New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-30
ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
SUCCESSFUL RUN OF THE CENTRAL AND
LAKE SHORES NEW TRAIN
GREETED BY CHEERING CROWDS ALONG THE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SURPRISED By THE

LINE-PASSENGERS SURPRISED By THE
TRAINS SMOOTH RUNNING.
Chicago May 29.-Cvertracl torpedocs that
sounded rafting volIeys under the wheels and
greeted BY cheering shouts ana waving hands. the
Exposition flyer" OF the New-York Central and Lake
shore roads rolled into Chicago this morning AM
finally stopped in the Van Buren, st. station at 30.
thrrc minutes abe I'd OF time. The train rs IT M
rived here had five cars, dinlng-car having been
attached al Elkbnrt on which TO serve bceasfaN As
compared with the monsters that had pulled the
train across Ncw-York state. No. 2D3 she Lake
Shore engine that took hold ut Buffalo last hsm'
seemed Hike Il light swift hing engine. But hehry
shattuch, who her. proved Two 'IactS-hrst
that c03 big little one" ana second 'hat
the Lake shore roadbed is superb oa"
Passengers their watches at Buialo anu
by central time schedule the tain elt there ut
10 ~ p m, and II seemed but little time before
the smoothly hurrying train and the waters o. Lake
Erie within nelghborly distance" scarcely
cOnld the movement Of the train BE- noticed 50 Soi
and steady was It's travel Though fifty miles anu
more being unwOnnd hourly from the big drivers.
the speed seemed moderate. ard there were shrphS'a
passengers when they stopped at Erie at ~ III H.
one and a half minutes ahead OF the schedule. Oniy
four and one-half minutes used In coupling Oh
Engine No. j9s, aud TIE train was again away at
II &c n M, time. The people aboard went 10
bed while they were hurried along toward '''V'-
land, which made at = "a q. m, Two minutes
ahead of the schedule. Here Engine No. oo7 was
compiled 10 the train, which moved away ~ 900
after the shortest shifting Of the trip
In the gray dawn Of the morning loedo was
reached 1T 90 o'clock still two minutes ahead of
time. Locomotive No. 05, took hold and pulied ont
at ) :Ol. which was the schedule time to DOT LAKE
shore superintendent A. b. Newell boarded the tra1a
Toledo and came through To this city. Early ilscr'
at EIklart saw the flyer stop there three minutes
.Da Itnr, ,p
hooked on 10 make the final run of The jouri"y and
the last starting was made ut : a: a. m. The sun
to south Chicago saw minutes lost time. and also
the wlpng OF II out, 80 mat tlc tr"ln ,ouch'u
Chicago az 80 a. H.. exactly on time. Al tlle
poiat there were thiongs about the streets ana
crossings TO the rev train ana wave ana yen
welcome At south Chicago Fort r Mnyur , lY
wari. and had gained train length on the Expo
siilon flyer .,., 80, -,
cinccr to his frcman a bright Yong whose
anxiety in the maj tine Of the train Tas ana pp p@ snod
her 6@c6 am In n@arn from c n m Se door
swung OPEN and the dial finger crept from 100 POUNDS
steam pressure 10. md then Rugged close To 10y
pounds. The big machine fe The ire,n Wp''. ana "a
a Whip. she stopped the gaining Of the rival express
train on the nearby and parallel tracks ana Tor hali a
milo they sailed along even. Then the =" iy.r broke s,
he tie Of speed and nrs ,G srawl Tp the Dos y" a,cen TEEN
v wa" c ssnd Inc and san1e aS % s'
Then the furnace door OF NJ. 10 was half openei
and the machiu" settled 10 an 'iHN pa'' nHu "
lonfed into the station N 9:5.-thrce minutes ahead
~ time. The wheels stopped the "ver was reversed
ard the big machine emitted snort OF escape steam
that SOUNDED like chuckle Of pride that the three
minutes gained on the first run, from New. iorh 10
Nlbany, had been preserved at the end Of the Jour
ncy. 80 .., s.,
Superintendent Buchanan. OF the Central superln
,.ndent Wager of the Wagner service and Superin
tcndent Newell. OF the Lake Shore. were happy men
a, they alghted and mingled with tho crow that
filled The station 10 see the end OF me hr't TIP 'rp
from New York Chicago in twenty hours. Ihcre
can ". no doubt but that the same run may be
made In nineteen hours. or less.