Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-07
The BEES SPECIAL FLYER.
It Distributes the Paper in Central
Nebraska for Breakfast Reading.
SEVEN HOURS IN THE LEAD.
Rivals Nowhere - Thousands Along
ITO Miles of Territory Greet tho
Enterprise with Every DEM
.' onstration OF Approval
Sunlight In the Morning.

The BEES special newspaper train TO
Grand Island ana Hastings made its first
trip yesterday morning via the Union Pa
cifc railway,
The train consisted of engine No. 394, bag
gage car and caboose, in charge Of G. w.
Bull, conductor; John Campbell, engineer,
and J. w. Parks and J. c. Richards, brake
men, while the distribution of THE BEE was
Under the suporintendency of J. L. Croft.
The Union Pacific officials gave THE BEE
flyer a clear track, and at n. m. sharp she
went whirling out of the depot at
cannon-ball speed. The first stop
was made at Valley, bundle of BEES
dumped out and on she whirled, arriving at
Fremont at 5l7. There was a crowd
already collected here and the clamor for
THE BEE was something startling. Here
the papers for Hastings. the Superior
branches and for the main line of the Elk
horn were also put off, in care of trusty Ed.
Augustine. The train ran on special
schedule arranged permanently for THE BEE
flyer, and left Fremont promptly on time.
just west of this point freight train laden
with Saturday evenings edition Of an
Omaha paper intended to be palmed off on
the people for Sunday mornings paper
was passed and left moping behind tar in the
their morning BEE, and were passed before
9 o'clock AT Columbus another @ xhileratlng
scene was witnessed, large crowd having
assembled In recognition of THE BEES stroke
of enterprise, and the huge bundle of papers
disappeared in twinkling of the eye. Here
coal and water were taken, and on flew the
iron horse
Central City received her papers on the flv,
and no other stop was made until
Grand Island was reached at S:17, the inter
mo at tafi cd n "
bundles tossed upon the station platforms,
aud eagerly seized by expectant throngs
Here j. Il. Knapp, THE BEES agent. took
charge of all packages destined for all points
between this city and North Platte, and pro-
ceeded on westward by the Colorado fast
freight, serving Kearney with her morning
BEE three hours ahead of the regular train.
At North Platte the paper was delivered
at O'Clock, nearly four hours earlier than
the customary time.
The Rec flyer then took the track of the
St Joe & Grand Island railway for Hastings,
arriving at her destination, go miles from
Omaha, at 9;l5 on time to the second.
The papers We're quickly grabbed up here,
the spectacle about the depot being an ami
mated one. The citizens of Hastings were
not accustomed to having The BEE laid at
their doors at such an hour, and atteSted
their appreciation of such boon by a lively
scramble to secure copy.
AT this town all the bundles intended for
points east We're transferred to the b. * M
No. 9 and were thereby delivered from an
hour to two hours and thirty minutes ahead
of the regular train. AT Hastings the paper
was distributed seven hours ahead of other
Omaha papers.
This is the first time any Omaha news
paper, or in fact any newspaper west of
Chicago, has ever performed such a stroke
of enterprise as delivering It's Sunday morn
ing edition by special train at a distance of
ITO miles, and that that achievement was
abundantly appreciated was attested by the
anxious crowds that awaited the flyer at all
points along the line.