The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-12-28

"
the Santa hi made such remarkable
transcontinenta time. ga
One Of ,the' presidents ioAed 4. T.
Ripley Regarding the matter. insisting
that the special was cleverly devised
advertising Scheme.
s.You are entirely wrong there, re-
piled the Santa f'es president Inc
Scott special was on the level and we
we're paid foo Il in real money lou
don't think that Scotty was trying 10
advertise snyone when he took that
automobile ride in -hich he nearly
Iost his life. do you That fellow sim
wv has A craze for going fast, u you
ION mind III Tell you the story OF tne
nrst Scott special Oh the santa re
anu this story never got into the pa
Ders
Let us have H." chorrtsed the other
railway presidents who CHANGED 10 pe
Mr.. Ripleys guests thai particular
Noon hour.
One day about a month before lhs
Srott special was run to Chicago Vice
President kendrick 'phoned down 70
my Office and ASKED me II could come
IN TO his room. where he said be was
receiving a lot Of funny messages
from The coast end OF his Office wire
and that be did not know what 60
make OF them ! went up and tnefe
he sat at his chief clerks desk pound
ing brass as he used 10 years ago wneh
trsin dispatcher He broke 10 on ms
message to explain Il appeared ina,
the operator At Daggett Ariz- mao
allied up Hendricks chief clerk know
nag that the latter had a transcohli
mental wire at his elbow, and had &c
Cared that there was maniac 10 NJ
ofSce who demanded special tfalp 70
take him TO Barstow. IS miles Weat y
T,ag2ett. and back again. He SAID ms
fellow was tall and gaunt as coyote'
and looked as though he had been los'
| In The Red desert for weeks. Atnough
| II Mas an extremely hot day ne wa
dressed In a blue flannel shirt neaYF
clothes and an enormous ulster VIII
| furnedup collar The fellow aae
found that the regular train mao
passed through Daggeft Tor the "es'
and that he could not get to Bafsto~
for another "a hours
eHaven'f you got anything that ;
On wheels and can run me to barsto"
ana back? Scott had demanded OF the
astonished agent
Upon the agents replying ina
there was nothing. Scott demanded
Whats the matter with that wheeas
old yard engine out there aud that Ole
red caboose There's special for you
Hustle II together for me,
What are you In such hnrrs
for? demanded the agent, suspi'
iously.
~ rs~st stand tne cussed whisky
In this jumpln off place Of creation
be replied Yon know Daggett comes
pretty near being below sea Level ex.
planned the president. and It gets pref.
tn bad there In summer time,
The Dasgett agent didn't believe
from scnitys appearance tilsi he had
a cent. hut as The fellow insisted thai
he and out what It would cost TO run
A special 20 Rarsiow and back he IN
derlook TO ascertain. BY the time ;
got mp TO Kendrick's office the vice
president was fit TO let Scotty have
the specal for nothing. Just TO save
the life OF the Daggett agent who
seemed tn think his last day had
come
Tel the agent to tell the fellow
suggested, that he can have the ole
yard engine and red caboose for $3.50,
and we'l run the wheels off Of both
of EN- TO boot
"Keudfiek tried that on the sgenl
and the agent evidently tried it oil
seotty. for in about iiffy the answer
came back. Scott slammed $3.50 10
gold down on the counter before gol
the words out OF my mouth and said
There's your money, aud tell the higt
card thst-it's cheap, too" The red
rickety-rick specials being made W
now concluded the Dsggett agent
Wei, sirs. that fellow jumped onto
that yard engine, when the Dagset
special was completed and helped fra
and run it all The way 10 Barstow
He never once got into his Pullmat
rsboose. and from all can hear that
was the fercest e3-mile run on rec
5rd.. The frst thing he did was to
promise the fireman and engineer esci
J $50 gold piece if they made Bsrstov
under 90 minutes They sot there IL
II. which was an average Of so miles
In hour for the whole distance The
sngineer told me sfterwArd that the
agent informed him the president hao
1aId he could rim the wheels off and
hat he tried 10 do so. That old yard
lpgins and The dinliy old red caboost
waved back and forth and left the
rails now and then. and II sometimes
s4emed they would never come down
IN them again Through II all this
fellow scotty grinned like hend,
piled the coal into the frebox and
urged the engineer 20 bit her up
scott stayed in Bsrstow two hours
v hereupon be showed up, perfectly
sober. at the yards and ordered hisiI
5recial back 20 Dassstt. The rids
hack was almost . duplication Of the
n eat run and the men both cot theiI 1