Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-09-02

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2 Now that the campaign Is on the
officers Of the state enforcement
league. promise 70 get busy.
a RIDE ON THE FAST MAIL n
I "a the Cab Between Chicago, ST. Paul
and Minneapolis.
8ff 1t is significant that the one train
s which makes the Chicagosst Paul run
in ten hours, carries no passengers.
The ride on IT is q privilege acquired
BY few. Yet q Journey on the train.
which carries none but government
mail clerks and its crew, is an expert
&ence, especially If the Journey be made
on the .fireman's side Of the huge
locomotive which pulls it. It. is a
I revelation of what fast passenger
service means and q liberal education
Il il appreciation Of the cool nerve and
I absolute competency Of the men who
run fast trains
The fast mail over the Chicago, NIL
waukee and 81. Paul Railway leaves
Chicago every night Of the year with
I from twenty to & tons of mail
aboard and reaches ST. Paul every
morning with its burden Of letters and
q packages il time for transfer to other
trains to the Pacific coast TO connect
3 with the mail boats, north into the
Dominion, east and west into adjoin-
Ing states and radiating over q dozen
lines of railway into every nook and
4 Granny of the northwest
If one asks why the fast mail carries
no passengers he is answered that
there are other trains which do that
work. Another reason ii apparent
N after a journey on the head end' with
the two cinde r-marked and grease
/ smudged gods Of \ the machine that
4 pulls tt 5SSa@s5 &
sS Ten-honr service means speed. On
+ a glorious night not long ago the fast
mall pulled out Of Milwaukee on time,
swinging along at an easy gait through
4 the maze OF green, white and red
sWitchlights until the last tail soma
phore arm signaIed aall clear, ~ then
Engineer sul1iyan's long right arm
shot forward through the dark sudden
4 ly, the hoarse syncopation& Of the ex-
haust changed suddenly to a long
Wailing roar, and the tremendous loco
motive seemed to Timber up in every
B joint as she swung forward into the
d night 5fs 5.ss; 58
Z He trun her in comp pound 3, q the fire
\ man, Woodland, eplained His father
in his early life had apprenticed him
to d jeweler. He had a back like an
OK and an arm like an oak tree.
7 Mile posts begun to fade IN regular
succession and telegraph poles few BY
& SO fast it was hardly possible to count.
The track ahead took on an .uncanny
grayish haze, but the speed constantly
( Increased. The big locomotive slowed
down for nothing. she took sharp
curves like IA race horse and lunged
into the long tangents ike singed
cal. # Engineer Sullivan didn't talk
much. He was pretty busy. atching
B the track When he did talk 1T was
TO the point.
Fsorty-ive miles out of Milwaukee,
including the trip through the yards
and suburbs, where we had to slow
down, fl forty six minnt es, 4 lie said,
He dropped to the ground and oiled
up almost on the run. Two minutes
elapsed, the Big machine was ready ia
30 again. but the conductor appeared
q out of the gloom and remarked that Z
journal on y mail chr had RIM hot
Hot journals are not serious Id them.
selves btIt sfx minutes clipped from
tie schedule De 4 train which must
B run while IA ion at \ rate 81 slight.
O ~ more than IS miles I'D hour for 400
4 miles very important matter
Isnet neer Sullivan svors softly and
drowned his wratii ii coupious appIica.
ttons Of more oII to The big engine.l
B y rms boxes. Then he mounted III