CHASE FOR A BABY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14691, 27 May 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

CHASE FOR A BABY.

EXCITING TRAIN RACE.

Mrs. Harlan Hoixtstkk, of New York, Tiad an exciting chase across Nebraska recently in a special train, the object of pursuit being the fast express on the Union Pacific Railroad, which carried off her six-month-old baby, while Mrs. Hollister was visiting friends ■in the next carriage. Mrs. Hollistcr and the baby wero going to Denver to join Mr. llollister. Mrs. Hollister arrived on the early train from New York, and, laying the baby, which was sleeping, on tho seat, she wont into the next car to visit some friends, knowing that her train was not to loavo for half an hour.

Just beforo train-time she wanted to return to her own carriage, but found that it had been moved. Badly frightened, sho searched among the trains standing at the station, and, not finding her car, hurried to the station oflicials. She then discovered that her carriage had been attached to the Pacific express, and for half an hour had been flying towards San Francisco. The express is a 'through train, and no scheduled train for the West could overtake it. The Union Pacific general oflicials were advised on tho telephone that a special train was ordered for Mrs. Ilollister's benefit.

At Grand Island, 150 miles west of Omaha the special overtook the express, and Mrs. Hollister rushed into her old car, to find tho baby still sleeping peacefully just whore sho left it. Tlio railroad made no chargo for the special train, but as every newspaper in the country reported the directors' philanthropy, there was no money wasted. The only occupants of the special as passengers, besides Mrs, Hollister, comprised a corps of reporters, who have described the mother's feelings with much gusto*.