The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-12-01
SUGGESTIONS FROM WARD.
Warmers CheckoOox WIlI Tell All About
the Missing Millions.

NEW YoRr, Nov. 30-The Herald has
an interview with Ferdinand Ward con-
cerning the disposition Of the missing
millions Of the firm OF Grant & Ward.
The prisoner said, with much vehemence:
"Why doesn't Receiver Julien T. Davis
publish the statement OF Grant & Ward?
Why not tell the public who are the cred
itors, the ruined depositors, the men
who have lost their alp That is the on.
ly way by which the truth can be known,
that and the publication OF the check
books OF W. S. Warner, F. D. Grant and
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. When a new re-
ceiver is appointed who will publish facts
the affairs OF Grant 4 Ward can be known
in indiEputable details; when the check
book OF W. S. Warner is produced, the
names Of the men who ate our heart out
will be known; when the checkbooks OF
the Grant boys ara produced the amount
OF ruin they sustained and the amount
of hard cash they drew and epsnt will be
known and the names CT the men who
shared their profits will be given 10 the
World-and not till then"
Ward said that Warner was merely act
ing for J. II. Work, and that when War
ner's checkbook is produced it will tell
the whole story. Receiver Davies, he
said, got from him 100000 in securities,
and the checkbook OF Ulysses 8. Grant, Jr.,
would show that he drew out $770, 1913 in
actual cash, and that Fred Grant got be-
tween $3.50, 600 and SlS0,000. Ward paid
Fred Grant 20 percent q month for his
money, and il Grant divided with Com.
modore Garrison, Shoemaker and others,
that was something with which Ward Aays
he had nothing to do. Ward added:
"It comes with very poor grace from
this man who took the securities belong
ing to Grant & Ward, borrowed money on
them from his friends at reasonable rates
aud loaned to US, the owners OF the secur.
tiles, the very money he had borrowed on
our property at the e1tortionate rate OF 20
percent per month. Our books show it,
our check books prove it, and now, thank
Heaven, he comes to the front and says
that he, too, has books revealing every
transaction OF his life, with the attendant
circumstances! Will he give that book
to the public, or ia the public, towhom he
contides everything concerning himself
and his family, not to be taken into his
confidence in this respect alone?"
II see you are rather sensitive on the
Grant matter"
"Indeed l am. Particularly so far as
the old General was concerned"
"Did he get any money-real money, l
mean?"
"Why, certainly, the checks show It.
His own bank book showsit. The undis-
puted record OF the firm show that he re-
S242, 900 against, we claim, the $500 he
put in, but which Fred Grant says was
$4,000. can't make it Sl90, 900, but,
granting that, he still drew $242, 900"
Ward also said that Mayor Grace was
paid for himself and through his two
agents, the Tobeys, grand total OF profits
amounting to $2S4,Sl4 He made calcu-
lation that he received from Warner
81, 7G0, 1876 and paid him SS, l24,S03, leav-
ing balance Of 81 ,345, 1858. He insists,
however, that Ward was no more guilty
than Mayor Grace, and that the money
can be recovered from Warner and his
principal, ]. Henry Work, il Receiver
Davies will prosecute in earnest and COM
pei the production OF the books in court.
Colonel Grants Liabilities.
Nvtr Vnpp Nov 20-A story Ia fnId