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and procured permission to heat some water on the stove, by which we 

 obtained eight gallons of hot water and got a good start. 



I also took the first opportunity to go forward into the postal car and 

 obtain permission to heat water on the mail-car stove during the night, 

 The danger was now apparently averted, and, it being my night for sleep, 

 I, having been up the greater part of the night previous, retired, leav- 

 ing Mr. Green to remain on duty till midnight, and Mr. Perrin from mid- 

 night till daylight, when I was to go on again. 



Mr. Perrin and Mr. Green deserve the entire credit of taking the 

 shad through the critical night that followed, and for an account of it 

 I will quote from Mr. Perriu's journal : 



"As we left Ogden on Monday evening, it became evident that we 

 should need hot water during the night; for the water which we took on 

 at Ogden was, I think, about 60°, and the temperature of the air prom- 

 ised to be no higher, while it was necessary to keep the temperature of 

 the cans above 62°. Accordingly, Mr. Stone made arrangements to heat 

 water, if necessary, in the postal car, where there was a stove, but after 

 he went back to the sleeping-car, the man in charge of the mail-car came 

 to us and said that they were very busy and did not see how they could 

 have a fire in the car. So Mr. Green went into the engine-cab and per- 

 suaded the engineer to heat some iron couplings in the furnace of the 

 engine, and then to put them when red hot into our pails filled with 

 water. This water was, of course, dirty and unfit for use in many other 

 respects ; so Mr. Green took the larger tin pail, and filled it with warm 

 water, and set into it a smaller one with good water in it, but too cold 

 In this way, he heated a sufficient quantity for immediate use. When 

 he woke me up at 12 o'clock, the air in the car was cold, and growing 

 colder, and it was apparent that work must be done to keep the temper- 

 ature up to the right point. At the first stopping-place, I went forward 

 to the engine, but found that at that place they changed engines and 

 also engineers. 



" The new engineer hardly understood the case, and was at first un- 

 willing to do what I desired. The conductor, too, seemed averse to any 

 delay, and was not very pliable ; but after a statement of our necessities 

 they both consented, and I was to go forward for hot water at the next 

 stop. This I did, and obtained hot water heated in the way I have de- 

 scribed. The engineer remarked that he could heat no more till he 

 reached Toano, about 4 o'clock a. in., when he could give me all I wanted. 

 But at 2.30 a. m. the temperature of the car was about 52°, and the 

 water in the cans about 63°, and, of course, going down. I was getting 

 a little nervous, for before 4 o'clock the water would surely get too cold 

 unless something was done. The train stopped, and I ran forward, and 

 after the engineer heard my case, he told me that they were going to 

 stop for water in about 20 minutes, and then he would let me have 

 another supply of warm water. About 3 a. m. the train stopped, and I 

 went forward, and the engineer took out the hot irons and heated the 



