The Topeka state journal., 1897-03-30
TRAIN WATTS FOR BELMONT
Train Out of Leadville Left the Bank
er-Caught Up on a Special

Denver, March 30-Two hundred or
more passengers on the Denver & Rio
Grande California express, from the
west, ahghted from the train at 11:3O
O'Clock last night in no pleasant frame
of mind
Among them were about 20 tourists
intending to continue on their way east
ward, but they arrived too late to make
their connections, and they had to take
CABS for up town hotels. Among the
passengers was a commercial tourist
with TWO heavy sample cases and the
route he took from the train along the
platform and through the depot to the
cab stand was easily marked by local
atmospheric disturbances threatening
storm.
The whole thing is an outrage" he
said, without being urged. ITO hold a
train mortal hour for one aristocrat
VINO has no business to be west of the
mississippi river, is a burning dis
grace
Down on a siding in the Colorado
Springs railway yards the cause of all
this wrath was probably sleeping very
peacefully in his private car "OrientaI''
and it is very likely that that gentle
man gave no second thought to the 200
passengers whom he had SO disturb
ed.
August Belmont, the second son of
the noted millionaire horseman of the
same name, is jOurneying eastward
fOrnia.
He is riding in luxuriousIy appoint
ed private car with his wife and two
guests, Mr. and Mrs. H. V. r. Kenne-
dy, also of New York. The party left
San Francisco ON Monday evening and
entered Colorado yesterday morning.
When Leadville was reached yesterday
afternoon the train stopped the us11al
time for dinner AS Mr. Belmont car
ries his own commissary, French chef
and all, the beating of the Chinese gong
at the LeadVille station had no atfrac-
tiOnS for him.
Instead he seized his kodak and hail
ing a cab, started off up town at brisA
pace to shoot a few natives" if he
could lind the picturesque sort portray
cd by eastern and London periodicals.
The quest was more of an undertaking
than the gentleman of racing proclivi-
ties had imagined, and when he finally
returned to- the station he was amazed
to find that the train had gone
But Mr. Belmont has both influence
ana power He is travelling in the guise
of a railway financier and he has in
huence in railway bond markets. When
the railway officials of the Denver &
Rio Grande heard of the predicament of
the gentleman from New York, they
acted quickly.
Giving orders to the Malta station
agent to hold the train, they wired
LeadVlIIe to get up a special without
delay.
The only available power was a
switch engine, and on this Mr. Belmont
attired in the height of fashion, for he
Is great dresser, took passage. The
III CAii<Ali gave MT 6eln1OnC MS seat IN
the cab, and from that point of view
the tourist saw the curves of the road
bed as the engine rushed down the
steep grades. The speed soon became
too swift for Mr.. Belmont's nerves, and
handing $50 note across the boilerhead
he shouted to the engineer to go slow
and let the train continue to- wait.
When he overlook the express and
had been restored to his alarmed party
an hours time had been lost and the
train was delayed just one hour and so
minutes in arriving in the city.