Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1879 — How Colonel Thomas Scott and H Friends Travel. [ARTICLE]

How Colonel Thomas Scott and H Friends Travel.

A special train of five palace ears passed through Terre Haute yesterday on the Vandalia line bearing Col. Thos. Scott, and the boards of directors of the Pennsylvania company, and the Pen nsylvanla Central. A program me had been prepared, and a time table published for the train. By tht* timetable the train was due in Terre Haute at 2:15 p. in., and an Express reporter, with a pocket frill of pencils and note books, started for the Union depot, inending to interview somebody, if only ne porters. The reporter arrived at/ he depot at two o’clock, only to learn that the train had come and gone,-dr-riving and denartiug about forty minutes ahead of time. If Col. Scott ever oomes this way again the disappointed reporter proposes to have him arrested for libel—no, not libel, false pretenses; playing upon our unsuspecting innocence, as it were. We are notable to tell even the color of the cars. From the official record we learn that the train left Indianapolis at 11:60 a. m., twenty-five minutes ahead es time, with Sam Trindall as conductor, and Wm Morgan, with his engine, the “24,” furnishing the motive power. The track was cleared and the train sailed away toward Terre Haute at a rattling gait. The time between several of the stations shows one mile per minute. The run from Brazil to Torre Haute, a distance of sixteen miles, was mode in eighteen minutes. The train arrived at the Union depot at 1:28, having made the run in one hour aud thirty-eight minutes. From Terre Haute to St. Louis the time was not so fast, but the party arrived in East St. Louis at 6:28, having made the fun from Indianapolis in six hours and thirty-eight minutes, an average of nearly forty miles per hour. The train consisted of five heavy palace ears. The party is on a tour of inspection of all lines operated in connection with Pennsylvania.