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Show TRACK AND TIIAIN. "HANK" SMALL'S FAMOUS TEIP - FE0H0G DEN TO FRISCO. An Event Whleh Paralyzed Kaslroad-ers Kaslroad-ers in the C entennial Year Head-light Head-light Flashes of dreneral and Loral i Interest. The name of Henry S. Small is familiar every railroad man on the western divide, and among those who knew him intimately noun stood higher in their esteem.- He was one of the oldest engineers in the employ of the Central Pacific railroad, and when the Bens o? lii-i death from heart disease in the i railroad liosj ital at Sacramento, Cal., was A last week Hashed across the continent, an almost universal expression cf regret weut v, up. "Hank," as he was familiarly called by his" associates, probably made the longest continuous trip behind the throttle of any engineer in this or any other country, the occasion being the trip cf Jarrett te Palmer's famous "Continental -Train" from Ogdcn to the Oakland, Cal., pier, a distance of 8S1 tnUes. Small entered the employ of the Central Pacilic us engineer of a construction train when the road was being built oast from Cisco, Cal., aud later on was selected to take the pay car ou its monthly trips to every part ot the system on account of his coolness :ul excellent judgment, combined with a , fondness for making fast runs. It is said of him that ho never showed the least bit of concern or excitement on the many mile-a-uiinute trips he has had between here and Ogdeu and Los Angeles, and across New Mexico n ad Arizona, and possesses a charmed lifu that enabled him, in spite of several ' ' ' serious accidents, to die a peaceful death at the age of M years. When arrangements were being made to bring Jarrett fe Palmer's train from Ogden in June, l"?r;, Small was selected as the engineer en-gineer to take it West, both on aecoust of hU familiarity with the entire road, and because be-cause of hi ubiiity to always make remarkably remark-ably faft time. He was given engine 140, that Las recently been "killed" and put in the oid scrap-iron pile, and instructed by Genural Manager Towne and General Superintendent Su-perintendent Fellows to run as fast as he could and keep his plaee at the throttle until un-til Oakland, pier was reached. The tall, raw-boned, sinewy engineer was erjual lo the occasion. Pulliugout o.f Ogden with the trtin, he never left it for twenty-three twenty-three hours and thirty. eisrht minutes, and while the average for the long trip of 881 miles ws only 87.12 miles per hour, there were many sections of th road along which lucre than a mile a minute was made. " Going u the grade from Ogdeu to Promontory Prom-ontory he made the first fifty-three miles in an hour and nine minutes, going around curves and up and down grades in so rapid a manner as to almost make the passengers on the train seasick at times. Passing Monument Monu-ment like a Hash of lightuing ho made the thirteen mlics from there la Kelton in twelve minutes. Still he was not satisfied at the rate of speed, and. although his favorite locomotive vras rocktug and puffing and panting, ivs it were, like some sreat giant, he. polled the throttle wide open, and ia s.iven minutes ten miles of track between live. Patch and Oreaua wera at the rear of the train. As the train sped over the llurnboldt division di-vision in Nevada, eighty miles were run in exactly eighty-one minutes and so ffreat was the cloud of alkali dust that enveloped the cars that Small, looking back from his cab "vind'.iw, cou'.d not at times see the end of his train. Arrivinc: at Truckee at dusk it was found th.'t tr.e brakes on the cars were almost useless, use-less, and two other cars were put into the train, so that their brakes might he used in i.'1'hiir down the raouutains to Sacramento, i'lii' b; il 'n the cab to which the bell cord v. 'j:,- mtaelieil was also broken from the vio-U vio-U :i! v.-a- it had been put to iu making Small plow u in his treat speed now and then; so the coid was tied around his body instead. I he ride down the mountain in the darkness of U.e uiirht was the fastest ever made. Mr. Jarrett, Lawrence Barrett and other prominent passengers on the train presented Small with u diamond badge a few days after the arrival of the train here. lie prized it very highly, and has willed it to his grandchild. grand-child. Jlen.lliifl.t I lashes. Controller Stephen Little of the Denver & F.:o Grande is taking life easy in Denver. The htjciuess this season at Garfield Beach Is the greatest in its history. The agricultural college at Fort Collins lias been made a Hag station by the Union Pacific. The business of the Denver it Rio Grande during Uie past year has been a profitable one, the surplus amounting to ill,i)00. The state board of railroad commissioners of Arkansas lias assessed the roads of that stale nt .?lS,7s5,:iSr5, an increase of -JlOl.rjiO over The Trans continental Passenger association associa-tion will meet in St. Loui.-, Sept. 5. The question of a lower rate from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast may be discussed. Commissioner Hill of the Colorado Demurrage De-murrage association has made his report for the quarter ending July '.'A, iy.)2, show, ing the following totais: Number of cars handled, 4S,(',(io; average detention, 1 .Hij. The figures for the quarter ending last April ihowed the number of oars to bs 40,0-10, with an average detention of -.03. |