El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-07
A GREAT RUN.
The New Fast Mails on the Burling-
ton and Northwestern Make Re-
markabIe Time-AttraCted Al
most Universal Attention.

navy saws: The new fast mail trains
on the Burlington and North western
roads flushed their phenomenal runs
from Chicago without incident OF note
today. The Burlington pulled into
the terminal nal, station lat scbe e5ghs
time. The Northwestern ar
rived fifteen minutes ahead of schedule.
The trains ha strong head wind all
the way and both the crews are conn.
dent that better time can be maze II
they are called upon to do 1t. There
was large crOwC at the statlons 10
witness the ar, ival OF the trains, most
ly railroad men, but with 1alr
shrinking of outsiders, DESTROYS OF
GETTING a first look at the flyers. The
new Rock Island train does not start
until next Sunday.
In addition to the sustained speed OF
these two trains being remarkable,
over so miles an hour for the distance,
there were some still more remarkable
bursts of speed during the trip. Sew
eral times q mile was cove. ed In 81
seconds
The Northwestern left it's two brake
men at one point on the line. When
the train stopped they got off to turn
around and when they completed the
circuit the train was gone.
The actual elapsed time from the
start at Chicago to arrival at the local
depot was as follows: 20
Northwestern, 1872 miles, with IL
stops. 9 hours So minutes.
Burlington, 502 miles, with IL stops,
10 hours and minutes.
The greatest run WAS made by the
eastbound train on the Burlington,
which left here last night one hour
late, arriving in Chicago only four
minutes late, and the schedule time Is
forty minutes faster than the west
route. The previous record was held
by the Northwestern, having been
made with special train carrying a
party of railroad officials to the ex'
position.
The runs of the rival fast mail trains
have been the universal topic OF con
versation among railroad men today
1t is the consensus of opinion that sc
far as.today's trips concerned neither
road as any important advantage sno
that the time can be materially re
duced If it is necessary. The engineers
who pulled the trains assert that al
hour can be clipped from the present
fast schedule and in the light OF the
run of the eastbound Burlington trair
last night ana the comparative ease
with which both the westbOund tra1n'
made the run the best posted operat
ing men concede the engineers art
correct.
On the Burlington the best time
made as from Chicago to Burlington
where several stretches were covere
at the rate of ninety miles an houl
and some miles at even better thai
that. The ia test run on the North
western was made between Arion ant
Arcadia, Iowa. Here there Is
strait. level track for fifteen miles an.
the mile posts were left beh1nt
at the rate of one every thirty-hve sec
onds
Every fast mile record, including tn
New Ycrk's Centrsl's record for
mile in tn rty-two seconds, or at tn
rate of 1928 miles per hour. made L
1893, was broke en- on the trip. Th ol
lance from Siding to Aston, two 10 lie
and FOURTEEN tbs, was made in one mir
ute and twenty seconds or at the rat
of $50 miles per hour.
THE EAST BOUND TIME.
The east bound fast mail train o
the Burlington road, which left Coun
Gil Bluffs last night and arrived il
Chicago this morning broke, accOrdin
to the Burlington officials, all fast re
cords between the two cities. The tral
left Council Bluffs one hour and tw
minutes late, being delayed by tn
non-arrivsl of the Union Pacific COZ
ruection from the west. In spite of th1
delay at the start it made the run
Chicago in less than schedule time an
arrived in the Burlington depot in thi
city on time to the minute. The oil
lance between Council Bluffs an
Chicago by the Burlington Road
5OO2 miles. The train covered tn
distance, including stops wh!c
amounted to 80 IL minutes, in 5t
minutes. The actual running tim
excluding stops, was 523 IL minutes:
The schedule shows some unusual
fast bursts of speed. Fro mBurlingto
to Chicago, a distance OF 2O6 mile
the run was made in 213 minutes, II
Guiding all stops. Thirteen minute
were required for stops and tak1n
these out the showing of the actu
run for the 2O6 miles was 200 minute