Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-11-16
BANKERS EXCURSION
OVER FRISCO LINES
SPECIAL TRAIN BRINGS MANY
CAPITALISTS.
A. T. Perkins of st. Louis In Charge
Train Crossed Bridge to Mata-
moros-Leave Today for Trip Over
Northern Frisco Lines.

talists from all parts of the United
States arrived in the city at $50
yesterday afternoon over the st. l..
B. & M. railroad. A. T. Perkins Of st.
Louis, vice-president of the Frisco
lines, was the ranking railroad Off
cial on the train, and was In charge
of its movements.
Shortly after it's arrival the en-
tire train was taken to Matamoros
over the International bridge, where
an hour or more was given the visi-
tors to visit interesting points, in
cluding the Plaza de Hidalgo, the
curio stores, the post card palaces,
and other places, not overlooking the
restaurants The train returned to
Brownsville about $3.50 to give the
bankers an opportunity to see the
city and will leave about o'clock
this morning on the return to North
Texas, the party being due at Dal-
las tomorrow.
The special train is made up of
eight all-steel coaches, and is built
on the syle of the famous Twentieth
Century Limited, the crack 1S-hour
train which has been running be-
tween New York City and Chicago
the past seven years. Each berth is
a separate compartment on one side
of the car and the opposite side is
reserved for a passageway. The train
carries every convenience that is
possible.
One car has been especially equip
ped as sort of schoolroom, and in
this car the bankers and capitalists
assemble daily for the purpose of
hearing lectures on the country
through which the train passes. A
good view of the scenery is pos
sible on either side, and questions
asked by the tourists about the coun-
try are answered by the lecturer.
This is the first special train OF
bankers brought down by the Frisco
in over a year. and is the second time
an entire train has been taken across
the international bridge, which was
built about two years ago. Natur-
ally the tourists were curious as to
the bridge and the obstacles encoun-
tered in taking train across an in
ternational boundary, and endless
questions were asked.
The special train with it's passen-
gers is making tour of more than
seven thousand miles of road owned
or controlled by the Frisco lines. The
trip began at Chicago, the itener-
airy leading thence to st. Louis and
South 10 New Orleans, and from
New Orleans to Texas over the new
ly constructed New Orleans, Texas
and Mexico line to Houston. The
train crossed into Texas from Louisi-
ana at $3.50 yesterday morning, and
only short stops were made between
this city and Houston.
Leaving here this morning at
o'clock the train will spend two hours
at San Benito, where Sam Robert
son will take the bankers over part:
of the Spider Web that he is build
ing. run up the branch line will be
made to Mission, then back to Har'
lingen and to Kingsville and Cor
pue Christi, where the party will
spend several hours
Leaving Corpus Christi the mex
long stop is at Houston and the bank
ers will be shown the big South Tex
as city. Ft. Worth and Dallas viii
be visited next, and then Springfield
Mo, from which point the timer
airy will extend over other Frisc'
lines
Following is list of the member
of the party:
M. C. Addoms, jr., William Salo
mon & Co. New York City.
Earl Alexander, New YorkCity.
Henry Almstedt, Almstedt Bros.
New York City.
FIT. Armstrong. William Solomon
Co., New York City.
Warden w. Ayres, William Salo
mon & Co., New York City.
w. F. Bacon, Chicago Saving
Bank & Trust Co., Chicago.
Louis Barklage, Wernse & Dieck
man, st. Louis. Mo.
Arthur Batty, E. H. Rollins & Son
New York City.
w. l.. Becktold. Share & Mort
gage Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Fl. H. Bemis, Curtis & Sanger, Bos
ton, Mass.
]. A. Berninghaus, Central Nation
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