New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-06-19
EASTBOUND TRAINS RUN.
No FILTRATION Felt at Highest Speed
One Nile an 40 Seconds.
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Cleveland June 1S-Panting with the effort
of becoming the fastest long distance passen-
ser train in the world, the Twentieth Cen
tury Limited rushed into the Union Station here
at S:31 this evening, 31S minutes out of
Chicago and twenty minutes ahead of her
schedule. At EI<hart, Ind, and Toledo, Ohio,
the two divisional points west of Cleveland,
the train was from twelve to fifteen minutes
ahead of her schedule and long waits Were
necessary. No attemp: is being made to run
away from the schedule this initial eighteen
hour trip and the train will probably pull into
the Grand Central station a little before $50
tomorrow morning If the record of the first
three laps is kept up the run Will show th5
fastest time ever made by a regular train on d
thousand mile
Fully twenty-five thousand persons the
Twentieth Century pull out of Chicago at 230
o'clock this afternoon. Scores of interested rail-
way men crowded the La Salle-st station. and
every viaduct every suburban station platform
and each boulevard crossing was packed with
people who were anxious to cheer the flyer.
The run through Chicago was made with re-
markable speed There was a brief stop at
EngIewood which was reached in ten minutes
from the terminal, three minutes less time than
the old twenty hour Century was in the habit of
making it. The Illinois grade crossing law en-
forced stops at Grand Crossing and South Chi
cago.
'THE FASTER THE STEADIER'
Once out of the city limits the flyer settled
down to a gait varying from a mile minute to
seventy miles an hour. 1t seemed to be case
of "'the faster the smoother for the greater the
speed of the train the less was the sense OF mo-
tfon to the passengers who occupied every seat
and compartment in the four cars. In the care
car just back of the big compound engine where
the motion of the train was most perceptlble
Assistant Superintendent D. c. Moon and C. f.
Daily. passenger traffic manager, experimental
with glass filled to the brim with water. There
was no spashing the edges, and that tells
the story of the smooth roadbed on the Lake
Shore divisions. AS the road runs nearly as
straight as a survey line the were not
tossed about by curves
The passage of the Century was made gala
event by the people of Chesterson. who gathered
q thousand strong on the village green which Is
near the railroad track. They had just about
three seconds in which to enjoy the spectacle
for the train reeling off miles In forty-odd
seconds that particular stretch of track ire
passengers saw nothing but blur of faces a
smear of the color of waving flags and sense o.
distant cheering.
The train climbed the highest grade on the
line between Chicago and New-York. little
matter of twenty-six feet to the mile, at rate
of ffty-fve miles hour.
MILE UNDER FORTY SECONDS
Iaporte Ind. fifty-nine miles out. was reached
in 60 minutes and just beyond a measured
mile was run in 40 seconds which is possibly
the fastest time on the trip. At Rolling Prairie
the train did several miles in 43 and A sec
onds The speed steadily increased toward the
end of the division. South Bend, So miles from
Chicago was reached in 81 minutes, the tram
teing five minutes ahead of her schedule. There
The Twentieth Century passed the New-England
express, which left Chicago nearly an hour
before.
The train pulled into Elkhart 12 minutes
ahead of time, having made the 1O1 miles from
Chicago in 81 minutes actual running time.
At Elkhart dining car was added and the
task of rushing the Century through TO Toledo
was given to Engine No 5000. known to the
trainmen as the Flying Dutchman." She GER
tainly lived up to her name. reeling off many
mile in forty-one seconds. The last stretch Of
the Air Line, sixty-seven miles from Edgerton
to Toledo. was in hfty-seven minutes. The
train covered the 1874 miles of the division in III
minutes arriving twelve minutes ahead of time.
FAST RUN INTO CLEVELAND.
From Toledo to Cleveland the engine which
the Lake Shore exhibited at the Worlds Fair in
Chicago and which experts pronounced entirely
too heavy for passenger service. took the train
I'm a style that showed she was as fast as the
dav she left the shops For three quarters of an
hour in the gathering dusk the train skinned
along the shore of Lake Erie sometimes having
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