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Show MINIATURE MOTOR CAR BALKED Colonel McKlnstry, chief train dispatcher dis-patcher for the Southern Pacific on the Salt Lake division; Major W. C. Camp, local manager of the Western Union office at the 1,'nlon depot. W. R. McKean, Jr.. of Omaha, and hU friend. Harry Hlbbs of the same city, secured a right of way order from Assistant Superintendent T. F. Rowlands Row-lands and started for the cut-off and Lakeside on a little four sated motor car with which experiment are now-being now-being made. The party reached Promontory Prom-ontory Point all right and on schedule time and then started across the trestle to I-akelde. When about midway across the Iak. the machine began to "buck" and finally refused to moe forward or to back up. As a result the quartette were thrown on their own resources and wero forced to puh the heavy car a distance of i eieht miles, reaching Lakeside at midnight, mid-night, footaore. hungry, weary and dl-1 I couraged. At an early hour, the party j Induced an incoming conductor U j take them on board a freight train. 1 and they returned to this city, wbil the motor car was shipped Into the Southern Pacific shops on a flat car. An effort wss made by Train Dispatcher Dis-patcher McKlnstry and Manager Camp to suppress the story, but the facts leaked out and have been the subject of ludicrous comment at railroad headquarters loday." The motor car Is a late, product of the McKean plant at Omaha and I designed for Inspection purposes by railroad officials. W. R. McKean brought It out from the motor plant at Omaha and traveled by slow stages I to Ogden, a distance of more than one thousand miles miring the long trip the car never balked and brought Its passenger safely through to local headquarters In record time for a vehicle ve-hicle of this character. |
