The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06
The Burlington'S Run and Kipling $
Story.

An unusual example Of the concat-
enation of events is illustrated by Rud-
yard Kipling's latest number of Cap
tain's Courageous in McClure's and the
record run OF a Burlington train from
Chicago TO Denver in eighteen hours.
Mr.. Mayham, who left New York
Sunday on the Pennsylvania Limited,
chartered a special train in Chicago in
order to reach the bedside of his dying
son, William b. Mayham. as quickly
as possible. The Burlington officials
guaranteed to take him to Denver in
twenty-four hours. They made good
their guarantee and had five hours and
seven minutes to spare.
From the moment the train left Chi
cagO until it rolled into the Denver
depot, no hitch Of any kind occurred
Ii flew across Illinois, Iowa. Nebraska.
and Colorado like a meteor. frequently
attaing a speed of upwards of Z miles
an hour and averaging ever 90 miles an
hour for stretches Of a hundred miles
at a time.
But Mr.. Mayham's son died three
hours before his father could reach him.
In Rudyard Kipling's story, which
was written months ago, a father and
mother are hurrying to meet an only
son who had fallen off an Atlantic
ocean liner and been picked up by a
Gloucester fishing boat Neither the
fall from the boat or the rescue was
seen by the people on the liner and the
poor mother gave him up as drowned.
The Skipper Disco was on his way to
the banks to fish and he would not
alter his course in spite of the boys
pleadings. He did not believe him
when he said his father was worth
$20, 200, 900 dollars Six months of
work and association with the manly
fishermen who learn him the ropes
with a rope make a man of the peevish
boy. AS soon as the boat gets into
Gloucester Harvey " Cheyne, the heir
to $4,000, 900 telegraphs his father:
We're here Having fallen off boat.
Great times on Banks fishing. All well.
Waiting Gloucester. Mass. How is
mama?"
Cheyne telegraphed for clear road
from San Diego to Boston for his pTi-
vate car At that juncture there was
a war of rates among four western rail-
reads and his kilograms frightened the
spectators. But he sent word TO Wall
street that the bear was seeking his
cub. not the bulls and hard men who
had their knives drawn to fight for
their financial lives put away the weap-
ons and wished him God speed. Here
is Rudyard Kiplings account of the trip
from San Diego to Chicago:
IL was a busy weekend among the
60. hot thSsY iatN~
removed, men and cities fastened to
accommodate. Los Angeles called TO
San Diego and Barstow that the South
ern California engineers might know
and be ready in their lonely round
houses; Barstow passed the word to the
Atlantic and Pacific. and Albuquerque
flung it the whole length of the Atchin-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe management,
even into Chicago. An engine. combi-
nation car. and crew, with the great
and gilded Constance" private car
were to be expedited" over those two
thousand three hundred and fifty miles.
The train would take precedence OF
one hundred and seyenty-seven others
meeting and passing: dispatchers and
crews of every one of those said trains
must be notified. Sixteen locomotives,
sixteen engineers. and sixteen firemen
would be needed-each and every one
the best available. Two and one-half
minutes would be allowed for changing
engines: three for watering. and two
for ccaling Warn the men and ar
range the tanks and chutes accordingly.
for Harvey Cheyne is in hurry.
hurry-a hurry sang the wires. For
ty miles an hour will be expected, and
division superintendent will accom-
pany this special over their respective
divisions. From San Diego to Sixteenth
street, Chicago, let the magic carpet be
laid down. Hurry. Oh. hurry"
The six-foot drivers were hammering
their way to San Bernardino and the
Mohave wastes. but this was no grade
for cneed That WOuld come LATER The