The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-01
Rush of Distinguished Excursionists to
Seattle in special Cars.
No. Cars.

Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4
From the above table il is evident that
the bulk of the travel was in June, July
and August, for which months the total
is IS, an average of nearly ~ cars a month.
On several occasions there arrived per
day as high as three cars, on as many
separate trains, notably August y, when
there came TO the city j. w Midgley. in
the Lycomng, Of the Hannibal & ST. Joe;
the Grafton excursion party. in car No.
10l. of the Kraebel Palace Car Company.
and Mrs. r. r. Langdon. in car 900. Of the
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie.
On August %, Henry c. Payne. then one
of the receivers of the Northern Pacific
arrived in the Pullman Haslemere. J. s.
Cobb came in the Pullman Mascotte. and
c. W. Spencer. general superintendent ar
rived in Canadian Pacific car Rosmere.
A glance at the list reveals the
names of many notables. Senator Gull
lum arrived May II. in Atchison. To-
peka & Santa Fe car 215; June IS
came Cen. Russell A. Alger. in the spe-
cial car Michigan; June q. ]. ]. Hill, pres
ident of the Great Northern, car Al;
July ?. c. f. Perkins, president of the
Burlington system, accompanied by Rear
AdmiNl John G.. Walker, car 100: July 7,
Daniel 5. Lamont. secretary of war. Pull
man Iolanthe and Baltimore & Ohio South
western car Ohio: July Il, G.. j. MCGEE.
president of the Fallbrook railway. cars
a and 4S. and Wagner car Riva: August
>. c. j. Ives. president of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids & Northern, car Glendale;
also John W, Mackay. Central Pacific di-
rectors car: August 20, Adlai Stevenson,
vice president of the United States, Cana
dian Pacific car Saskatchewan: September
Il. Justice Stephen j, Field, Southern Pa
citic car Misawaka: October q. Oliver w
Mink. receiver of the Union Pacific and
trustee of the Ames estate, Union Pacific
car DO
Perhaps the largest number of special
cars TO arrive in the city in one day was
October . during the hearing of the re-
ceiVership cases of the Northern Pacific
before Judge Hanford Between October
! and there rushed into the city Counsel
{. ". Bum, car No. 2: 4. Fl. McHenry.
one of Judge Jenkins receivers, car No ]:
Brayton Ives. president, car No. 4: c. w
Dickinson, now general manager. car No
l. Other specials also arrived, of which
no record has been kept, among them Jo-
seph McCabe's train, which ran into flock
OF sheep near Van ASSET and killed los
out OF pos
One OF the special trains to slip through
this city late al night was that of the Or
der of Railway Conductors. which came
June 3, with 500 Pacific car San Antonio
and Pullmans Leonora, Zelanda and Santa
Cruz The excursion OF the car account
ants was one of the largest specials to
reach here, while the finest. perhaps. was
that Of the Canadian Pacific to the New
Westminster fair. At various times there
were cars from The West Virginia &, Pitts
burg. New. York, Ontario a. Western, Chi
cago, Minneapolis ST. Paul, Baltimore
4 OHIO Louisville. New Albany & Chicago.
Mobile Ohio. Wisconsin Central Chica-
go, Rock Island & Pacific. Columbus
Hooking Valley & Toledo Burlington &
Missouri River. Fremont, EIkhorn & Mis-
sourf Valley. The value Of the special
cars would perhaps exceed 81 O00. 600
The statistics given above were complied
by Fred a. Allen. chief clerk OF the Lake
Shore office. under direction OF A u
Scroggy. general passenger and freight
agent.