The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-08-13
G.EeNgp, GREEN, GOULD
r.t nHgE TELEGRAPH TlrANs.
I.u go oftho Recently Humored
... ' Consolidation of Land
Lines aud Ocean Cabios-Par.
linmontary Fender Pre-
oipitates "PenohinG"
ThoH 80. bomb

| Tho ". " u HOmh
NEW York, Aug IA cablegram
FROM Nuoronberg, datsd August 10th
% D. II, Rates, president Of tue na,u
moro ~ Ohio Telegraph compsny,New
York, (yla tho MsokoY D3nEegt cables
received through Mr.. John Pondor
contained the following from Mr.,
Flold, who sailed suddenly Saturday
for America:
| LO;poS, Aug tth,
! Cyrus Fle'd % Mr.. Pouder; "Rus-
soil Sage wants 20 know tho best ,orma
thpt Carrot would sell his limos right
out for money. II no will not soil
Iight out, what terms would ho accept
upon pooling or other agreement
upon fair basis. Mr., Field suggests
thut both companies agree 10 advance
| the tariff az ouce, keeping sep ar 40 bat
under fair and binding agreomonJ,"
Mr.. PenGgr has just wired him NJ
my request as follows:
| August Sth--Flcld, Steamer Queenstown;
! Have delivered your message 20 Gar
| retJ, who requests me 10 Telegraph you
as follows:
crave your message through Mr..
| Ponder in which you say: Russell
| Sage wishes 10 know the bost terms
tho Baltimore d Ohio company will
sell its telegraph right out for money,
and that II the Baltimore S Ohio will
not sell out right, ,he wishes mo to namo
the terms for pooling or other sar-
raugements; also have your message
asking mo u advance tsrliiGt once un-
dor u binding agreemont with Western
Union. Cable Sage that the Baltimore
81 Ohio declines, as heretofore, 10 sell
| its lines, which are not for sale Mt any
price; also declines your proposition 10
dvanco rates"
Also wired Field TO Queenstown as
| follows:
August Sth--Fleld, Queenstown.
Allow mo to suggest, AS proper and
| fair, that before tho sailing you cable
the other side, contradiGtlng ahsc-
lutely the lies which have boon circu'
lated about telegraph understanding
| between us, and in which your name
| hes bgen freely used. Unless you Go
this positively and in satisfactory
srspe and yepaat tho same 70 me be
fore sailing shall fe9l disposed 70 give
to the pubiio your message and my
reply.
Signed RoBERT GARRETT.
On August Sth MIR. Ponder also
cabiei Mr.. Greon as follows:
"I observe that tho Western Union
has advanced from about 80 TO 6S and .
considerable norton of this Advance
has taken place since Field and had
an interview with Garrett. am told
that 1t is understood in America that
at that interview (and there was only
ono) Mr.. Carrot approached Field and
myself with a view OF etlacting sale
of his systorn to the Western Union
as settlement OF tho existing state Of
things with tne land lines. This is
untrue aud it il only fair to MIR. Gar
rett that 1 should lot you know this.
Subsequent TO the interview l cabled
YOU that a pooling arrangement, say
ing tho Atlantic & Pacific and tho
American Union purchase % a basis of
settlement might ba negotiated. IL is
evident to mo that the Information you
have got elsewhere does not fairly rep
resent the case, and l am anxious
therefore that the real facts should be
known to Nou and tho public. Mr.
Garrett has been perfectly open Ia al!
this business, anu since ! came to
Hamburg he has read mo eXtraa.s
showing that the statements going
about on your side ara cXaRg GRATED,
land as | 10 uog wish my namo - no
compounded in anyway think am
iustitiad in aending you this yGieErahl"
TSignedl JOHN PENDER
Please give above correspondents to
the press with such additional int0r-
nation as may be necessary 10 fully
explain Our Independent position"
TSignedl ROBERT GARRETT.
NEW York, Augustl0
/ have sent the following TO the New
York Herald. ID. II. Bates.
President and General Manager.
81 beg to hand you herewith copy
of cable correspondence between Mes
srs. Garrett, Pender and Field, which
has lust reached me over the Mackoy-
Bennett cable. The wild rumors which
have been circulated during the past
month concerning en- alleged arrange
ment between the Western Union and
the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph COM
panies have been repeatedly denied by
Mr.. Garrett and myself, only to DO re-
neWsd in some varied fOcm to meet
what were each time deemed 10 be
most explicit deniaie. lt is renarka-
BILE that the statements haYe not only
remained uncontradicted on this side
by others who must have known tneir
falsiuy, but that It has now become
necessary to secure an official denial
from Pender, who is himself au hon
orary Western Union director. The
Baltimore 81 Ohio, which since the alb
sorption by the Western Union OF the
American Union and tho Atlantic "
Pacific companies in 1881, has operated
an independent telegraphic system,
has never faltered ain It's policy OF
maintaining its Independence, believ-
ing that ample and substantial lines
between tho important trado centres
of tho country, built at low prices for
cash, would command adequate Gus
tom and offered o fair return upon the
investment, and instead of selling
out, as some would wish us to do, we
are still extending and adding TO our
system, covering territory until lately
occupied by the American Rapid,
whose lines were recently absorbed by
our rival, and contracts have been
made for additional extensions to va
rious other points. Competitive te!e-
graph can and will be sustained.
D. FL. BATES,
President and General Manager Bal
timore 81 Ohio Telegraph Company.