The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-30
BEET THE RECORD.
The Exposition Flyer Arrives
Three Minutes Ahead of Time,
FROM new YORK TO CHICAGO
In Twenty Hours-How the Great
Run Was Made-Fhe Gain Made in
New York Maintained to the End of
the Jnurney-BeIiovod That tho Trip
Can be Made in Nineteen Hours,

CHICAGO, May 29.-Over track torpe'
does that caused rafting volleys under
the wheels, and greeted by cheering
shouts and waving hands, the "exposi'
ton flyer" OF the New York Central
and Lake Shore roads rolled into Chi
cago this morning and finally stopped
in Van Buren, street station at s o'clock
and fifty-seven minutes-three minutes
ahead OF time,
AS compared with tho monsters that
had pulled the train across New York
state, No. 293, the Lake Shore engine
that took hold at Buffalo last Right
seemed like a light switching engine.
But Henry shattuck, who ran her, soon
proved two facts-hrst that 20S was "a
big little one," and second that the Lake
Shors road bed il u superb one.
Passengers reset their watches at
Buffalo, aud the train lett there at l0;43
p. IN. central time. They stopped at
Erie at 1891, ono and one half minutes
ahead OF schedule. Only four and half
minutes we're used in coupling on en-
CINE sos with j. Il. Garner IN the cab,
with Joe Bradley as fireman. Cleve.
land was reached at 2:34 a, M, two
minutes before the schedule, Here
james Lothrep backed down No. 6O7
and coupled TO the train.
Locomotive No. 95 under Engineer
Metcher took hold Of the train at Toledo
and pulled out at SOL.
Lake Shore Superintendent A. b.
Newell boarded tho train at Toledo and
came through to this city.
Early risors at Elkhart saw the flyer
stop three minutes ahead OF time at
1885 a. IN. Here o big engine, run by
Mark Floyd, was hooked on to make
the final run Of tho journey.
South Chicago was reached at $3.50 a..
M, exactly on time. At this point
there were throngs about the streets
and crossings to SEQ the new train come
into town.
Every swltchman shook his fist in u
go.in-and-win fashion at Engineer
Floyd, and shopmen and citizens waved
and yelled their welcome.
At South Chicago Fort Wayne
train OF three sleepers and two coaches
was hurrying citywards on parallel
track and had gained u train length on
the exposition flyer.
"Give 'er coal shake her up" yelled
Engineer Floyd to his fireman, bright
young man, whose anxiety in the final
time Of the train was apparent in his
eager face. And he gave her coal, and
he shook her up. A black plume shot
from her smoke stack, the furnace
reared like an inferno every time the
door swung open, and the dial finger
crept from 100 steam pressure to i70,
and then Rugged close TO $50 pounds.
The rival train was soon eftbehind and
Englewood passed fifteen seconds before
the schedule said it should.
Then the furnace door OF No. 100 was
half opened and the machine settled
down to an easy pace, and SO loafed
into the station at 0:57-three minutes
ahead OF time. The big wheels stop
ped, tho big lever reversed, and the
moment the big machine emitted a
snort OF escape steam that sounded like
a chuckle OF pride that the three min
utes gained on the first run from New
York to Albany had been preserved at
the end OF the journey.
Supt. Buchanan, Of the Central, supt
Yager, Of Wagner service, and Supt.
Newell, Of the Lake Shore. were happy
mon as they alighted and mingled with
the crowd that filled the station to see
the end Of the first trip from New York
to Chicago in twenty hours. There can
be no doubt but that the same run may
be made in nineteen hours, or less
without straining q nut or q wheel.