New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-02-20
CHAS. c. GATES RUSHED
HERE IN RECORD TIME
Patients Special Train Covers
5000 Miles from Arizona in
ID Hours, 19 Minutes.
TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL
Leg Injured When Cranking His
Automobile Infected, but
Operation Will Not Be
Necessary, 1t Is Said.

Erlghtene0 Dy lHe udHSCi vi 'ip'u bpi-
soning and the possible loss Of his right
leg, Charles G. Gates raised the long
howl for help In the middle of the Ari-
zona desert last Thursday. and last
night rolled into the Grand Central Ter
minal with a new record for long dis
tance travel-3.0 600 miles in 4.469 min
utes. and the last 97J miles from Chicago
over the New York Central lines in oS6
minutes of actual running time and l,W9
ninutes. including all stops for engine
changes.
After an examination by DR.. Fellows
Davis. Of No. II West 18th street. Mr..
Gates's physician, lasting an hour and
half, Mr.. Gates was taken to private
hospital at No. Is West 46th street Or.
Davis said that there was no particular
significance to be attached TO Mr.. Gatess
being taken to the hospital and that
there was no immediate danger i'm his
condition. He was taken to the hospital
for convenience in treatment
The record for the world is held by
Frank A. Vanderlip's special over the
Central on March %, 1909, when he Went
from New York to Chicago in sixteen
hours and forty-seven minutes elapsed
time. and sixteen hours and seven MIN
utes actual running time. Mr.. Gates
came on in sixteen hours and forty-nine
minutes elapsed time and sixteen hours
and twenty-six minutes actual running
time But Gates lost twenty-one min
utes between Little Falls and Albany
through being held up by local train.
Gates, however, established two new
records on his trip. He came from Al
bany TO this city 143 miles. i'm 143 min
utes, leaving Albany at S:2G last even
ing and arriving here at 1913. This is
the first time that the run between Al
bany and New York has been made at
a mile q minute. There is a curve south
of Poughkeepsie because of which, the
Central people say. no train has ever run
between Poughkeepsie and this city on
schedule time.
Gross Continent Record.
Gates's other record is for 'cross-con-
tinent travel He left Yuma, Ariz., at
5: 80 p. m. on Thursday and his train
stopped in the Grand Central Terminal
i'm the elapsed time Of a hours 10 min
utes The distance covered was three
thousand miles and the average speed
was a couple of inches better than forty
miles an hour.
When his father, John W. Gates, heard
in Port Arthur. Tex, Of what the boy
was doing, he said:
THE kid is sure a wolf for speed. I'll
bet million he makes a record
When Mr. Gates's train stopped i'm this
city and the doctor climbed aboard Gates
,ras told that he could have saved few
thousand dollars If he had saved his
nerve.
\ week ago Gates Was cranking up lis
automobile on the ranch that he ana
Walter Dupee, of Chicago. Own south of
San Diego. Cal. Tho crank slipped and
etruck Mr.. Gates ON the back Of the right
leg, Just below the knee. tearing the SKIN
and inficting severe bruise. year
ago. While riding on the engine of
train i'm California, Mr.. Gates bruised hls
left shin against the step and had i
slight attack of blood poisoning. After
the accident on the ranch he was afraid
o. blood poisoning again and vent to Tie
hospital in San Diego.
Three days in the hospital did not cure
the wound, and he started last, With
visions of a cork leg. Miss Rasmussen,
the head nurse at the hospital came
with him. and at Los Angeles Melville
ID. Martin. Mr.. Gates's brother-in-law,
ioined the parry. At Mecca, Ariz., Mr..
Gates telephoned to Yuma for a special
train. and when they arrived at Yuma
an hour later Mr.. Gates's private car,
Ranger, was hooked on TO the special and
the record run was under way.
The run from Yuma to IL Paso, Tex,
was made in twelve hours and a half
800 miles. From IL Pdso TO Chicago,
l. 46J miles, tie time was fortyfive
hours. The average time from Yuma To
Chicago was little better than thirty
seven miles an hour which was gain
Of four miles an hour over the calcula-
tions OF the Rock Island when ii made
up the special train.