to- the mile depression be-
| tween us and C, and it was now
eleven o'clock and forty.seven min
utes.
Now the engine was hot in earnest.
The furnace door, smoke arch, and
chimney, all were red while she SEEM
ed to fly onward as if the very Evil One
himself operated her machinery.
" Six minutes carried us over that
ten miles; and we darted by the last
| station that had lain between us and
| C. Now we had fourteen miles
| to go, and my time showed II O'Clock
and So minutes.
"' If live, said to myself, 1 will
make it, And we plunged down that
twenty-foot grade with all steam on
Persons who saw the train on that wild
run, said that it was so soon after they
heard the first sound of her approach,
when the strange object, which looked
as if it was flame of fire, darted by,
and then the sound of its travelling died
away in the distance, that they could
hardly convince themselves they had
really seen anything. 1t seemed more
like the creature of wild dream than q
sober reality.
"And now let me tell you, that no
engine ever beat the time we made on
fourteen miles. Those great wheels, 7
feet in diameter, spun around so swift
that you couldn't begin to count the
revolutions. The engine barely seemed
to touch the track as she flew along /:
and although the track was as true as it
was possible for it to be, she swayed
fearfully, and sometimes made such
| prodigious jolts that it required con-
siderable skill for one to keep his feet
No engine could hold together if crowd
ed to a greater speed.
"Well, just as came to stand-still
in the depot at C the big clock
doomed out twelve, and the steamboat
was getting her steam on. Roberts got
on board in time and nothing to spare. :"
"And he saved the money, did he z"
asked, when saw that my friend had
finished his story.
Eyes he found it hid away in some
old boxes as Aldrich had directed him. :"
"If you are the passenger for c."
said waiter, " the bus is ready"
So thanked my friend for his story,
and babe him good-by.,