The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-10-25
MORGAN AND PARTY.
Make Short Stop On Way to the
East.
From Thursdays Daily Gazette.

AILeT having UcSu duOuACSu W pass
through sometime last Tuesday night,
the Northern Pacific special carry
ing J. Pierpont Morgan and Presi-
dent Mellen, with the Episcopal pre-
lates and others of lesser degree, who
we're the guests of the famous finan-
cier, arrived from the west yester-
day afternoon. Only a short stop
was made and none of those who had
gathered at the station was able to
obtain more than a look at the man
said to control more money than any
other person in the world. The train
consisted of six cars, mostly of the New
York Central, and President Mellen's
private car.
Besides those for whose particular
persons were attached to the party,
but in the positions of servitors, and
include the train crew, secretaries,
servants and stenographers. The
greatest care is exercised to prevent
accident of any kind. In addition to
the conductor Immediately in charge,
the superintendent of every division
of the road accompanies the train I'M
til the east limit of his territory is
reached. Thus Superintendent Horn,
who accompanied the party to this
point from Butte, was relieved here
and Superintendent Kline took his
place and inturn will be relieved at Man.
dan by the superintendent Of the next
division. To be prepared to summon
relief in case something should oc-
cur to the train between stations, two
linemen of the Western Union are
constantly on board, equipped with
instruments and the necessary outfit
for making connections. They, like
the superintendent of the road.
change at divisions, while the operator
is a part of the personal retinue of
Morgan.
While the train was here a little
incident occurred that furnished con-
siderable amusement to the crowd
gathered at the station and to some
of the members of the party as we'll,
but greatly aroused the ire of a digni-
fed son of Ham who occupied the
position Of porter of one of the cars.
While locomotives were being changed
the crew Of train sweepers and others
who are stationed here for that pur-
pose were busy supplying the tanks
with fresh water and filling the ice
boxes. In their hurry the water men
did not notice the cars were construct
ed on different lines than those with
which they are familiar and the one
whose duty it is to climb onto the
roof and handle the nozzle turned a
vigorous stream down the smoke
stack of the first car he attempted tc
supply. Before he could realize his
mistake yells from the inside of the
car and the sudden appearance of q
wildly g~esticulating and excited color
ed man startled him so that he al
most fell off the car. "Wat dye near
by foodin' dis cah," exclaimed the
. pOlCCl. B.. z ACFd4 oCC q oil OCLOoA
All reckon yo' is Cushioned to nufi1
bettah'n a fiat cab or construction
train. Nice man yo' is to flood a cal
filled wifi ladies and gentlemen. Mis-
take? OF co'se it's a mistake to poal
watah down a chimbley stead of d
place made fob it. But if yo's not sat
isfied dere's anodder chimbley at tn,
odder end an yo' might try an fill dat
too"
The mischief had been done, how
ever, and when the train was pullini
out the porter was still engaged il
cleaning up and venting his ire on tn
fast vanishing man who was the al
thor of his trouble.
On the road between Livingsto
and this city the train made a neN
speed record. The distance is II
miles and the actual running tim
was ia minutes. This, of course, j
exclusive of stops. In n place pa,
ticularly well adapted to fast runnin
for a distance of ten miles the spec
attained was at the rate of " mile
an hour. Mr.. Morgan was highl
pleased with his trip and declare
that the time made was greater tina
that of the fastest train on the Ne
York Central railway.