| Show TRAIN MADE 45 MILES AN HOUR HARRIMAN SPECIAL BROKE THE RECORD ON CENTRAL PACIFIC miss alice roosevelt says the newspapers never get anything right from tuesdays standard just elgh minutes behind the timo scheduled for its arrival the special carrying E II 11 harriman and party and miss alice roosevelt and party pulled into ogden at 1123 this morning and left ten minutes later the train pulled into the station with a rush and those who are accustomed to see trains arrive wondered it it were to stop but tho sudden application of the brakes and a grinding against the wheels ahe special to a quick stop and in a second a swarm ot trainmen were about the special ling the air while the engine which had brought the special from sparks was detached abid two engines took its place for the long run east in all it took exactly two minutes to change engines which Is the record tor the local yards there vas anite a crowd 0 people at the depot to see the special and incidentally ci get a glimpse 0 princess alice who Is on her ay home alter an extended trip to the orient mr harriman doubtless believing that ho was eclipsed by the light that beats about the throne remained in his car and did not appear but miss roosevelt and the young ladles who accompanied compa nied her left their car as soon as the train had stopped and walked about getting what exercise they could in the brief time that the special remained in ogden no sooner haa the train stopped than a couple of reporters boarded mr liar dimang car to interview the magnate he with julius director of maintenance and operation of the harriman system were in the rear car the latter reading the tunny section of one of the sn francisco papers the interview was short but during the time that they were on the train one of the reporters asked air harriman what he thought of the plan of the burlington system to invade utah he said that he knew nothing of the plans other than what he had seen in the papers since Us arrival in me country in reply to the question regarding what changeat were to be made in the local yards air referred the reporters to sir and the latter reiterated his statement of a few weeks ago when he was here saying that the work would be begun in good time while aboard the train one of the other reporters bad an opportunity to meet miss roosevelt she said that she had had a good time in the east but took occasion to say the newspapers never get anything right this remark is significant from the fact that her engagement to congressman nicholas longworth had been persistently announced by the press ot the country previous to miss Roosevel ts departure for the far east and has been revived since her arrival in the country the epenial was composed of sl cars they being car 1148 palisade diner ganzans Man W II 11 Bon crotts private car and arden the arn from san francisco was made in 1712 2 hours making an aver ago of 45 miles an hour which is less than was at first planned and was due to the presence of director krutschnitt who will not travel on a train running at a higher rate of speed the special left sparks at 1145 last evening the total time over the salt lake division being 11 hours and 38 minutes this makes the fastest run on record between san francisco and ogden the overland limited makes the run in 26 hours five minutes while the harriman train covert the distance in 17 hours 30 minutes beating the limited by 9 hours and 35 minutes conductor toe holland was in charge of tie train from sparks to cariln and conductor A G reeve from cailan to ogden the engineers in charge were jones and smith sparks to J A goldie winnemucca to cariln J R forrest cariln to montello and thomas lendsay montello to lokden while the train was in the station master mechanic E M luckett and electrician P R shipley inspected the cars and found everything in good condition after the long run the special s left ogden at 1133 with a double header engines 1840 and 1842 attached the former being a helper which will make the run to evanston in charge of the two engines are engineers donald and hamilton superintendent manson of the salt lake division came in with the party from sparks and when asked regarding the trip eaid everything went nicely over all of the division and everyone concerned is pleased with the showing made from west side to ogden tha train had an average speed of seventy miles per hour and just before striking the rio graude crossing at ogden was running sixty miles an hour after leaving this crossing crossi ug traveling engineer toy got down and uncoupled all air appliances so as to save time |
