The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1898, Page 1

t T Call VOLUME LXXXITI—N O. 55. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JANUARY 24 1898. PRICE FIVE CENT SPECIAL TRAINS SPEED WITH THE JUBILEE —_— ONE BRE AKS RECORDS TO LOS ANGELES Never Has Such Speed Been Attained in the Run to the Southern Me- trop At the instance of The Call railroad records were lowered to an a mark sterday, and th uthern Pacific demon- strated that it can keep pace with any line in the world if the occasion requires it. o o o o o ] o ] [] o o (<] o [+ Two trains pulled out from the ter- minus at long wharf scarcely five min- utes apar a few minutes - be e 2 o'clock yesterday morning, and by the time the m reached were thun- g at te speed. Along re of the bay they dashed, - of t g train vainly striving to s pursuer, while the 1 that the best he could dc rts on the iining an inch leader in v ng race was never run— lot of journal 1 their ex the Jubilee edition nd south, through- the State people had of the crowning tri- and clamored for ible moment. their clamor- er to do so special trains tered and arrangements them the right of way More t were to orders reac hed them s passed with The Call, given that there was stant’s delay at any that the fastest time possible | to be wo trai were made through the up, the first Joaquin > TUn San Jubi s inhabitants of the 3 r north as the and. tarting of the great presses of mailing apped the papers in the wrappers having been labeled with the desti- ckages being loaded into 1 rushed at a gallop to the dock, where the fast s in waliting, steam up ness for a hur- ceive quicker dis- r was a cargo so quickly ong wharf, which juts rly a mile beyond the mol 1 th the bay trip that »od Southern Pacific lo 00, a great com- pound machine, one of the fastest on the road. Into the train it drew was piled the bundle; mento and way Raymon fingered destined for Sacra- stations. Engineer the throttle, while Conductor Davis had charge of the train. In front of the Sacramento special was locomotive 1365, another record- breaking machine, presided over by Engineer Woods. This, too, drew a light train, Conductor Ware having its destinies in his keeping during the first half of the run to Fresn: At 1:52 o’clock the t bundle was tossed on board, the newspaper men detailed to accompany the two trains clambered into the cars, Conductor ‘Ware gave the signal and the Los An- geles special plunged forward. As her lights flashed past the Sixteenth-street | station, Oakland, Engineer Raymon re- ceived the word, and he lost no time in getting under way. ren began the race to Port Costa, the roads diverge, one bearing to the south and the other cross- arquinez Straits and on north to ramento. Not a stop was to be made by either train until Port Costa | was reached, and the driver of the sec- ond special determined to cut down some of the lead the other had been given. Through the blackness of the night the trains sped like tandem me- teors, no slackening of speed however sharp the turns and with no percep- tible advantage to either until the Sac- ramento flyer was forced to stop at the landing place of the big ferry-boat Solano. Then, and only then, did the pursued whisk her lights out of sight. | The stories of the two lightning runs are told below by,the curresponuen!a‘ on board the trains. ! ] LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23—This arter-; noon all Southern California js talking of the enterprise of The Call. It has accomplished what has never been done before, and the people of Los Angeles | were reading at 2:30 in the afterncon the edition which started from the long wharf at 2 o'clock this morning. Within ten minutes after the arrival ‘ of the tug carrying the immense load of papers across the bay the special | train, drawn by the fastest engine be- langing to the Southern Pacific, went | flying out toward Oakland, along the | Mole and through the city at a speed ‘which astonished even the railroad men olis. who were there to see the departure. Faster and faster it sped until a speed of sixty miles an hour was attained, and this was kept up all through the night until near the dawn of day, when an accident to the engine caused a delay of almost two hours. It was one of those providential accidents which prevented one that would in all probability have ended not only the trip but the lives of all on board the train. The breaking of a small bolt caused the engine to stop, and after remedying this an inspection of the big