The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-01
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500 - tut 10 pic Uhu travel ru tho stunt
avenue elevated ta,l-pai hay" sea -ipnally
hts -ight prearnjed ~ them in , mann.i
.tirr,ug far beyond mo ORDINARY
lht- happeu- w ~'tpenvl,h street vher
= hre engine turns INTO NJ" ~trco' going g., /.
TIRE m 'hc spr" direction - your tram
fh"n Won c,u Mt uul, look dYsu ON -
ire outfit ant 500 every MOVE It hnr-e-
mon and mH,hine hut your train moving
rapidly ~ tho same direction ypu seem
- 10 raciny WITH IN" epgiu" ~ " with Won.
aud h" ~Tect nf al his l. u"thIng l.-s Than
thr,ihug
NJ Incident ~ thi- ~pri Interested tho
passengers ou 4 n~,rthhrund train that
eft Warren street ~ about = N VI ~
th" train wa crossing over duane stree,
- FIRE eng ne turned IN under the elevated
track on that I'D" and started W. Green
vich stree, ~ The sam" direction. three
hig gray horses fierrcly galIoping. driver
~ hi- uudrr-hiri ami with no hat. engine
cleaning. whistle screaming. smoke Nv
ing captain and engineer standing IN the
fuel pan AZ the bach II tho 'ngIne
The train and the engine raced up Grccn
wich street IA \ race that would have been
uneven enough, - he sure. hut for the
fact ina, the train hal - make Etope fur
stations. while the driv o. uf the cleaning.
screaming engine kept the big gray team
steadily g%alloping. every passenger on
the train booking down on him and has
outfit as II doomed along. taking in ev"-y
letail with the interest ~ fascination.
When The train STOPPED at Franklin street
tis engine was hall a block behind huf
Il was coming al right. and now with
tho sound of the train -topIed YOU roIld
no mr. those hlpfG IAN u1InU MI IA nNnn,auf
later the engine Ta ssed. on the ground be-
low. fair under view. with the horses gnl-
loping away, driver leaning Out hanging
on 10 en-, whistle screaming and -hrinking,
black smoke living ont f'at behind and cap
tain and engineer standing up there in the
fuel pan, the whole outfit just flying past.
and before the train had got fairly started
out of the Franklin street s,a,i"n the fire
engine was half n block ahead up ';renp-
wich street and going like a combination
horse and man and mechan MICA tornado
Then the train picked the tire outfit M
again and again Iassed II and while they
could keep II in view through the whole
stretch all the time. now tho passengers
had u again right under them. where they
l,tup, with the Big gray team a. game a.
ever. and going. II anything, better han
ever. q thrilling spectacle To look down on
And then the train gradually drew ahead
again. II was half a block ahead at Tes-
hroS@eS street; but when the train halted
there the lire engine again passed II.
Then the train passed the fire engine
Pgain, and before il reached Houston street,
The next station north, IL had headed the
tire engine about a block but when the
motorman shut of for Houston street the
lire engine began 10 rome up again, and il
wa. watched with unfingging interest a. IL
II disappeared, hoonulg and screaming
aruun the corner into Y ing street. the next
street below, with it, hose tender close up
and the men now jumping from it to stretcn
the hose.
Then the passengers or the train settled
down and drew n long breath. and one young
man said he thought that next year he'd
take his vacation riding up and down on
the Greenwich street stretch Of the Ninth
avenue elevated. in the hope of seeing an
other race like that.