Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-11-16
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
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4 xery Augusta eoy's asa On his Engine
ne Praai yssth From Augusta Pisyed %
Gardner Relative.

There il a Young clerk ia t..is city ~hose
aptitude, originality and bri'i'anry in exc
cation be-pezk for him rosy intel future
He has relative itsisg in Gardner, an *
mayor of that city, who 10 a .tauneh Re
publican. Thi. gentleman naturally con-
snesi all the ligbt in his hcase to the
rear daring the Democratic celebration
and uarsae ,as. week. The front OF his
residence vas A. dark and gloomy as the
coun.snanee Of al E;hiope, who had bet bis
last razor on the election, aBd lost. f.ittie
did he dream OF the pitfalls digged for him
t,y one OF his own ki,h and kiu,who came to
Garsiigser On late car laden WIKI fuse AMI
red fire. The red FIRE was arranged just ID
from. of the main entrance 10 the Residence :
the train wa. laid, the fuse tred and our
Young frisni from Augusta knocked loudly
ON the front door and ran. just then
the Democratic parade was IN
front of the house. The genial ex-mayor
swung wide his hospitsble doors and Is he
did so the red fire ignited. Framed in the
doorxay. his features lii up with the bril-
liant victory tint of the CORY blaze that shot
upwards. he looked scarcely less astonished
than did the 'sgnterriacd7 who were march
ing past
The San Francisco Examiner has bong
article regarding Henry 5. Small $
ability and passion for long
runs a. an engineer. There will
probably be some in this city who remember
him for he was born in Augusta and had
his frs, experience on the Old Portland
Keppeb,c road The Examiner says OF him
Henry s Small. the well kuown South
ern Pacific engineer, who died OIL last sun
day at the Oakland Railroad Hospital from
heart disease. probably made the longest
continuous trip behind the throttle OF any
engineer in this or any other country ue
occasion being the trip OF JarF"tt RAJ
NOR. famous ..t'untiuental Tram from
ogden, via Sacramento and stockton 10 me
Oakland pier, a distance OF sSl miles.
Hank Small. as he was famiharly called
by his associates, entered the employ OF tue
Central Pacific - engineer OF CONSTRUCTION
tram when the road vas being built cgst
from Cisco and later ON was selected to take
the nav ear on its monthly trips to every
part OF the system on account of his cool
neks ami excellent Judgment, combined
with fondness for making fast runs. II Is
said OF him that he never showed the least
bit of concern or excitement on the many
mile.a-minute trips he had between here
ami Ogden and Los Angeles, and across
New Mexico and Arizona, and possessed
charmed life that enabled him, in spite of
several seri1ps aerilents, TO die Il peaceful
death at the age of jG years.
When arrangements were being made. TO
bring Jarrett & Palmer's train from Ogden
in June, 1876, Small was selected as the
engineer TO bring il West, both on account
of his familiarity with the entire road, and
because of he ability to always make re-
markably fast time. He was given engine
li9. that has recently been killed and put
in the old scrap pile, and instructed by
General Manager Towne and General Sup
erintendent Fellows TO run as fast as he
could and keep his place at the throttle I'M
til Oakland was reached.
The tall, -boned, sinewv engineer
was equal to the emergency. Pushing out
of Ogden with the train. he never left it for
SO hours and IS minutes, and while the
average speed for the long trip of sSl miles
was only 81. IL miles per hour, there we.e
many sections of the road along which
more than mile "A minute was made.
Going up the grade from Ogden to Promon-
tory he made the first 50 miles in an hour
and nine minutes, going around curves and
up and down grades in so rapid a manner
as to almost make the passengers on the
train seasick at times. Passing Monu-
ment like flash of lightning, he made tie
10 miles from there to kelton in II minutes.
Still he was not satisfied at the rate of speed,
and although his favorite locomotive was
rocking and putting and painting, as it were,
like some great giant, he pulled the throttle
W ide open, and in seven minutes 10 miles
of track between Rye Patch and Oreana
were at the rear of the train.
As the train sped over the Humboldt di-
vision in Nevada so miles were run i'll ex-
actly 81 minutes, and so great was the
cloud of alkali dust that enveloped the ears
that Small. looking back from his cab win
dow. could not at times see the end of his
train.
Arriving at Truckee ut dusk, it was found
that the brakes on the cars were almost use
less and two other cars were put into the
train so that their brakes might be used n
going down the mountains to Sacramen' 1
The bell in the cab to which the bell eoeS
was attached was also broken from the yio
lent use it had been put to in making Small
slow up in his great speed now and then, so
the cord was tied around his body instead.
The ride down the mountain in the dark
ness of the night was the fastest ever made.
MIR. Jarrett. Lawrence Barrett and other
prominent passengers on the train pre-
scnted Small with diamond badge Il few
lays after the arrival of the train here. He
priced it very highly and willed it to his
grandchild.