The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-05
JOHN WANAMAKER
Did Jay Gould the Honor to Call
upon Him
In his Private Car when it Reached Washing.
ton-The Incident is Commented upon
as Very Extraoordinary
Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch

| Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch I
NEW YORK, Feb. "A World special
from Washington says: Something like
financial difficulty for the great business
house OF John Wanamaker seemed to be
imminent a short time ago according to
rumors then afioat 1t was very generally
stated at the time that Mr.. Wanamaker
was embarrassed. He was reported to
have lost large sum of money by invest
ing heavily in the stock of the Philadel-
phia ~ Reading railroad company, attri-
buted largely to the Vaccinations of jaw
Gould, who was accused of determination
to have revenge on the postmaster-general
for the unfriendly attitude which the latter
had assumed towards the Western Union
Telegraph company. When Wanamaker
executed deed of sale upon the house in
which ne resides here in Washington the
transaction was interpreted to mean the
postmaster-generai wanted money very
badly. How much of all such reports
afloat was true remains to this day mat
/ ter Of conjecture.
AT the depot Of the Pennsylvania railway
in this city Monday evening there oc-
| Cured an episode which was noticed bv
very lew but which IS somewhat remark
able IN its way. a party of railroad men
arrived on special cars about 5 or 9 o'clock
in the evening and instead of going to some
hotel in the city as ordinarily travellers
would probably have done, they had their
special cars side tracked at the station and
there they remained all night wait
ing for some more railroad men
to come along in their special cars.
and join them in the morning for a trip
| through Alabama and Florida along the
| lines of the Missouri Pacific. The party
comprised MIR. Gould with his son George
and his daughter Ellen, President Inman,
of the Richmond 81 Danville railroad, Sid
ney Dillon, Calvin S. Brice and General
Samuel Thomas
| Now, when an ordinary American citi
zen comes to Washington to transact pusi-
ness with the heads of one of the executive
| departments here, he usually has to call
upon the official he desires to see. Itisnot
usual for the Official to call on the visitor.
either at his hotel in the city or his private
car at railway station and Postmaster
! General Wanamaker is no exception to this
rule. But Monday the postmaster general
treated Jay Gould differently. Anyone who
| happened to be at the Baltimore & Potomac
depot Monday evening between 9 and 10
O'Clock might have seen Mr.. Gould and Mr.,
Wanamaker arm IN arm walking up and
down quiet and remote part of the plat
form engaged in close and earnest CONVEX
sation. The subject of their conversation
! is known probably to themselves alone.
But the fact that in this case Mr.. Wanna
maker called upon Gould instead of having
Gould call upon him, is salient and sig.
niticant fact which all the world may know.
For some reason it is quite evident that
Mr.. Gould can command the postmaster
! general as neither Senator Cameron nor a
delegation of Philadelphia politicians can
do. Possibly the once strained relations be-
tween the postmaster general and the Wiz
ard of Wall street may be adjusted by the
appointment of Jay Gould to be secretary
of the treasury.