Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-01
THE FLYER.
Trip Of the Exposition Special from
New York.
FINE DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT.
Considerable Excitement Along the Route
The Train Averages About q Mile
Minute, According toa
Schedule.

Schedule.
New YORK, May 29--At precisely
2:22 o'clock yesterday afternoon
snub-nosed switch engine backed a
train of four new Wagner palace cars
into the Grand Central depot and along
side the third passenger platform of
the New York Central & Hudson River
Co. Then there was a jingle of 1oosened
couplings and the Snub-noSed engine
snorted its way out into the yards
again, leaving the four cars standing.
Meanwhile. long-barreled, high,
siX-whecled locomotive monster was
standing at rest on a short spur of
track a block or two distant
But from within its steel ribs came
the sounds of measured breathings-
The great thing seemed leisurely pant
ing. like some great beast might do
| when lying at full length on sum-
mer's day There was life in the body
OF this great engine. as was proven by
the occasional dropping of glowing
Goals from the fire box to the greasy
ties where they smoldered There was
| a ferocious tension on her iron thews
while she stood so ponderously quiet
! Occasionally a jet of steam broke from
her throat and shot upward into the air.
Pretty soon somebody gave a signal
and the man in the cab pulled out the
| throttle, ever SO little and the big ma
chine moved over tangle of switches,
stopped, backed down into the depot
and hunted her automatic couplings
into a firm grip on the four new ears.
And thus was completed the first
exposition flyer train which the New
| York Central
should daily traverse the distance be-
tween New York and Chicago in TWEEN
| ty hours.
The big locomotive chosen for the
first stage of the initial trip is No. S9S,
and she is a full sister to No $40. which
broke the long distance railway record
in September last, by running from
New York to Buffalo. 1868 miles, in
the actual running time of 425 minutes
| and a seconds.
There was no nonsense about DELHI
crate fornalities as the pioneer twenty
hour train plunged into the Park ave-
nue. tunnel after the start out of the
Grand Central station. In the gloom
| the engineer could be seen yanking the
throttle bar twice after starting and
before reaching One Hundred and
Twenty-ffth street, and each time the
huge machine took on new impulse.
The tracllnen in the tunnel Rugged
themselves close To the wall as the
train passed them and waved to Matte
Regain, the engineer. who stood by the
bar of the great boiler that was gener
ating power. One hand was upon the
pulse of the great machine, the other
grasped a window stanchion.
The first time point on the schedule
was One Hundred and Twenty-ffth
street and the giistening new train
hurried past the station there. a triie
over four miles, six minutes and fifty
seven and a half seconds after the start
This is two and one-nalf seconds faster
than the schedule. At Mott Haven the
time was exactly the schedule. a trifle
having been lost on the bridge = crowd
thronged the streets 20 see the train go
by and Il minute later. when the engine
turned riverwards at the Mott Haven
junction. Regain received stirring
''send off" from his shopInates ard col
leagues who were in numbers at the
round house.
At Kings bridge the train was fif-
teen seconds late, but at SpE.yten Duy-
vii there were ten seconds to the good:
and just there came = growl from the
=
Croton," said he. while he shut off
steam and pulled up under warning
Soma phore. ''Thatn be all right be-
fore long, though" said Matte. as he
gave her breath again A half minute
had been lost and at Yonkers there was
minute to the bad. Glenwood went
past and up went the griIny hand Of
the engineer to the whistle lever. 4
blast rang forth that might have
awakened the dead in Sleepy Hollow
Hastings was warned and when the
little depot flashed by there were only
thirty seconds to the bad 4 crowd at
Tarrytown saw the train a minute
later than the schedule promised At
Scarborough the schedule had been
caught and twenty-nine and one-half
miles had been made in thirty-eight
minutes.
I'm only using seven inches of steam
on her." said the engineer. with q salts
fed smile on his face. At MOntrose
thirty-nine miles -yere behind and the
time was fcrty-eight minutes - ore
minute ahead of the time.
The country home of President De
pew, Peelsl1ill. was passed five seconds
ahead of time and a crowd was there to
see and hear its passage. There was a
season of easy trailing with the steam
gauge at 1GO pounds. The train soon
ouickened and chain OF tunnels
through jutting spurs of rock was
passed
At / tica she was three minutes ahead
of time. 1t was exactly 5 o'clock and
thirty seconds. 1t was well the engi-
necr had been cautioned about the tor
pedocs, for the tracks were filed with
them, and as they were exploded by
the ponderous wheels they exploded
like volley of 1rusketry. Passing IN
der the street bridges the spectators
Joined their cheers with this torpedo
salute, continuing until the last car
had vanished around the curve which
leads ont Of the depot
Vice President Webb was aboard the
train and viii ride as far as Albany.
Superintendent William Buchanan viii
go all the way through BY the flyer
schedule only nine stops viii be made
between New York and Chicago. thus:
Albany, 5:45 p n; Utica, T:4o; Syra-
cr1S.. So Rochester I0-1-- EuH.1o