The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-30
HOLD LIMITED TRAIN
FOR BOND DELIVERY
Absence of Board Treasurer
Places $155,OO0 School Is
sue in Jeopardy.
CLERK JUDD WINS RACE
Connection in Ogden Neces-
sary to Insure Arrival in
New York Friday.
CLERK JUDD WINS RACE

Chatting at the bit 50 10 speak. The
Overland Limited, the fastest trans
continental train IN tmerira. Was held
for fifteen minute. in the Ogden yard.
yesterday afternoon waiting for l.. p
Judd, clerk Cf the Salt Lake board OF
cducation.
Mr.. Judd is an imposing sort OF
mar, but il was not that that held the
flyer. Judd carried $4,000 worth OF
bonds in his grip which, il he had
missed the train, would not have been
sold in New YorE City August ! there
b, causing cudless trouble. annoyance
and expense 10 the school board, not TO
mention the jeopardizing Of lis credit
with the New York bond buyers.
II required urgent and voluminous
,elegrams 10 hold the limited, which
has a reputation Tor speed and orderly
schedule that is the pride of three
great railroad companies. But il had
70 be done.
II is absolutely imperative that Mr..
Judd deliver his bonds TO the New
York buyers, Grant q Co, not later
than August J. Realizing this, Judd
packed his grip bright and early yes
terdny morning and set forth with his
bonds TO secure the signature OF 5. \.
Whitney, who l. treasurer of the board.
Mr.. Whitney was not TO be found. His
usual hauuts and places of business
knew him not. Telephone and tele-
graph wires were burned Outrageously,
and finally Mr.. Whitney was discover.
e1 in Heber City with one William
Spry, governor OF Utah. at the annual
review OF the national guard of Utah.
he was reminded that his John Hen
ry' stood between the board of edu-
cation and S155,000, which, being a
considerable reminder, caused Mr.. |
Whitney TO risk life and property in |
a wild dash by automobile from He
Der to Salt Lake.
He arrived five minutes after the |
last train that might have borne the |
bonds and Mr.. Judd eastward had de-
parted. This train makes connection
with the Overland Limited at Ogden al
; clock. The limited leaves for the
cast five minutes later.
Mr.. Judd was waiting at Mr.. Whit
ney's office in the Mccormick bank.
for the Doncc 4 desire to
explode, Mr.. Judd explained the situa
ton and suggested a pleasant though /
speedy JOY ride TO Ogden. Mr.. Whit
ncy was game, II was then / O'Clock.
Ogden is forty miles. nearly, by the
road, and the road is not the best IN
the world for forty mile gait. Never
thelcss they started. They had gone
but half Il mile. however, when Judd
bethought himself of the idea of hold
ing the limited.
Accordingly messages were dis
patched 20 Ogden with the desired
effect. and Mr.. Judd and Mr.. Whitney
abandoned the automobile and boarded
tho Cache valley train, which leaves
salt Lake at Ais p. N. and wends It's
WAY northward by short and easy
stages. The conductor and engineer
we're appealed TO. and with such sue
,ess that the local pulled into Ogden
several minutes ahead OF its schedule.
The Limited was waiting Judd had
.ime TO grab the last bond from Whit.
ley, with the ink still wet on the sig
latnre and make flying leap across
racks. Ten seconds later he was on
MS way east.
If he had missed the train there ii
S likely that the board of education
would have had to rcadvertiso the
bonds and probably sell them at a
discount in order to meet the
created by the necessity of
'edecming an issue OF like amount on
August ].