The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-16
'THE WORLD" AT SARATOGA.
Carried From Albany on a Special
Engine at the Rate of More
Than a Mile Minute.
Distributed Among the Crowds Two
Hours and a Half Ahead Of the
Earliest Of Its Competitors.
ESPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE woRLDJ


motive bringing the Sunday World an
nounced itself with long and triumphant
blast as it rolled swiftly into Saratoga at 9:55
this morning. At the depot there was a
crowd of newsmen and newsbOys, and in
their baste to seize their papers they scarcely
Disseminated between the bundles and the
reporter as they rolled pelllnell from the lit
tie cab. 1t was the earliest arrival of New
York Sunday papers ever known here. Last
Sundays record was beaten five minutes, that
of the previous Sunday fifteen minutes, and
it was two hours and half ahead of the New
York Herald, which arrived at 1890 o'clock.
BY 10 O'Clock the Worlds were being rapidly
distributed aud the crowded lobbies and
porches of the great hotels were soon futter-
ing white with men. When the other New
York papers came in, the Herald behind two
good horses being slightly in the lead, the
people had so thoroughly read and discussed
all the news in the World that the renewed
crying of the newsboys was voted bore, ana
| it certainly was Improbable.
| The trip from New York with the Wond
papers was exciting even outside Of abe anxi-
ETY. to be first. The regular newspaper trains
ON which the packages started, and which left
the Grand Central at 1876 a. H., arrived az
Albany at 9:05. This was quite swift run
ming, and it was particularly enjoyable this
morning, for the air was perfectly clear and
the unequalled panorama that the Hudson
river affords railroad passengers could be seen
with unusual distinctness. At Albany the
| y,e al
Hudson road was in readiness, aod it was the
work of only second to transfer the pack
ages and the reporter to the front part of the
cab on the tireman's side. George A Hydron
was the engineer and Lyman Keating the
fireman of engine No $50, which is boastea
0 be the staunchest and swiftest on the road.
Scarcely bad the reporter time to wave fare
we'll to the postal clerks, with whom he haS
travelled to this point, when the great engine
began to hiss and to sway little
as the first pressure of its iron muscles start
ed it forward. It's speed was restrained Nm
til the cars that Uttered the depot yards were.
passed, but presently the reporter found him.
self grasping his seat and firmly bracing his
knees against the papers piled up before him,
for the engine was galoping and snorting
ahead. and while the frs, fascination lasted
he could not have been tempted to look
to either one side or to the other. Yet
SO far the engineer was merely tryng his
machine He was satisfied, for ne said
"It's all right; size can do it in folty-iye-
minutes if let her," He pulled lever and
the ponderous giant, ohedicnt To the impulse,
sprang forward, with tue alertness OF HindOo,
and the preliminary gallop became IA dead
run with ears laid back a I'd nostrils wide
open. Now and then there was high bound,
and at curves and switches there were violent
lunges sideways that caused the solitary pas
senger to cling closer to his seat and 10 stare
straight ahead harder than ever. The grind
ing Of the wheels the Kissing of the steam
and the straining on the rigid metals became
painfully loud and harsh, and the yawp of
, the whistle giving frequent warnings at the
crossings was a soothing relief to the out
ragged nerves. Ten minutes and about teIB
miles after the fast running began, the fire
man leaned forward and yelled into the re-
porter's ear: do you know what we are do
ing:'
'No," was the response.
"Well," he said, :'we are running iusf a
, mile minute but this amt all yet
The rails far ahead seemed TO be running
away into an ever-sharpening point, while
, nearer they seemed to be spreading apart SO
rapidly that looking few hundred feet
ahead one felt almost doubtful whether the
wi aatp I'd II
been necessary to slow up at all little towns,
on the route the rate Of mile a iRinute-
would have been maintained throughout the
run, Notwithstanding the curves and switches.
Twenty miles from Saratoga the engineer
said he would gain five minutes On last Sun
days feat. At Ballston the fireman said
"Nine miles to Saratoga. It's clear, straight
= track. Look al the ciock--Iuarter TO 10.
, When We ease up al the edge of Town, lOok
; again." Another pull at the lever, and even
the fireman stared ahead. DO you feel thu
dterenct"' he asked. There was a grea'
: difference. More noise, more plunging, mere
rocking, and the piston rods were working So
II fast that they looked like streaks of lightning
y flashing below us on the track. I'VE are
= beating a mi!e minute--seyenty miles al
hour" said the fireman. little later tht
whistle was screc ching its loudest at the out
l. skits of Saratoga.
Is 'This will do pretty we'll, said Hydron a
~ be jumped down TO see if everything was al
n- right hut we'll do better il the WorlI want
it,"