Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-03-01
From the Spokane Spokesman Review;
ARE Al VISITORS Of NOTE
Guests of Samuel Hill
Travelling in the Private
Car Of President j.
j. Hill.
The Party Includes a Grand.
son of Lafayette and Il
Number of Men of
Affairs.

| A party of eastern capitalists and
men who are pretty we'll known all
over the world arrived in the city
last evening in the private car of j.
j. Hill, the A. l.
The car was switched across to
the Great Northern last night and
the visitors will go on west over
that road. After seeing the sound
and the Columbia they will return
j by way of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation COmpany's line, and
spend another day in Spokane be-
fore returning.
Samuel Hill. president of the Mon
tana Central and the Eastern Rail-
road of Minnesota, Is showing the
visitors over the west. The mem-
be"s are:
Daniel Bassett, vice president OF
the Minneapolis Trust company, for
fifteen years chairman OF the Mime
sofa board OF equalization, and
man of many affairs. Mr.. Bassett is
one OF Minnesota's veteran silver
champions.
George r. Newell, "the' wholesale
grocer of Minnesota.
G. a. Weyerhaeuser, of Little Falls,
capitalist, and son of f. Weyer-
haeuscr, who OWNS more acres OF
standing timber than any other man
in the world.
L. NJ Hoover, of Little Falls. Il
director in the lumber company.
Erie B. Dahlgren, of New York,
son Of Rear Admiral Dahlgren, who
commanded the South Atlantic
blockade squadron during the civil
war.
W. A. Stevens, private secretary OF
j. j. Hill, Of the Great Northern
Railroad.
The Marquis de Chambrun. of Paris,
i, legal adviser of the French legation
at Washington, D. C.. He is the
grandson of General the Marquis de
! Lafayette, and scion of the two
Oldest families of France, the Lafav-
cites on one side and the Courselles
on the other
The party will visit Fairhaven
and Seattle tomorrow and will pro-
coed directly to Portland. The
tourists spent three hours yesterday
morning in Anaconda, where they
were the guests of Marcus Daily, the
copper king.
Mr.. Hill, who resembles his father
in-law. in his capacity for reaching
out into the world Of Investment
and enterprise, and his faculty OF
regulating the auguries to suit HIM
self, told a reporter that he was i'm
mensely pleased with the outlook.
"Our friends looked the city over
pretty thoroughly" he said. "They
are business men and they notice
things. For instance, there are no
empty business houses and the
stores are well stocked with mer-
chandise-that tells the story in a
few words. What does it matter to
the great body of people that some
of them are changing hand? What
would you care, as traveller,
whe Their the Great Northern was
taken by another campany or not,
if the trains were on time and the &C
cancellations were what they ought
to be? Spokane is living the early
life of Chicago ovN again. You
remember the fire OF II, and the
building boom and the panic of '73?
The people said, ooh, we've got
nothing; it's all owned in Boston,
But it all came round all right.
Nothing can take your fine buildings
away, and believe that Spokane
comes next to Portland-it is the
second business city in the north
west"
=" "Is the tour for pleasure partly?'
Mr.. Hill was asked.
In all my life have never had time
for g. pleasure trip. 1T Is Tor busl-
ness. We are looking over the west,
and incidentally. OF course, are
pleased with the outlook. Spokane
appears to be about to profit by her
mining resources. There is no cause
for alarm. Even the farmers OF
Washington are better off than
those of the eastern and northern
states.'
Mr.. Hill professed that he only
took an incidental interest in pol
itics. 1.-THE senatOrship in Mime
sota," he said, interested me be-
cause am a. next-doOr neighbOr OF
Mr.. Washburne. was against him.
Governor knute Nelson, the success
fnl man, is the ablest Scandinavian
in the north"
President J. j. Hill is now in