Mohave County miner., 1883-03-25
MAKING UP TIME.

Half dozen railroad men were
 standing by the Union depot lunch
 counter the other night, waiting fol
 train, drinking coffee, and telling
 stories about their experiences ir
 railroading. An engineer was mak-
 ing camel-tracks in half of a pie,
 and between swallows he was enter
 taining the boys about fast run ke
 made one day between Milwaukee
 and La Crosse, when the ''old man"
 was in a hurry to get up there to see
 about the bridge that was being
 built there. As he was describing
 how the engine and two cars fairly
 blistered the rails between Portege
 and Camp Douglass, a frightened
 looking man stepped up and asked for cup of coffee and some dough
 nuts, and while he was soaking a dough-nut in the coffee, he said they didn't know anything about fast run
 ming unless they had been on the Pennsylvania road. The men asked him what he knew about fast running
 and he turned out some coffee in a
 saucer, blew on 1t to cool it, swallow
 ed it. and said:
 "Well, l inst got here from the East, and I have witnessed railroad ing that just knocks the socks of of anything that ever was. We started out of Jersey City one night at eight o'clock, and up this side of Philadel phia there was a wreck ahead of US, and we side-tracked for six hours, and when the track was clear we started. We'll, SIT, that train flew fairly flew We didn't realise 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 8 man went out on platform he could not breathe. The nigger started to bring a lunch from the hotel car into the car I was in, aud while he cross ed the platform the coffee froze as stiff as ice cream and a man eat it with a spoon. The nigger was afraid to go back into his car, and waited till the train stopped at coal place. The conductor told me that we were going faster than a bullet. He said the engineer often shot his revolver up the track ahead, and the engine would overtake the bullet and fatten it against the smoke-stack. Did you ever see a passenger train jump right over freight train, when both wele in motion?" ask ed the dough nut man, as he filled his empty coffee cup up with milk.
 ''Oh, what are you giving us?" said the engineer, as he loosened the leather belt around his greasy over alls. and looked at the man with dis gust.
 Well, you don't have to believe it if you don't want to; but l pledge you my word our train jumped right over long freight train ahead of us We came up to it on a straight track, and our engineer signaled to the freight conductor to slow up little, and the conductor told us to keep our seats. We had seen the freight train ahead on a curve, and wondered why our train did not stop. When the conductor told us to keep our seats, I asked him what was the mat ter, and he said we were going to jump freight, and if we moved around we would jar the cars so they wouldn't be so liable to hit the track ahead, when we came down. Just hen could feel the train go into jhe air, and hear the wheels turn with no track under them, and in ( ess than ten seconds we began to descend, and I could hear the wheels l on the track again, and I looked pack and the freight engineer was waving his hat at us. Why, there ; vas no more jar than there is in this f 'oom now. Of course, they wouldn't lttempt to jump a freight train on { ,urve or in a tunnel" and the man ; scratched match on his pants, and { it a clgar stub he had been keeping. -Peck's Sun.