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Show At a Mile a Miuute Clip. Lawyer Joseph O. Parkinson had to be in Uockford at 2 o'clock to t ry an im-1 portant case. Thousands of dollars were j at stake in a matter pertaining to a latent lat-ent right. Between this city and Rock-ford Rock-ford aro ninety-three miles, and a passenger pas-senger train that covers the distance in two and one-half lours is making good time. Mr. Parkinson sat in his office on Dearborn Dear-born stnx't at 11 J o'clock dictating some correspondence to his amanuensis. When ho had finished he called up the superintendent super-intendent of tho North western railroad by telephone and asked him the price of a special train to Rockford. The answer came back, "One hundred and twenty-five twenty-five dollars." Mr. Parkinson told the (superintendent that if the train would land him in Rijckford at 2 o'clock he would pay the money. The superintendent superin-tendent agreed. Mr. Parkinson rushed from his oflico with a typewriting machine ma-chine under his arm. Ho jumped into a cab and was whirled to the Northwestern Northwest-ern depot. The special train was in readiness, and at exactly 11:51 it rolled away. Going through the city the train was obliged to run at a very slow rate, but when the limits of Chicago were passed the engineer engi-neer threw back tho lever and winked knowingly at the fireman. It was just 1:44. o'clock when Mr. Perkins alighted from the train at Rockford. The run had been made iu 113 minutes, or about a mile a minuto from tho time the train got outsido the city limits. Chicago Herald. |