Show CHASED Y AN ENGINE on onn waS riding idin on a n 4 night train trai of 01 the tho l-J l Ti Penns Pennsylvania Cen Central Cn- Cn f J t nl fro from New Newton e L o York ork to a Washing Washing- i n l ton on a n mission as newspaper core corf corti cor- cor We one ti- ti f e y 1 respond respondent had passed Baltimore and within an hours hour's time timo wo we would be at our ur place of ot destination Tile The he conductor had finished collecting the fares and seeing a n vacant seat by my side de dropped drop drop- drop ped pod into it as aa if i for rest at the tho end of a it tiresome days day's work lie IIo Ie made an entry in closed it pl placed it in his pocket breast-pocket buttoned buttoned but but- toned his coat folded his arms and then turned to me with a n friendly remark re remark re- re re remark mark as if i he ho now felt at liberty to tola tolay la lay hay aside aide an n official duty and be so so- cable I 1 was glad clad lad to while i away the time timo as the the train was rushing along i in the tho darkness which concealed all 01 objects of interest without t and so BO I encouraged tho the conversation You must have met with some soma interesting experiences and perhaps with some great dangers in the course of your life le said I the conductors conductor's grizzly beard showing that he lie might have have seen a long service Well el perhaps the most exciting time in my experience was the night I 1 Iwas wits was chased by an engine engine- a n night which this one reminds mo me of said eaid i he looking out into the tho darkness Chased Chase by an engine said I getting getting get get- get tin ting interested How Irow did that happen Well Wel said the con conductor settling down in the cushion and bracing his knees against the tile back of the seat in front many years ago I was running the night express on Long Island from Brooklyn to Greenport a distance ninety miles mies the entire length of the road The rhe Long Lone Island road was then a 1 one-horse one affair having only a single track with switches at the tile different stations to allow alow trains to meet and pass On the evening to which I now refer I J started from Brooklyn atlen attn n oc o'clock cl with th the old ld Constitution long since broken up but then the crack engine on the road with a 1 ba baggage ago or freight car carand carand and three passenger cars cara The night was just as dark rk as aa A a. pocket or if anything perhaps darker ho be added as if he had had accurately tested the internal obscurity of that useful portion of the dress It SIt must have been very er dark said I. I Wo We were the tho only re regular lar train upon the road that night with the exception of the Greenport express to Brooklyn which was to start stat at ten o'clock aud and meet us at Lakeland Station in the middle of tho the island switching off of there to allow alow us to pass i Well VeI we were perhaps six or eight I miles mies on our way when I stepped out outon outon on the tile back pIa platform dorm of the rear Icar car cart carto carto t to o see seo if i it was growing towing any lighter We Ve were then going over oer a part of the road which was as straight as ns an arrow arrow ar at- row for a distance of four or ortIve five miles mies As s I was looking back bak over this tins stretch I 1 saw behind us at tho the distance dis dis- dis- dis tanco tance of miles mies or so what I knew was the light head ht of an engine as it was too bri bright ht for lor anything else for of course I did not not suppose tile the Government had bad be been n putt putting ng up any lighthouses along th the road Probably not said I. I You may be sure I 1 was a Ht little sur sur- sur said the conductor for lor I there wasn't an extra train once a week upon that road rOM and I 1 ku knew w that thero there was none out m ft-m Brooklyn that night anyhow I 1 waited for a few minutes until I saw that it was realy really eally an nn engine coming and what was wa's more that it was gainin gaining gain gain- in ing rapidly on Oil 01 us although we wo were at our usual rate of speed When I was satisfied of the fact fact I hurried forward and said to the engineer en en- Jake thero is a n train close cose be- be hindus hind bind us Jake Jako dropped his oil can can oi-can and his bi lower jaw at about the same moment and looked to see whether I was crazy or joking 5 Well Wel let time the fireman freman attend to matters here and come com back and see said IWo I. I Wo We hurried to the thereat rear and in n a moment Jake Jako saw as well wel as myself that hat if there was any joke in the matter mater we wo were the victims of one and of rather a serious us one too for forthe forthe set the he train in the tho rear rear had gained on us usa usa usi a i full ful mile while I had been forward The red cinders of the smokestack as if i from a furnace blast blast furnn he tile head li 1 head liht ht lt throw threw a glare along therOd the tho road rOd burnishing tile the iron rails rais to cur ll very wheels Close as he was upon us he the engineer of the ad advancing train had bad not given hen the slightest signal to towar warn war us of his approach h and made no nort rt response ponso to our repeated whistles of alarm He was violating all alj al railroad rul rules s and if he ho had