Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-12
SCOTTY ORDERS
SPECIAL TRAIN
TELEGRAPHS SANTA FE AN
OFFER
proposes to Pay Ten Thousand Five
Hundred Dollars for Mile MINI
ute Schedule From Los An
ueIes to Chicago

"No, I haven't heard from Mr.. Har-
riman's representatives regarding my
challenge for a race to the Windy
city," said "Scotty" yesterday, but ]
don't believe it will be accepted. Why?
He hasn't got the nerve to travel at
the rate that I propose.
Hell send a figurehead in his place.
Say, I'll tell you what I'll do. If Har'
rfman will accept my offer I'll give him
the best dinner he can order at any
hotel in New York that he names.
That is in addition to my offer already
made"
Scotty wants to race e. H. Hartman
into Chicago for $35,000 He offers to
allow Hartman one minute for every
miles difference between Los Angeles
and San Francisco and Chicago, and
says that he will beat him by six hours.
He has telegraphed an order for a
special train over the Santa Fe. Moth
ing will delight him more than to
know that when he starts across the
continent in few days to break his
own record he will be racing against
the train that will bear T.. II. Harri-
man.
"Harriman thinks I'm a fgurehead
of the Santa Fe," Scotty continued.
But that's not so. Then what am /
racing for? Because I like excitement.
My wife likes excitement Is well as l.
long enough and hard enough to make
me disgusted. There isn't anything
in 1t.
1--WE both want to make fast time.
That's sport with something to it.
There's no fun in having crowd
hanging around you for all they can
get out of you. But there is fun in
travelling the way my wife and | in
tend to travel That's life with some
thing to it,"
Wants Continental Record
Scotty said yesterday that he pro-
posed to beat all records between Los
Angeles and Chicago. He proposes
also to make the distance between
Chicago and New York in twelve or
thirteen hours.
His train will consist of an engine,
observation car and sleeper He and
Mrs. Scott, with one or two newspaper
representatives will compose the party
on the Scott special
II suppose Hartman thinks
haven't any money Well, I'm ready
to put up $4,000 to cover the cost of
the two specials any time he says the
word.
"I paid the Santa Fe S550O for my
last trip across the continent. I have
made them an offer of $10,50O for this
special to Chicago if | beat Hartman.
If I don't beat him l will pay them
$500 for the special with one car less
than l had on my train the previous
time.
Let Hartman accept my challenge.
and he will see that even if 1 don't
own a railroad I can beat him at tear
ing up the track
While the Hartman special is eX-
pected to make the distance to Chicago
in fifty hours, and from Chicago to
New York in fifteen hours. the Death
valley miners intention is to make the
distance to the Windy city in thirty
eight hours. and from Chicago to New
York in twelve or thirteen hours.
81 tell you, the engineers are already
standing on one foot ready to get a
whaCk at the speed limit that I have
already made. I expect it will take
twenty-six engines to pull my special
over the country. Perhaps it will take
more. But l can show Hartman a
clean pair of heels into Chicago if he
will give me the chance, and L
know it.
why, here is scotty without rail.
road. and there is Hartman with a
railroad all his own. But because
Scotty doesn't own a railroad does
that keep him from racing? Not on
your life. Now, why doesn't Harri-
man take this chance to make record
for himself? If he don't take it it will
be because he is afraid"
hSSCiNOS OSSS''S -ShhS'
Here Scotty pulled a letter out of a
big bundle in his hand and said; Look
here, [ want to show you something
This fellow off somewhere, l don't
know where, asks me to give him
$4,000, and says he will pay me in
ten years. or some other time What
do you think of that?
"Why, they keep writing and writing
to me like that. They must think /
haven't any sense That's great done
to write to me- isn't it? l know from
the letters that l get every day that if
a man had more money than he could
spend he couldn't dope it out fast
enough for all the people who would
keep writing to him.
II tell you, my boy, I've been around
long enough TO size up people pretty
quickly when l see them, and l know
what they are after. If they take
me for fool they are mistaken. When
/ go into any proposition involving
business l go into it in a business
like way. l know what I am about.
But some of the people who write to
me must think that [ haven't got any
brains at all"
Scott wants to begin his race across
the continent as quickly as he can
make the necessary arrangements. If
E. H. Hartman turns down his Chal-
lenge it will make no great difference
with Scotty. He has decided to beat
his own record across the continent
and will make the run in any event if
he secures the right of way from the
Santa Fe.
Berates His Enemies
In referring to his business affairs.
Scotty said: Il have got word that
Girard of the Knickerbocker Trust
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