The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-08
ITO PLEASE HIS FRIFyns
For Huntington Mr.. Plat Pr,
Through an Irregular Bill |
New York JournaTl

NEW 1Ork JOurnail
Inc death of Coils P Hunrins-,
his camp in the far Blue r,o7,r+ 9,.-i Al
Slon Of the AdirOndacLs b.. 'e-
PUBIC attention to the little ,i~,.sescted
go, iaiILodu which penetrateg II
- - AOIeSIs' quite contrary IN Inc ne
10 land a small cOterie of r,,j7r. 20 law,
conveniently at the doors of rba55l@el-lres
mer homes - '--Vlr SUM-
inns road-styled the RaoUa-+a =,
ralIWay-has but very recent1,- Like
completed When the bin oeen
II was before the state IegisIaru~a ing ing
VINO protested against its rass1- muse
told by Boss Plat: We're
rms IS not an organization Cs.-
l SIMPLY wish to please nv old f-[ soI5.
Coils p Huntingdon mend
80 this toy for millionaire
Qered- 1t mattered not that tn ' Ut
idy directly through one of the - -
80 81 ~ al SectlonS OF the states gam
ana Ish preserves; it mattered NOT 80
mountain sides had to be yyra,l-s5 '-- ~
dynamite and pretty glades fI1-5 :!
with new soil to make proper .prs5o- IN ~
the rOadbed; the direct viola ton - -If
states laws and the trespass' mo, -, ,-7
states property We're ignored. for De (-.e
wished TO please his old friend C az
lis z. Huntington" III
huntington, W. West Durant III
othy woodruff and q few other y-e,I+L---
camp owners wished to he an
travel in their private cars direct - ~
their camp landings and be raIfs,-sS
OF the necessity to make the rrir, 49,, ~
land and lake. as do others who maj.
summer pilgrimages into the far nor-5
woods HUI u
Timothy Woodruff. deeply fnteras+a.
himself, was at the head of the forsst
preserve board
The Raquette Lake railway vss
chartered-hrst as an electric railway
Ihen, last year, there was INTRODUCES
IN the legislature by PIatt's whfp Jo5-
Ralnes, a bill which ended as foIIov-s-
w mere street surface railroad in tba
/ counties Of Herkimer and Hamilton "a
located wholly outside the limits Of an
Incorporated city or village, such rail-
road may, with the approval of rba
state board of railroad commissioner
be operated by locomotive steam DOW
er, provided that such steam power Is
generated by OIL
All of this bill was old except the
last sentence, referring, without nam
ing it, to the Raquette Lake railroad
1t was known as the Raquette Lake
railway bill was passed on June % NJ
last year. while the road was undz-
construction, and was immediatelv
signed by Roosevelt.
The state law protecting the gaus
and fish preserves in the Adirondacks
Is unm1Stakable in it's terms It pro-
vides that the lands of the state. nov
owned or hereafter acquired, cOnstitut-
ing the forest preserve as now fixed
by law, shall be forever kept as wild
forest lands They shall not be leased
sold or exchanged. or be taken by any
corporation, public or private. nor shall
the timber thereon be sold, removed Or
destroyed
And yet the Raquette Lake railway
Z - 70 bull
a street surface railroad from a sta
/ ton on the Mohawk & Malone railroad
/ Clearwater. in Herkimer county, 10 Ra-
Quette lake. town of Long Lake. Ham
/ iItOn county, nineteen miles.
| The capital stock was 1926. 600. divid-
| ed into 2. 500 shares. Among the stock
/ holders are W. Seward Webb, c. P.
| Huntington. J. PierpOnt Morgan. ".
I c. Whitney, H. P. Whitney and Chaun-
1 cey NJ DepeW.