determined to secretly run us down he would act just justa justas as a he ho was wah then doing doing Jake Jako at first seemed to be struck dumb dumb- not so much because he ho then thou thought ht of danger but but at the cool im impudence of the engineer n iner behind He le looked as if i ho io w would uld like hike to throttle him bim His Hist t tongue nue after a while got in working order and he broke out outs outs- 4 I What does that crazy fool mean S 'S I The engineer must tie Ue e either crazy or drunk said I. I If I ho keeps on in that way ten minutes longer he will he-will will wi surely be into us' us i and I signalled signaled tho fireman to put on more moro steam What business 8 the train tran has 1118 tonight m upon the road rond fit it ft all aUts is what puzzles 11 J s t nn Ip eng engino tb the J r. r W 0 f i 1 i 1 J I i S old ol man is I sending down to Jamaica JamaIca to the shops chops for repairs repairs- said Jake I s saw w Ben Den Franklin standing on CU the side track with steam up just as we started From the way she overhauls us there thero cant can't be of a train be be- be lund her muc I 1 did know but not that Jake might be ri right bt for Tor I had haa seen the Franklin Frankln standing in the tile depot when we left That en engine ine was just as fast as our own and hud if lf it was without atrain atrain a ft train attached as ns Jake Jako supposed might easily gain on us as it seemed to be doing At any rate we wo shall see when wo we pass Jamaica Station whether Jakes Jake's theory thory Is correct I thought and saul said so to him fIlm By ny this tins time the fireman acting as engineer had given our engine all aU the steam she would take and we were slashing along at a l lively rate I J tell you ou The rho good p people along the road who were out of their beds must have thou thought ht that a n railroad Gilpin was running another race according to the new V stylo I was an angry ry enough to have bave sent a n bulet bullet at atthe the crazy engineer engi neer following us and I determined that my first business the next day should be to complain to the supe superintendent in of his fool iness I thought that possibly bein being for the moment his isis own master and and no long longer er under the immediate orders of a n conductor conductor- he was indulging ng in a n kind of a railroad spree and for a lark was driving drying us to tho top Of f our speed expecting expecting ex ex- to end dId the race and his days day's work worl at the same time at Jamaica Well Vell we wo tore tote through that flint sleeping sleep sleep- ing yia village e without stopping for re refreshments refreshments re- re re I tan can an assure you 01 and then tilen Jako Jailo and amI I looked to see bee our comical friend in the tear rear pull pul up tip at atthe atthe atthe the station and take lod lodging mg for the tie night But Dut we were mistaken in our Not a l was wag given by bv our pursuer as a as signal gnal that lie intended intended intend intend- ed to stop not a n sign of slackening was as shown but on the tho contrary ho was gaining upon us even when we were ele doing our out very best Sometimes a cure curve in the tue ro road l would shut him for Cor or a moment from our view but he would round it in itt il an instant and every overy new turn brought him more closely upon us Jamacia had llad bo been bee lei t far behind and ande we e were out on the tIle wide Hampstead Hampstead Hamp- Hamp stead plain The ho old Constitution was on her mettle mette Our train was actually swaying and rocking with speed like a yacht on the waves The telegraph poles poles upon which the light from our windows would glint in the dense darkness were fly in ing behind us at every second The sound of our wheels as they struck the ends of he the rails was waa a continuous con con- hum Cut But do the best that it might our engine with its heavy train was no flO match for the light weighted one behind that was wa gaining upon us and amI was not the ei eighth The glare flare from its lantern shone brightly brighty in in our dur ur faces I thou thought ht Jakes Jake's face looked a bit palo pale and perhaps mine did too Now that our pursuer did dir not halt at Jamaica we were entirely entirely entirely en en- of off of OUt our reckoning and w we o could make no guess as to the cause of our chase nor when it would end The pr seemed that we wa might be driven to the end of tile the road if we were not overtaken and smashed be be- fore ore it could be reached the tile Franklin sure broke broko out Jake once more No other engine on the road could overhaul us as we ing no t hn t foul of a Simpson mean by dr driving ing her at such a rate He Ho must be be- drunk If I the he boss dont don't break brenk him morrow to-morrow lie he 10 wont won't get his Ins deserts lie la will wi be bento into nto us in two minutes You are right said Raid I. I Go forward forward for- for ward yard and see seo if i you ou cannot get up a little ittle more head headway war Empty a few of those petroleum cans cais on 01 the wood and pitch in and see what can b ba be done Jake was forward on his errand I thou thought ht over oyer our situation Here lere I was with a hundred or two passengers under my care all nl ignorant of f tile the danger which I knew they were in n. n