The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-15
HUNTINGTON is DEAD
MILLIONAIRB RAILROAD MAGNATE
EXPIRED SUDDENLY.
CAUSED BY HEART DISEASE.
HIS DEATH DID NOT AFFECT THT,
STOCK MARKET.

Was Seized With violent Fit of
Coughing and Expired in Three
Work of the Great Financier-The
Huntington stocks Fell on One
Point but They Soon Rallied aud
Remained Firm.
Racquette Lake, N. Y, Aug. H.-C. p.
Huntington. president of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company. died at his
camp. Pine Knot. in the Adirondacks at
about midnight Heart disease was the
direct cause of DEATH
Apparently well on retiring at II o'clock
he was taken suddenly with a choking
spell. which was quite common with him
and which was not thought to be serious,
but ne became worse. As soon as the
seriousness of the attack was realized,
messenger was dispatched to the
neighborlng camp of Gov Lounsberry,
for doctor, and he was on hand in
half an hour.
Mr. Huntington died without regaining
consciousness. not more than three quar-
ters of an hour having passed between
|
ton and Mr. Huntlngton's secretary G. Il.
Miles, were at his bedside az the time
of death.
! Early in the day Of Monday. Mr. Hunt
! ington appeared to be enjoying the best
of health, walking about his preserve and
taking a trip on his private steamer, the
| Oneonta, and he remarked to friends that
he was feeling unusually well.
His adopted son, Archer NJ. Huntington,
| was modified at an early hour this morn
| ing. After much difficulty and delay,
| the news of the death was delivered to
w. West Durant. who was jointly con-
nected with Mr.. Huntington in the Rae
| quette Lake Railway.
| The remains are to be conveyed 90 the
Huntington residence in New York. The
! funeral cortege is expected to start from
Racquette Lake tomorrow. but may not
! be able to reach New York city before
| Thursday. The time for the funeral has
not yet been announced.
Life of the Great Financier.
Coils p. Huntington was born in Har-
rngton. Conn, Oct. % 1921. His father
was farmer, with a. family of nine chill
| dren, of whom Coils was the NTH He
was brought up as the average farmers
son of his time, with many more hours
Of manual training than of mental. -Four
| months each ear al the village school,
mental education. He then hired out at
farm work for one year, receiving 81 per
month. His instinct for business and
that in a larger field than was afforded
| him by farm work. led him TO New York
city where he obtained a credit for a
small invoice of goods with which he be-
| gan his career as a merchant He spent
six years travelling through the South and
| West, selling his goods and al the same
| time collecting notes for Connecticut
! clock manufacturers When he reached
| his majority he had saved considerable
sum of money, and with II he went into
partnership with his brother as general
merchant, at Oneonta, N. Y. In 1Si9 he
drew out of the business 81. 200, and with
1t set out for the gold fields of Calfor-
mia, which had been discovered the year
before, and to which thousands had pre-
ceded him. He went by way Of the
Isthmus. He traded in such commodities
as had a market among the emigrants
! Gnd natives, and when he finally took
passage for San Francisco, his $1,000 had
grown, during the three months deten-
| tion, to 5000. In the fall Of 1849 Mr..
Huntington commenced business in Sac
ramento, in a tent with such articles as
were in demand by the miners. The
| large use of shovels picks and other hard
ware led 10 determining his line of bust
ness. With the increase Of trade. and
| the need OF carrying "A larger stock of
| goods, TO take advantage of cheaper
| freight by sailing vessels around the
Horn, Mr.. Huntington became associated
| with Mark Hopkins. which association
continued for twenty-four years, until the
| death Of Mr. Hopkins. Mr. Huntington,
as early as 1S49 was an advocate of a
| speedy projection and completion of a
railway across the Sierra Nevada noun
| tains. This project was so gigantic that
he was, with other early advocates, call
ed Pacific -Railroad-crazy" As a bust
ness proposition, 1t staggered the wisest
financisrs Of the community, but Hunt
ington went steadily onward, and In 1861
the Central Pacific Railroad Company of
California became a bona fide corporation,
with Huntington. Stanford, Crocker and
Hopkins as moving spirits. Mr.. Hunt
ngton. empowered with full authority,
went East, and In New York and Wash
ington set fnanciers and lawmakers i'm
active cooperation. and a contract with
the government, by which he agreed 10
construct a railroad and telegraph line
from the Pacific coast to a point where
IL would meet ahe Union Pacific Rail-
road. was made and executed. Not con-
tent with this gigantic achievement, Mr..
Huntington planned and perfected the
whole Southern Pacific Railroad System,
with over $500 miles of steel track, and
buih and acquired system east Of the
Mississippi river by which the Southern
Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake and
Ohio, and other railways. form contin-
uous line. nearly 5000 miles long, from
Portland. Ore, TO Newport News, Va,
which developed a multiplicity OF steam
water lines connecting The Pacific coast
through vessels that find abundant and
safe harbor az Newport News, with every
commercial port I'm the Old World, in
Guiding a steamship line on the Pacific
TO China and Japan Al Newport News
he erected the largest dry dock and ship
yard in America, where the largest cruis-
ers for the United States navy and war
ships for the republic Of South America,
are butt and fitted out. For few years
the great railroad builder enjoyed the
unique experience Of riding I'm his private
car over his own lines from ocean TO
ocean. or from Newport News. on the
Atlantic coast via New Orleans. TO San
Francisco and third of the way across
the continent again, via the Central Pa
ciic 90 Ogden. Utah.
DID NOT AFFECT SECURITIES.