Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-05-11
GREATLY PLEASED.
DIR. WEBB AND PARTY VISIT GREAT
FALLS AND VICINITY.
All FavOInbly Impressed With the City
and its Surrountlings--Dr. Webb
Invests in Great Falls
Real Estate.

DR.. W. Seward Webb and party arrived
last night in town in special train of |
great splendor. They proceeded early
today in company with General Manager
Shelby to Sand Coulee and enjoyed great
ly the scenery of the upper Missouri,
which they observed on the way. They
admired very much the signs of thrift
and progress which they saw in Sand
Coulee, hardly expecting to find in the
heart Of northern Montana mining
camp with such signs Of permanency and
prosperity.
From Sand Coulee DR.. Webb and
friends proceeded in their palace car to
the smelter,the Giant spring and the Rain
bow falls. Col. Shelby pointed out the
leading attractions Of the cataract suburb
to the tourists, who regarded the scenery
there with wonder and admiration.
DR.. and Mrs. Webb and their three chill
dren are accompanied upon this tour by
the doctors brothers, Frank and Louis
| Webb, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Purdy, Mr..
Geo. Bird, Mr.. J. L. Kean and Dr. J. W.
McLane.
DR.. Webb is grandson Of General
Samuel B. Webb of New York. The doc
tors father was the late General James
Watson Webb who resigned commits
sion IN the United States Army and be-
came editor of the Morning Courier,
which in 1929 he united with the Enquir
er. General Webb was for 81 years edi-
tor of that journal which was the oldest
Of the New York morning dailies. He
was an intimate friend of Governor Sew
ard and the contemporary of Horace
Greeley, James Gordon Bennett, and
other leading journalists. After retiring
from the press General Webb became
minister to Brazil and subsequently ne
gotiated secret treaty with Napoleon III
for the withdrawal of the French troops
from Mexico. DR.. Webb attained promi-
nence in the medical profession and mar
ried daughter Of the late William Fl.
Vanderbilt After his marriage DR.. Webb
engaged in Wall street transactions and
| is now in the railroad business. .MM
The train includes four coaches which
are handsomely furnished and combine
all the comforts Of costly residence.
The travellers have been on the road
since April 6, when they left New York.
Since then they have visited Cleveland,
Chicago, Denver, Southern California,
San Francisco and Portland, whence they
came to Helena and Great Falls. ....
DR.. Webb occupies the car Ellsmere, a
new coach constructed to his order which
has speed recorder to tell the number
Of mile travelled per hour. The Car is
finished in mahogany, and contains two
lavatories, two bedrooms, an observatory,
kitchen, in fact it is a hotel in itself. The
next car is devoted to Mrs. Webb. 1t is
the Mariquita. This was DR.. Webb's
formerly, but for this trip it was all re-
modelled to suit Mrs. Webb. There are
sleeping apartments for the three
children, playroom filled with children's
books and toys, and forward there is
Mrs. Webb's boudoir with her couch.
There are more bedrooms in front and
a large linen closet.
The next is the dining Car. This is
free from partitions in the rear, and the
space for the table is large. In front is
the kitchen, where the chef will prepare
breakfast, luncheon and dinner with all
the facility that he might have in any
well-appointed house. The fourth car,
the one next to the engine, is a combi-
nation buffet sleeping and baggage car.
In the front part is room for several
servants.
This is purely pleasure trip, the cost
Of which is placed at from 100000 to
100000, and is said to be the longest
continuous railroad juant ever made. The
party have been on the road just one
month and three days and in that time
covered 6,35s miles, and expect to cover
enough more within the next month to
make the entire trip 10000 miles.
The party intend to go from here to St.
Paul via the Manitoba, thence over the
Canadian Pacific to Vancouver, B. c.,
where they will board the trim, new
steamer Islander and have a set-to with
life on the boiling pillows for time.
President Webb charted the Islander for
1850 day, and as he intends to pass ten
days around Vancouver island and the
the coast of Alaska, and at Sitka, he will
have to plank down ST. 500 for this part Of
the trip. Finding themselves again at
Vancouver they will get aboard their
wheeled palaces and view British scenery
while flying over the Canadian Pacific
track to Montreal. From Montreal the
train will come down into the United
States, and DR.. Webb will take the party
to his splendid home, the Shelburne farm,
on the shores of Lake Champlain, for
brief sojourn.
Dr.. Webb greatly admired the city and
was so struck with its bright prospects
that he made a large investment at the
office of the Townsite company. He
consulted Mr.. T. E. Collins in making
the selection and afterward went with
him to see the property.
On his return, DR.. Webb examined
with much interest Mr.. Sinclair's collec-