Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1887 — Pierre Lorlllard’s Great Slide. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pierre Lorlllard’s Great Slide.

Through the instrumentality of Pierre Lorillard, America has the longest toboggan slide in the world, being over 4,000 feet in length from end to end, while the Orange chute is only 1,004 feet long, the Saratoga

1,200 feet, and the much vaunted Montreal slide is but 1,600 feet. The Lorillards are known to fame through their immense tobacco enterprise, and also as being enthusiastic turfmen. The Lorillard stables are world-famed, and Tuxedo Park, which Pierre Lorillard has instituted in Jersey, is a swell thing conducted on English plans, ideas and principles. Mr. Lorillard’s retirement from the Ameriban racing track in the year 1884 was one of short duration, and the recent talk that his farm, Bancocas, would be sold with the sale of the horses had no foundation, as Mr. Lorillard has said that Bancocas would not be sold, and that he would keep all the foals of this year of the horses sold—some fifty in number—and that Pierre, Jr., would keep all the geldings, so that in all probability father and son will enter and run distinct stables. Mr. Lorillard, Sr., spends lavishly not only upon himself and friends but also upon the employes of his factoiy. A receht addition to the privileges enjoyed by his workmen is a large library erected for the free use of any employe on the presentation of the factory card. A school is attached which seats three hundred children, and the entire expense of the establishment is borne by Pierre Lorillard & Co., who feel a just pride in the success of this work. i 1