Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-04-04

] OCdt JVo V" Exclusive Of stops, 15 hours s@ minutes; including stops, l6. hours 7 minutes.
 Central tIme--one hour slower than Eastern.
 4 special train chartered by Pres ident Frank A. vandcrlip of the Ma tional City Bank to reach the bed glide of his mother, who was dying or pneumonia, carried Mir. Vanderlip to Chicago over the New York Central and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads on Saturday night in six teen hours and seven minutes. This is the fastest time ever made be- tween New York city and Chicago by any special train run for any one but railroad official
 But although records were broken, death came to Mrs. Vanderlip quicker than her son. She died half an hour before he arrived.
 The average speed for the run of 9G5 miles was 60 miles per hour, in cluding six stops of four minutes each to change engines. The cost to Mir Vanderlip was $1,824--$2 mile. based on the shortest trunk-line that of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 912 miles.
 Ono of the remarkable features of this record run. however. was the fact that the train was hauled, for the most part. by ordinary locomotives. the big engines of the Atlantic and Prairie types being engaged in haul ing tho regular heavy and fast ex presses. The train was made ready to start fifty minutes after the order was received.
 Midnight Start.
 MT. Vanderlip received a telephone message from Chicago late on Satur- day night at his home, Scarborough n-the-HudsOn, 30 miles north of New York. It informed him that his mother was dying in that city of pneumonia Immediately Mir. Wander lip called up the station master at the Grand Central Station to order special train to take him west as soon as it could be arranged.
 The operator connected MT. Van dcrlip first with C. F. Daly. Vice President in charge of the traffic de- partment. and afterward with w. C. Brown, President of the Central. at their respective homes. The order was given to the superintendent at the Mott Haven yards at l0:50 o'clock. At II 40 the train was ready to start. It consisted of four coach es to act as dead weight and a pri- vate car for Mir. Vanderlip at the rear end of the train. Tho engine which usually hauls the Midnight Express to the West was used. because that was ready with steam up.
 The special started from Mott Hav- en at midnight. and arrived at Scar borough. twentyfour miles away, at l2:25. to pick up Mir. Vanderlip. who was waiting on the platform. AL bany. the first stop to change en- zines. was reached at 2:25. A. NJ. Leaving Albany at 2:29, the run of l4S miles to Syracuse was made In 146 minutes. the train arriving there at 4:55 A. M. A fresh engine was waiting, and was attached to the special in less than five minutes.
 From Syracuse at 5 a. m to Buffalo l tho time was not so fast, as there l were several freight trains on the | road which had to be switched, but with that drawback the running time for the 150 miles was only 154 min utes. Buffalo was reached at 7:34 a. m.. Eastern time, and after a stop of five minutes to change locomotives the spec al dashed off again at 6:39, Central time, tone hour slower than Eastern, for Chicago. It made Cleve- land at 9:45-1S6 minutes for the 1Ss miles.
 1lS Miles In es Minutes.
 Leaving Cleveland st s:49. the run