The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-08-18
RAILROAD rIA0NATE sUDDENLY Y
EXPIRES AT MOUNTAIN CAMP.
President of the Southern
Pacific Company and Many
Times a Millionaire Sue
cumbs to Heart Trouble
His Career.

liuu1lHB1oH went INTO tDi
| woods last Tuesday afternoon ane
/ was m apparently excellent health
Fridayand Saturday he was aboll
his camp noting the progress oI
the improvements which he ha,
been carrying on this year.
Sunday he remained at hi,
lodge very quietly. receiving the
calls of several friends from the
neighboring camps.
Yesterday he continued in good
health and made no complaint of
illness. He retired last night at
II O'Clock apparently IN the best
OF health and so far as can be
ascertained slept soundly, as no
disturbance was heard from his
room until short time before his
death. Means proceeding from
Mr.. Huntington's room aroused
members of the household and
they Immediately went to his as
sistance. In about ten minutes he
was dead.
1t is supposed Mr.. Huntington s
death was caused by heart trouble.
STORY OF HIS CAREER.
For forty years G.. p. Hunting
ton-he is generally known by his
initials, for he had strange aver
sion to writing his full name has
been extending his railroads, be-
ginning at the Central Pacific in
its infant stage and ending only
at the complete system which car
ries you across the northern Rock
les as easily as though you were
travelling in a trolley in Hyde
Park, and back through the tall
est of the range in the same way.
1t is doubtful if, when in l849.
when young Huntington started
for the California gold country.
he had any idea he would succeed.
Only 28 years old, with slender
purse, he started out to make his
fortune as his ancestor, Simon
Huntington, had done 200 years
before. Simon Huntington s faith
er died on the sea, but the lad
came on here with his mother in
l84l to make a way in the new
world.
lie married and had children.
and these children distinguished
themselves in 1887, one of them,
the Hon. Samuel Huntington, be-
ing a member of the continental
congress and signer of the decla-
tion of independence. His grand
son, William, born in 1874, was
the father of &. z. Huntington:
and so the young man who shoul-
dered his pick in 1849 and started
out; had a proud family history
with which to sustain himself in
the trials and adversitles to come.
THE EARLY STRUGGLE.
The lad, Huntington. was very
engaging. and he formed the ac.
quaintance of one Leland Stan.
ford, a young fellow about his
age. Leland Stanford knew q
young man named Mark Hopkins.
and Mark Hopkins was acquaint,
ed with an energetic fortune-seek-
er named Crocker.
The four, g. p. Huntington,
Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins
and Charles Crocker, trudged
across country to California, and
there talked of their hard journ-
ey. They conceived the idea OF
the Central Pacific, and they set
to work to dig gold out of the
ground with which to build rail
road to connect the Atlantic and
Pacific-a scheme which, in those
days, was considered the widest
dream Il vagrant fancy could con-
ceive.
But the Central Pacific was con.
ceived and built and IT made mil
lions. Then the four partners,
now rich beyond the dreams OF
avarice, parted, Stanford to go tc
Washington; Huntington to iden-
| tify himself with st. Louis and
New York; Hopkins to retire tC
his magnificent country home il
the Berkshlres; and Charles
Ciocker to remain in California
to instruct his sons In the art OF
keeping fortune together.
Strange to say none of the other
of these men reared sons il
finance. Mark Hopkins left only
an adopted son, and Leland
Stanford, losing his lamented bo,
at the interesting age of 16 years
left his money to the universit,
named after him.
Excess Of money brings exces
of trouble, and MIR. Huntlngto
found that in active business lif
meant litigation, for his estates
had become SO spread, and bi
interest so great that dispute
were inevitable. In 1890, in hi
Goth year. he removed to Me-
York, and soon after built tn
magnificent house on the corne
of Fifth avenue and Fifty-sevent
street, which, for strange reasons
he has occupied scarcely at al
since il was built.
HIS CHARACTER.
i 1t was said at the time that h
: deserted it, that he was supersti
tious and would not live in
house in which workulen had bee
killed. Others attributed bis d
! sertion Of his new home to Il
busy life which he was compeile