The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1898-08-13

MN, ne was put in charge of another new
connective. This locomotive was a
Favorite OF President Loder of the Erie.
Sac behaved the best kind, and Cad was
tlckled all but to death with her. When
the date came round for the opening of the
railroad through to Dunkirk Cad and his
! locomotive was chosen for the distinction
of pulling the first through train from the
Hudson to Lake Erie. The occasion was
to be historic one, and Cad was proud.
Bat what did that locomotive do but Just
get the sulks. don't know why.
Neither did Cad. She did, though, and
acted up so outrageous that she was an
hour behind schedule time when she log
{ gei into Port Jervis with the train only
! seventy miles from the start. Cad LYMAN
was the worst feeling man, Ispose, THAI
ever had locomotive kick with him, and
he felt worse when he was ordered to take
his halky engine off and saw Josh Martin
HOOK onto the train with old II locomotive
that Cad had turned in as no good Josh
and old Il yanked the train through with
| bells on.
And whatdo you think Cad Lymau's feel
ings must have heen when he booked onto
another train to run back to Piermont TO
find the engine that had baked aud suiked
so outrageously with him on what ought
to have been the greatest trip on record,
ius at tr,rn in mi lot bnr al nj
| fully and lively on the way back thas it
was all Cad could do to hold her il Now
how do you account for that? 1t is true
and matter OF record. Cad was so cut
up by this conduct of the locomotive that
he applied to have her exchanged for some
other one, although she worked like
thoroughbred ever since the day she re
fused to pull the great pioneer through
special. The company would not make
the change Cad wanted and he refused to
run that locomotive any longer and quis
the road. This locomotive was the 100
When Cad gave her up she was placed in
charge of Bill Lyman, Gad's brother
There WASH better engineer on the
road than Bill, and he knew that make OF
locomotive particularly, for he had worked
in the shops and helped make em. But
what did this rantankerous locomotive 100
do? She sulked with Bill from the time
he took her. Sometimes she'd spirit a
little, but if she did she made up for it by
tagging worse than ever. Bill worried
along with her for nearly year, but she
wouldn't work under him at all One day
in thu spring of 1852 she baked for certain
at Chester station, just as she was pulling
out with train. Bill pounded her, for
he was mad, but it seemed as if che
actually shook her head like an ugly horse.
Bill socked it right on to her, and suddenly
she gave squirt ahead exactly like the
quick start OF balky horse Then every
thing roared and shook around the place
for second or two. The vicious old 100
had exploded her boiler. She tore and
riddled herself frightfully, but the horror
of it all was that she had killed poor Bill
LYMAN and his fireman. Cad Lyman
lived many years after that, but he always
regretted his abandoning Of that loco
motive, for he said that il he had stayed
by her there was no doubt that she would
have ended her days usefully and in peace
and the awful tragedy of her ending would
not have BEEN"