An engine, combination-car with crew, and the great and gilded "Constance" private car were to be "expedited" over those two thousand three hundred and fifty miles.

The train would take precedence of one hundred and seventy-seven others meeting and passing; despatchers and crews of every one of those said trains must be notified.

Sixteen locomotives, sixteen engineers, and sixteen firemen would be needed--each and every one the best available.

Two and one half minutes would be allowed for changing engines, three for watering, and two for coaling.

"Warn the men, and arrange tanks and chutes accordingly; for Harvey Cheyne is in a hurry, a hurry, a hurry," sang the wires.