The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-07-21
sMAsHEs THE RECORD.
Scott's Special on the Santa Fe
Reaches Chicago Six Minutes
Ahead of Fastest Estimate.

Scott's Special on the Santa Fe
Reaches Chicago Six Minutes
Ahead of Fastest Estimate.
Chicago, July 13.-The "Scott
Special" on the Santa Fe reached
Chicago from Los Angeles at 11:54
a. M, six minutes ahead of the
fastest estimate.
Chicago, July 13.-The run from Los
Angeles to Chicago. 2.2441a miles was
made in %forty-four ours and ffty-four
minutes. Eliminating stops, which ag-
gregated f%fty-nine minutes, the speclal
averaged Sill miles per hour for the
entire trip: This beats the previous
best records for the distance on the
Santa Fe by seven hours and ffty-f1ve
minutes. This was made in 1900.
Extraordinar time was made today
eastward from Dodge City, Kansas.
where the special arrived IS minutes late
last evening. Between Chillicothe ana
Coal City, distance of s~eventy-one
miles per hour. The train which con-
sisted Of a baggage car. diner and priv
ate living car, reached it's destination
in good condition.
Kansas City, July 11.-Walter SCOTS
special on the Santa Fe left Kansas cay
an hour and hfty-three minutes ahead Of
its schedule.
The train covered 221 miles between
Kansas City and Fort Madison. Ia, in
249 minutes. This, according to santa Fe
officials, beats all records for the distance.
Mad to beat the wind, and avowing he
would smash all records ever set In TINS
country for fast going, Walter Scott, the
'.bonanza king" started out from Los An
oa1ar Sunday on a vhirlWin1 trim to chi
caEo, to satisfy a most acntely developed
case of speed mania. "Scotty, the only
and original Whirlwind spender,' as he Is
called, is paying the Santa Fe railroad
S.. 500 to surpass all speed records between
Los Angeles and Chicago, and chop down
the time for his special train to forty.
eight hours.
II the Santa Fe cannot satisfy his long.
ing for fast travelling Scott declares that
he will charter a special train from chi.
cage to New York and beat the eighteen
hour service between those cities. That
will about I'LL his appetite for lane
achievements for a time and "Scotty' an
nounces that he then probably will charter
the fastest ocean liner atloat in an at
tempt to cross the Atlantic in record
time.
In short, Walter Scott, a Death Valley
miner. who recently struck 1t rich, arC
has since been doing his best to make
things lively In Los Angeles, is out fol
the breaking Of any record that can bt
broken.
Flyer Is InspiSatioh.
The establishment Of the eighteen-houl
schedule Of the fast trains between Chi
cago and New York has inspired Scot
with the notion of stirring up the railroad:
In the west. When he discovered that hi:
money would buy special trains Scott de
cided to make the trip to Chicago. For al
most a week he has been bargaining will
the passenger officials Of the Santa r.
for this special train. So 1t was not unit
the officials promised to make the time II
(orty-eight hours or better that Scott said
TN go you"
A side agreement was made to the effec
that he pay $50 a minute for each mlnut
the train beats a +6-hour schedule am
that the railroad forfeit an equal amour
for falling short.
"Scotty" Is accompanied by his wife an
several newspaper men. His trip Will cos
him about $4,000. all told. His larder i
equipped like that of a king, and he has
yellow dog decorated with a 81 GOO collar O.
board as a mascot.
He says that his great life work is tn
smashing of time tables; that the tifty-tw
hours it takes to run the 2,26o miles be
tween Los Angeles and Chicago frcts an
worries him..
If he cannot annihilate it he can satisf
himself in a measure, he believes, b
knocking off a few chunks in the shap
of half a dozen hours.
Then II he can do something with tn
time between Chicago and New York, r.
ducing the run to thirteen hours. as h
hopes, it is possible that he will be abb
!, to return to California and live quietly, &c
, ing into Death Valley three or four times
year to chop out new supplies OF gold. NJ
body has been able to locate his bonanz;
but he surely has one.