Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-24

600 more within one year from date
Furthermore, that said Hayes should pa,
within 30 days 5000 to the said party o
the first part, provided the exhibition b
made IN Chicago, and demonstrate that tn,
party of the first part for period of six day
can maintain temperature in refrigerato
of between 80 and 45 degrees Farenheit ant
preserve the articles contained therein. A
the order of the Board of Directors / pro
ceeded to Chicago and personally conducted
| the exhibition. Twas accompanied by Gen
eral Raum .'ud joined later by Mr. Frank A
Smith, the inventor. There were some
things which happened in Chicago that
didn't like.
| When l returned to Pittsburg 1 informed
nv business associates of the facts in the
case and wanted to tender nv resignation,
which they refused to accept. Some other
business in which 1 was interested made
my. presence in New York absolutely nee.
essary. / was absent several weeks, and
during nv absence sent my resignation IN
to the Universal Refrigerating Company.
General Raum insisted 1 should have it re-
| called, but | wired him that my resignation
was irrevocable and must stand.
The Meeting With MitkIewiecz.
1t was while was attending to the exhib-
ition of the Universal Refrigerating Com
pany in January, in the city of Pittsburg,
| that L was introduced to the Count Eugene
de Mitkiewiecz. Frank A. Smith, the in
ventor of the Universal Refrigerator Com
pany system, desired me to take UP the con-
cessions which he claimed his friend the
| Count could have for the asking from the
| Chinese Government, and which consisted
of contracts to build railroads, establish
banks, telephone lines, and postal service.
He claimed it was the egotistical conduct of
Wharton Barker which had prevented the
consummation of this enterprise long before
The Count came over here unsolicited by me
and told me his story. / told him l was
poor, had no money to invest, and didn't see
how I could be of service. He returned
again in the course of a week or so and
Smith and himself agreed that if would
investigate the enterprise they would pay
all my expenses and give me ashare amoun-
ing to s, 900, 600 worth of stock in the COM
pany.
1 spoke to q lawyer, friend of mine here
In the city, and accompanied by him started
East to secure an interpreter with ability to
translate Mandarin Chinese into English
an Interpreter of whom the Count had no
knowledge-so that we might satisfy our
selves of the truth of the Counts state
ments tha. the Chinese officials, both in this
country and in China were his coadjutors
prolonged search, in which visited all the
colleges of note east of the Allegheny
mountains found an interpreter who made
q translation of the documents in the
Counts possession, and acted as interpreter
in conversation with the different attaches
of the Chinese legation at Washington,
who corroborated all the Counts statements.
After considerable work, finally reached
Colonel Elliott +. Sheppard, of New York,
who personally informed me that if eX-Sen-
ator Blair was received as Minister of the
United States in China he would take part
in the enterprise of securing said concessions
from the Chinese Government. introduced
the Count to the Colonel. The Count had
several interviews with him and later went
West to meet him.
Any Amount of Promises.
On his return from the trip he showed me
a letter signed by Colonel E. F. Sheppard,
IN the Colonel's own hand writing, ad-
dressed to His Excellnncy Tsui Kuyin, the
Chinese Minister at Washington, in which,
as near as | can recall, not only would the
money necessary to start this enterprise be
forthcoming, but thai he would agree to
have 20 young men, selected each year from
among the Chinega youths of the Empire,
brought to this country and educated as en-
gineers, telegraph operators, ETC., their
tuition not to cost more than from 81 900 to
81 500 per year each.
/ write this because in q letter forwarded
to me by Miss Mosby, and dated August
13, at the Mall and Express Office in
New York, Colonel sheppard, through his
forms Miss Mosby that Colonel Sheppard
wishes to say "he knows little or nothing
of the company you refer to, and has no in |
terest in it. That Colonel Sheppard visit |
ed Washington and had q three hours |
in relation to this very company
is beyond his ability to disprove, Bnd that
he also succeeded through my own and the |
Counts efforts in having the Chinese Min
istsr dine at his house in New York City
when some of the best known of the fnan- |
cial world were present If there was any
deception practiced in regard to Colonel |
standing on this question it was
done by Mitkiewiecz without my being cog |
infant l embarrassed myself very seri-
ously in aiding Count Mitkiewiecz to pay |
back to the Chinese Minister some |
S21, 900 which he had lost by the failure of |
the North River Bank in New York City, |
and which the minister said must be made |
good before anv concessions could be ap-
piled for or granted. The assertions that |
have been made i'll the papers regarding the |
Count and his swindling operations in the |
various parts of the country, as far as my |
go, is unfounded and utterly |
false. That the Count was fully aware of |
nv past history away back in April was be- |
yond dispute. 1 believe he will also cor
the statement that l now make |
hat after talking it over with him 1 told
Miss Mosby every fact in connection with my
life long before 1 sought to become more |
than mere acquaintance.
In regard TO Mr. Miller's statement of
MS business operations L can say that L have
oeen cognizant of almost all of them, and
asst fall accompanied him to West Virginia
while he was engaged on one of his railroad
with ex-senator Cowden.