machine s made which resulted in finding a broken pin in the driving rod. But a few more revolutions of the wheels would have thrown the rod around and against the ties, which would have sent the train intc the ditch. By this accident an honr and forty- five minutes was lost between Modesto and Fresno, but on arrival at the latter point a new engine and crew took charge of the coach, and on being urged to make up as much time as possible the speed was increased until at times seventy miles an hour was attained. As the train plunged along at this fear- ful speed the single coach swayed and jumped as if it might leave the track at any moment. As the train thun- dered by the small stations the startled inhabitants rushed from their beds only to gaze on the blackness of night, for the cause of the disturbance had disappeared in the distance. As day- light approached the people were seen gathered at the stations, for announce- ment had been made that a wild special was tearing along the road. They had little time to look and no time to see what it was, for before they could get their wits collected the train bearing its load of Jubilee Calls had flashed up and by and was vanishing in the dis- tance. At Fresno a five minutes stop was made in order to change engines, and | there the people had an opportunity of | learning what it was that was causing such a commotion on the road. On all sides were heard commendations of The | Call for its enterprise and progressive spirit, and the demand for the magnifi- cent edition was so great the agent was compelled to ask for more than the quota allotted to him. From Fresno to Goshen the run wa made in three-quarters of an hou thence to Bakersfield the time was kept at seventy miles an hour almost | the entire way, and by the time the| second change of engines was made | there was very little of the lost time to be made up. Bakersfield was reached | in s hours from the Long whar ‘ and in this time must be included the | two hours lost, which makes the actual | running time between those two points the fastest in the history of the road. There have been other special trains run in a hurry on the Southern Paclfic, but none of them have made the record that has now been set by The Call From Bakersfield came the long grade up Tehachapi Mountains, and this run was made in the remarkably short time of one hour and forty minute: Once over the range, where a heavy snow. storm was raging, the speed was again Increased until seventy miles an hour was reached, and this was continued until Mohave was reached at 11:25. The engineer was spurred to greater effort at this point, and he was asked to make every endeavor to reach Los Angeles at 2 o’clock. He said he would do it if it were in the engine and we did not go into the ditch. It was in the engine and we did not go into the ditch, for just as the long whistle blew an- | nouncing the approach®o the beautiful city of the south, the hands of the watches marked exactly the hour of 2. Speed was slowed down on entering the limits of the city, and the greeting of the people of Los Angeles to the special train of The Call came just at 2:20, marking the finish of the remarkable | run from San Francisco to Los An- geles, a distance of 490 miles, in twelve hours, including stops and delay of two hours from accident. There are many incldents that kept the mind busy on this long run which did not seem long. There was too much excitement to permit of interest lag- ging, and during the entire distance there was not a minute or a mile that did not have something in it that made the trip an interesting one from a trav- eler’s point of view. During the night the train seemed enveloped with a cloud of luminous dust, and to the people who saw it flashing through the darkness it must have seemed something uncanny and unearthly. flocks of ducks and geese rose from the marshes and fields along the track and here and there a coyote could be seen | sneaking along on his way home | after a night's hunt for a break- fast. People started to run to the de- pots to see the spectacle, but before they reached the platform the was out of sight, leaving but a cloud of cinders and dust to show that some- thing had gone by. At one station an unfortunate dog Wwas crossing the As the morning dawned | train | was coming. His momentary stop was | train ought to have been had it been |2 regular. As the train approached Los Angeles the roads were lined with people who had driven out in buggies and ridden on bicycles to see the