The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-08-09
THE GREAT EASTERN.
A Rumor that Jay Gould Will Buy
the Monster.

A Rumor that Jay Gould Will Buy
the Monster.
Uncle Rufus Hatch was mopping his brow
in an East Side elevated train the other day
and was asked whether there was anything
new in the market.
"Notling," he replied, "except that there
was 40 Englishman i'll to see me to-day, who
wanted to sell the Great Eastern"
"Do you think you could find purchaser"
as asked.
"Certainly," Uncle Rufus answered, "Jay
Gould would buy her sure. She requires a
great deal of water and that's just in his line.
He can float anything. He'd float the biggest
iron anchor in existence"
"You forget" we observed, 'that he doesn't
run to yachts like his former partners, Char
ley Osborn, Bill Belden and Hank Smith.
What would he do with the Great Eastern ?"
GAIL that may be so,' Uncle Rufus
asseverated, "bul, like the boy after
the chipmunk, he's got to have
her. He's got all the big railroads, telegraph
lines and blanket newspapers, and he must
add the Great Eastern to them to complete
his assortment. What would his junk shop
be worth without her? He's going to lay his
cable to Mexico, and she's just the boat for
the business. Then the World ought TO
have her for dispatch boat. The Heraids
yacht is: played out, and it would be a big
advertisement for him to have the Great
Eastern sailing down to Sandy Hook and
boarding incoming steamers for marine news
for the World. Oh, 1 tell you, Gould's got
to have her. Benefits tub will stand no
chance with her. How she'll raise the cir
culation. Then there's Wash McCorindale,
who writes Wall street gossip for Gould. He's
got to be provided for. Such huge nautical
toy would be certain to please him. Besides
Gould can't afford to show any partia'ity-if
he buys the Great Northern and Western
Union, and Northwestern and Southern ex-
| tension, he must have Great Eastern.
While he's boxing the compass, he can't al
ford to slight any one of its cardinal points.
He'll take her, sure pop
! But how can she trade between Pier
and Sandy Hook, and float the American
flag when she's an English bottom p" we
| asked.
Uncle Rufus again mopped his brow. "Oh,
that's easy to fix" he said. "a man who can
consolidate all the telegraph and railroad
lines, and control all the newspapers in the
United States, can put down Ole flag and put
up another any time he chooses. Blaine's
congress and Stanley Matthew's supreme
court would back him in anything"
"Why, Uncle Rufus, You seem to be down
on Mr.. Could"
::Oh, no. the sage responded. "You're
mistaken. On the contrary, admire talent
and enterprise, especially when exercised for
the benefit of the masses as against the few.
They enlarge and develop the brain and the
country, and reflect lustre on the financial
age in which We live"
$50 you really think that Jay Gould will
buy he Great EASTERN"
"Buy her." Uncle Rufus repeated. of
course he will. Why, lie can make reseis-
ing ship of her,"
.sHow 50? ?" we asked.
ga receiving ship for Western Union and
Cancelled press dispatches wa, the reply.
"They could be slowed between decks where
nobody could find them. And then she d
make good towboat tor Gould's Mississippi
barge line. Oh, she'd work in u hundred
different ways. She could also be en-
ployed in transporting railroad iron,
workmen and supplies to Mexico via 14essep>s
Panama canal, or she could be sent to Ber-
lnuda in the crop season for cargo OF anti
malarial onions. She would be especially
valuable as place to ST wv away the syndi.
. cate of liars about whom the World has been
preaching so many sermons of late; but
J whether she would be big enough to hole
them all, including the members of the dif
. terent lying syndicates, is question that nC
/ one but the proprietor of The World and thai
f supercargo of the Great Eastern can answer
: wish that VIM. Henry Gould, Jay Ried
Whitelaw Hurburt, or some other member o
the moral press would explain the difference
between a syndicate OF liars and lying syn
dictate. Some portions OF the community
need the instruction. I'm not much OF a liza
myself, or l would undertake the job. L
a needs an accomplished professor of morels t
D do the thing justice. The Great Eastern cOult
3 be utilized in thousand ways. Probably
her best paying charters would be her trips L
Europe to bring back the Ameri,an securities
now being taken by foreign investors. ."-Ncn
York Sun.