Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-06-18
Along Trip.

Gen. J. G. Mccullough of North Ben
nington returned from an extended
western trip Friday evening and in an in
terview with a BANNER reporter gave
the following interesting resume OF the
same, The General received the scribe
with that politeness for which he is noted
and which always makes one feel at
home, and after the customary remarks
about the weather, and minor events
near home told his interesting story. The
General left bennington the evening of
May 3lst after his return from Bellows
Falls where he delivered the Memorial
Day address. The party was COM
posed of $40 railroad men and capitalists
among them being George II. Pullman,
Marshall Field, d. O. Mills, Judge FaXOn
of the Reading Rail Road, Ii. II. Foster,
David Bows, the RoCkfellers and other
multi millionaires. The trip was entire
ly complimentary and was rendered by
the Minnesota Iron company of Duluth,
at the head of Lake Superior. The sched-
ule adopted and carried out was as fol-
lows: A portion of the party left Buffalo,
June LIST, on the steamship North West.
The voyage was through the entire line
of the lakes, stopping at Detroit on the
|, MaCkinaC on the Sd, Milwaukee the
18th and at Chicago the same evening.
Here this portion was joined by the re-
mainder of the party. A visit of inspoc-
ton, etc, was made to the Illinois Steel
Company's plant, the largest in the world
except the Carnegie in Pennsylvania,
with the Minnesota Iron Company prop
critics. Leaving Chicago, Friday the 18th,
on the steamer North West, which had
been retained for the entire trip, the run
was through Lake Michigan, making a
brief stop at Mackinac on the Sth, arriv-
ing at Sault st. Marie the same evening.
Here the party examined the new canal
| locks OF the United States and Canadian
governments, and the canals situated on
each side of the st. Mary's river. The
trip was then continued through Lake
Superior to Duluth, which city they
reached Sunday, June 9th, at p. m. The
next morning train composed of nine
teen vestibuled Pullman cars was fur
nished by the Duluth and Iron Range
Rail Road i'll which a trip was made to
Good HarbOr, apoint about 80 miles
from Duluth. This train was drawn by
three powerful locomotives. At this
point are located the docks and terminal
facilities of the Minnesota Iron Com
pany, with these facilities an iron ore
freight steamer is loaded with from
three to five thousand tons of ore in an
hour and q half. After inspecting the
docks etc, the train was again taken and
the party proceeded to VermiliOn Lake
and Ely, distance of 100 miles, the
present terminus of the Duluth and Iron
Range Railroad. Monday and Tuesday
QOth ~ were devoted to the inspection
of the iron mines, two dozen in number,
the production of which is about y mil
lion tons of ore per year. about one
half of the production is taken by the H.
linois Steel Company of Chicago, and the
other half by the Carnegie Company Of
| Pittsburgh, Pa. General Manager Frick
of the latter company, together with
| several of the stockholders were in the
party. Tuesday evening the party re.
turned to Duluth, and the same evening
most OF them returned to Chicago in the
| Pullman train.
General Mccullough and his party,
which included among the number
President Miller of the Milwaukee. and
st. Paul Railroad, returned from Duluth
to st. Paul and Minneapolis. Here they
spent one day examining the large flour
ing mills in those cities. Running down
the Mississippi division of the St. Paul
| Railroad, Chicago was reached the same
night, which city they left on special
train after short stop, arriving at Jer-
sey City at 7 o'clock, Friday morning.
reaching North Bennington the same
evening after a trip that has seldom been
equaIled by an excursion party.
The General says that there is every
prospect of a magnificent crop of corn,
oats and spring wheat, throughout the
entire North West and industries of all
kinds, and business of every class is eth
er booming or threatens to start up with
unusual life at an early day.
The courtesies of the trip were tender
ed chiefly by II. Ii. Porter. chairman of
the Minnesota Iron Company and James
j. Hill, president of the Northern Steam
ship Company, which runs through the
lakes, and of the Great Northern Rail
road, which runs from st. Paul to the Pa
cihc
A condition imposed upon the guests
was that no one of them was permitted
to pay cent for any thing during the
entire trip.
Christian Endeavor at Boston.
The Troy Local Union of Christian
Endeayor have ARRANGED to attend the
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