The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-12

,vuiams Special. But II nap
med years ago. and for that
v.Willams is dead. 1t wasn't
mat killed him. either; though
,e tlme his grief came uncommon
: ssar killing US.
an odd sort OF a yarn. too;
-. one part OF Il never got to
,-usrters. and another part OF It
cot from headquarters.
-, for instance. the mysterious
ho1 ever started from Chicago on
or del.rlous schedule-how many
s-lH - rb. service know that even
ys,.r for instance. Sinclair and Fran
H., The ratty old car Keeling intH
g with the glass shriveled, the
psH hristared. the hose burned, and
lsl-' T,r,nr on one Of the Five-Nine' =
how many headquarters slaves
,soW thatg -.
0 an Never went in because II
n.s not deemed-well. essential TO the
..,,,1g m Of the annual report. we
srid nave raised their hair; they
I'D have raised our salaries; but
~ didn't. We didn't.
telling this story l would not be
,.,r3arstood. ours is not the only
s.t,,a4n chicago and Denver: there
l orsers / admit Il. But there is
epa line ,au the same) that could
tskan the McWilliams Special,
a.. dld out Of Chicago at in the
s.snipe and put IL In Denver long be-
s,-s noon the next day.
communication came from a great
o.. sale street banker to the presi-
5-,t m our road. Next, the second
yse president heard Of It; but In this
Eay. -, ~.
veWuiams' request for a special 10
DsBypr this afternoon2' asked the
We wants too much" came back
.rsr the private wire. we can't do
After satisfying himself on this point
tbe president called up La Sale
street ..,,,---
simply can't do H.
You must do H.
sWhen win the car be readyE
at o'clock
"When must il be in Denver
.Tcn o'clock tomorrow morning.
The president nearly jumped the
wire.
.McWnlams, you're crazy. What on
earth do you mean
the talk came back so slow that the
wires hardly caught II. There were
occasional outbursts such as, "situa-
lion is extremely critical, grave dan
ger" acute distress" must help me
out"
But none Of this would ever have
moved the president had not Peter
McWHHams been a bigger man than
most corporations; and a personal re-
quest from Peter. II he stuck 20 II,
could hardly be refused; and for this
he most decidedly stuck.
Il tell you IL viii turn us upside
down" stormed the president.
DO you recoliect." asked Peter Nc
Williams. when your internal old pot
Of a road was busted eight years ago
YOU we're turned inside out then, We're
M you? and hanged up TO dry. were
M y0u?'
The president did recoliect; he could
not decently help recollecting. And he
reelected how. about that same time,
Peter McWilliams had one week taken
10 Tor him a matter of two millions
foatlng with a personal check. and
carried IL eighteen months without Sc
curty. when money could not be hao
q Wall street on government bonds
DO yoa-that Is. have you heretofore
supposed that a railroad belongs tc
tht stockholders? Not so; II belongs
% men Ike Mr.. MeVlliams, who Own
q when they need IL. At other times
they let the stockholders carry tt-un-
til they want il again.
Wen do what We can, Peter" re-
Piled the president. desperately ami
able Good bye"
am giving you only IN inkling OF
how Il started Not a word as 10 how
countless orders were issued, and
countless schedules were cancelled. Not
a paragraph about numberless trains
abandoned In toto. and numberless
others pulled and hauled and held and
annulled. The McWnliams special in
a twinkle tore a great system into
great splinters.
Il set master mechanics by the ears
and made reckless falsifiers OF pre-
viously conservative trainmen. II
made undying enemies OF rival super
mtendents, and lncipient paretics Of
jolly train dispatchers. Ii shivered US
from end 10 end and stem TO stern.
but Il covered l.026 miles OF the best
steel In The world in rather better than
twenty hours and a blaze Of glory.
Ny word is out" said the presi-
ueht IN MS message 10 all superin-
lendenIs. thirty minutes later. You
VIII get Your division schedule In a
lew moments. Send no reasons for
ihaoiii'y to make 1t, simply deliver the
eools. with your time report, which
comes by Ry. NJ S.. / want the names
ana records Of every member Of every
.iain crew and every engine crew that
maui the McWiliiams car" Then fol-
lowed particular iniunctions Of secrecy;
a'''e all the newspapers must not get
huJ Where newspapers are. secrecy
"a" only oe hoped forever attained.
~ spite OF the most elaborate precau-
'-S 70 preserve Peter McWilliams'
'-"ould You believe it?-the even
PAPERS mad half a COlumn-practi-
10y lhe whole thing. OF course they
'l 20 saesS 40 some Of IL. but for a
tNSpdper story 10 was pretty correct.
s-s' tne same. They had. 10 a min
s. ,nr tlme or the start from Chicago,
~ limited broadly that the schedule
halr raiser, something TO make
s'lous very fast records very slow
ADHERE i'm a SCOOP was
,-- sg'Irl the train was TO convey a
bllilrhJ Chicago capitalist to the
WWl 'le OK his diving son. Philip Nc
b-.,.lliS' to- Denver. Further. that
49, bulletins We're being wired 10 the
~ c.',Isssed father, and that every effort
M. 'a'e would be put forth to keen
go, unhappy boy alive until his father
T...5- reach Denver on the special.
r',.y' DO was hoped by an the evening
-, $50 '' HlI ont the half first column
~ mat sunrise would See the anx-
~. parent ven on towards the gaze
wy OF the Rockies.
%. course the morning papers from,
So N'lah.lc To the Pacific had the
-, 'prated-scare-headed In fact
l the public were lauehinp
huf Trnriafe E,1-.a 1850