| Show SIDNEY PILLION DILLION A FEW days ago we made some comments upon the death of sidney dillon but were knablein una blein the absence of data to present any details connected with his bis career the following I 1 brief sketch from the chicago mail is ia quite interest interesting hig recognizing the almost destitute condition of his fathers father I 1 s finances young dillon at the immature im maure age of sevenda seven determined ter mined that he be would be a burden to his progenitors no longer ahe as he since expressed it 61 1 I wanted to strike out for myself leaving the paternal roof he besought sought and obtained work on an eastern branch then being built of the mohawk hudson road between albany and dy the road is ia now known as the new york central his first duty was to carry water to the laborers building the road and for his services he received the sum of 1 per week and hits his meals frugality being his ts chief inheritance he managed to lay aside the grea er part of his earnings in order to carry out a compact made with himself that one day I 1 will start for myself and I 1 will become richer than any squire I 1 know forty eight years ago he de determined e d to and on a visit to ambers am b erst t mass he met a young and brilliant woman a member of one of the villages most respected families to his wife mr dillon owed a great part of his success she did not come to him with a any ME large dowry but brought him a wi cifes fe 8 love and encouragement when quite a young man mr dillon came to new city he still devoted his attention to carrying out railroad condrac s it can safely safely be said that few men in this country have undertaken larger contracts it was he who built the fourth avenue improvement tunnel from the grand central depot depo to harlem new york city this enterprise was completed at a cost of at the small village of promontory seventy five miles west of ogden mr dillon in 1869 assisted in laying the last rail on the union pacific railroad from its incipiency he has been connected with the road when horace F dark clark biedin 1874 mr dillon was unanimously elected the executive chief of the road he wit was 1 1 instrumental in building and held tb this i position forthe for the ensuing ten years his family consists of two marri married ed daughters and a number of grandchildren ex judge john F dillon attorney for jay gould Is ia his nephew |
