The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-03-18

money, you shall have five thousand
dollars. Understand 1t, Harry? Five
thousand dollars.
"Of course / understood 1t. / saw
now the reason why the wages had been
cut down; 1 understood 1t all, and my
blood boiled. felt that l would save
the road If lived, and told Mr.. Roberts
so.
&c See that you do it, Harry lie re-
piled, as he climbed upon the step of
the coach which was coupled TO my
engine.
" sprang up into the foot-board of
my engine, got up the swtch-tender to
help my fireman, opened the throttle,
and just as she commenced moving,
looked at my watch-it was just eleven
o'clock, so that L had one hour to make
my seventy-fve miles in.
" From T to c. there were few
curves on the road but there were sew
eral heavy grades. / was perfectly ac-
quainted with every rod of it; so that
j knew exactly what | had to encoun-
ter; and when l saw how the engine
moved, felt very little fear for the re-
suit
"The road, for the first miles, was an
airline, and so smooth that my engine
flew along with scarcely perceptible
jar. L was so busy, posting myself up,
as to the amount of wood and water
aboard, etc., that we danced by the first
station before was aware of it, having
been five minutes out, and having five
miles accomplished.
CSC You are losing time 7 yelled voice
from the coach. 1 looked around, and
there stood Roberts with his watch in
his hand.
L knew very well, that we would
have to increase our speed by some
means, If we carried out our plans of
reaching c. by midnight, and looked
around, to see what could do to ac-
compIish that purpose. She was blow
ing off steam fiercely at one hundred
and ten pounds: so turned down the
valve to hundred and ten pounds, for 1
knew we would need it all to make some
of the heavy grades which lay between
us and c..
:" 1t was three miles to the next sta
ton. With the exception of few
curves, the track was as good as the last.
AS we darted around what commonly
seemed to be rather long curve, at the
station, but which was, at our high
speed, short enough, looked at my
1A1I. 4 L. 4 4 l..
utes and half
GO Gaining shouted back to Roberts,
who was yet standing ON the platform
of the coach.
CSC Look out for the heavy grades, he
replied, and went inside the car.
"The next six miles rose gradually
from level the first, to ten and 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 continually; so that
she kept her speed, and passed the sta
ton, like streak Of light, in five min
utes.
Now came nine miles like the last !;
over which she kept pace with her time
and passed the station in seven and q
half minutes.
Here, for ten miles, we had twen-
ty-foot grade to encounter, but the worst
of it all was, at this place we would be
obliged to stop for wood. 1 was just go
ing to speak to Roberts about it, when L
looked around and saw him filling the
tender from the coach with wood which
had been placed there before starting,
while he was gone after me.
3" / believe we would have made this
ten miles with the same speed as before !;
but, through the carelessness of the
firemen, the fountain-valve, on the left
hand side of the engine, got opened, and
the water rose in the boiler so fast as to
run the steam down to one hundred
pounds, before discovered where the
difficulty lay.
AT first, Roberts didn't appear to
notice the decrease of speed, and kept at
work at the wood as if for dear life
But, presently, he looked up; and, see
ing that the speed had decreased, he
shouted:
Harry, we are stoppingl" and then
coming over to where was, he said:
"Why, here We have been ten minutes
on the last ten miles, and believe that
we viii come to dead stand-still ii