Connecticut western news., 1893-11-02
ALL IN ONE DREAM.
WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY A MAN IN
 A SHORT SPACE OF TIME.

Story Showing the Remarkable Swift
 ness With Which the Mind Works When
 It Is Supposed to Be Taking a Rest-How
 Long It Took to Do Ten Hours Work.
 A few evenings since number of men were in an office await Ing the arrival of gentleman who was to call together meeting that they had been directed to report for their respec- tive papers.
 A number of topics was discussed, and one of these was dreams and the extreme rapidity with which mental operations are performed. A number of experiences were given, but the one that attracted the most attention was that of a Call representative, who narrated what he had done in dream.
 Tt was," said he, fin 1868 that after 3 hard day's work I reached home and lost no time in retiring. Glancing at the clock as turned of the gas noticed that it was just 18 minutes after mid night.
 Shall tell you at this point how long I was dreaming or tell first what I did In my dreamf That you all may better appreciate what was done, will defer the matter until the end. Bear in mind that what Is to be told was all in the dream. Seated in the old office on Com mercial street, above Montgomery, was endeavoring to put into presentable shape the facts of trial that had taken place in the district court, when in came E. A. Rockwell, who was the chief ed itorial writer, and calling me by name said: You had better get ready and go to San Leandro. There's been 8 terri ble railroad accident. There's 50 or 60 people killed, and I don't know how many injured George K. Barnes, at that time one of the proprietors and managing editors. had overheard Rock well, and in that quiet way of his sug- gested that no time be lost in reaching Oakland, and there procuring 8 buggy and 6 pair of horses, to go to San Lean dro or wherever the accident was.
 Rushing down to the ferry landing at the corner of Pacific and Davis streets, reached there in time to find that the steamer for the other side of the bay had just pulled out, and that would have to wait half an hour for the next boat. The delay was vexatious, and then when the ferrybost did move eastwardi it seem ed as if she would never make her land ing, she seemed to be going so slowly. When the slip on the other side was reached, there was some accident to the local train, and there was not any pro spect of starting for an hour or more. There was not a team of any kind at the landing, so had to walk to Oakland.
 IA desire to make up for the time lost urged me on, and think the time made from the landing to Broadway and Washington street has never been beaten by man. Near the corner went into a livery stable and ordered a pair of horses hitched up. There was delay there, for the proprietor had his doubts about the ability of the team making the trip out and back. Finally l started, and the way those horses flew over the road was caution. When the scene of the disaster, some distance beyond San Le- andro, about IA miles from Oakland, was reached, l proceeded at once to gather the facts.
 Down on the notebook were penciled the names of 30 odd men, women and children who had either been killed out right or burned to death in some of the cars which had caught fire Then fol- lowed the names of about 40 who had been injured, description of their in- juries and the opinions of the physicians s,1 c+@ %1 . &La ble outcome in each case. Now, any of you who have had experience in gather ing information of that kind can fully appreciate that 1t was not child's play, for the injured were in different places, and it required time to get around to them all.
 "Then there was the obtaining of data about the dead. A number of them were we'll known residents of this city, others were from San Jose, so it became neces- sary to obtain enough to give each de- cent obituary notice. In addition to this 1t became part of my duty to get the statements of passengers. so as to de scribe their feelings when the train de railed and went over on its side down a little gully and be able to write up the narrow or fortunate escape of each. Then there were railroad officials to in. terview, and, as you all know, they are the hardest kind of people to obtain facts from.
 Well, it took nearly three hours tc get all the m, tier that was needed for g sensational article that was to appear under half column scare head. Then there was the ride back to Oakland set clement with the livery stable man, who swore that he would never rent team to a newspaper man again, a rush in 6 hack to the ferry landing and the trip te this city. Without waiting to get any thing to eat I made my way to the office and at once commenced to write up, tell ing every one who came to ask for de
 tails to let me alone. did not write il copper plate style, and for that matter never did, but wrote and kept on writ
 ing until I had enough to fill what would l make about four full columns of The Cal
 of the present day and wrote that biz
 scare head. As l handed the last lin, ] to the foreman to set up heaved sigl | of relief and exclaimed, Thank good
 ness, that's doner That is my dream. l At that moment felt 8 hand on m,
 shoulder. jumped from the bed ant
 heard my wife ask, What are yo,
 dreaming abouty I lit the gas, looked
 at the clock and discovered that it wa
 1TA minutes after midnight, or, in othe
 words, that in my dream of less thai
 two minutes had performed all that
 have related.
 Fl have figured on the time it woui,
 take me to do what did in that drean
 and find that 1t could not be dsne in les
 than 10 hours under the most favorabl l circumstances. s."-San Francisco Call | One Woman Has Her Say.