New-York tribune., 1869-04-08
FISK ,JR.

We have MT the honor Of this gentleman's
| acquaintance though we have received (hrough
| a deputy sheriff. pressing invitation to make IT..
! Exactly when he rose on our city's financial
horizon we do not recollect, but it cannot have
| been very long ago; and his career seems too
| brilliant too meteOTic, to endure. Even in our
| day, so many successive suDs have iITadiated
the sky of Wall-street, obscuring for a time
all rival luminaries that we presume the cul-
nlination of this one cannot be distant. The
practical question is-Shall he sink gradually
goldenly, to his rest behind the western hills,
or go out in flash like a rocket
With most of the past achievements of
Fisk, jr., we have little sympathy. of the
great things to be achieved by him and his
other self Gould in connection with the Eric
Railroad we propose TO judge when they shall
have been wrought: thus far, no other qualities
than audacity and lack of scruples have been
fully demonstrated thereby. If they shall ulti-
mately make the Erie first-class, dividend
paying road, with its stock at par or near it,
and its credit equal to the Centrars, we shall
cheerfully attest the success of its recent
management: till then, we wait. AS to his
opera houses and the like, we do MT feel the
want of any more. Our French tlieater evnces
such ability and skill in commencing Adultery
as Fine Art, that it do MT seem TO need any
assistance.
But Fiske jr.'s latest enterprises if correctly
fOreshadowed, are calculated to touch tender
chord in the popular heart. Is it possible that
the man really means to give this long swim
died community Cheap Cabs Not absolutely
cheap--we dare not aspire to so remote bless
ing-but light and handy one-horse vehicles,
which will carry us for fifty cents per mile,
and not befoul us with villainous epithets if
we refuse to pay twice the established fare 2
1t seems too good to expect; but if Fiske, jT
tciH so bless us-"not for day, but for all
"timer-we will ignore all that is questionable
in his past career and run him for Mayor, vote
him statue in the Central Park, or do almost
anything in bis honor that can be suggested.
Is he really about to give us Cheap Cabsf
Then as to his Pacific Railroad quarrel, we
can accept without question all his adversaries
say of his motives; but that is not the point.
Have the bonds conceded and authorized by
Congress been honestly devoted to the con-
struction OF the Road? or have they been in
good part intercepted and appropriated by
"ring" of the Directors and their friendsf Has
the Credit Mobiler of America been honestly
organized and employed to facilitate the con-
struction and equipment of the Road or to
transfer its assets to the pockets of Directors,
with their affiliated CongressmeA and other
croniesf Have Government Directors been
subsdi1edf Have the funds that should have
sufficed to give us good, serviceable road been
paid to Mr.. Johnson's Commissioners for certi-
flying that such road had been built when it
Ao1 ,.ntQ ~ II m
nelius Wendell paid So, 1000 EACH any such sum,
for SO certifying, on their homeward route from
an official tour Of observation some four months
agof We know not what is the truth in the
premises; but we ought to know, we want to
know it, and so does the public. Therefore,
20 ahead Fiske. ir. and let us have the