The age-herald., 1900-08-15
A Great Shock to the Financial
 World.
APPARENTLY IN GOOD HEALTH
Illness, and His Death Was Great Surprise-He Was Worth $5O,0O0oOO

Utica, N. Y, Aug. 14-Colis P. Hunting ton, president of the Southern Pacific Rail- road, died at Pine Knot Lodge, his camp in the Blue Mountain region. early this
 morning.
 MT. Huntington went into the woods last Thursday afternoon and was in apparently
 excellent health.
 Friday and Saturday he was about his camp noting the progres of the improve ments which he has been carrying on this year.
 Sunday he remained at his lodge very quietly, receiving the calls of several of his friends from the neighboring camps.
 Yesterday he continued in good health and made no complaint of illness. He re- tired last night at Il o'clock apparently In the best of health and so far as can be as- certained slept soundiy, as no disturbance was heard from his room until short time before his deaths Moans proceeding from MT. Huntngton's room aroused members of the household and they immediately went
 to his assistance. In about ten minutes he
 was dead.
 It is supposed MT. Huntngton's death
 was caused by heart trouble. dispatch from London says the Prin- cess Hatzfeldt daughter of c. P. Hunt ington, booked to sail for the United 1 States on board the steamer Majestic on
 August 18th.
 Story of His Career | For forty years c. P. Hunting ton-he is l generally known by his initials, for he had l a strange aversion to writing his full name has been extending his railroads, begin ming at the Central Pacific in it's infant stage and ending only at the complete syS- tenn which carries you across the Northern Rockies easily though you were trav- | cling in trolley in Hyde Park and back | through the tallest of the range in the l same way.
 It is doubtful if when in 1S49, young Huntington started for the California gold country, he had any idea he would suc- l ceed. Only 2S years old, with a slender 1 purse, he started out to make his fortune l as his ancestor, simon Huntington, had l done 200 years before. Simon Huntington's l father died on the sea, but the lad came on | here with his mother in 1641 to make a way | in the world.
 He married and had children, and these | children distinguished themselves in 1776, l one of them, the Hon. Samuel Hunting l ton, being a member of the Continental 1 Congress and signer of the Declaration of 1 Independence. His grandson, William born in 17S4 was the father of c. P. Huntingdon, l and so the young man who shouldered his pick in 1S49 and started out had a proud
 family history with which to sustain him. l self in the trials and adversities to come. His First start The lad, Huntington, was very engaging. | and he formed the acquaintance of one Le- | land Stanford, young fellow about his
 age. Leland Stanford knew a young man
 named Mark Napkins, and Mark Hopkins | was acquainted with an energetic fortune- | seeker named Crocker.
 The four, c. P Huntington Leland Stan l ford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker, l trudged across country to California, and
 there talked of their hard journey. They | conceived the idea of the Central Pacific. | and they set to work to dig gold out of the | ground with which to build a railroad to | connect the Atlantic and Pacific-a scheme | which, in those days. was considered the l widest dream vagrant fancy could con- | ceive.
 | But the Central Pacific was conceived
 and built, and 1t made millions. Then the
 four partners, now rich beyond the drearas
 of Avarice, parted, Stanford to go to | Washington, Huntington to identify him.
 self with St. Louis and New York Hop | kins to retire to his magnificent country
 home in the Berkshires and Charles Crock | CT to remain in California to instruct his
 sons in the art of keeping foT'une to-
 gether.
 Strange to say, none of the other of these | men reared sons in finance. Mark Hopkins
 left only an adopted son. and Leland Stan | ford losing his lamented boy at the inter- | esting age of 16 years, left his money to | the university named after him.
 Excess of money brings excess of trouble. | and Mr. Huntington found that an active l business life meant litigations, for his es- | tates had become so spread, and his in- | terest so great that disputes were inev- | itable In 1880, in his 6Oth year. he removed | to New York, and soon after built the mag l nifcent house on the corner of Fifth Ay- | enue and Fifty-seventh Street. which, for | strange reasons, he has occupied scarcely | at all since it was built.
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