The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-27

THE LATEST ERIE FIGHT. ~rho case bf
Ramsey Y. Fisk, Gould and ais. occupies fse
columns of the New York papers; and there
are some amusing details .containedsin.-the
documents The complaint sets forth the bur-
chase OF the Opera House by the defendants.
and goes on to state,
That they. also purchased several houses
on Iwenty-third street and Twenty -fourth
stfeet.1 near the corner of Eighth avenue
anu iwehty-thlrd street; said Opera HOUSE HOUSE
pe,nSe located at the corner OF salu s'Iee'
ana avt nIe, and said buildings are occu
pled In part by persons VINO are cunnee. ~. ~
WIN said theatre and opera anu aot uPou It's
stage. and also by said FISK VINO res'ues OF
rooms in one of them, from which he has
nrivate con pection to the box of said Fisk in
said Onera House, and to and from which the
inma1ds of said houses, and women who prac-
tice upon the stage, can pass to and fro. That
said contract Tor the leasing OF portions of said
Opera House to the Erie Railway Company is
a fraud upon said company and its cred
itors; that 1t is mi furious TO the busi-
ness OF said corporation TO have its Of
fees III building which in part is al
most nightly occupied for operate and
dramauc performances; that the irequenting
OF sad building and its approaches by the
large numoer OF young clerks in the employ
meht OF said company, and by opera and
tneatre women at the same time, and the mu-
slcal and dancing rehearsals by day, with the
tread OF ballet girls and the echoes OF operas
and songs, and all sorts of string and wind in
strumeuts resounding in said building, within
hearing and almost within sight of numerous
young clerks at their desks, in the employn ept
of SAID company in said Opera House, are de-
moralizing to said young men, destructive of
the interests OF said company, and without a
parallel in railroad history. That said three
Dersons have caused the offices of said COMPANY
in said building to be Fl ted up at it's expense
with the most unparalleled exlrayagance-
needlessly expanding in gaudy, Injurious fur
niture, gilded decorations and various altera-
tons, fully S30O,000 of the money of the said
company, while sand abandoned offices of the
SAID company are left in large measure
nnrented and unoccupied by said compapy.-
mat The SAID three persons attempted to carry
OH the business OF stock transfers of said COM
pany at their new Opera House offices. aud
removed the books and furniture of the trans
Ter ONCE there, but after a few days trial they
were found so inconvenient and were so much
complained of by stock dealers, that said three
persons and their confederates were compelled
to transfer said furniture and the business
OF stock transfers to roint near where stock
sales are made in the city of New York. The
said Opera House has free boxes and hospital
lty from Its owners for its male and female
trends, and for eminent officials and has a
telegraph wire connected with the aforesaid
stock dealing firm of Smith, Gould, Martin g.
Co., but it has no such connection with the
transfer office of the Erie Railway Company,
forced, as aforesaid from the said "Grand Or
era House" to place of convenience, and the
transfer agent and his clerks must 60 to Smith.
Gould & Martin to send their fro auent tele.
graphs to the Erie managers at the aforesaid
Grand Opera House, and wait to receive
the same by way of the said firm, which TINS
learns the contents of such dispatches =