Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-03-09

carry it#mtl they want il again.
wen do what We can, Peter" re-
piled the president, desperately amia.
Die. "Goolby"
ann giving you only an Inkling Of
how DC started, not q word rs to how
countless orders were issued and
countless schedules were Cancelled. not
paragraph about uumbcrlcss trains
abandoned In toto aud numhorlcss 9th
crs pulled and hauled aud held and
aunulled. The McWIlllams Special In
twinkle tore great system into great
splIutrrs.
u set master mechanics by the ears
! aud made reckless falsilicrs OF prcvi-
Uusly conservative trainmcn. II made
uudyiug enemies Of rival supcriutcnd.
outs and incipicnt parctics of jolly
train dispatChcrs. II shlycrCd us from
end TO end aud stem 10 stern, but II
covered 1895 miles Of the best steel In
the world In rather bctNr than twenty
hours and blaze OF glory.
MY word Is out" said the president
IN his message 10 all superintendent
thirty minutes later. You will get
your division schedule In few mo.
ments. Send no reasons for inability
TO make It. Simply deliver the goods
With your time report. which comes by
by. NJ $, want the name ana rec.
ord Of every member Of every train
crew and every engine crew that hnuls
the McWllllams car" Then followed
particular injunctions Of secrecy.
Above all, the newspapers must not
get It.
But where newspapers are secrecy
can only he hoped for. never attained.
In spite OF the most elaborate prccau-
lions 10 preserve Peter McWilllams'
secret would you believe 1.-THE oven.
ing papers had half column, practi.
cally the whole thing. OF course they
had 10 guess mt some Of II. but for
newspaper story Il was pretty correct
just the same. They had 10 minute
the time of the start from Chicago and
limited broadly that the schedule was
a hair raiser, something 10 make pre-.
ylous very fast records previous very
slow records. And-hcre In scoop
was the sccret-thc train was TO con
vey prominent Chicago capitalist to
the bedside Of his dying son. Philip
McWilliams. In Denver. Further. that
hourly bulletins were being wired to
the distressed father and that every
effort OF science would lie put forth to
keep the unhappy boy alive until his
father could reach Denver on the spe.
cial Lastly. II was hoped by all the
evening papers to MI ont the half first
column scarce that sunrise would see
the anxious parent well on toward the
gateway of the Rockies.
OF course the morning papers from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific had the
story rcpeated-scaIc headed. In fact
and the public wcrc laughing at our
peoples logged refusal 10 confirm the
report or TO be interviewed nj all on
the subject. The papers had the story
anyway. What did they care for our
efforts TO screen private distress
which insisted on so paralyzing time
card for 1,02G miles,
When our own, the west end of the
was universal. vociferous, kick.
Dlspatchcrs, superintendent Of motive
power, train master, everybody, pro.
tested. We were given about seven
hours to cover 400 miles-thc fastest
percentage, by the way. on the whole
run.
This may be grief for young Nc.
Williams and for his dad" grumbled
the chief dispatcher that evening rs
he cribbcd the press dispatches going
over the wires about the special, but
the grief Is not theirs alone"
Then he made a protest to Chicago.
What the answer was none but him
self ever knew. II came personal, and
lie took II personally, but the manner
in which he went to work clearing
track and making card for the Nc
Williams Special showed better speed
than the train itself ever attempted,
and he kicked no more.
After all the row II seems incredible,
but they never got ready to leave Chi.
cago till 4 o'clock, and when the Nc
" iil"HiH f'lN'lhi Ut lilAb oNI ilhln SNc-
TEN 1t was like dropping a mountain
lion into bunch of steers.
Frelghts and extras, local passenger
trains even, were used to heing side
tracked, but when 1t came to laying
ont the fliers and Il whisper this the
White Mail and the Manila express the
oil began to sizzle in the journal boxes.
The freight business, the passenger
traffic, the mail schedules of n whole
railway system were actually knock
ed by the McWilllans Special into n
cooked hat.
From the minute II cleared Western
avenue ii was the only thing talked
Of. Divisional headquarters and car
tink shantes alike We're bursting with
excitement.
On the West End we had all night TO
prepare, and at o'clock next morning
every man In the operating department
was on edge, At precisely 3;5S a. m.
the McWllllams Special stuck Its nose
into our division, and Folcy-pulled OH
No. ! with the IG6-was heading her
dizzy for McCloud, Already the Nc.
Williams had made up thlrty-one min
uteS OH the one hour delay I'm ChlcurO