in- coming wonder. They saw but little of | the train, and had to read the banner t went by so rapidly that they could hardly distinguish the letters, and be- | fore they could read the first word the | whole was too far in advance to be seen. The train was scheduled to arrive fatal, for in an instant his body was | cut in two, while his owner shook his | fist impotently at the space where the | on the side of the car by piecemeal, for | track, and he looked up to see what| up to permit the messenger to throw | off the hundreds of copies for this place. F. Rosenthal, the live news agent, put his carriers upon bicycles and the paper was delivered to sub- scribers promptly at 8 o’clock. News- | boys found ready sales for the paper and in a surprisingly short space of time the coples were all sold. Men of all shades of opinion united in praising the enterprise of The Call in thus beat- | ing all record for speedy delivery in this valley. Said one prominent citizen: “The Can is the livest paper in California.” The prompt delivery and superior quality of contents re widely commented upon and unstinted and generouspraise was bestowed upon The Call manage- ment. All Tulare is reading Sunday’'s Call and the special edition distances | displayed on behalf of The Call. - | Roberts, president of the Commrecial | Bank, said: “This Jubilee Edition of | The Call found on my porch this morn- | ing is a triumph in journalism and eclipses any former effort made bythat paper; or, I may say, any other paper on the coast. Its resume of the min- ing industries of the State is most commendable.” C. J. Eubanks, County Clerk, said: ‘““While The Call is not of my politics, I cannot resist saying that it is a great paper, and its Jubilee Edition should be preserved as a part of the history of the State.” ‘W. M. Hughes, son of the father of | Fresno, said: “I am, in the language of Dave Hill, ‘A Democrat,’ still I ad- PICTORIAL STORY OF A RECORD-BREAKING RUN. AN EAGER THRONG SURROUNDED The Seecian AT Los Ancetes CALLS. THIS CALL SPECIAL TO SACRAMENTO the State C Swiftest Trip on Record to apital Made by the Train Bearing the Golden Number. » ¥ A o724 ¢ /et Cormeg THe Serrur. | Sacramento. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 23—“Right of track over all trains” is the way the order read which was handed to Con- ductor Davis and Engineer Raymon on the Oakland pier this morning just as they were about to start out with the special train which was to carry The Call’'s Golden Jubilee Edition to its subscribers throughout the State. “It was a great run,” said Fireman Gibbs, as he mopped the perspiration from his brow in Sacramento and looked at his watch. It took just one hour and forty-four minutes to make the run between Oak- land mole and the foot of Second street, Of course, this did not include the stops, for the simple reason that there were none. From the start to the finish there was not a slacking of speed at any point save the interruption at the Car- quinez Straits. The tug drew up to the long wharf with great packages of Calls piled up on every available foot of space found on the decks and in the cabin. The Los Angeles special was first ac- commodated, and although the train and tug crews worked as fast as they could a good half hour was consumed in transferring the bundles from the tug to the coach of the Los Angeles special. Papers for the north were then placed in the car of the Sacramento special, and soon both trains were flying ateng the eoast of Alameda. County at a speed that was fearful. A good stiff breeze was blowing from the north, but it hindered not, and when just seven minutes out from the mole it reached the stock yadrs. One minute more and West Berkeley faded away, and six minutes later the sta- tion lights at San Pablo indicated that the special had reached the mile a minute mark, with splendid prospects of passing Pinole at just a trifle faster than that. The sensation of rounding those curves between Pinole and Port Costa in the darkness of night at such a rate of speed was somewhat ex- hilarating, and at the same time not entirely free from a fear that can hardly be described. Thirty minutes were not consumed | in passing Port Costa and from Be- | nicia to Sacramento_there has never been a faster run than that made by Engineer Raymon this morning. As each station w approached the at the Arcade in Los Angeles at o'clock, but the good engines and the masterly engineers and conductors of the Southern Pacific system beat the schedule by almost an