The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1882-05-25


: a level 10 ten and hall feet grade, the Ia
!, between u. and tho neit station.
Ny fireman kept her fall, and now sl
I, began 10 get hot The furnace door y.
, red. aud the steam raised continually, .
that she kept her speed and passed III
station like streak Of lightning in fv
minutes.
Now came niue miles like the last
over which she kept pace with her time
and passed the station in seven aud hal
minutes
Here for ten miles We had twenty foo
grade 10 encounter. but the worst OF it al
was, at this place We would be obliged h
stop for wood.
was inst going TO speak TO Robert,
about it, when | looked around and saw
him filling the tender frvin the coach with
wood which had been placed there before
starting, while he had gone after me
believe we would have made these ten
miles with the same speed as before, but
through the carelessness o! the fireman
the lountain.valve on the left hand side OF
the engine got opened, and the water rose
in boiler so fast as 10 run the steam down
to 100 pounds before discovered where
the difficulty was.
At first Roberts didnt appear to notice
the decrease Of speed, and kept at work at
the wood as for dear life, But presently
he looked up, and seeing that the speed
had decreased, he shouted;
Harry, We are stopping, and then com
ing over TO where ! was, he said; Why,
here we have been ten minutes on the last
ten miles, and / believe we shall come to
dead stand il something is not done.
The speed is continually Stacking. What
is the matter?
/ explained the cause. He was appar.
emily satisfied with my explanation, aud
after having tied down the safety valve he
climbed over the tender. c1horting me to
put her through, for Gods sake, or we
are all beggars together
Just then we passed the next station,
having taken nine minutes for eight miles.
We were now more than half over the road, |
but we bad lost nearly ten minutes time
and had only left twenty-seven minutes to
10 thirty-seyen miles in. had shut th
water off from both my pumps q little dis
ance back when discovered what was the
natter and was now making steam finely
|own light grade. From less than one
hundred, with which we started over that
stretch, she had two hundred
ounds before we finished it, and as the
uage indicated no higher than that, and
he valve was tied down, l could not te II ,
ow much over two hundred pounds she /
-, '"o Certainly carried none ,
ss the remainder OF the ;yu.noy. :
And well she nigh carry such an enor- q
GUS head OF steam, for after passing over i
lat ten miles in eight minutes there lay d
n miles OF fiv-fee grade and fourteen 4
tween us aud C. and il was now h
irteen Minutes TO twelve o'clock. d
Now the engine was hot in earnest. The d
rnace door, smoke-arch, and chimney a
ERE all red. while she seemed to fly on D
ard AS is the very evil one himself operat. Il
her machinery. f
Six minutes carried us over that ten
lies, and we darted by the last station p
at had lain between us and c.. D
Now we had fourteen miles to 60, and D
y time showed fifty-three minutes past p
sven o'clock. II live, said to myself, p
will make it, p
And we plunged down that twenty foot
ade with all steam on. Persons who N
" the train on that wild run said it was
soon after they heard the first sound OF
r approach, when the strange object, -
iich looked life flame Of fire, dart.
by, and then the sound OF its travelling o"
ID away in tho distance, that they could ~
rdly convince themselves that they had
Ally seen anything II seemed more like
e creature OF wild dream than sober ~
.lity. VI
And now let ME tell You that no engine w
er beat the time We made on those four ~ -,
m miles. '"
Those great ~heels, fully seven feet in ~
nmeter, spun around so swift that you y.
nldn't begin to count the revolutions
Tho engine barely seemed TO touch the VI
ck as she flew along; and. although the VII
ok was as true as it was possible for it to '.'
she swayei feaffully, and sometimes w
de such prodigious jol:s that it requir' NV
considerable skill for one to keep his oe
/. No engine could hold together il
,wded to greater speed.
Well, Just as came to standstill in the WI
pot at c. the big clock doomed out PEI
elve, aud the steamboat was getting her aol
am on. President Roberts got on board II
time and nothing to spare. But be saw ING
the money. He founi it hid away in TIL
nc old boxes, az Aldrch had directed the
n. mu
Nor was ! forgotten 70, my share Of the | n
rk in the return OF the smbezzled funds G
The railroad company. A short time af. 70
/ received the reward Of $1,000 promis. BOZ
me by the president ii the event OF my II
ching c. before thedeparture Of the me
dnight boat; and atsum, placed in ty
,k as foundation. .stae, now enables wa
TO live at ease aud csmfort in my old las
!. lett
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