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Show IB FAST Til Remarkable Run Made by the HaiTimaii Special to Ogden. LESS THAN NINETEEN HOURS FROM COAST Changes of Engines Made in Two Minutes by Short Line Men. Special to The Trlbupe. OGDEN. Oct. 24. If tho record that wns mado from Cnllfornla tn Ocdtn. Utah, by tho special train which carried E. H IlRrrlman of tho Union and Southern Pacific railroads and other notables Into Ogden this forenoon, Is maintained thcro will be new recordtimo of the trip from the Eaaterri coast of Asia' lo th Enslcrn const of America. If Mr Harrlman, goes direct to New Vork npd there are no delay, de-lay, such an were evaded cn the Irlp over tho Western lines, he will havo established a record rec-ord that -.beam the present standing tlmo not only by .hour-s, but by days. ' ' Tho voy.ico nrcss tho Pacific of--ltsnlf established es-tablished n record that''beat th: former time over th Pacific, the record being held by tho Empress cf Indln. Tho Siberia, with Mr. : Harrlman on lionrd and MIbit Allcv Uoorovelt I and party, traveled 276 miles greater dlelanco than did th Empress of India, and did it In but twenty-eight, minutes' additional time. Five-Car Train. Th Harrlman special, consisting of a commissary com-missary car, a composite, n dlqner and three spoclal cars, arrived In the Ogdon Union depot at 11 :2S this forenoon. It departed for' the East nt 11:35. It required but two minutes to remove tho Z'M whleh had brouuht the train Into Ocden and to nltuch to the train th doublo-hrnder thnt pulled tho train eastward, but General Mnnnger W-. II. Uancroft of the Oregon Short Lino had to hove a conference with Mr. llarrlninn nnd Mr. Kruttscbnltt, and oa till account the train wnS held Just ten minutes at Ogden. The record tlmo of two minutes for changing engines heretofore exletlng Is three nnd a half minutes, nnd tho Ogden record, due to the specle.l provisions thnt hail hecn made In advance, coupled with diligence nf the locol officials, nnd especially of Ynrdmnster Cunningham. Is responsible for the lmiroei time. Miss Roosevelt in Party. At Ogden Miss Roosevelt nnd her lady companions com-panions stepped from the train. Jo the newo-poper newo-poper men tho President's daughter expressed herslf as delighted with her vUlt to the Orient. Ori-ent. "At tho same time." sho said, ''I am glad to gel bock to America." Of her trip from San Francisco, she said that It who not only delightful but exhilarating. "Wo cam so fnst over the Nevodn desert that there was some dust, but this was compenated for by tho delightful travel across the lake, where It Is really llko going to sex by rail." MIm rioosevolt wan the exemplification of gracious-nets, gracious-nets, nnd evidently was enjoying her return to the country of her nativity. Mr. Harrlman dM not lao the train while It was nt Ogden, but consulted with Mr. Kruttsehnltt nnd Mr. Bancroft. ' Ten Minutes in Ogden. It was 11:25 when tho train pulled latp Ogden. Og-den. and ten minutes later It pulled out for tho Kxst with two of the biggest engines of tho Union PeclQc pulling It. In tho party were Mr. Harrlman and his family. Mr. Krult-schnltl. Krult-schnltl. Mr. Stubbn. General Superintendent E. Buckingham of tho Oregon Short Lino, Mr. Dunn of the mechanical department ,and Superintendent Su-perintendent E. C. Manson of tho Southern Pacific. At Ogden Mr. Bancroft met tho party nnd had a conversation lasting elcht minutes with his tnjperlors. No Stop in San Francisco. As a matter of fnct, Mr. Harrlman nnd the party were never In San Francisco after their arrival from tho Orient. Tho Siberia steamed lip Into the mlddlo of tho bny and thcro was mot by a launch. This they boarded and. In record time, arrived at OnUlnnd mole, where a train was awultlng them with tho engine steamed up and ready to start on two minutes' notice. New Record Established. Oakland was '.eft nl 3:30 p. m. Monday, and tho entire run from Oakland to Ogden was mndo Ir. eighteen hours and fifty-five minutes, actual tlmo Including stops, and established a new record in transcontinental running time to this point. The trnln arrived at Sparks at ll:Eo p. m. last night and left at 12:00 midnight. mid-night. The run to Ogden wns of the record class, being mado In exactly oleven hours and fifty minutes. Tho total running tlmo beats tho time of tho Overland Limited between Ogden Og-den and tho Oakland mole, which Is twenty-six twenty-six nnd a half hours per time card, and suggest sug-gest tho utmost possibilities In foal transcontinental transcon-tinental travel with tho track, roadbed, equipment equip-ment and tho modern locomotive power now In use Sixty Miles an Hour. Analysis of tho run to Ogden shows an average aver-age of nearly sixty mile per hour over the 782 miles from Oakland to this point. This Includes In-cludes tho crossing of about twelvo miles ovor tho trestlo over tho lake, where a time-card limitation of twenty miles per hour for passenger passen-ger trains Is provided, and In this Instance was rigidly adhered to. Remarkable Time Made. The best run was made from Montollo to Ogden, Including tho trip across the )aki, a dlslancs of 1M.3 miles. Thin wan mado by Engineer Tern Lindsay. The 120 miles wero covered, regardless of tho slow order of twenty twen-ty miles nn hour ncross the twelvo miles of trestle In two hours nnd tch minutes. Tho Aral sixty-live miles on the latter part of ihla run was mode In evon sixty minutes, with ono stop for wator Gcrfl-ral Superintendent E. Buckingham, with Superintendent H. V. Hllllkor and Assistant Superintendent Both, nccompanltd the special out of Ogden to Green River, where Superintendent Superin-tendent Manson's special car was awaiting them to bring them back. Easy for Operating Department. Tho operating officials of tho Southorn Pacific Pa-cific had anticipated tho head officials and had arranged a schedule of exceptionally high rpecd. To thlB Mr. Kruttochnltt objected and gavo instructions to attempt to maintain nn avorago speed from Oakland to Ogden of forty-five forty-five miles per hour. This wan easy for tho operating men and they bent It plenty, establishing estab-lishing tho record tlmo of "82 miles over a mountain rood, with time, limitations lo twenty miles an hour ever several strotches, In eighteen hours and fifty-nve minutes. |
