San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-27
A RECORD BREAKER.
Remarkable Run Made by the San
ia Fe-Railroad News.

Ia Fe-callrOaQ NEWS.
Major w. G. Lewis, of the live
stock department of the Gulf Colo
RADIO and Santa Fe, returned from
a trip to Central Texas yesterday.
He reports good business in cat
tie shipments OF his road. Mayor
Lewis handed the rail road repre-
sentative of the LIGHT a copy of a
record of time made in the move
ment of a banana train from Gal
weston to Chicago, via the Santa
Fe.
The time consumed in making
the run is considered a record
breaker as far as speed is con-
cerned and the LIGHT is the first
newspaper to publish the record.
The train left Galveston at six
o'clock on the evening of January
80 1894, and arrived at Sealy, a
distance Of 90 miles, at 9:35 the
same night, making the run three
hours and thirty-five minutes, or
on average of 27.0S miles an hour.
The train left Sealy at 9 :45 Pr
and arrived at Temple, a distance
of 124 miles, at 2:35 the following
morning, making the run in 4 :51,
average 1857.
Left Temple at 2:45 a. M, and
arrived at Cleburne at 6:25 a. M,
distance miles; running time, 3:
40; average, 26.05.
Left Cleburne at 6:35 a. m, ar
rived at Gainesville at 9:47 a. M,
distance SO miles; running time,
3:12; average, 29O6.
Departed from Gainesville at
1907 a. M, arrived at Purcell, I. T.,
at l: AS p. M; distance 107 mile ;
running time, 1888; average, 1912.
Departed from Purcell, l. T. at
1:55 p. m, arrived at Arkansas
City, Kansas, sos p. M; distance
154 miles; running time, $40;
average, 24.97.
Departed from Arkansas City,
Kas., at S:15 p. M, arrived at
Florence IL 40 p. M; distance, 81
miles; time, 3 80; average, 24.S6.
Departed from Florence at IL :55
p. M, arrived at Emporia, l 40 a.
M, February l; distance, 40 miles ;
time, l As I; average, 2571.
Departed from Emporia ! 40 a.
m, arrives at Argentine 5 :53 a. m. /;
distance, 1913 miles; time, 4:13; av-
erage, 2917.
Departed from Argentine at 6:07
a. M, arrived at Marceline, Mo-,
at 9 40 am; distance, I0S miles /;
time, 1888; average, 3O.42.
Departed from Marceline, Mo-, at
9:55 a. M, and arrived at Fort
Madison, Iowa, at l 40 p. M; dis
lance, l12 miles; time 3:47; aver
age, 30.14.
Departed from Fort Madison,
Iowa, at AZ p. NJ, and arrived at
Chillicothe, ILL.,, at $40 D. M; dis
lance, 103 miles; time, 1853; aver
age, 90 :55.
Departed from Chillicothe, ILL.,,
at $50 p. M, and arrived at Chica-
go, ILL.,, at IL 100 p. M. distance, ia
miles; time, 10; average, 1898.
Total distance, 1885 miles; total
actual time consumed in making
the run, fifty hours and seventeen
minutes; delays on account of hot
boxes, forty minutes; total termi-
nal delays and hot boxes, two hours
and forty-three minutes; total
time consumed including all de-
lays, fifty-three hours; average
speed of miles per hour, 26:13.
BETWEEN STATIONS.
The new folder of the San Anto-
Mo and Arkansas Pass is out and
ready for distribution. 1t is neatly
gotten up and printed in San An
tonic. The folder contains Valua bic
and reliable information of South
west Texas, and points along the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass
and will serve as good advertise
ment for both the road and this
section of the state.
Two sections of a Raymond
Whiicomb excursion, consisting Of