El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-14

NEW YORK. Avg IA -Collis P Hunt
In ptoo, toe veteran railway magnate
and millionaire, Is de d. He died sud
denly last evening at HE su,nn@ r home
Camp Pine Kuo., in The Adirondack
moun talns.
Mr. Huntington wac So 2 I'd with {
sudden illaess. Everything p5ssibie
WAS don Ia relieve him, but he only
lived it9 - minutes frcm the time u
the Ajax.
The news reached tbis clay carly
this mJrning, brought from Da ani
c.mp oa RacqueJte lake To The town
of Ra Y ae,.., LAKE late last night.
| Mr.. HlnLiasGoG hume wao near the
camp de tad been IL the mouotains
some time. He usually left The city
duri, e the heated term and spent .
little time Ia the couI of Tho Aclfon-
dacks.
It 5 not ye. known what the nature
! of Mr.. Hunslngton's illness wss, but
IL Is thought it was heart failure.
MIR. Cate, an associate OF Hunt
ingtoG, who lives at rhe n j4ssic,
eved the news of Runtingson's :
death this morning. He s,artel a.
once for Camp Pine Kuos to bring the
body TO New York.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Huntington left their
palace n. Fifth avenue and 57sh street
lass Thursday for Rscquetts Lake.
They had previously been at ThrnZg's
Neck.
Mr.. Huntington's adopted dsus hter,
Princess Won Hatfelds, wss booked TO
sail tomorrow from Liverpool to visit
the great magnate.
Coils Potter Huntington was born
at HarwintOn. Litshficld county, Con
necticut, Oatober %, 1921, and was
seventy nine years of age at the time of
his death. He descended from the
best of Connecticut stock. He Inherit
ed splendid physical develOpm ent
and q vigorous and we'll balanced brain.
His education was Obtained in the COM
mon schools of New England.
By the time he was fourteen he was
supporting himself. He worked for
several years in q store in New En-
gland, and afterward Travelled exten-
sively in the west and south. He SUBJ
sequently engsged in business at One
onts, New York, with a brother.
In March 1e40 he etarted d for Califor-
mia, at the time of the discovery OF
gold in that state. he spent some time
On the isthmus of Panama, af ter which
he went to Sacramento, where he COM
menced business ia a tent. Shortly
afterward he opened bard ware store,
and entered into partnership With
Mark Hopkins.
In 1860 he planned transcontinent-
the Cslifornis millionaire and former
United States senator who died some
years age, Charles Crocker, and Mark
Hopkins. paid she expenses of the
preliminary survey across the Sierra
Nevada range.
Ga the organization Of the Central
Pacific railroad company he was made
vice-president, and practical manager.
By extensions and purchases OF ex-
isting roads, he secured control of q
liue of railroad from Newport News
Va, to San Francisco.
Ia April, 1890, he was elected presi-
dent of the Southern Pacific system,
which has over 5000 miles of railroad
and 900 miles Of steamship lines.
Among the other roads bull. by Mr..
were the Chesapsake end
Ohio ard the Central Paoi fic railrcade.
He has bsen closely identified with the
growth ard expansion If the great
west, and bas done more than any
other ono mao to weld The two secl ions
Of the country, toe west and the east,
together.
He has oesn q tirsless worker iD rail
road interests, and the great trunk