The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-03
RECORDS BROKEN IN '98
SUMMARY or THE NOTABLE EVENTS
OF THE YEAR JUST CLOSED.
Old High Marks Passed in Many Lines
of Sport and Tndustry-SOme
Miscellaneous Facts.
Chicago Times-Herald.

which go to the credit and honor Of its
| predecessor. 1t viii be part of the new
years duty to beat existing records by still
more brilliant exploits. In this sketch no
attempt is made at a systematic review in
all fields of rivalry and competition. That
| task must be left to the compilers of the
ANIMALS. For the average reader of daily
| papers it will suffice TO recall a random
| diversity of remarkable performances, such
as are said to have established new criteri-
ons in the world of progress. These ex-
| amples will serve to remind the proud and
boastful that nothing was ever yet done,
however wonderful or brilliant which can
not be surpassed. The advance in stand
ards is as inevitable as death and taxes
W. II. Patton, a postal route agent on the
! Chattanooga and Rome division of the
Southern Railroad broke the record Dec. 10
in an examination for promotion He ham
died 1855 cards, distributing them to post
offices in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Virginia and Mississippi, in five
hours and twenty-seven minutes, with only
| nineteen errors. His percentage was 80 80
out of a possible 100. The chief of the ex-
! aminers said this beat the worlds record.
! being the best ever made in an examination
| either in the United States or Europe.
The Chicago postoffice had a record break
| ing day Nov. II. On that day %, 236 money
| orders were issued, representing $133. 6S7. 81.
Stamp sales the same day amounted to over
| $4,000 1t was the largest days business
ever known in those departments.
| "Cyrano de Bergerac," at the 146th per
tormance at the Porte Saint-Martin Theater
| broke all records for Paris theater. receiDts
having brought in 100000 francs. For the
same length of time Michael Strogoff." in
lo3o-SI, drew l,94S,O56 francs to the Chatelet
while Around the World in Eighty DAYS;
| at Porte Sainte-Martin, in 1915. produced
| 1855, 300 francs 80 P''"N0eV
A lively stepping Illinois man holds the
world. He is Elmer e. Kimberin. of the
! town OF La Harpe. He "shucked' go
p t4 OF corn in the southeastern part Of
the State in ten hours, beating the best
knoWn record by sixty-three bushels Mr.
iEILlpernn husked the corn by what is
h tbroe as the "underhand grip" he kept
! purse of $1,000 by his dexterity
me Duke of Devonshire, it is said, estab-
| nSheo new British record last wear for
/ pfflegm' he yawned YEARLY in the middle
OF one Of his own speeches, and explained
! aLlerWard quite unaffectedly that he
d oOulu M, h1eip IT. it was so frightfuIy dull
Rev. Wesley Blakeley, Of keystone. w
| va who is lOI years old, claims to hold the
| career preached more sermons and baDtized
| ana married more persons than any other
n1lhlister: he announced last summer, on
TeachIng his 10th birthday, that he had
! preached 1888 sermons, baptized 6023 per
sons and Joined 18l7 couples in wedlock. He
| is extremely proud of having walxed FIVE
miles to vote for President McKinIeV' '''o
| CarDT Mants, Of Anderson, Ind became
| d Isther Tor the thirtieth time last October
t nus 1oreaking al records for big families
Captain Henry J. o. o'Neill, who died in
louisville, in December, at the age of nine
| ty-nlne years, broke another kind of family
| record He left a son three months old -
mourn his loss -''i OI0 u
Jonathan MCGEE, a colored veteran of
! enLee wars, VINO claims to be Ito years of
age, may take the cake as the Oldest bride
! groom OF the year. At Ypsilanti Mich
Zee. 10 ne was married to Amelia Day. a
| colIQred woman fifty years old.
