Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-29
Record Trip Made
 For a SedatiVe
FOR JAMES J. HILL, PIONEER
 RAILROAD BUILDER.
IS NOW CRITICALLY ILL
Special Train Made Run of 4s1 Miles, Chicago to St. Paul, in Eight Hours and Three Minutes-sedativs Was Not Used.

Sr.4 Paul, M1nn., May 2S.-JameS J. Hill critically i'll at his residence here, passed "a restless, unsatisfactory day. While the pioneer railroad builders pulse was good his temperature was ihigh and he suffered considerable pain. internationally the patient was uncon- scious. Members of the immediate family, together with the surgical and medical staff gathered in St. Paul dur 1ngf the last few days, kept in almost constant touch with MT. HilPs bed side, while a number of business asso- 'ciates were on hand much of the day.
 Priests Hurry to Hill Mansion.
 Shortly after o'clock this after noon, Rev. Father Thomas J. Gibbons, Yyicar! general of the St. Paul archdio- cese. and pastor of the St. PauPs Ca thedral, hurried from the great catfe- dra1 ediffce, where he had been say- ing mass, to the Hill mansion, just a square up Summit avenue. At this time it,waS reported that MT. Hill had suffered slight sinking spell and that members of the family had been call- ed to the sick room. At o'clock it l was said MT. Hill had rallied. His pulse was reported better, but a high | temperature continued. At 6 o'clock i tonight, the patients temperature was ] reported unchanged.
 Visitors Came Away Grave.
 Throughout the day men prominent I in railroad, business and professional 1 circles called at the mansion. All came ] away grave, uncommunicative. Louis w. Hill, president of the Great | Northwestern railroad, threw open his l big residence next door to the corps Of doctors and surgeons and their as- sistants. From the beginning of his fathers illness nearly 12 days ago, he has been indefatigable in his efforts to I assist the surgeons in their work
 One of the physicians in attendance upon James J. Hill intimated that a 4 certain infrequently-use sedative
 might be of some possible slight ben
 eft to the patient. Other doctors pres-
 entf questioned the possible efficiency
 of this. medicine and, as added argu-
 ment against the use, stated that none
 of it could be obtained at any point 4 nearer than Chicago.
 Special Train Sent for sedativs. Louis Hill efanced to overhear this conversation of the surgeons. Instant ly he directed his secretary to call by
 telephone a firm of pharmaceutical | chemists in Chicago and ascertain if
 a supply of this sedative could be ob- Itained there. When affirmative reply Il was received, Mir. Hill ordered a spe-
 cial train on the Chicago, Burlington
 and Quincy railroad to bring the seda- , tive to St. Paul. It arrived here al 9.22 o'clock last night, having made ,, the trip of 431 miles in eight hours
 and three minutes, or at an average
 speed record of 54 miles an hour. Rail- road men stated that this shattered all speed records between Chicago and St sI Paul. The trip surpassed the record
 set December 29, when Dr. B. w. Sippy
 of Chicago was brought to the bed- : side of the late Thomas G Shevlir ! at Minneapolis on a special train over ,i the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
 Railroad in eight hours and fifty sever
 minutes.
 Surgeons Decided Not to Use It. When the sedative was delivered al
 the Hill residence the surgeons had
 decided not to avail themselves of it v All traffic, both passenger and freight ton the Burlington between St. Pau z and Chicago, had been sidetracked tC
 give the right of way to the Hill spe'
 cia1.