The record-union., 1892-08-03

I1cSlu 70 ASK II InlS sort OF Lnln8 lSnC
Just little bit dangerous, you know"
Night grows on us; the great American
Canyon is on our left. Blue Canyon,
Alta and Dutch Flat fly by. People are
up all along the line; guns are fired. sa-
lutes waved and everywhere there is en-
thusiasm. Everybody is up now. All
notice the ''half-mile men," Their lamps
are out now. From Truclxee to Blue Can
yon ii has been
ONE LONG LINE
Of watchmen warning to our engineer
the blessed ALPS we'll" Now in day
light we see them with flags, we are
never out OF sight of signal man. HAS
1t been so all along the road?' "Oh,
yes" Think OF it, nearly 600 men signal
ing single train across the Pacific basin
and its rivers. Over 5000 signal men to
wave this little train from ocean to ocean.
ON we go, thirty miles an hour. Ben
Smith says It's enough under the circum-
stances Calderwood says, "She'S doing
all she ought to with train rugged as
this is. ] wouldn't let her run a bit
faster for anything" Fillmore is salts
fed he is doing the best that ought to be
done, and ne is congratulated on the way
the train runs Everybody says it's fast
enough. The excursionists declare they
are not anxious for a San Francisco
breakfast, this sort of thing is enough,
You know"
As we passed into the valley ana upon
the lower lands, we asked Mr.. Barrett
as one Of the most intelligent and observ-
ant of the travellers, what he thought of
the trip as a whole. After a very express
sive sentence or two, he added: 81 know
there'li be one idiot less for any more
such trips as this. I've got my ILL.,"
Mr.. Barrett was not alone III his opin-
ION on this line. one of the passengers
IS on trip around the world, which he
homes fn 1ppnJnniiGh in or dove
AT THE CAPITAL CITY.
AS the train drew into Sacra-
mento, the depot, even at the
filled with people who greeted the train
with cheers and shouts. Some of the
more deeply imaginative and, indeed,
others had been there all MIG hit, waiting
for the chance that may be'' the flying
train might come at any hour The
crowd was very enthusiastic and gave
several hearty cheers. The New York
Herald of June lst was called for, eagerly
purchased and gazed at as Il curiosity
Throughout the city the eXciteml nj was
great, and the flying trip was the event
OF yesterday, as it has been ever since
the train started. Only seven minutes
was allowed the train in this city. In
that time the Central Pacific cars were
cut out and one Central Pacific sleeper
substituted. In five minutes and eleven
seconds, ten men, under a foreman. put
forty boxes of coaI on the engine. and as
soon as 6:02 was called Small pulled the
throttle valve, and No. 40 went out
along X street like an arrow from q bow.
The crowd dispersed, but in an hour
the depot telegraph Office was Tiled with
people, anxious to know how the run
was made to San Francisco. 1t was dis
posed Of IN 1886 over a road very rough
with old iron in many places.
CONCENTRATIONS.
So soon as the time was announced for
San Francisco as three and three fourths
hours, Master Mechanic Stevens sent the
following dispatch
SACRAMENTO, June 4th.
Hunk Si1ou Ben Smith, ana me 1Ag ltoc0-
motiCe): You have beaten the word in run
hlng railroad trains. A. j. STEVENS.
THE TRAIN AND THE ENGINEER.
The report contains the following allu-
sion to the train and Engineer Small:
The train consisted Of two cars, the
Pullman combination coach and baggage
car and the hotel Pullman palace car
marlborough" 1t was drawn by loco
motive 149, better known as the Black
Fox. The engineer was Henry Small,
whose reputation and skill in connection
with the pay-car locomotive is coast-Wide.
He is tall, hardy, cool, quiet and unpre-
tending man, saying little and doing
much, and one who is always and at all
times as steady as clock. His Judgment
as TO speed, powers Of engines and their
management, is implicitly relied upon.
OF the $50 miles of trunk road he is as
familiar as with his own house; and of
the 400 miles of branch roads he is equally
conversant. While Small was popular
man with every class of railroad men I'D
to Saturday, his popularity is to-day
three-fold greater.
He knew when he pulled the throttle
valve at ogden Saturday morning that
he was undertaking a task involving
risk, skill, a cool head, perfectly steady
nerves and great physical endurance,
for it had been determined, and for that
he had been sent TO Ogden, he should try
to run the whole distance to San Fran
cisco and thus Guido every previous
effort Of locomotive engineers. He know
what depended upon him, not only the
reputation of his road and the lives of his
passengers, but the happiness of the wife
in Sacramento, who scarcely closed her
eyes from the time he left home DAYS be-
fore, and walked all day in our dingy
depot, listening to every click of the tele-
graphic instrument, that bore in its little
sound moment by moment as the reports
came flying in so much Of joy or
anxiety.
Small had as assistant, and to relieve
him briefly when necessary. Engineer
James Wright, regular engineer Of the
BLACK Fox" and who is another care
ful, competent and trustworthy man, and
one who enjoys the confidence of his en-
p1oyers and of the public which goes up
by the iron rail on long journeys, and
Wright stood with him to the end The
hremen were Driscoll, Brown and Dean
men who had before them a herculean
task, but who had been tried ana found
true. These were the men who, when
their relief came at Sacramento. replied
to the officer III charge, mo. sir!
WE'VE STOOD BY HANK
Thus far. and we want to 90 to the end.
if you pleasew And they went. ON
the locomotive was benjamin Smith,
foreman of locomotives on the road,
mechanic Of high rank, and one who has,
admirably balanced bravery and eau
ton. He 1t was who superintendent as it
were every revolution OF the drivers. and
kept all things about the engines
under close watch, never closing eye or
pausing to rest, and going with the train
TO the end, just as careful and cool as
when he started.
On the train was w. B. Ludlow, fore
man of car repairs at Sacramento. a man
of long experience and perfect RELIABLE
ity-a man whose very presence on a
train is relief to the nervous traveller.
1t was OF him an enthusiastic member
of the travelling party spoke to our re-
porter: Sir" said he, "I give YOU nv
word of honor we LETT Ogden with
THAT BOX RED HoTi
Eyes, we did, sir! Well, sir, this fore
man here started in on it, and before we
Lad run fifty miles he had it so cool you
could have frozen a cream in it! Fact.
by Jover'
Ludlow had charge of the running gear,
and night and day could be seen con-
suantly examining the underworld. and
gearing and wheels, and giving unweary-
ing attention to every detail, directing
his men at stations, and ordering from
one place to another for any and all
things necessary for the safety of the