The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-09
G0ULD'S RIGHT BOWER.
T. AMOS LAWRENCE HOPKINS, LEAVES
THE MAGNATE's SERVICE.
A Young Man Who Has Managed the
Railroad Kings Immense Business
Quits. 1t Ia Thought, Because of Re-
duction in Salary.


New York, Feb. S.-The Times says:
Amos Lawrence Hopkins has quit the
service of Jay Gould. For years he has
been one OF Mr.. Gould's closest business
associates. He has been intrusted with
interests OF vast magnitude. He has rep
resented Mr.. Gould in a multitude of big
corporations. He has sat in the Office
with him. In Wall street circles he has of
late been recognized as practically Mr..
Gould's other self. Since Washington +.
Connor and Giovanni Morsini parted
company with Mr.. Gould, Mr.. Hopkins
has seemed to be closer than anybody else
to him-save only two persons, those two
being Russell Sage and Mr.. Gould's son,
George. But ii is not recently alone that
Mr.. Hopkins and Mr.. Gould have had in
innate relations Back in the days when
MIR. Gould's scheme for wrecking the Ele-
waited Railway Company corporations here
was Just budding, Mr. Hopkins had so
won the admiration and confidence of his
employer, that Mr.. Gould obtained from
his friend Judge Westbrook, an order
making Hopkins co-receiyer of the ele-
waited roads, with Judge John j. Dillon.
Mr.. Hopkins, not much more than twenty
five years old then, was already so high
in the Gould favor that he was vice-presi-
. dent of the Wabash Railway Company and
e>ronspicuous in the direction of other
Gould corporations controlling millions OF
capital.
In later years Mr.. Hopkins has been
with Mr.. Gould in the directory OF nearly
90
where Gould has figured. From every
one of these he now resigns, all at once,
quitting forthwith all relations with them.
In the list are great corporations like the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company; st.
Louis, Iron Mountain x Southern; Texas
Pacific, Wabash. and the lately acquired
81. Louis, Arkansas x Texas.
Mr.. Hopkins had much TO commend
him 10 Mr.. Gould. He came from fam
lily OF good repute. The relative and
namesake Of the Massachusetts Amos
Lawrence, in honor Of whose abolition de-
votion the city Of Lawrence, Kas, was
named, he made q handsome iigurchead.
He was u man Of some intellectual conse-
quence, too, and worker-jnst such a
man os was Of incstimablc value to the
controller OF great corporations. Mr..
Gould, for his part, has stood in the com.
munity rs an enthusiastic believer in the
younger man, and when only year or 80
ago Mr. Hopkins became involved
IN some domestic misiorunes, Mr.
Gould rushed TO the fore as his
champion. Men knowing the twain
and having opportunities TO observe
them closely, have hailed them Ms broth
ers. Till lately they occupied dwelling
houses beside each other, and they lrav-
elcd 10 and from business in one another s
company. Their evenings were more often
spent together than otherwise.
The announcement in Wall street yes
terday. therefore, that Mr.. Hopkins had
suddenly determined 70 quit all business
association with MIR. Gould was reviewed
~ the making OF smart sensation. 1t
was declared in Wall street that the two
men had quarrclcd, and that Mr.. Hopkins
was quitting the Gould service In high
state oi temper This report of the quar-.
rel came, too, upon the authority OF per-
sonil friends OF Mr. Hopkins. For Mr..
,, ~-GOuld, IL WAS stated, though, that there
had been no such outbreak ~ Wall street
was Specializing over That Mr.. Hopkins
was "ieiling,' was admitted. Nothing
beyond this was to be- gained IN official
avenues. Mr.. Hopkins himself was not in
mood TO welcome inquisitye newspaper
reporters.
This statement was dictated for IN,
inns however, by one Of Mr.. Gould'
Wall street friends ut is quite true that
Mr. Hopkins has resigned his post with
Mr.. Gould. Why he does 10 IL due to thii
fact mercly-Mr. Gould cut Mr.. Hopkins
salary down. lie thought hc was too cx
pensiye, and, frankly saving 30. acted jus
~ he thought and talked Mr.. llopkin
for some time past has understood practi
cally what was coming, aud he has href
quietly looking Tor another place lie doe
not leave because he has got that othc
position, but because the action that h,
has anticipated Mr. Gould Tor months ia
come at last. IL is altogether untrue tia
Mr.. Hopkins and Mr.. Gould have quar-
relied
Upon this same authority II Is said tina
MIR. Gould has bcrn cutting salaries il
every direction throughout all Of his cot
poraiions lie II credited with hnvin
brought about reductions within the las
ninety DAYS that aggregate n MONTH
saving Of S,ig,OOO. That Amos lAWfcnc
HOPKINS. the aiorctimc iayuritr lrirn,
should come IN ~ sufferer from tai
shaving down process ~rcius strange
Wall street, where su,picions arc album
dant that Mr.. Hopkins does not give up
big salary and influential position Wit
feeling. altogether hmblikc.
The removal Of Mr.. Hopkins from clos
-. business relations with Mr.. Could lcaN,
George Gould virtually alone ~ the pc
snnal adviser and oiicc associate Of b
father. Mr.. Giovanni Murslni openI
ayows that he WIS forced away iru
Mr.. Gould's confidence aud association u
George. whom be- credits with lopkir
Askance upon everyone who gets rlusr
the elder Gould la q bushes, way. NJ
Ilopkin. las not got moved uut OF u
Missouri Pacific office. lie will pruhab
remain there Tor some days yet VIVA
ever the real stale OF his feelings l"waI
Mr. Gould, IL II thus evident that there
going 10 be- 70 open display OF wounds