The herald., 1897-04-25

being covered in one hour and twent-
six minutes. The trip cost MI. Paine
close to $500, and the saddest part of it
is that his wife died before he reached
her bedside.
The train which carried H. ]. Mayham
from Chicago to Denver broke the rec
ord for fast, long distance, running.
This means the record for the orld, and
not a particular portion thereof. The
news came to Mr.. Mayham one Sunday
morning in New York that his son, W he
had gone to Colorado for his health, was
dying at Denver At 10 o'clock that
morning Mr.. Mayham boarded the Penn
sylvania limited for Chicago. The train
makes the trip between New York ard
Chicago in twenty-three hours and ten
minutes, and, therefore, it was 9:1o a. III.
Monday when it rolled into the Union
station at Chicago.
While en- route, Mr.. Mayham had wired
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Of
ficials, asking for what amount special
train would be run through from Chicae o
to Denver. Owing to a lack of partic-
ulars, however, the Burlington officials
took no action in the matter, but sent a
representative to meet Mr.. Mayham at
the depot. At 9:20, ten minutes after
the limited's arrival, the general pas
senger agent of the Burlington, Mr.
Eustis, gave orders to have an engir 9
and the private car of the general super
intendent of the road run into the Union
Station as soon as possible. Twenty
five minutes later the special train was
standing in the station. At 10 o'clock the
start was made
At first there was no intention Ct
breaking any record. Mr.. Mayham had
agreed to pay the road a dollar a mile
for the full run, being a total of S1O25
All the way into Iowa the special made
much better time than was anticipated.
and after this was discovered to be a
regular thing, the officials OF the Bur-
lington issued orders for the engineers
to run at as great a speed as safety
would permit. BY reason of the train
making so much better time than was
expected, at the majority of the divi-
sion points where stops We're made to
change engines there was hardly more
time to get the new engines ready than
there had been at Chicago.
Those who have travelled between Chi
cago and Denver will appreciate the
rapidity with which this train was
bowled along by the fact that twenty.
one stops were made between the two
cities, and that these stops occupied four
minutes more than an hour. This does
not include partial stops made at rail
way crossings, ate each of which from
three to four minutes were lost. This
actual time, therefore, between Chicago
and Denver a distance of 1925 miles, was
eighteen hours and fifty-three minutes,
an average speed of 5427 miles an hour
Deducting Ga minutes for station stops
but not deducting the time lost at the
fourteen crossings referred to, the
speed attained by the train while in mo-
ton was an average of 57.59 miles an
hour, or total of seventeen hours and
forty-nine minutes.
1t is interesting to note the speed at
tanned between certain stations along
the route. From Chicago to Aurora,
which is a straight run. with very few
curves, the distance of 81 miles was COW
cred in 36 minutes The run from Aurora
to Burlington, 169 miles, consumed 175
minutes. From Burlington to Osceoia,
distance of 175 miles, the run was made
in 169 minutes. From Osceola to Pacific
Junction 119 miles, an average spped Of
a mile minutes was attained, the dis
tance from Osceola to Preston, SO miles.
being covered in 80 minutes, and from
Preston to Villisca, Sc miles, in "a min
utes, while from Villsca to Red Oak
Is miles. the time was Is minutes. Be-
tween Osceola and Pacific Junction IA
minutes were lost. A change of engines
was made at Preston. AT Villisca it was
discovered that one of the trucks of the
engine was becoming hot, and at Red
Oak stop of seven minutes was made
to change engines and receive new or
ders.
The distance from Pacific Junction to