Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-13

horse and lungod into the long tanguOs
! IKE slnged cat Engineer sullivan
| didn't talk much. lie was pretty busy
| watching the track When inc ala talk
It was 10 the point.
Forty.ilye miles out OF Milwaukee
INCLUDING the "trip through the yards and
suburbs, whore We had 10 slow down lu
f0rty-siN minutes" he said
Tie dropped TO the ground and oiled up
almost on the run. TWO minutes elapsed
the big machine was ready 90 60 again
nut the conductor appeared out OF the
gloom aud remarked that journal ON "a
mall car had run hot
Hot journals are not serious iu them.
selves, out SIX minutes clipped FROM the
schedule of train which must ran while
IN motion at rate OF slightly moro than
lj miles am hour for Cos miles. is very
important matter Engineer sullivan
sworc softly and drowned his wrath In
copious applications of more OH TO- me
big engines suufilng boxes. Then he
mounted the towering cab again aud the
race was ON Tor the second time
Woodland grlnncd.
wen run Ike a pup with tIn can
tea to Ms tail now ho cOnNdcd
We did, Mile posts and telegraph poles
became one long professions with scarcely
perCepuble distances between them The
ayr rushed through the open cab Windows
Ike q cyclone, and the mail cars trailing
along behind rocked and swung on their
springs Ike so many drunken men, The
pace was tremendous
ones sensations were much Ike those
when the horses enter the last eighth ON
fast track aud 1000 people In the grand
stand begin 10 cheer The speed grad
ually Increased from 81 Co jS then To 81
90. n, "a and iG miles ana hour, then, on
the crest Of a chill the summit OF an mp
ana down grade II suddenly Jumped 20
81 and then 10 W miles am hour-a milo
and a half minute, and one fcll am
insane desire TO yauk the throttle away
ont and sec II ~ We're not possible % make
three miles minute
IL was q pace that made the govern
mcnt mall officials grin, but u was mo-
pace for sedotc hurghors and business
men.
At Rio the pace suddenly fell on. En-
ginccr Sullivan looked at his watch,
ION time he said brlcnv. The tJsi
mail covered the remaining few miles at
handy clip. stopped for a minute ~ "a
crossing and swung into Portage, 1911
miles from Milwaukee ON time TO sec.
Ond
Nmtey-throo miles in a tribe more than
10 minutes actual running time,
Keeling on the miles al speed " pray.
tically q mile a minute Engineer sullivan
passed the yard limits at Sparta ON time
only 10 find the signals out against him,
aud Train No % which had the right ut
way because II was FouthbQund tram
losing time ANA late. The heavy mail
train pulled into clear ON % siding and
twelve minutes lapsci before the bright
white headlight OF the southbOund pas.
scngor showed around a curve.
Twelve minutes lost was "a handicap,
but IT did not mean much after the other
things that had happened The big A.
locomotive with driving wheels seven
feet ln diameter. swung out ON the main
line again, and after few strokes of her
pstOns. sent the speed rate climbing.
Eighty -ciRht miles am hour was inter-
cSting, but not sensational after having
made W miles and hour Tho heavy
train pulled into North Ia Crosse ON
time-& minutes I'm 24 minutes.
Tho regular passenger trains NJ the
Chicago, Milwaukee a. St. Paul railway
mako speed records sometimes, Their
schedules are moderate, yet their engine
drivers are In constant danger OF minor
delays and small losses of time, every
minute Of which means a faster actual
running schedule and more speed I'm order
10 cover the remaining mileage on time.
To handle a big train requires several
qualities most men yaluc-absoluto self
confidence and self-reigucc ON the part
NJ the engine driver conservative nerve
and daring resalrce ,ulNcss and lightning
qulckncss OF Judgment which must not |
be nearly right, but absolutely uncrriug.
on a big locomotive Of the MllWau- |
KEGS Pioneer Limited few nights since |
Engineer Sullivan and Fireman luttnc |
covered the greater part Of tho run from |
Lake city Ia La Crosse at a speed aver. |
lglug Tor actual running time between |
* and 6S miles AN hour on another |
night with Engineer Patrick Doyle and |
Fireman John NoungQulst, many minor
delays and the handicap OF SLOW orders
pm one long section Of track, were over
come by added speed, and the Pioneer
Limited. an unusually heavy train on |
HAT night pulled into La Crosse on time
Men Ike sullivan. Weaver Doyle.
smth-whu is no longer working cpgi-
1Cer-D Doyle, Homer Williams and their
TX come but seldom 10 public notice. yet
heir nerve and rosOurCctulncss nightly |
guard the lives Of hundreds. and their
complete mastery Of their profession
'nablcs men to cover long distances
without loss Of time and without dis
agreeable incident-Curtis L. Moshcr, In
he St. Paul Dispatch.