The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-01
Making up Lost Time i.

Half dozen railroad men were
standing by the Union depot lunch
counter the other night. waiting for
a train, drinking coffee and telling
stories about their experiences IN
railroadiag. An engineer was
making camel tracks in half of a
pie, and between swallows he was
entertaining The boys about fast
run he made one day between Mil
waukee and La Crosse, when the
"cid man" was in hurry to get up
there to see about the bridge that
was being built. AS he was des-
cribing how the engine and
cars fairly blistered the rails
between Portage and Camp
Douglas, frightened looking man
stepped up and asked for cup of
coffee and some doughnuts, and,
while he was soaking adoughnutln
the coffee, he said they didn't know
anything about fast running unless
| they had been on the Pennsylvania
road Hhe men asked him what he
knew about fast running, and he
turned out some coffee in a saucer,
blew on it to cool it, swallowed it
and said;
well, 1 just got here from the
cost, and | have witnessed railroad
ing that knocks the socks off any
thing that ever was. We started
out of Jersey City one night at s
o'clock, and up this side of Philadel-
phia there Was wreck ahead of US,
and we side-tracked for six hours,
and when the track was cleared
we started. Well, sir, that train
flew-fairly few. We didn't
realize in the car that we were
going fast by any jar, for it was
Just as smooth as a pair of skates on
smooth ice, but if man went out
on platform he could not breath.
The "nigger started to bring a
luuch from the hotel car into the
car l was in, and while he crossed
the platform the coffee frOZe as stiff
as ice cream, and q man ate it with
spoon. The "nigger was afraid
to 90 back into his car, and waited
until the train stopped at coal
place.
The conductor told me the train
was going faster than bullet. He
said the engineer often shot his re-
yolver up the track ahead, aud the
engine would overtake the bullet
and fiatten it against the smoke
stack. Did you ever see a passen-
ger train jump over freight train
when both were in notion" asked
the doughnut man, as he filled his
empty coffee cup with milk.
"Oh, what are gOu giving US?
said the engineer, as he looseneC
the leather belt around his greasy
overralls, and looked at the mar
with disgust.
"Well, you don't have to believ,
it if you don't want to; but
pledge my word our train jumped
right over long freight train ahea(
of US, and we came up to it on
straight track and our enginee
signaled to the freight conductor t
slow up little and the conducto
told US to keep our seats. We ha
seen the freight ahead on a curve
and wondered why our train did no
ISGOp, w u6u Gu6 COuuuCGOI lOl
US to keep our seats
asked him what was the mat
ter, and he said we were going t
jump freight, and he said if W
moved around we would jar the Car
so they wouldn't be so liable to hi
the track ahead when we cam
down. Just then l could feel tn
train go into the air, and hear tn
wheels turn with no track unde
them, and in less than ten second
we began to descend, and hear tn
wheels on the track again, and
looked back and the freight enginee
was waving his hat at US. WHY
there was no more jar than there i
in this room now. OF conrse, the
wouldn't attempt to jump freigh
train on curve or in tunnel an
the man scratched a match and Ii
a cigar-stub he had been keeping
PecE'S Sun.