The Republican journal., 1899-04-27


SAN r N0ISCo, CAL
LOUISVILLE KY NEW YORK. N Y.
- r--Ce -r-. --rr r-ttle
car 'ConStance' from Santa Fe at Slrteenh
street nert Taesday p. M. on n. Y. Limit
Cd through to BNGojo dHd de{irer n. y. {.
for 1lbdHy. y.-Ever bin to n York Miss
Kinney? Wen 90 some day.-Ready?
Take car Bufalo to 4lbaay on Limited
TgeSddy p. m. That 5 for Toucey."
Have n bin to Moo y ork. but know
h0t' with a toss of the head.
Beg pardon. Now. Boston and Al
bany, Barnes, same instructions from AL
bany through to Boston. Leave three five
p. m. (you needn' wire thaO; arrive nine
five p. M. Wednesday. That covers every
thing Wade will do, but it pays to shake
up the anagers.
"Its reat,N said Miss kinzey with
look of admiration. This was the kind of
man she understood and appreciated
at is n bad. - said Nilsson, modesty.
"Now any one but me would have lost
thirty hours and spent week working out
the run, instead of handing him over to
the Santa Fe straight through to Chicago. "
But see here, about that Moo York
Limited. Chauneey Depew himself could
Il hitch bis car to her, Miss Kinney sug-
gesed, recovering herself.
''Yes, but this is MT Chauncey 1t : S
/ Cheyne-lightning. 1t GOES
Even SO. Guess we'd better wire the
boy. You' We forgotten that anyhow"
! II ii ask
When he returned with the father s
message bidding Harvey meet them in
Boston at an appointed hour, he found
Miss Kinney laughing over the keys, Then
Nilsson laughed, too, for the frantic clicks
from Los Angeles ran "lJe rant to
kr1ow uhy-mhy? General 1measi-
ness deceloped and spreading -
/ Ten minutes later Chicago appealed to
Miss Kinney in these words: "H crime Of
century is maturing please wdrn friends Il,
! time. We are all getting to corer here
This was capped by message ON To-
peka (and wherein Topeka was concerned
even Nilsson could guess: ''Don't shoot
CotoneL Wen come dop.n''
Cheyne smiled grimly at the consterna-
ticn of his enemies when the telegrams
were laid before him. They think We re
on the war path. Tell 'em we don feel
like fighting just now, Nilsson. Tell EN-
what We lie going for. l guess you and
Miss Kinney had better come along,
though it ism t likely shall do any ous-
ness On the road. Tell EN- the truth
for once"
SO the truth was told. Miss Kinney
clicked in the sentiment while the secre-
ta1y added the memorable quotation,
I LET US have peace" and in board rooms
two thousand miles away the representa-
/ tiVes Of siXty-three million dollars worth
| OF va1l0usly manipulated railroad interests
breathed more freely. Cheyne was flying
to meet the only son, So mraculouslv re
1 stored to him. The bear was seeking his
/ cub. not the bulls. Hard men who had
| their 6niyes drawn to fight for their finan-
! cial lives put away the weapons and wish
| ed him God speed, while half dozen
| panic smitten tin pot roads perked up
their heads and spoke Of the wonderful
! things they have would done had not
| Cheyne buried the hatchet.
1t was a busy week end among the
wires: for, now that their anxiety was re-
moved, men and cities hastened to ac-
| commodate. Los Angeles called to San
Diego and Barstow that the Southern
California engineers might know and be
ready in their lonely round houses; Bar
stow passed the word to the Atlantic and
and Pacific; and Albuquerque flung it
to the whole length of the Atchson,
Topeka and Santa Fe management
even into Chicago. An engine, combina-
ton car with crew, and the great gilded
Constance" private car were to be sex
| pedlted over those two thousand three
| hundred and fifty miles. The train
would taae precedence of one hundred
| and seventy seven others meeting and
| passing; despatchers and crews of every
| one OF those said trains must be notified.
Sixteen locomotives, sixteen engineers.
and sixteen tiremen would be needed
| each and every one the best available
| Two and one-h half minutes would be al
lowed for changing engines. three for
watering, and two for coaling "Warn
/ the men, and arrange tanks and chutes
/ accordingly; for Harvey Cheyne is in a
! hurry, hurry "a hurry, " sang the wires
| Forty miles an hour will be expected.
/ and division superintendents will accom-
| pany this special over their respective
divisions; From San Diego to Sixteenth
Street Chicago let the magic carpet be
laid down. Hurry! oh, hurryr'
| ''It will be hot, - said Chevne. as thew
rolled out of San Diego in the dawn of
! Sunday. "We' re going to hurry, mamma.
| just as last as ever we CAM but | really
| don think there's any good of your bon
net and gloves yet. You'd much better
/ lie down and take your medicine I'd
| play you game of dominoes, but it's
Sunday
'rll be good. Oh, l wiU be good.
Only-taking off my bonnet makes me feel
as if we'd never get there"
TRY to sleep little, mamma, and we'll
be in Chicago before you know"
But it's Boston, father. Tell them to
hurry
The sixfoot drivers were hammering
their way to San Bernadino and the Mo-
havo wastes, but this was no grade for
/ speed. That would come later The
heat of the desert followed the heat of
the hills as they turned east to the Nee
dies and the Colorado river. The car
cracked in the utter drouth and glare, and
they put crushed ice to Mrs. Cheyne's S
neck, and toiled up the long, long grades,
past Ash Fork, toward Flagstaff, where
the forests and quarries are, under the