Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-15 | Page 26 | Cadillac Eight Shatters Record

GILLAC EIGHT SHATTERS RECORD Beats Out Fast Passenger Tram Between Cheyenne, Wyo , and Denver, Colo The Cadillac eight has shattered an other record this time rasing w th a Union Pacific special train from Den er to Cheyenne and arriving at the sta tlon two minute before the tra n The regular schedule of the Union Pa if A between Den or and. Cheyenne is three hours, b t Engineer Charles Burglo f of the Den er Post ajecal, wh ch carried 100 of Deu er most prominent business men to Cheyenne for the i rontier Days celebration was in etructed to make the run in two hours and fifteen minutes B rgdorf was true to his trust, b t whe lie j ulled h s tra n Into the Cheyen e stftt on af te his record run he found that the Cad 1 lac eight had precede 1 h m by two minutes All Union Fac flc records for the run, however were broken an i the spec al at one time to del a spoe 1 of eighty miles an hour wh h u 1 to be the fastest a locon oti e 1 as e er travolol in Colorado Mu h interest was e le el n the race and the tow b along the ro te covered by the motor ca s j e n ttod tl e racers to ass thru gl at top speed Worl was suspender n most laces along the ro te uhere throngs t rned 0 t to watch the ontes U tin es t e road parallels tho railro 1 trnckB wl 1 made the race the n r ox it g ipo c ally when tl loco noti o an 1 a I line fo ght fo th lc 1 Tho n otor ca s c o for o 1 to travel HQ miles while tl e us ileugo was 112 Its s ooth tra s gn p. tl r tra another grent a lvantng for pa t of tl 1 stance o ere 1 bv tl e otor cars there was pract callv no roa I at a 1 Despite tl ese 1 ou 1 caps Tin old Brink er average 1 better than fifty m les a hour with h s Cad line ght and react ed tl e goal two nin tos ah ad of the fast flyl g s ec al Tng nen B rgl rf )a1 tl sat sfn ton hone er of I cat! (, tl o otic In n otor s t ro 1 ns the se o 1 one t f nh s a to 1 n on hlrty n tes ch I tl e ndlllac