The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-02-01
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w. L. BETTER & co.

| w. L. BEITLER & co.
The next six miles rose gradually
from a level toa ten and half feet
grade, the last, which lay between us
and the next station. Ny fireman kept
her full and now she began to get hot.
The furnace door was red, and the
steam raised continually, 80 that she
kept her speed and passed the station
like streak Of lightning in five
minutes. Now came nine miles like
the last. over which she kept pace with
her time and passed the station in
seven and halt minutes. Here for
ten miles We had twenty-foot grades to
encounter. but the worst of it all was
at this place We were obliged to stop
for wood. / was just going to speak
to Roberts about it when / looked
around and saw him filling the tender
from the coach with wood which had
been there before starting, while he
had gone after me.
believe we would have made this
ten miles with the same speed as be-
fore, but through the carelessnes of the
fireman the fountain valve on the left
hand side Of the engine got opened and
the water rose in the boiler 80 fast as
to run the steam down to 100 pounds
before discovered where the Difficult.
ty was. At FIRST Roberts didn't appear
to notice the decrease of speed, and
kept at work ut the wood as for dear
lite. But presently he looked up, and
seeing that the speed had decreased he
shouted. Harry. we are stopping :"
and then coming over to where | was
he said: "Why, here We have been ten
minutes ON the last ten miles, and i
believe we will come to q dead stand
if something is not done The speed
is continually Stacking. What is the
matter ?" I explained the cause. He
was apparently satisfied with my
explanation. and after having tied
down the safety valve he cliuoed over
the tender, exhnr,ing me ''to put her
through for Gods sake, Or we are all
beggars together ]"
just then we passed the next sta
ton, having taken nine minutes for
eight miles. We were now more than
half over the road, but we lost nearly
ten minutes time and had only left
twenty-seven minutes to do thirty-sev-
en- miles in. had shut the water of
from both my pumps little distance
back when discovered what was the
and she was now making
steam fne!v down light grade. From
less than one hundred. with which we
started over that ten mile stretch, she
had two hundred pounds before We
finished it, and Is the gauge indicated
Do higher, and the valve was tied
]OwD, l could not tell how much over
Two hundred she carried but she Ger
lainly carried none lest the remainder
If the journey. And we'll she might
AIRY such an enormous head of steam.
or, after passing over that ten miles in
light minutes, there lay ten miles of
i've foot grade and fourteen Of twenty
eet to the mile depression between US
md T. and il was now thirteen
to IL O'Clock.
Now the engine was hot in earnest.
The furnace door, smoke arch, and
chimney were all red, while she SEEM
d to fly onward rs if the very evil
ne himself operated her by machinery.
'ix minutes carried Us over that ten
niles and we darted By the last sta
ION that had lainlbetween us and G..
Vow We had fourteen miles 10 20 and
ny time showed ffty-shree minutes
'ast eleven O'Clock, IF 1 live, said I
o myself. II will make it. And We
'lunged down that twenty-foot grade
nth all steam on. Persons who saw
he train on that Wild run said it was
o soon after they heard the first
Ound of her approach. when the
range object, which looked as If it was
fame of Ere. darted by, and then
he sound OF its travelling died away in
he distance. that they coul'i hardly
onvince themselves that they had
zen any thing. It seemed more like
be creature of . wild dream than .
ober reality.
And now let me tell you that no
ngine ever beat the tid1e We made on
hose fourteen miles. Those great
heels, seven feet in diameter, spun
round 80 swift that yop couldn't be-
in to count the revolutions. She bare
, seemed tn touch the track - she
ew along, and although the track
as as true as it was possible for it to
3. she swaved fearfnlly and sometimes
ade such prodieious jolts that it re-
hired considerable skill for one to
,ep his feet. No engine could hold
gether if crowded to q greater speed.
Well. just as / came 70 q stand still
the depot at c. the big clock
,omed out twelve, and the steamboat
IS getting her steam on. Roberts
It on board IN time and nothing to
are. But he saved the money. He
und it hid awav in some old boxes.
Aldrich had directed him.
We notice that Ton, Dick end Harry
. nov appearing With their grandtashers
'sipts Tor coughs. etc., and seeking for.
NJ through advertising, bot the people
on the value Of d.. Bale Csogh Eyrup