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EACH BISOX WAS SPRAYED WITH CRUDE OIL, 



comforts, this was our smoothest ride. We 

 arrived at Cleveland promptly on the hour, 

 the first, last and onlv time it happened. So 

 far we had experienced some trials and tribu- 

 lations, but the unvarying courtesy of the rail- 

 road people amply compensated us. We were 

 not surprised to learn at Cleveland that the 

 steam hose had once more been left along 

 the line. This completely forestalled making 

 the proper connections for St. Louis, and it 

 was 3.50 Sunday morning before the Big 

 Four could handle the cars. 



The steam connections 

 had to be repaired again 

 at Indianapolis, and this, 

 together with delayed 

 trains, held us there until 

 nearly ten o'clock Sunday 

 night. The temperature 

 still remained low, and 

 when the train crossed 

 Ead's Bridge into St. 

 Louis, the structure glit- 

 tered with frost. 



At St. Louis we en- 

 countered the worst ob- 

 stacles of the entire trip, 

 with their resulting dis- 

 appointments. Train ser- 

 vice had grown visibly 

 heavier, on entering the 

 border lines of the West, 

 and our scheduled time 

 had long since been com- 

 pletely lost to sight and 



memory, both by mo- 

 notonous accidents to our 

 equipment and lost time. 

 At St. Louis the con- 

 ditions were more con- 

 gested than ever. The 

 Trisco Road had already 

 informed the Terminal 

 Association that it coukl 

 not possibly accept the 

 cars together. One car 

 might go with No. 7 at 

 8.41 Monday evening, 

 and the other at the 

 ^ame hour the next 

 night. Better service 

 than this was impossible. 

 :\Ir. Mitchell then called 

 on the Superintendent to 

 the Wells-Fargo Com- 

 pany, and explained how 

 desirable it would be to 

 retain something of our 

 original arrangement. Together they went to 

 the General ]\Ianager of the Trisco, but this 

 was of no avail. As a last resort, the sugges- 

 tion was broached of sending one car over 

 the Rock Island to Oklahoma City, there 

 connecting with the Santa Fe, but this the 

 Santa Fe was unable to do, on account of 

 heavy traffic. We, therefore, accepted the 

 situation with the best grace possible, and 

 divided the force in a manner suitable to 

 the occasion. 



The cars were thoroughlv taken care of 



A PORTION OF THE CORRALS, SHOWING THE SHELTER. 



