Show I ANOTHER FAST TAi Th Chicago Rock Island Pacific Enters the Lists Chicago Jan SThe Chicago Rock Island Pacific railroad tonight entered en-tered the list of competitors for the overland mail contract now held by the Burlington road by sending out a train which will run regularly between Chicago I Chi-cago and Omaha en the fastest schedule ever attempted between the two cities The train left at 755 p m and is duet due-t arrive in Omaha at S a m The running time twelve hours and five minutes is nearly two hours faster than the ordinary schedule Besides the regular express and mal cars the train was made up of a chair car a coach and a Pullman sleeping car all of the most modern construction The train will make stops only at county seats along the route The ChicagoOmaha Race The race between Chicago and Omaha goes merrily on The Burlington reached Omaha eight minutes ahead of schedule time Friday while the Northwestern was three minutes to the good j I Railroad Notes The Union Pacific representatives will arrive in the city today I The Utah Pacific begins its regular train service between Milford and Sulphur Sul-phur Springs today The Commercial club of Omaha has sent a vigorous communication to Nebraska Ne-braska senators urging their support of the antiscalping bill The Rio Grande Western will today begin the manufacture of Hudnalls portable stock car deck and will put the same into use a soon a possible Frank Daniels and his company will con1e from the east over the Union Pacific arriving here in the forenoon of the 12th I will take three extra cars to accommodate them The Logan Journal registers a vigorous vigor-ous kick against the Short Lines acton ac-ton in depriving Cache valley of its regular through Salt Lake passenger paengr train and substituting a jerkwater service on the Cache valley branch Locomotive Engineering thus describes de-scribes the New York fire in which it was a heavy loser Owing to the New York City fine engines having only service features and no special quick action appliances wherewith to bring highspeed fires in skyscraper build ings to an emergency stop Locomotive Engineering was burned out bag and baggage Sunday night Dec 4 True we lost all our for a1 copy January num ber but weve managed to get more We didnt fiddle during the fire like Nero but went right to work to buildup build-up a new paper The chief editor with a handful of cigars bribed Chief Bon ner into playing a fourInch stream of water on the redhot safe until I was cool enough to handle Then the vice president and the secretary in asbestos suits carried it to the window dropped i down to the airbrake editor and two of the young lady stenographers below who caught i tossed it on to a horse car and took it to 85 Liberty street where business was resumed I early Monday morning An ordinary fire may hinder and temporarily check I us but one that puts us out of business busi-ness must be a good one |