The herald., 1893-05-29
The WORLDS FAIR FLYER
From New York to Chicago
in Twenty Hours.
The New York Central's Latest
Departure.
An Average Speed of Nearly Mile
Minute.
Initial Trains Under the New Schedule
Speeding in Both Direetions-Grcat
Interest Taken in tho
Venture.
Rx the Associated Press.

New YoRK, May 28.--At exactly 8
O'Clock and so seconds, this afternoon,
the 2O-hour service between New York
and Chicago, over the New York Gem
trail road, was inaugurated by the de-
parture of the first train for the west
from the Grand Central depot, and the
simultaneous departure from Chicago Of
an eastbound train. The trains in each
case consisted of four new Wagner pail
ace cars, drawn by onegreat six-wheeled
Mogul engine.
The train as it stood in the depot here
was inspected by throngs OF curious peo-
pie, and when the departure was made
the balconies of the depot and the
bridges overlooking the tracks we're
black with spectators, while the plat
forms were crowded with more fortunate
ones, who were able to get closer view.
The officials of the road, from President
Depew down, were present. A repre-
sentative OF the Associated Press trav-
eled on the engine, in spite of the strin-
gent rule to the contrary, which in this
instance was waived in his favor.
NO THRILLING WITH PRELnfNARIEs.
There was no trifing with preliminary
formalities as the exposition flyer
plunged into the tunnel after leaving the
Grand Central station. The train
passed One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
street two and half seconds ahead of
schedule. Each station that the train
few through was crowded, and the
spectators cheered the flyer on its way.
1t passed Yonkers q minute behind
time. AT Scarborough the schedule was
caught up with, and 2916 miles was
made in 38 minutes. West Point seemed
rushing forward to meet the train and
shot past 80 seconds before it was due
MAN ON THE TRACK.
| AS the train was running over 80
miles an hour near Fishkill it rounded
a curve and the engineer saw man
standing in the middle Of the track.
The The sent up 6 blast blast from Til
whistle that had the apparent effect Of
an electric shook upon the wsyfarer.
The train missed him by about two feet.
New Hamburg, 65 miles from the
start, was passed rs inmates after leav-
ing New York. Poughkeepsie, 7316
miles, was made in 81 minutes. At
Germantown tine train was three min
utes ahead of time, and the next four
miles were made in minutes 12X
seconds.
Between Stuyvesant and Castleton, a
distance of 10 1-5 miles. the run was
made in minutes, 3M seconds. The
last run before reaching Albany, 24.64
miles, was covered in 15M minutes.
Albany was reached 8 minutes, 45 Sec
onds ahead of time.
FROM ALBANY TO BUFFALO.
BUFFALO, May 2S. Engines were
changed at Albany and diner attached
to the train. Schenectady, Utica and
Syracuse were passed on scheduled time
ana the flyer rolled into Rochester five
minutes ahead of time. The diner was
dropped and the engines changed again
and the train sped on it's way. The
actual time from New York to Syracuse
wss hours and 80 minutes, and the
distance being 271 miles, made the aver
age speed triae over So miles per hour.
Rochester was reached three minutes
ahead of schedule.
After leaving Rochester the train
passed Batavia five minutes late, but
whirled through gainesville 2516 miles
from there, a minute ahead OF time.
The next four miles were made in 81
minutes. The train pulled into Buffalo
five minutes ahead of time.
THE EAsTBoUND FLYER.
CLEVELAND, O., May 28.-The east
bound exposition flyer which left Chi
csgo this afternoon reached Elkhart,
Ind, distance of l01 miles, three min
utee ahead Of time, covering the run in
hours and Is minutes. 1t reached
Cleveland two minutes ahead of time.
ERIE, Pa, May 28.-The exposition
flyer arrived here at 12:3l1S which is
IL minutes ahead OF time.