The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-01

bounding under mad impulsion, and
the smoke-stack upon its locomotive was
emitting a shower of sparks. Passen-
gers then saw that there was race
The track of the Delaware 81 Lacka-
wanna road makes q sweep southwark
just beyond Jersey City, and for the rest
OF the distance 10 Newark runs parallel
with and only few feet separated from
the Pennsylvania track When the pas
sengers caught sight of the rival train ii
was laundering down the curve, SEEM
ingly bent on striking their own at right
angles. But IN a minute it turned, and
the two locomotives were dashing to-
ward Newark neck and neck.
For a moment neither drew a iot
ahead of the other 1t was an unpleas-
ant and yet fascinating sensation. The
coaches flew straight as die, swerving
not hairs breadth either to the right or
the left, striking the roadway only at
intervals, Negotiating the iron rails with
fierce, sharp blows, and seemingly bent
on striking them in twain. Passengers
looked at one another out of their
respective windows in an alarmed way
as if wondering which would be an
initiated first. The Delaware & Lack
awanna fireman threw open the door OF
his furnace and gorged it with coal. In
| response million sparks flew from the
funnel and danced backward, mingline
brilliantly with another million out OF
the funnel of the sounding Pennsylva-
man. Both locomotives blazed and
roared, and the wheels of the cars flying
| after them ground terrible music out OF
the iron track and struck fiery blows al
every bound. So near together were the
two trains that the passengers could al
most have shaken hands across But
they were rival passengers now and
glowed at one another under the fiery
veil which the locomotives threw back
ward.
"When the Delaware & Lackawanna
fireman had fed his beast, louder roar
came down from the Pennsylvania iron
horse, and it was known that the other
fireman had done likewise The change
for moment was hardly perceptible
1t seemed as though, after the manner OF
racing boats, first one locomotive and
then the other was making mortal spurts
drawing for the instant a jot ahead, and
then falling jot behind. Like the
boats too, to the passengers IN the Penn
sylvania train, their flying rival seemed
at intervals to lift into the air under its
terrible impulses, and to fly unsupport
ed sheer and clear above the track. The
whole locomotive shook and quivered as
If power had been let loose in it which
was on the point of bursting it asunder,
and the funnel ratified and roared with
the mortal gasps which drew upward
through 1t from the tortured interior
But then, as the whirl of sparks grew
thicker and made a marvellous canopy
over both trains, passengers saw that the
massive Pennsylvania was steadily
drawing ahead. A window of the last
Delaware & Lackawanna car dropped out
of sight, and another and another, until
the whole car was gone. This perform
ance was gradually continued until the
rear car of the Pennsylvania was on q
line with the Delaware 81 Lackawanna's
locomotive.
"Then the driver of the latter waved
his hand after the manner of a defeated
man, and let the steam whistle from his
veXed boiler through all the scapes
while the fireman again threw open the
door of the furnace, and the Delaware
d Lackawanna train dropped instantly
out of sight. The heavy Pennsylvania
followed suit. The trail of sparks from
her funnel suddenly ceased, her passen
gers let go the seats in front of them
and she entered Newark, in another
minute, after the staid manner that is
usual to her kind.
during the race the pennsylvania
| locomotive ran at the rate of more thar
mile minute. It had eight cars tC
draw the Delaware & LackaWanna en-
CINE had four. A brakeman on the
Pennsylvania train said those Delaware
81 Lackawanna fellows were awfully con
ceited, and had to have it taken out o.
'em. He added that what had just hap
pened was the prettiest sight in the
| world"