The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-04-17


/ J.! w etusal Of good short story; in
z lf ,I had any fault to find with
MIticleS It was that it was too dra-
and too much like q short story,
ssI person wishes to keep the
!lM1x to the end, as some Of our writ
80 90 and 20 it did not seem so much
3. .Sak6 the record Of fact it is reported to
D. d the article was entitled "The
Il A9te9t Railroad Run Ever Made"
$ Was written by Harry Perry Rob-
'E.l who is editor Of the Railway
e. ~ and was one of the official time
Spers on the train.
:sEs Robinson explains that the Lon
). y Northwestern and Caledonian
IL dlEOal1e, from London to Aberdeen,
T. 4 OF $40 miles, broke the rail
4 SEecOrd last summer by running
average 63.93 miles an hour. He
that the English press 'hailed
jubilation that was almost
lorous the fact that the worlds
s1c1gd An railway speed belonged once
to Great Britain" AS a matter
- ret the English press did nothing
the kind; but that as q minor de-
81 Ny remembrance OF the news
Aepec articles written ut that time in,
N0Nd0n, IL that most Of them were
warming the companies that something
would break one Of these fine days
< m appalling disaster would be
gcesult. However, that is neither
eanor there; the fact remains that
Sreatest speed attained on q rail-
mp to last August, was made in
race to the north, from London,
IT, object being, it seemed, to get
koee who wished to engage in shoot
s14 in Scotland into that country as
uickly as possible. 1t was not
sought in London that the efforts of
tie railway companies were directed
steward American records, but that it
was rather O rivalry between the two
competing railways, the London &
NOfthwestern on the one hand, and
re Great Northern on the other; each
~ which roads alternately held the
Ygoc0rd until the racing stopped, be-
d Aaalse there was SO much said and
written about such reckless running.
4 Public opinion in England was de-
BGldedly against railway racing, and I
think that that had something to do
with the cessation of the struggle.
eaptious, fault-inding person
might perhaps point out to Mr.. Robin
410n that when the English record was
Y6f0ken 1t was broken openly; that is
10 say, any man who had the money
could go upon the fast train and time
rlt with his own watch. I do not pro-
/ p0ue to cast O shadow Of doubt upon
the account Mr.. Robinson has given
An McC lure's Magazine, because il l
did Mr.. Robinson might not believe
i 4he story i now feel at liberty to tell.
\ The fact Is that I was sworn to Sc
..Tecy, but now that Mr. Robinson has
written Of the tremendously fast run
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
made from Chicago to Buffalo, dis
lance Of fraction over SO miles,
consider myself released from my
promise to say nothing of the other
English record-breaking, in which I
s1Ook part, and Of which nothing has,
s-op to this time. been said either in
{ England or In America. am rather
10Th to write this account, because it
seems to me that il railway records
are to be broken, they should be brok-
Zen In plain view Of the public, and
that train should not steal quietly
-Out Of either London or Chicago in
. the early hours of the morning with
-out some impartial person on board,
IL possible. the other side
-of the question. Mr.. Robinson's train
I left Chicago ut 3 o'clock in the MORN
ting, and there was nobody represent
{ ing England or the English roads on
h board. However, I cannot say any
thing about this, because the English