The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-12
GARRETT, GREEN, GOULD
THE THREE TELEGRAPH TlTANs.
Fun Exposure OF the Recently Rumorea
Deal for ConsolIdat. on of Land
Lines and Ocean Cables-Par-
liamentary Pender Pre-
cipitates "Peaohing"
The ~ o. Bomb

NEW YORK, Aug ia cablegram
from Nuereub5rg, dated August 10Th,
to D. II. Bates, president of the Balti-
more n OHIO Telegraph company, New
York, (yia tho Msekey-Bonnett eables)
received through MIR. John Pender,
contained the following from MIR.
Field, who sailed suddenly Saturday
for America:
LONDON, Aug. 9Th.
Cyrus Field 20 Mr.. Psnder: "Rus-
sell Sage wants TO know tho bast terms
that Garrett would sell his lines right
out for money. II he viii not sell
right cut, what terms would he accept
upon pooling or other agreement
upon fair basis. Mr.. Field suggests
tBat both companies agree 20 advance
the tariff at once, keeping separate but
under fair and binding agreement"
Mr.. Pender has Just wired him at
my request az follows:
August Sth-- Field, Steamer Queenstown:
Have delivered your message TO Gar
rott, who requests me 70 telegraph you
as follows:
"Hsve your message through Mr..
Peuder in which you say: Russell
Sage wishes 70 know tho best terms
the Baltimore IL OHIO company will
sell It's telegraph right out Tor money,
aud that II the Baltimore & OHIO will
not soil out right, he wishes me to name
he terms for pooling or othar Sar-
rhugaments; also have your message
asking me 10 advance ttriifat once un-
der binding agreement with Western
| Union. Cable Sage that the Baltimore
& Ohio declines, as heretofore, 30 sell
its lines, which arc not for sale at any
price; also declines your proposition 10
| dvauco rates"
Also wired Field to Queenstown ss
| follows:
August Sth-- Field, Queenstown.
ALLOW mo TO suggest, as proper aud
fair, that before the sailing you cable
| the other side, cOnuadicung aOs0-
lutJly tho lies which have been ciTcu
| lated about telegraph understanding
| between us, aud in which your name
has been freely used. Unless you dC
! this positively and in satisfactory
shape and repeat the Same to me be
tore sailing ! shall feel disposed 10 give
to the public your message and my
reply.
Signed ROBERT GARRETT.
on August s!h Mr.. Pendor also
cabled Mr.. Green as fellows:
81 observe that the Western UnioL
has advanced from about 80 10 6S and Z
considerable portion of this Advance
has taken place sinca Field aud ! had
Gn interview with Garrett. ana told
that IL Is understood in America thai
at that interview land thore was only
on) Mr.. Garrett approached Field and
myself with a Wow OF eiiectinB sale
OF his systcm to the Western Union
as settlement of tho existing state OF
things with the land iines Ihis it
untrue aud il Ia only fair TO Mr.. Gar
rott chat | shouid lot you know thi3.
Subsequent to the interview l cabled
you that q pooling arrangement, gay
ing the Atlantic W Pacific and Tho
American Union purchase Ha basis o
set.l0ment might ba negotiated lt IL
evident 90 moth " the tniormGu0lI5o o.
have got elsewhere does not fairly 3p
lTosonL the case, and ! am anxious
therefore that tine real facts should b
known to YOU and tho public. Mr.
| lGarrott has been perfectly opon IN a
lthis business, aud since 1 o4mo q
Hamburg h0 has read mo extract
l8hoWing t2Gt the statements gJini
abau. on your side are exaggerated
and as / 30 VOt wish my nam0 TO b
compromised In anyway think an
Justified in sending you this telegram
| lSigncdl JOHN PENDER
Please give above correspondence +
1.-THE press with auch additional inl0I
lmn,iun as may bo necessary to fall.
explain oVr independent position"
! rSieneal RoDEBT GARRETT.
NEW YORK, August W
have sent the following to the NoJ
York Herald. ID, II. Bates.
President and General Manager.
81 bog to hand you herewith a cop
OF cable correspondence between Mes
srs. q arrett, Pender and Field, whic
hhs Just reached mo over tho Mae Ay
| Bennett cable. Tho wild rumors Ys1c
have been circulated during tho pas
month concerning an allegod arrange
mOnt botNCeu the Western Union an,
the Baltimore e Ohio telegraph com
lpauios have been repeatedly denied b
MIR. Garrett and myself only TO bo rC
lnewgl IN some varied form 10 mes
what were each Time deemed 10 b
most explicit doninlg, u Is r6mDrka
| bio that the statements haYo not Onl
romaiEUd unCOn,fhdiotod on this Fid
by Others who must havo known thOi
lalsiiy, but that it has now bec3m
necessary 10 secure an Official dOnig
from Ponder, who is himsOlt an hon
orary Western Union director. Tn
Baltimore & Ohio, which sinco tho hb
sorptlOn by tho Western Union OF Oh
American Union and tho Atlantic 1
Pacific COmpaniea in 1881, has operate,
an independent telcgraphic system
has never lGltarCd In Its policy q
maintaining ita independence, bailey
iug that ample and substantial line
between tho important trado contre
} OF tho country, built vt low prices f.
cash, would command adequate Gus
tom and offered u fair return upon th
investment, and inetead OF s5liinl
out, as sOmo would wish ms 10 do, vi
are still extending ana adding toou
system, covering territory until latell
occupied by tho American Rapid
whose limos were recently absorbed b.
our rival, and contracts have h6ci
made fur additional extensions 20 va
riDus other points. Competitive tnlo
graph can and will DO sustained.
ID. II, BATES,
| President and General Manager BAL
timore n Ohio Telegraph Company.