The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-01-27

| Roberts, who was standing on the
platform of the coach.
''Look out for the heavy grades,
he replied, and went inside the car.
The next six miles rose gradual
ly from level to ten and q half
feet grade, the last which lay be-
tween 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 con-
tinually, so that she kept her speed
and passed the station like streak
of light in five minutes Now came
zine miles like the last, over which
she kept pace with her time and
| passed the station liz seven and @
half minutes. Here for ten miles
We had twenty foot grade to en-
counter, but the worst of it all was
at this place we would be obliged
to stop for wood. / vas just going
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 had gone
| afte- me. Il
L believe we would have made
this ten miles with the same speed
as before, but through the careless
ness of the fireman the fountain
valve ON the left hand side of the
engine got opened, and the water
rose SO fast in the boiler as to run
the steam down to ITO pounds be-
fore l discovered where the dim
Guilty was. At frst Roberts didn't
appear to notice the decrease OF
speed, and kept at work ct the
wood as for dear life. But present
ly he looked up, and seeing that
the speed had decreased, he shout
ed, 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 believe we will come to dead
stand if something is Rot done!
The speed is continually Stacking.
What is the matter?' / explained
the cause. He was apparently sat
isfied with my explanation, and az
ter having tied down the safety
valve he climbed over the tender.
exhorting me to "put her through,
for Gods sake, or we are all beg
gars togetherw
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 had
lost nearly ten minutes time, and
had only left twenty seven minutes
10 do thirty seven miles in. l had
shut the water off from both my
pumps little distance back when
l discovered what was the matter,
and she was now making steam fine
lly down a light grade. From less
than one hundred, with which we
started over. that ten-mile stretch,
sue had two hundred pounds before
we finished it, and az the gauge in
dicateo no higher than that, and
the valve was tiee down, could
not tell how mucn over two hun
died pounds she carried; but she
certainly carried none less the re-
maluder oil the journey. And well
she might carry such An enormous
head of steam, for after passing
over that ten miles in eight minutes
there lay ten miles of five ieet up.
grade, and fourteen miles of TWEEN
ty feet to the mile depression be
, tween US and c., and it was
now thirteen minutes to II O'Clock
Now the engine was hot in earn
} est. The furnace door, smoke
arch, ard chimney, were all red
while she seemed to fly onward al
if the very evil one himself opera
, ted her by machinery. Six min
t utes carried US over that ten miles
, and we darted by the last station
that had laid between US and c.
' Now we had fourteen miles to go
and my time showed fifty -thre,
: minutes past IL o'clock. "If
live" said l to myself, Il will max
=, it," and we plunged down tina
:. twentyfoot grade with all steam on
, Persons Who saw the train on tina
. wild run said it was SO soon afte
= they heard the first sound Of he
, approach, when the strange object
which looked as il it was a fam
, of fire, darted by, and then tn
. sound of it's travelling died away il
. the distance, that they could hardl.
. convince themselves they had real
y ly seen anything. 1t seemed NOR
II like the creature OF wild dreat
than a sober reality.
And now let me tell you that n
engine ever beat the time we mad
% on those fourteen miles. Thos
l great wheels, seven feet in diane
u ter, spun around so swift that 20
couldn't begin to count the revolt
&c tons. The engine barely SCENE
70 to touch the track as she fe'
p along, and although the track wa
as true as 1t was possible for it
d, be, she swayed fearfully, and som'
p times made such prodigious joli
e, that it required considerable ski
e for one to keep his feet, No Ell
st CINE could hold together if crowde
If to greater speed.
n. Well, just as / came to q staR'
re still In the depot at 9th bi
re clock doomed out twelve, and tt
IS steamboat was getting her stesl
I'd on. Roberts got on board in tin
at and nothing to spare, but he save
L the money. He found it hid avs
1T in some old boxes, as Aldrich hi
ne directed him.
20 How Much it Takes.
IL One thousand laths will cover
~ yards of surface, and IL pounds
II nails will put them on.