The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-03-06

The crew OF the combination sat OF
their hunks. painting in their shirt
sleeves. and Cheyne found himself
amcng them shouting old. old stories
Of the railroad that every trainman
knows above the roar of the ear III
told them about his son and how the
sea had given up its dead. and they
nodded and spat and rejoiced with
him: asked after her. back there, .
and whether she could stand il II thu
engineer let her out a piece and
Cheyne thought she could. According
ly the great fire horse was let out
from Flagstaff TO Winslow. till a Iii
vision superintendent protested.
But Mrs Cheyne. in the boudoir
state room. where the French maid.
sallow with fear, chung to the silver
door-handle. only moaned a little and
begged them hurry" And 50 they
dropped the dry hills and moOn-struck
rocks OF Arizona behind them. and
grilled on till the crash of the couplings
and the whezZe of the brake-hOse told
them they were at Coolidge by the
Continental Divide.
Three bold and experienced men
cool confident. and dry when they be
gan; white quiyering and wet when
they finished their trick at those terri
bic wheels-swuns her over the great
dips and falls from Albuquerque 10 Clo-
Tietta and beyond Springer. up and
down the Ration Tunnel on the state
line. whence they dropped rocking into
La Junta had sight Of the Arkansas
and tore down the long slope to Dodge
City, where Cheyne took comfort once
again from setting his watch an hour
ahead.
IL is not true that. as they changed
engines at Fort Madison. Cheyne passed
ever to the Amalgamated Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers an endOw-
ment sufficient to enable them to fight
him and his fellows on equal terms for
tvermore. He paid his obligations to
engineers and firemen as he believed
they deserved. and only his bank
knows what he gave the crews who had
sympathized with him. II is on record
that the last crew took entire charge
OF switching operations at Sixteenth
last, and heaven was 10 help anyone
who bumped her.
Now the highly paid specialist who
Southern Limited from Chicago 10 Elk
hart is something of an autocrat. and
he does not approve OF being told how
to back up to a car. None the less he
handled the Constance" as il she might
have been a load of dynamite. and
when the crew rebuked him they did
il in whispers and dumb show.
To the western man Though this
would not please either city,. Chicago
and Boston are cheek by jOwl, and
some railroads encourage the delusion.
The Limited whirled the Constance"
into Buffalo and the arms OF the New
York Central and Hudson River titus
trious magnates with white whiskers
and gold charms on their watch-chains
came on here TO talk a little business
to Harvey. who slid her gracefully in
to Albany. where the Boston and Al
bany completed the run from tide
water to tide water-tOtal time. eighty
seven hours and thirty-five minutes. or
three days. fifteen hours and one-half.
Harvey was waiting for them.
Rudyard Kipling's account is better
writing than the newspaper drudges'
story of the Burlington's run. The
account of Mr.. Mayham's flight
across the continent TO Denver
TO catch a last CLEAN of recognition
from his dying son has been printed in
all the papers Of the country. Mr..
Cheyne went 10 meet a son who was
lost and found
From San Diego to Chicago is 2,347
miles. Rudyard Kipling's time is %
hours and 81 minutes. which is an aver
age OF 1918 miles an hour including
stops.
From Denver to Chicago il is LOIS
miles. The Burlington's time was IS
hours and 53 minutes which is an aver
age speed of "a 80 miles an hour includ-
ing stops. A difference between the
flight Of Rudyard kipling's magma
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