Show LOSES RAGE RACE WITH GRIM 5 DEA Ill BREAKS RE New York Banker Rides Mile a Minute to Mothers Mother's Bedside at Chicago bu but t Arrives There Too Late i r- r S 1 S i 4 S S wt S 4 I Ii A. A ll I City Dunk New Sen NewYork York Special l Too Tue Lute 1 I I S C h i go tarch 28 Fran Frani Frank A A. VanI Van Van- I pro l of ot tho the Nat Nl nal City CIly U Now Nov York rork lost araco I fO tt 1 nT J t r Or- Or 11 d' d I i In ln m i Mn In Va lip dei S I Is a 0 Cor former Clini Who was wl Secretary Sec fcc fcc- to Z L Ji G go d later ter I first assistant I Irl rl fr to tu th the troas- troas ur ury under Mr- Mr tr G Gage I r. r S On Saturday S c IJ ro received etI cl a n. him nim that his mother iother Mrs tto V V v S as ns critically c iii at h t this it Then came the therace race hl 1 he spec special ai train but Mrs ht t ti IJ I minutes before her 1 rt Englewood station of t tHo the l It Ho lIo hud had made the run In 14 4 a 3 d 13 II minutes and hs special 11 th entire distance from the rn d station New w York to lia LW Salle ahIe street station Chicago o In f fG C hours and antl seven e minutes This Is nearly neall two hours faster th the Twentieth Century limited and a an hour faster than any previous special ha hat has ever made tho the trip Mrs Irs Vander- Vander lit lip was 63 years yean old In 1892 Mr Ir Van- Van de brought his mother to Chicago from Aurora Dr Ir Charles P. P Small the family ph phy- phy sidan did tIld not consider Mrs Vander Vander- lips lip's illness serious At nt first But ut on un Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- pneumonia developed and antI by Saturday evening It became apparent that her condition was vas critical At the doctors doctor's suggestion the news was telegraphed telegraphed tel tel- to Mr 11 home horne In Scarborough N N. Y V The Tho dispatch reached him about 9 o'clock and ho Immediately got sot Dr Small Sma on the long distance telephone S II lI hears Mother r In Its InDo Dying Do you ou believe that my 01 mother Is la likely kely to to die dieT asked the banker S I 1 am vet very much afraid she I la b dying now now replied the physician Tell her that I will start for tor Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago cage Immediately tely said saltI Mr Vandor- Vandor Ii Up p. p The bank president turned to the Ule time tables tablea and discovered that the first train out of ot New York for tor Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago got awn away at J 1130 1 30 a. a m. m and that It would not arrive c In Chicago until 30 Monday morning Then the banker bank banle- or er called up the offices of ot the New NewYork NewYork NewYork I York Central lines and ordered a pc- pc etch train A significant feature of the tho trip is that It was under the ordinary organization of or the road with such ouch locomotives lo- lo t as could be bo picked up on short notice without any interference with the regular traffic and without anybody except the train dispatchers knowing that a a. record Vas as being brol broken en The Tho train consisted of ot a locomotive one private car and empty coaches for tor ballast It was exactly 1245 lUi Sunday morning when It pulled out of ot Scarborough with Mr Ir Vander- Vander lip Up From Now New York ork to Buffalo Is 10 1 miles The special made tho the distance I Including the wait walt at Scarborough In I six hours and 39 minutes i The time for tor tho tim entire distance between between between be be- tween New York and LaSallo street streel I station was minutes The distance distarce I la ill mIles so 80 that tho the run Including I tho the six nix stops for changing locomotives I averaged a less than a mile a minute and at times the train was speeding at tho the rate of ot miles an on hour When hen Mr Ir train stopped at ot En Englewood lewood at this afternoon a a. carriage was waiting to take tako him to his mothers mother's home It Is nearly six miles from tram the tho station now How Is my ray mother asked tho hanker banker cr anxiously as he ho Jumped Into the the- cab Very Ven poorly Doorly sir vcr very poorly In Indeed Indeed In- In deed sir |