| Nathan Lebermann, OF New York. last
Juhe broke e, all records for long distance
MaItzng. The contest took place in dane
! ing school. He waltzed and walled untiI
| nIty or more of his rivals ran out of breath
anu quit lie Kept on whirling and whirIing
ments from sheer exhaustion. ''WhistIe me
d tune, cried Llebermann and kept on
pliEo99eItI1g. FINALLY the whistlers ran out of
Wlno and then, after a dizzy whirline Of
| IlVe or SIX hours he paused and claimed the
! championship. 1A'0N 'iio
THE SPEED RECORDS
turning now from these novel and curious
| exploits in record breaking, it NAV nro,,o IF
more general and substantial interest TO re-
iate what has been accomplished in the last
year IN racing, in cycling and other athletic
eaines requiring training, endurance and
| skill
star POINTER the noted PAGER, at Philadel-
pNia' sept IL, went the fastest half mile
ever trotted or paced, and came within bo1f
a second of his worlds mile record .Fo1l
his time was 1883 for the mile and XII
Tor the first half This feat was accom-
| phshed over the track of the Belmont Tri,,-
!i1S CIup. star Pointers fastest half mile
| ~ ~ tnat time was $50, made at Colmr1
Jus, ~, during the August circuit meet STto
slpplng OF one and a quarter off those ~ &c
lies meant a great deal in the way of en-
! efgy and judgment on the mart of CO.
| enter ana his driver, David McC1arv
nv. d n were several record-breaI1fng rail-
way runs IN 1898. A phenomenal railroad RIM
! was udue FeD. / between CHEYENNE W.
ana Omaha on the Union Pacific ,T,e " 49, go
Doulu passenger was delayed bv a hr0Ixen
SSH4Sttne' ana IN order to get the limited
Slates mail to Omaha for its Faste~7 60
++Gcllohs, q special train Of an engine ana
Nil MI man a. cars was made up for a fast frin
i1i3 nPeclal left cheyenne at 7:45 i'm the
+LOl iit ~ ana arrived in Omaha at 3.45 in
/ t tile afternoon record of 517 miles in ejybt
dOuIS nat, the fastest long-distance RIM re-
ttoIueu' me part of this rernarza HE RIM Re-
tween North Platte and Omaba Sun al ,ii pc
was made in 246 minutes In anothe ~ ir
9i;ance d special newspaper train of an on
| sue ana three baggage ears made the nm
| from New York to Buffalo 425 Miles sAG lu ~
minutes This was Feb. IL. The train 80 1a a4
| Rnfs ey Clty az 5:lS a. m. and arrived in
IN
b bves were lost. A new record for FAST fjnno
! qy locomotive was estabIisbed ia ~ 6 SIlne
Jersey, the trial being made betwean - WV NV
low ana cape May. 1t was said that d,,r .i,
q part OF the run a speed of 10 MIL - tiS
ltour, or Two miles a minute was attoino al
speclal train of an engine and 60 l u.
on the chicago and Northwestern T3aiI "a
so so. 5d Ged 2 new record between C5ics cg
anu Omaha Sept. 49, making fha NM -I1V e 80
Allies IN 9:29. 1t left Chicae0 AZ 3 0I VI 4S3
| D. m. 04oh uepot at 5:29
1t was said that the Pennsvl,,orio g
Fo.yi IN september, hauled the 10 ro1al+
Irelght train known to the trafHc hI r1si sest
since the steam locomotive ucas i Duc'.l1Gs q
ne record-breaking freight ves c 10 G,Leeo;
OF l5O cars of Amboy coal which , 1Iip3seo
tram S61 feet in length-abort tbrao cue 1i' d
terS or a mile. The total ueiebt 80 I'll a.
tram behind the tender of the er,e,i,Il 1lLl2
o,IIz tons, of which 1858 tons was ta ~ ~
OF the coal A single engine 81 The 0; ; ~
II D class, weighing lis ions ba1,iad9 ~!
enormous train from Altoona to CtoI,1y,flia
making the run in fourteen hours 'A'
All chicago cargo-hauling records ware
oroken by the steamer Helena whic5 $3.50
HIlo the chicago river one October rnor,1iy1er
Win olO tons OF coal aboard Forty hours
iater she was in Lake ATichigan a9ai1
pound for Buffalo with a cargo Of 10 on
pushels OF wheat. Old lake vesseInne1 Ssi9
TINS surpassed all previous records for onici-
haholng or big cargoes in this port.
FAST TIME IN CYCLING
The cyclists, too. have been busy breaking
records. At the International Park. wash