The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-28
HIRE A SPECIAL.
American MiIlionaires Leaving
London For Home.
Show the British How Things
Are Done Over Here.
THEY CHARTER TRAIN
So AS to Get an Extra Half
Hour For Breakfast.
The Deutschland Will Sail With
N0ko1,Eo D1cc0-1r-O-- sek
THEY CHARTER TRAIN
The Deutschland Will Sail With
Notable Passenger List.

London, June 81. Pierpont Nor
gan, W. L. Ellxins, P. A. B. Widener, G.
A. Griscom and other wealthy Amelf
cans who are to sail for the United
States today, chartered a special train
to take them this morning from Lon
don to Southam pton, where they board
ed the Hamburg American steamer
Deutschland. The special consisted of
a saloon carriage, a second class car for
the servants, a baggage car. and one
of the best engines of the Southwestern
road. Among those who gathered TO
see the party off were Second Secretary
Of the United States Embassy ]. r.
Carter, and Joseph H. Choate, jr., the
third secretary, and a few English
friends of Mr.. Elkins.
Mr. Griscom said to a representative
of the Associated Press:
1T is quite by accident that we are
all together. We are not concoct1ng
great shipping deals or deals of any
kind We thought it would ~be more
comfortable to take a special, and 50
get g. half hour extra in which to break
fast We are looking forward to an
Mr. Elkins said: NO: we have done
no business here. We have had a most
pleasant stay. There is really nothing
to say
Others of the American party made
similar statements, and judging from
the manner in which business topics
were tabooed, the millionaire travellers
might have been a lot of undergradu-
ates off on a picnic. At 1925 a. m, half
an hour after the regular train, the
special started for Southan pton.
Among the other passengers on board
the Deutschland are Mr.. and Mrs. w.
K. Vanderbilt, Shekib Bey, the new
Turkish minister to the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs John Boyd Thatcher. OF
Albany, N. Y, Mr.. and Mrs. G. A.
Spreckels, and DR.. James H. Worman,
United States consul at Munich
RESERVED THE DECK.
New York, June 2s-According to
dispatch from London to the World,
when the steamship Deutschland leaves
Southampton for New York today all
the staterooms on the promenade deck
will be exclusively reserved for ten
millionaires travelling by her. These
millionaires are ]. Pierpont Morgan,
Clinton Dawkins, Clement A Grisco ON,
Bernard A. Baker, William L. Elkins,
B. A Widener, Harry Payne Whitney,
Pierre Lorillard, Timothy L. Woodruff,
and John T. Waterbury,
It is stated that these ten formed a
syndicate and chartered the entire deck
for $22 GOO.
The London Daily Express states on
what it claims to be the best authority
that Mr.. Morgan will conhde very mo-
mentous designs on international trade
to the consideration of his fellow trav-
elers.
A dispatch to the Journal and Adver-
tiser from London says: J. Pierpont
Morgan, when n ct by a correspondent
as he was leaving his city office refused
to go into details regarding his gift to
Harvard He said:
''All has been published about it that
need be. There is no cause to make
fuss. / believed I could spend a mil
lion dollars usefully by giving it for
this purpose. so I gave it. I have uni
versity teaching at heart. May the
money do all the good it can No more
need be said"