hour, and the result was that while the people were | leisurely wending thelr way toward the | depot to see the special arrive, the pa- | pers were being unloaded and the train | backed into the yards. Those who were | there, however, made up for the lack | of numbers by their warmth of wel- | come, and the dusty and cinder-be- | grimed men who went through on the | coach were taken In hand and greeted | as cordially as if they, too, had been | dressed in their Sunday clothes. The rapld increase in the efrculation of The Call In the past two weeks will now be further augmented if the ex- | pressions heard on all sides is any cri- | terfon' upon which to base judgment. All the afternoon, in the streets and in | the hotels, nothing was talked of but | the remarkably fast run made by The Call special bearing the jubilee edition. Nor was the train and its remarkable speed all that received commendation, for the handsome edition and the men who have done so much for the im- provement of the paper, came in for their share of the pralse so generously bestowed, and the general sentiment was that The Call would henceforth maintain the proud position of being | the first and best of San Francisco's dailies The Call was on sale here seventeen | hours ahead of the Examiner and | Chronicle. FLREER EARLY DELIVERY OF THE CALL’S JUBILEE For the First Time Residents Read a San Francisco Sunday Paper Before Break- fast and They Praise the Enterprise. TULARE, Jan. 23.—The Call | carrying the special special Jubilee Edition reached Tulare this morning at 7:30 of the usual time of delivery. When | the news agent at this place received the notice that the special would arrive this morning a large crowd gathered at the bulletin board. The train reached Tulare nearly two hours ahead of time and Tularans for the first time read The Sunday Call before breakfast. Early as it was a crowd was at the depot to welcome the Jubilee special. The train did not stop, but only slowed 3 EDITION AT TULARE. o'clock, just twelve hours in advance | all competitors. Truly The Call speaks for all. GREAT SENSATION ! | IS CREATED AT THE | CITY OF VISALIA. Early Morning Delivery of the Great Jubilee Edition an Enterprise in Journalism That Is Loudly Praised. VISALIA, Jan. 23, Golden Jubilee E: on made a pro- found sensation in Visalia. Its achieve- ment in laying down in this city Sun- day morning’s paper on Sunday morn- The Call's grand | Francisco, is something unique in newspaper enterprise. Many are the | compliments that have been paid The‘ Call and its manager by citizens. The (Call reached Goshen shortly after 8 o’clock this morning, and Nate Rogers, the main distributor of the paper, was on hand with his buggy to hurry the | bundles of Calls over to Visalia. He | had all he could carry. His Visalia | subscribers soon were enjoyving their | morning paper, while a crowd collected | at Levy Bros.' store, where The Call is sold, to comment on the early appear- | ance of their favorite journal. One of the leading business men said | this evening that he had been reading | @ The Call all day; that it was one of the | best issues he had ever handled of any ! paper. Another remarked: “That is a most excellent paper. I intend to file | it away for future use. The Call is| taking the lead nowaday One of the proprietors of a daily| paper says The Call is about the only | city paper that has creditable news at present. He always looks for The Call | when he wants to make clippings for | his own paper. He is greatly pleased | with the Jubilee Edition. Newsboys did a good business selling | The Call this forenoon, for the people | showed their appreciation of such en- | terprise. | RESIDENTS OF WADERA f SURPRISED BY THE CALL'S ENTERPRISE, | Leading Citizens Declare That the Special Train and Mammoth Edition Eclipse All Previous Efforts on the Coast. MADERA, Jan. 23.