The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-05-29
No Arrangements Made for
Funeral as Yet, Death En-
sues From Infection Con.
tracted Some Time Ago.
MEMBERS OF FAMILY
PRESENT AT THE END
Beginning as Roustabout, Fu-
ture Railroad Magnate
Worked Way Through All
Occupations.

st Paul MINI May 80 james j..
lhll railroad uj dci. capitalist and
mo-; widely kuuwn hgure of the
northwest died at ms Sdmmit avenue
residence ut $3.50 o'clock this morn
- a. the result of an Infection dG'
90 bowel trouble.
dr nan Wa unconscious tor near
/, jNu nout, uefure ho died. pr Her
man VI HIggs and In STANLEY ScAscI
together with members uf the mime
diato nIll family, We're at the bed
sii, when the end came.
MIR Hill's personal secretary. VI. X.
Brown. made the announcement OF
his employer demise to waiting
newspaper correspondent a. the HE
residence uis statement WAS made
verbally with the intimati"n that q
written bulletin might Zoe issued later.
questioned regarding he date Tor
ub-eduios. Nj Brown said mo- arrange
m,Hts had been disC Cusscd.
Following relapse late Yesterday
NJ Uul failed rapidly through th
u,ght
Al ,ho members uf his famiS W'I"
AZ th, bedside With IA. exception 81
Mr. " B,atd ui N'H lork. % iaurN
night James s. nm Of \cw N"gN
arrived eatN today.
Louis " Hiu Was W. at %. ~
Nv fnth"r slept me-, uf the night
h" aid
N. d. BROWN Nj nm ,unf;dcn-
tiaI secretary met tn, u.v paper o.,
pur'crs On the lawn
MI Hhl di,d quietly ,t 9.3u.' h,
said. with t.aTs 100 his cy"s
juyt a. Mr nn was DYING ~,
Littl. sisters of the Poor ippruarhr'
"a, nous, from IA, south drlN"was
The, wtr, met at the door 'Nt'ndc'
their sympathy ana departed
con, of the ufst o. leave the nous.
was John Tuum,y Nr HliS con
ndrutial business agent ana associate
Tor years Mr Toumry took his IT.
pattur, at $50 followed by Rnlpi
ngdd assistant tu Louis ". nm pre-.
idcut u' the Great northern rWlrooD
uud uu" Of the younger mrm1'r- '
Nj iIll~ railroad family
h. " ilill was next 9, lraN, tn
hou~. II. walked betwccu TIE,
Thomas j Gibbons, vicar general Cd
IA, ~, Paul archdiocese, lud icurg'
MACPHERSON. iUtimnt, trivud of tn
family Grj.f showed plainly on ~
lgr. II the elder ilill'- sdsyvs-nr ~
three w'It tu the l.. " il,il tcsidcuc,
James Hill discovered IN,
uroadla~kot of the world in IN,
great northwest. he ted ir its develop.
mcrf from q wilderness INTO Wha|
now comprises SIX wealthy state,
dotted with iOU.uO 'iimS. and h'
hllg.J irHl Iur Transportation
which reached cN,niuall, from But
ialu to ASIA. with a total mileage o
ram aud steamship facilities tha
would nearly girdlr the earth
That hut roughly spans Ia, stoil
o' h. urhietemcpt
\oai Guelph. ~ ontario wher,
Iau,s ,JcromcD npu was born II
lS3N. the son OF An Irish -Cdnadim
farmer who died when the boy va
o.. there stands a tree stump labeled
"'rhc last Tree chopped by James J
mn
II marked the lads resolution g.
go tu the United states lie had neci
prompted by an odd incident Ac
cutdiug t. the story that is told
strange traveller had stopped ~ IN
fillI ltl ln u lhkf hill'i. anu lsll ~
Torso at the gate. Young hill snl
th, animal was ttrcd aud he carri.
u pan OF water The stranger wa
G., sod with the lads thuughttulncs'
ard as ne drove of hc tossed him
newspaper from the United state,
and called out graScly:
'Gu there, young man Thl
country needs Youngsters Of YOU
spirit.
llll read IN" paper carefully
contained glowing accounts OF oppor
tuuDi,~ IN the states he resolved I
in,"stigdtr tor himself II was IA
ucNt morning that he chopped hi
last tree.
As q mere roustahuu, lad of ~ h
toured from Maine to Ninncsoti
when. IN 1855. he disem bnrked froi
Mississippi river packet at - Pa,
that place was "A frontier town ,
600 inhabitants. Al ia" sign of v
BASS n Co, agents FOR the buhuqu
n - Paul packot Go. he found
lob ~ both s,eyedorc aud clerk.
IN the nttccn years that follow,
he seized every opportunity To STUD
the whole problem of river transpo
tation lie gathered no end ~ exp