If I we should be overtaken and crushed in tho rear be 0 a serious one and would probably cause the death or injury at least of some of tho passengers If I we were not smashed in this way there was another mother and perhaps a greater danger nger before belore us The tram train of which I have o ha spoken which left let Gr when we wo left eft let Brooklyn was on n its way to meet us on the time same track It should switch of oft of at Lakeland in the time middle of the i land island and allow alow us u to pass in an tn hour after we started or at eleven o'clock It was now past half past hal ten and W we were close to Lakeland already al al- cose read ready eady and ad would pass there long before the tile arrival arival of tile the Greenport train rain which ordinarily got there thero I The Time result would woul be that we should Inset neet that train beyond Lakeland without warning of our approach and arid a collision in front as well ei as the rear ear would be he the consequence 5 We Ve reached and flew through the Lakeland depot nearly neary half half half-an halan an hour ahead of time Of course the the Green- Green lort train was not there yet but was waa coming oming down the tile road Our peed speed was now a little ahead of any ever before made upon the Long Island road oad The Tile telegraph poles poles fairly fairy danced lanced behind us and the bushes on onither either ither side of the tile track seemed a con con- COl wall wal of fire fre as they thAY were lighted up by the flame which h was pouring out of ot our smokestack But Dut dangerous as it was vas for forS us tie S to keep on it t was just as dangerous to slacken speed peed and so sOon on we went The ThO T conductor rolled h ills his s quid from one ne check to tile the other raised the window by his side and expectorated into nto the outer darkness and became silent ilent for several moments as if i burdened l ly liy i the tho recollection z of his bis former ormer perils peris After waiting a reasonable reason- reason able ible length of time lor to resume his lis story stor I said Mid When WIlen the tho collision occurred was it with the train in in front or in il the rear or with both Oh Ob the tile collision said the tile con- con ductor Well Wel now you come to the ridiculous part of the story The collision did not tal take o place at all aU ho he said aid in an apologetic tone tOlO as if there ought to have been a n serious serous accident after fter so 80 much preparation While I Iwas Iwas was as standing 01 the platform torm thinking think- think lag ing ng whether I had better warn the passengers ers to hold themselves ready for r a shock Jake came from forward rd ragging dragging after him two large lam petroleum cans ans each of which would hold boldn a quarter of a barrel of oil oi 5 Now Kow then said Jako Jale to inc jre if you ou will wi oil oi one side of tho the track I 1 will ill wi try the other I 1 saw at nt once what his plan was WM We Ve each brought the mouth o 0 oJ an nn oilcan oil oil- can an as near to the tho polished surface of the he rail ri as possible and commenced pouring on it the s kerosene In loss lose than hart a a minute a a. half mils of the iron ion rails oils faUS on both sides side was waa nicety nicely icel oiled I and ad slippery oie You Thu have have raiS raised my lona tlona tona of ot a ii catastrophe c tj p. p P 1 jf bt high I S S S' S f that thIt you you have hwe been obliged to grease the track so 80 as to let them down easily essiy sai said l I lor lot J I felt a little nettled netted at the unexpected turn tur tho the story tory had hat taken and amid was inclined to believe beleve that the the cn conductor was drawing drawing draw draw- ing largely ar ely upon Ins his imagination for forthe forthe forthe the faces facca S Why Wily dont don't you know that an engine engino can no more make headway Ott Of a n greased track than a tom-cat tom can climb a steep ro roof f covered coverd with ice ico said the conductor with a pitying pity pity- I ing illg glance Alance at one on so profoundly ignorant ignorant ignorant ant of railroad matters as ns m myself I slapped Jako on the time back and said Old fallow your cuteness has bro brought h us all aU out of a hard scrape scrape Iii In a few seconds the time lantern lanter of the train behind us was getting dim in the time distance We Ve slackened speed and backed down to see sea what the mat matter or was with Simpson as aa Jake Jako said sail There stood the time old Ben Den Franklin putting lika a n mad bull bul the driving wheels wheals buzzing around on the time greased eased track like JO all al possessed but not gaining an inch We sanded the track and ind bore down upon the theold theold theold old machine Jn Jack Jakk k was the first aboard spoiling for a I good chance at attha tho engineer Simpson But no sin sign of an engineer fireman freman or any other lvin bing to The he heen en engine in had bad only a it n tender attached and although thero was still sti a full ful head of steam on tIme the fires fres were gettin getting getting get get- tin ting low We made short work in pushing back to Lakeland We Vo reached the stat station n and got fairly upon the tho switch when the time Greenport train trin which we c should h uld meet there came in and mId were |