—The Jubilee Edi- tion of The Call arrived by special train at 6 o’'clock this morning, and .was immediately delivered by special carriers through the city, and was the first object to greet the early risers upon the opening of their front doors. Many expressions of approval have | been heard relative to-the enterprise 0290600600009 00000000000090000000000006 mire The Call for the energy displayed in the Jubilee Edition. I regard The Call as a great paper, full of news, clean and decent.” E. H. Cex, cashier of the Commercial Bank, said: “I have always admired The Call, and particularly do I admire anything enterprising and energetic in Journalism. I take nearly all the daily papers. I read them carefully as to financial and business reports. I have P00 000000002 000000000@ NEWS OF THE DAY. k4 ing, although we are 250 miles from San } p ‘Weather forecast for San Fran- & > ® cisco: Fair Monday: continued cold & & weather; probably heavy frost in the & ® morning; light northerly winds. @ & Maximum temperature for the past & & twenty-four hours: @ - San Francisco . .48 degrees = > % .32 degrees & & degrees ® 3 .54 degrees & kS @ @ Call's Special Jubilee Trains. ¥ o SECOND PAGE. @ & Good Wishes for Callfornia. @ @ Coursing at Sacramento. o > THIRD PAGE. & Los Angeles Herald Rebuked. & FOURTH PAGE. ® Clark Sorry He Confessed. & Changes in Sixth Regiment. DY President Dole in Chicago. é Warships Off Key West. DY Anti-Jewish Riots in Alglers. Governors on Annexation. FIFTH PAGE. News of the Water Front. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. s The Day of Jubilee. Brilliant Prospects Continue. A Free Public Market. The Honor of Being Disliked. Surveying at Nicaragua. Sights and Sensations of the Play. Stories from the Corridors. News of Foreign Navies. SEVENTH PAGE. Had His Wife Arrested. At the Shooting Butts. Insane on His Honeymoon. At the City Theaters. News from_Across the Bay. EIGHTH PAGE. The City Hall Dome Row. Coursing at Ingleside. Footpads at Work Again. Police Captain/Healey Dead. Labor Unions and the Charter. NINTH PAGE. Alleged Murderer Captured. TENTH PAGE. Appeal of the Unemployed. News of the National Guard. ELEVENTH PAGE. Births, Marriages and Deaths. TWELFTH PAGE. Ready for the Great Day. Regular Army Notes. POO0000P 000000000000 60000Q0@O@60@@00909@@@@@@@9@0@9@»9v@b ve always found The Call's reports satis- factory, with the business knowledge T obtain from other sources corrobora- tive of them.” Judge Arch McDonald picked up a copy of the Jubilee Edition of The Call, and, after glancing through it, bought a copy at the newsstand. He sai “I'm a "4%er, and I think that there is more of interest here than I have seen for a long time. I like The Call because | T admire its enterprise.” ENTERPRISE THAT IS DULY APPRECIATED AT FRESNO CITY. “It is a Splendid Paper and a Great Scoop on Yellow Journalism,” Say Readers of the Jubilee Edition. FRESNO, Jan. 23.—Before the people of Fresno were out of bed this morning | Jubilee Edition of The Call pulled into | Fresno, the papers were delivered to C. T. Cearley, the local agent, and The Call special sped away to Los An- | geles. | The special arrived here at 6:50 this behind the time when it was due, ow- ing to an unfortunate mishap, as for the last eight miles the engine had to | creep along on account of a hot box. | Another engine was obtained here and | the change was made with lightning rapidity. The Calls were on the street { hours and twenty minutes before any | of its competitors, and the papers were ldellvored to the regular subscribers so | | | ten | table. The street sales were enormous, everybody buying a Call. The edition here were sold out before night. It was a boon to the newsboys that they will never forget. Everywhere expressions of praise could be heard for the remarkable en- terprise of The Call and for the splen- did issue. Here are a few of the com- to-day: | Fulton G. Berry, proprietor of the | Grand Central Hotel—It was a grand feat. The Call beat them all. The is- sue was the greatest I ever saw. I've i been through ail those early day scenes described, and they were absolutely true. Not overdrawn, but realistic. It made me feel like a boy again with my pick in hand working in the mines. Continued on Second Page. | the special train bearing the Golden | morning, but even then it was an hour | that they had them at their breakfast | mendatory words heard on the streets | bundles of Calls were balanced in the | door of the car and as the lights in | the station window appeared they were tilted a bit and then sent flying | through the air until they landed on | the station platform. One of the bundles struck a baggage | truck that was standing outside, upon which had been left an empty chicken coop. When the station agent looked for the coop later on he found frs NEW TO-DAY. A woman’s looking-glass does not lie to her. If she looks carefully and owns will acknowledge that it shows to her, as it shows to others, a face ¢ full of the ugliness of suffering and pain. If a woman wants her mirror to reflect a pain- free face she should take proper care of her womanly self. 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