The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-15
DEATH OF c. P, HUNTINGTON
EXPIRES SUDDENLY At CAMP IN
THE ADIRONDICKS.
President OF the Southern Pacific Rail-
road and II Multi-NIiliionairc-Bo Born In
Litchfeld County, This State HIS
First wife LttchfieId Woman.

New York, Aug. 14.-Collis Potter
| Huntington, president of the Southern
Pacific railway system, and multi-mil-
lionaire, died suddenly last night at his
| summer lodge, Camp Pine Knot" in
the Adirondacks, near Raquette Lake.
Mr.. Huntington was sitting on the
lawn in front of his lodge when he was
suddenly stricken.
He was carried into the house where
| he died in a few minutes before any
| thing could be done to revive him.
| With Mrs. Huntington he left his pa
| latial home at Fifth avenue and FIFTY
| seventh street only last Thursday. They
| had spent only a week in the city, haV-
| ing come down from Mr.. Huntington's
summer residence at Throggs Neck, in
| Westminster county.
Mr.. Huntington was in unusually
| good health when he left for the noun
tains.
News of his death was brought from
Camp Pine Knot" to the town of Ra-
quette Lake.
His private secretary, j. e. Gates, of
the Imperial hotel, confirmed the news
this morning and left at once to bring
back the body.
The nature of his illness is not GER
tain. 1t is thought to have been heart
disease.
Mr.. Huntington will be buried in the
S250, 900 mausoleum in Woodlawn GEM
etery, which he built for the reception
of his first wife's body.
Camp Pine Knot" was bought by
MT
three years ago for 100000. This was
only his second trip to the place.
Mr.. Huntingtons home is near the
camp.
Mr.. Huntington has been in the
mountains some time. He usually
leaves the city during the heated term
and spends his time in the cool of the
Adirondacks.
1t is not yet known what the nature
of Mr.. Huntington's illness was, but 1t
is thought that it was heart failure.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huntington left their
palace at Fifth avenue and Fifty-sev-
enth street last Thursday for Raquette
Lake.
They had previously been at Throgg'e
Neck.
Their sojourn In town lasted only one
week.
A man in charge of the Fifth avenue
residence said to-day:
MIR. Huntington seemed to be in his
usual health and rather robust when
he and Mrs. Huntington left for Ra-
quette Lake.
Il can scarcely believe it to be true
that he Is dead.
ri,
summer, and / hope the one this time
will turn out to be unfounded too"
Coils Potter Huntington was born
October %, 1921, in the little town Of
Harwinton, Litchfield county, Conn He
was one of nine children. q Puritan,
and though his parents were poor they
We're of distinguished stock, counting
among their ancestors Samuel Hunting
ton, president of the Continental Con-
gress a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, governor and chief JUS
tce of the state of Connecticut; Bishop
f. d. Huntington and Daniel Hunting
ton, the painter.
At the age of fourteen he left school
and began work for 81 a month. In
1887 he came to New York and began
trading on his slender capital and the
letters of recommendation from mer-
chants of his native town.
AT the age of twenty-five he was run
ming a general merchandise store with
his brother Scion In Oneonta, Otsego
county
With the discovery of gold in Cali
fornia in 1S49, he started west by way |
of the Isthmus He had a cash capt. |
tai of $1,000, and being detained at the |
Isthmus for three months he increased |
it by trading to $4,000 He was we'll |
equipped physically for life in the min |
ing camps. He was of magnificent |
build and strength.
He was. too, Injured to hard labor and |
temperate in his habits of life. He |
went to Sacramento and began business
under his own name.
Subsequently he established the hard |
ware house of Huntington e. Hopkins |
In seven years the firm had accumu-
lated a fortune. Leland Stanford was
his partner in the inception of the !
firms transcontinental railroad
Passing Huntington's store in Sacra-
mento he saw tWenty-mule wagon
pulling out with load of supplies for
the Comstock mines in Virginia City.
That night Huntington and Stanford
discussed the building of a railroad
from Sacramento to the mines in Ne
vada. They considered the possibility
Of extending it to connect with the
railways that We're being pushed west
ward on the Atlantic coast
A persistent diplomatic endeavor for
government aid was begun. Support
was secured from the legislatures of
California and Oregon
A convention was held in San Fran
cisco and a monster petition was sent
to congress.
The civil war caused delay but con-
ident in the final success of his under
taking, Mr.. Huntington secured the
cooperation of six others and they
made at their own expense the prelim-
nary survey.
Thus was organized in 1851 the Cen
trail Railroad company, with $S,500O00
capital.
Aid was secured in New York and
Boston, After the completion of the
Central Pacific Mr.. Huntington and
-hree associates built the Southern Pa
life railroad. In connection with this
enterprise Mr. Huntington secured CON
rol of eastern connections by land and |
sea, and in 1884 organized the Southern
Pacific company Of Kentucky, which
Inifies in operation a system of trans
1ortation consisting of tWenty-six rail-
way and steamship lines, comprising