The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-09-29
-Four Trains
For Big Trip
Bankers to Cross Continent in
Luxurious Equipment

Four hudred and fifty bankers
from the Eastern and Southern states
are to Join the New York )State
Bankers Association and cross the
continent in single organized party.
the occasion being the 36th Annual
Convention of the American Bankers
Association, which meets at LIS
Angeles October 3rd to 7th.
The New York State Association
through it's President Mr.. Ledyard
Cogswell Of Albany, and Mr.. Charles
Elliot Warren, Of New York, chair
man Of the Committee on Tran
sportAtion and Arrangements. has
planned a trip covering S.196 miles,
going by southern and returning
by a northern route.
The party is SO large that four
Twentieth Century Limited de luxe
trains will be required to traspo..
them. This equipment will be re-
tanned during the entire journey of
twenty-six days, and for comfort and
convenience, length of trip number
and personal of party, will establish
new recodr.
Mr.. Lewis E. Pierson OF New York,
president of the American Bankers
Association, Hon. Lee McClung,
Treasurer Of the United States, Yale's
one time most celebrated boot-ball
player, and Hon. Lawrence o. Muir.
ray. Comptroller OF the United States
Currency, will head the party, and
, these four trains will start from
Grand Central Terminal on Monday,
September 2Sth.
The New York Central has assign.
ed Mr.. George W. Higgins as it's
personal representative. who with
three assistants will have direction
of the trains from start to finish,
under the auspices, however, Of the
New York State Bankers Associa-
ton.
This notable gathering y of dis
tinguishdd dnanciers will have At
their disposal for almost ono month,
four baggage cars, four buffet or
gentleman's club cars, eight dining
cars, and twenty-six compartment
and drawing room sleeping cars, four
of which will be observation cars
and known as ladies' club cars, and
each provided with a piano player
and a range OF records from John
ME, Get Your Gun" to a Beethoven
Sonata. In all there will be ~ cars
made up into two trains Of ten cars
each and two trains of eleven cars
each.
II these four trains were combined,
it would make one solid train more
than half a mile In length. The
weight would be 1888 tons, and re-
present value of one million dollars.
To. complete TIE circuit of S196
miles. 1t will require just 1872 power
full locomotives to move these trains
over tho route - scheduled, not
to be used in going over the noun
tains. To man these engines. a crew
Of aga men will be required. But tho
big force OF railway employees comes
whom . new train crew 10 taken on
for each and every division. In
other words. every time engines are
changed. each train will take on 4
superintendent Or first assistant, a
conductor ana two trainmen. For
the 80 divisions therefore, no len
than &c men viii respond. Besides
al there thers vii 10 tour repre-
sentA&ivss Of the New York Centr0l
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