stration: JOHN NEWELL, LATE PRESIDENT OF THE LAKE SHORE AND
MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

From a photograph by Max Platz, Chicago. President Newell died August
24, l894, and is said to have fairly sacrificed his life to giving the
Lake Shore the best railway track in America. The proud record made,
in this speed run, is largely the fruit of his labor.]

These, then, were the conditions under which the now famous run of
October 24, 1895, was accomplished: A train weighing twice as much as
the English train was to be hauled for a distance of over 500 miles,
making four stops _en route_, at a speed, when running, greater than
63.93 miles an hour. Incidentally it was hoped also that the New York
Central's speed of 64.26 miles an hour would be beaten.

No public announcement was made of the undertaking in advance, for the
sufficient reason that the gentlemen in charge were well aware of the
difficulty of the task in which they were engaged and the many
chances of failure. They had no desire to have such a failure made
unnecessarily public. No one was informed of what was in hand except
the officials and employees of the Lake Shore road, whose cooeperation
was necessary, one daily newspaper (the Chicago "Tribune"), the
Associated Press, and two gentlemen who were invited to attend as
official time-keepers, Messrs. H.P. Robinson and Willard A. Smith--the
former being the editor of "The Railway Age," and the latter the
ex-chief of the Transportation Department at the Chicago World's Fair.
General Superintendent Canniff of the Lake Shore was in charge of the
train in person.

[Illustration: THE TEN-WHEEL ENGINE 564, WITH WHICH ENGINEER TUNKEY
MADE THE RUN FROM ERIE TO BUFFALO, ATTAINING A SPEED OF 92.3 MILES
AN HOUR.]

It was at two o'clock of the morning of October 24th that the train,
which had been waiting since early in the evening on a side track
in the Lake Shore station at Chicago, slipped unostentatiously away
behind a switch engine which was to haul it as far as One Hundredth
Street, where the start was to be made. Here there was a wait of
nearly an hour until the time fixed for starting--half-past three.
There was plenty to be done at the last moment to occupy the time of
waiting, however. There were last messages to be sent back to
Chicago; last orders to be sent on ahead; telegrams containing weather
bulletins, which promised fair weather all the way to Buffalo, to be
read; and, finally, the preparations to be ma