The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-25
BILLION DOLLAR EXPRESS.
1t Carries the Army of Millionaires
Who Summer Along the Hudson

1t Carries the Army of Millionaires
Who Summer Along the Hudson
New York World On the New York
! Central & Hudson River railroad
schedule IT is known as train No. los,
but The Billion-DOllar Express is
what the trainmen and that part of the
public which knows of its existence
are beginning to, call it.
1t is the most unique train in the
world because it is the richest. &c
leaves Croton Landing every morning
I al I:44 and arrives at the Grand Gem
trail station in New York at S:S5.
The train is run for the special ac-
comm0dation of the great colony oS
mdliOnaires who occupy magnificent
summer homes on the east bank of the
Hudson river from about June 1 till
October. As a majority of these m6l-
lionaireS and Observation-Disclosures visit
their offices in the city each day, it
comes TO pass that a billion dollars
worth OF humanity is often represent
ed in the cane seats of the ordinary
coaches-for, Notwithstanding the fact
thsG- millionaires are its principal pa
irons, the Erain is not any more mag
nifcent than the oJher local trains on
TIE road.
For the safety of its precious freight.
however, the officials of the road have
manned the train with a crew of the
ableSt men in their departments. and
extra pains have fOeen taken to secure
its speedy and safe flight to the city.
The first stop CT importance from a
millionaire standpoint is made at
Scarborough. If the resident million
aires should all get aboard the same
mOIrtnlg, (which would not be at all
unlikely, there might be seen getting
into the cars the following:
Iohn u RCelxeiPaller- worth $3.50 600
600; William Rockefeller. worm $780,
600 900; H. Walter Webb, first vice
president of the Nerw York Central
railroad, worth $5,0O0,0 600; Walter w.
Law, worth S10,000O00: Mrs. Elliott f.
Shepard, whose fortune is reputed TO
be about $50. 10000
At Tarrytown the following are sure
to get aboard: John o. ArchbOld,
chairman of the governing committee
of Ule Standard CD trust, worth $15,-
900, 900; r. Z. Hopkins, Standard Oil
magnate required 10 be worth at least
$4,000 900; George B. Newton. coal
baron, worth $4,000 900; William II.
Webb, retired shipbuilder, whose
wealth. is estimated at $4,000 600; Dr.
John c.. Barron, fortune estimated at
S25, 900 900: Fred and Percy Lewis, heirs
to $50. OO0, 900; Cornelius Kingsland,
execuuor of the S25,000,O0O KinSsland
estate; William H. Legg, merchant.
SlU,UUu,UUU, JONI DOWuCS, CO4All11$<NOAs
s., 900 600.
The son OF the late Timothy c. East
man, the cattle king, who left S25,OOO,-
coo 10 his heirs, also takes THE Bill
Ifon-Dolar Express" at TarrytOwn, as
do half a dozen or more lesser Million
aires who add at least $1O,OOOOOO TO
this towns contingent The next STOP
is IrvtngkOn and another batch or
muil -millionaires jumps aboard there,
among Them being.
John T. Terry, worth $40, 000, 600; Mrs.
James II. Banker. 100000 Charles
L. Tiffany, the jeweier, the reDutet
possessor of $25, 600; f. ID. Matthles-
son, sugar king, WORTH S15,OOO,OOO, r.
". Wscd. S.. 600 900; 1. II. WhitehOuses
Sc. DOC. 900: Helen or George Gould, rep
resenting the Gould estate of $l5,OOO.-
OOO: representatives Of the $l5.OOO,OOU
estates of c. n. Barney and John D.
Mains also get on the train at irving
ton.
For the accommodation of the resi-
dents of the milliOnaires' club house
at Ardsley a. stop is made there dur
ing the summer months and the train
takes on, among others:
Dr. Lucien Warner, the corset man,
worth 100000 600; General Samuel
Thomas, $4,000, 600; David Bows. jr.,
the Bows estate of $780,
000 600.
he DIilloA-OOiidl I1AplO - nan
it's last stop before reaching New York
at Dcbbs Ferry, where the following
are taken on:
A. L. Barber. the asphalt king. worth
at least $40. 900: ]. Jennings Nc
Comb, $4,000, 900; Henry Willard, Sl0,-
0OO, 0OO
With this billion dollars worth of
humanity train No los speeds on to
New York, the road ahead being kept
clear in order that the fastest time
possible may be made.