Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-02-09
THE WIZARDS FRIEND
YOUNG AMOS L. HOPKINS HAS LEFT JAY
G0ULD'S EMPLOY.
he Was Iutrusted With Interests Of Vast Magnitude
in Multitude Of Big CorpOratOns-Ihe
Announcement Causes Sensation
in Wall Street

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renee Hopkins, who for years has been one
Of Jay GOuld's closest business associates
has left the Wizards employ.
He has been intIusted with interests of
vast magnitude, he has represented Mr.
Gould in multitude of big corporations
and 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 E. Connor and Giovan-
nj MOrOsini parted company with Mr..
Gould, Mr.. Hopkins has seemed to be
cloeer than anybody else TO him-save
only two parsons, those two being Russell
Sage snd Mr. GOuld's son George But
it is not recently alone that Mr.. Hop
kins and Mr.. Gould have had intimate re-
lations. Back in the days when Mr.,
GOuld's scheme for wrecking elevated rail-
way corporations here we're Just budding,
Mr. Hopkins had so won the admiration
and confidence of his employer, that Gould
obtained from his friend, Judge West
brook, an order making Hopkins co-receiv-
er of the elevated roads with Judge John
F. Dillon. Mr.. Hopkins not much more
than twenty-five years old then, was al
ready so high in the Gould favor that he
was Vice President of the Wabash Railway
Company and conspicuous 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
every corporation of any consequence
where Gould has figured. From every one
of these he now resigns all at once, quit
ting forthwith all official relations with
them. In the list are great corporations
like the Missouri Pacific Railway Com
psny. st. Louis, Iron Mountain and South
ern Pacific. Wabash, and the lately ac-
quired st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas
Mr. Hopkins had much to commend him
to Mr.. Gould. He came from a family Of
good repute. The relative and name7ake
Of the Massachusetts, Amos Lawrence, in
honor of whose devotion the city of Law
renee, in Kansas, was named, he made
handsome fgurehead. He was man OF
some intellectual consequence, too, and a
worker-iust such man as was of inesti.
mAble value to the controller of great cor
porations.
Mr.. Goald, for his part, has stood in the
community as an enthusiastic believer in
the Younger man, and when, year or so
ago, Mr.. Hopkins became involved in scme
domestic misfortunes, Mr.. Gould rushed to
the fore ss his champion. Men knowing
the twain, and having opportunities to OBJ
serve them closely, have hailed them as
brothers. Till lately they occupied dwell
ing houses beside each other, and they
travelled toand from business in one anOth-
er's company. Their evenings were Oftener
spent together than otherwise.
The announcement. therefore, in Wall
street yesterday, that Mr. Hopkins had
suddenly determined to quit all business
association with Mr.. Gould, wss reviewed
as the making of o smart sensation. 1t
was declared in Wall street that the 40
men had quarreled and that Mr.. Hopkins
was quitting the Gould service in high
state of temper. This report of the quar-
rel came, too, upon the authority OF per
sonal friends of Mr.. Hopkins. For Mr..
Gould, it was stated, though, that there
had been no such outbreak as Wall street
was speculating over. That Mr.. Hop
kins vas retiring" was admitted, but
nothing beyond this was to be gained in
official avenues. Mr.. Hopkins himself
was not in a mood to welcome ipquisitive
newspaper reporters.
This statement was dictated however,
by one of Mr.. Gould's Wall street frienda:
1T is quite true that Mr.. Hopkins has re-
signed his post with Mr. Gould. WY
he does so is due to this fact merely
Mr.. Gould cut Mr.. Hopkins salary down
He thought be was too expensive, snd,
frankly saying so, acted Just as he thought
and talked. Mr.. Hopkins, for sometime
psst, has understood practically what
wes coming, and he mas been quietly
looking for another place. He does not
leave because he has got that other posi-
ton, but because the action that he has
anticipated from Mr.. Gould for months
has come at last 1t is altogether untrue
that Mr.. Hopkins and Mr.. Gould have
quarreled."
Upon this same authority it is said that
Mr.. Gould has been cutting salaries in ev-
cry direction throughout all of his corpora
tlOnS, he Is CICultcu WIN HaNluE piVpSht
about reductions within the last ninety
days that aggregate monthly saving OF
$S9, 600. That Amos Lawrence Hopkins,
the aforetime favorite friend, should come
in rs a sufferer from this shaving down pro-
cess seems strange TO Wall street, where
suspicious are abundant that Mr.. Hopkins
does not give up big salary end inhuen-
tial position with feelings altogether larob'
like.
The removal of Mr.. Hopkins from close
business relations with Mr.. Gould leaves
George Gould virtually alone as the per-
sonai adviser and Office associate of his
father. Mr.. Giovanni Morcsini openly
avows that he was forced away" from
Mr.. Gould's confidence and association by
George. whom he credits with looking
askance upon every man who gets close to
the elder Gould in a business way. Mr..
Hopkins has not yet moved out of the Mis-
souri, Pacific office, and will probably re-
main there for some days yet. Whatever
the real state of his feelings toward Mr.
Gould, it is thus evident that there is going
to be no open display of wounds.