Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1900 — HE HAD TO BE THERE [ARTICLE]

HE HAD TO BE THERE

How Demis Made the Trip from Boston to the Empire City. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 11. — A. M. Bends, said to lie a Boston broker connected with the Standard Oil company, traveled from Boston to New York Saturday morning in the fastest time on record. Bends received a telegram late Fr day night which made his presence in New York at noon Saturday worth many thousands of dollars to him. It was too late to get to •the metro [Kills by any of the regular trains, so Bends hired a special train, consisting of an engine and two cars, from the New Y’ork, New Haven and Hartford railroad. He left Boston at 6 o’clock n. m. on Saturday. His special was whirled over the New England tracks to Willimnntie and then over tin* Air Line to New Haven. At 10:25 o’clock a. m. Bends reached New York, having made the rnn in four hours and twen-ty-five minutes and having broken the record lietween New York and Boston by thirty-five minutes. The best previous record was held by the Bay State limited, which is one of the recordbreaking trains of the country. Bends paid the New Ha veil road .SSOO for Ids tisket. He distributed $75 more among the train crew to show that he appreciated their 'efforts in his behalf. He remarked ns he left the train that the trip would have been cheap to him at ten times that price.