Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-20
Yuma, Ariz., to New York City
Covered in Three Days, Five
Hours, % Minutes.
PASSES THROUGH HERE
Engines Changed at Local Station at
1 O'clock Sunday Morning
Race With Death.

/ satisfaction of knowing that he had
made the trip between these two far
distant points as quickly as a trip
/ has ever been made before.
Young Gates is suffering from blood
poisoning. Serious symptoms devel
oped while he was at Yuma early in
/ the week. Doctors said he needed ex-
pert medical advice. Gates telegraph
ed for special engine to take him
TO FL Paso over the Southern Pacific.
/ He was travelling in his private car.
The Ranger" and Ieisurely jour
ney back east.
From Yuma to FL Paso is a dis
lance of 5O4 miles, and the Gates spe-
cial made the run without delay. The
train was given the right of way all
along the route.
TRAIN ENCOUNTERS DELAYS.
At Fl Paso there was an engine and
a baggage car on the Rock Island
waiting for the arrival of young
Gates. Five minutes was consumed
in switching, and early Friday morn
ing the special train began its long
journey TO Chicago. The distance is
], 4G5 miles.
the route Nearly seven hours were
lost in passin; through Kansas City.
A freight wreck east of Topeka held
up the train FOR five hours more, and
at Perry. Kan, the locomotive broke
down
II was AS O'Clock Sunday morning
when the Gates special pulled into
/ Chicago. The train passed through
here at l a. m. Engines were chang
ed here.
The run from Rock Island to Chi
cago was made n three hours and
1 6 minutes setting a new record for
the Illinois division. The former
record was made by the special that
carried the Chicago specialists TO the
bedside of the late ". p. BettendOrf
at Bettendorf That train covered
the distance from Chicago TO Rock
! Island in hours and % minutes.
! Fifteen minutes was consumed in
! Chicago in making the change of en-
gines. and at O'Clock yesterday
morning the signal was given for the
start on the last lap Of the journey.
I As far as Eikhart the Gates special
was given the right Of way.
Records for the run eastward from
Chicago to New York were broken
YESTERDAY The distance between the
two cities is 975 miles and the actual
running tine was 963 minutes, max
ing the average speed of the train bet
ter than a mile a minute twenty
SIX precious minutes were lost in
changing engines along the route, so
that the actual time consumed in the
run from Chicago 10 New York was
$50 minutes.
Mr.. Gates was in bed when he I
reached New York and was met by II. I
l.. Jones, his business partner; \. NJ. Z
Hermann, his private secretary, and /
Dr. Fellows Davis. On the trip east
Melville Martin, Mr.. Gates brother
in-law. and Miss Rasmussen. head /
nurse of the San Diego hospital &C
companied him.
DR.. Davis said the injury was re
ceived two weeks ago while cranking
an automobile. The crank came back
and struck him in the calf of the leg.
For a couple of days his wound was
treated and he was a patient in the
san Diego hospital, it being in that
city ne was hurt.
INJURY BECOMES SERIOUS.
He left and went TO Yuma by easy
stages and then the wound became 50
serious in appearance that a local ply
stefan, alarmed at the possibilities OF
blood poisoning. advised a specialist, I
and Mr. Gates decided that If he need
ed that sort of treatment he would
come east. The trained nurse was
placed aboard the car and the trip be
gan.
Mr.. Davis said ne saw no reason WHY l
Mr. Gates should not recover rapidly :
and looked for him 10 be about in
few weeks. The greatest interest in
the run of the Gates special was in its
fight from Chicago east. where it broke t
record after record along what are '
known as the race courses 20 the rail !
foad men.
The run from Chicago. which viii +
probably stand as the record for some 7
time. began al a. N. The train con >
sisted Of a buffet car and the Ranger r
and three dead Pullmans for ballast G
From Elkhart 10 Chicago, both ways, +
IS considered speedy bit of track and '
he train made the 101 miles in los q
minutes. Toledo. 143 miles from Els @
TART. was reached in 1874 minutes. and :
here was a delay of TWO minutes while q
here was a change OF engines. d
sPEEDIEsT NEAR CLEVELAND. f
The los miles 10 Cleveland was COW
sred in 81 minutes. which was the Il
'sstest time on the whole run from z
Yuma 10 Kew York. Then the 1S3 il
niles from Cleveland 10 Buffalo was
covered in IS7 minutes
Buffalo was reached at Tsp D. m. Il
.entFaI and left a. 2.55 eastern time
The 149 miles 10 Syracuse was made h
z l54 minutes and the 14s miles 10
Albany, which was reached at 5 p. in
90 minutes. There was delay of five Y
minutes al Albany. so that it was s.2s c
when Billy" Clemens, the star engine o