The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-14

BUSINESS RUPTURE.
Jay GOuld's Business Associate Re-
tires from Service.
HINTS AT HIGH WORDS
Wall Street GOssips Authority for a
Quarrel as the Cause.
HIS SALARY REDUCED
The Railroad King Regarded Him as
Ton Fxne1Sive.

New YORK, Feb. S.-AmOs Lawrence
Hopkins has quit the service of Jay
Gould. For years he has been one Of
Mr.. Gould's closest business associates,
and he has been interested with inter-
ests of vast magnitude. He has repre-
scented MIR. Gould in multitude Of big
corporations. lie has sat in theOfice
with him. In Wall street circles he
has of late been recognized as prac-
tically Mr.. Gould's other self. Since
Washington Z. Conner and Giovanni
Morosini parted company with Mr..
G. ould, Mr.. Hopkins has seemed closer
than anybody else to him. save only
two persons, those two being Russell
Sage and Mr.. Gould's son George. MI
Hopkins had much to commend him to
Mr.. Gould. He came from family OF
| good repute, the relative and namesake
| of the Massachusetts Amos Lawrence,
/ in honor of whose abolition devotion
the city of Lawrence, Kansas, was
| named.
He made a handsome figurehead.
| He was man of some intellectual
| consequence. too, and a worker; just
such man as was of inestimable val
| Ne to the controller of great corpora
tions. The announcement in Wall
street yesterday, therefore, that MIR.
Hopkins had suddenly determined to
quit all business association with Mr..
| Gould was received as the making or
| IA smart sensation. 1t was declared In
| Wall street that the two men had
uarrelled and that Mr.. Hopkins was
quitting the Gould service in high
state of temper. This report of the
qua rel came to an END npuh the au-
Ihority of personal friends or Mr.. Hop
kins. For Mr.. Gould, IL Was stated
IL H.. Il M
such outbreak as Wall street was spec
ulating over. That MIR. Hopkins was
retiring was admitted. Nothing be-
yond this was to be gained in official
avenues. MIR. Hopkins himself was
not in the mood to welcome lDqulsitiVe
newspaper reporters. This statement
was dictated for the Times, however,
by one of MIR. Gould's street friends:
sit is quite true that MIR. Hopkins
has resigned his post with Mr.. Gould.
Why he loes so is this fact, merely:
Mr.. Gould cut Mr.. Hopkins salary
down. He thought he was too expen-
sive and frankly saying SO acted just as
he thought and talked. Mr.. Hopkins
for some time past has understood
practically what was coming and ne
has been quietly looking for another
place. He does not leave because he
has got that other position, but because
! the action he has anticipated on the
part of MIR. Gould for months has
come at last 1t is altogether untrue
that Mr.. Hopkins and Mr. Gould have
quarrelled.
| Upon this same authority it is said
. that Mr. Gould has been cutting sal
l aries in every direction throughout al
3 of his corporations. He is credited
I | with having brought about reductions
g | within the last ninety days that aggre
e gate monthly saving of $39 900. Thai
t Amos Lawrence Hopkins, the afore
h time favorite friend, should come in {
!, sufferer from this aforesaid shavinI
e down process seems strange TO Wal
: street. The removal of Mr.. Hopkins
n from close business relations with Mr.
: Gould leaves George Gould virtually
+ alone as the personal advisor and offict
: associate of his. father.
e Mr.. Giovanni MoTosini openly avowE
: that he was forced away" from
+ Gould's confidence ana association By
George, whom he credits with looking
askance upon every man who gets Close
to the elder Gould in business way
T Mr.. Hopkins has not yet moved out o.
4 the Missouri Pacific office. He will
probably remain there for some days
yet. Whatever the real state of his
!, feelings towards Mr.. Gould, it is thus
!, evident that there is going to be nc
Ii open display of wounds.