The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-23
MAINTAINING SPECIAL CARS.
Gould and the VanderbiIts Come
Together in Colorado.
The Subject Discussed at the haste
Mechanics and Master Car Builders
Meeting-Gould's Big Law Suit.
Other Railroad News.
0 WHAT DOES IT MEAN:
The Huntington and Gould omcials in
Denver.

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| one to the belief there is either q gigantic
consolidation on foot or that the Vanderbilt
and Gould interests are 1t war and abOuc
| 10 draw the glittering sword for battle
that viii cast far in the shade any railroad
diSagreements heretofore known. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, who IS president of the
Vanderbilts' principal road, the New Yorl,
| Central, and who gets more money for the
job than Benny Harrison does rs p"csi-
dent Of the United States. and does bet
ter jOb is ut Salt Lake and viii be in Den
vor tomorrow. Cornelius Vanderbilt ana
a number of other railroad magnateS are
with him Jay Gould IS somewhere Oh
knows just exactly where. In this
hurried ald unexpected visit Of Depew
and Vanderbilt 10 the Rockies is said to
be d scheme to get the Wizard scalp. 1t is
| said by those who are supposed to be near
the throne, that the failure of Gould to
| attend the meeting of the Western traffic
association in Chicago is what has
brought about this move. President
| Hughitt Of the Northwestern had q rod
| in pickle for the Wizard and was intend
| ing to have it out with him at this meet
! ing. The cause of Mr.. Huchitt's anger
lies in the fact that the Northwestern
had made very close traffic alliance with
| the Union Pacific by which all transconti-
| mental business was handled By the two
| between Chicago and San Francisco, and
| New York business was handled by the
| Vanderbilt lines from Chicago. This
| alliance was q very profitable one to the
| Northwestern until Gould took the Union
| Pacific Then the Wizard began diverting
| the traffic to the Missouri Pacific. and init
| mated he didn't care picayune for the
! contract. The following from the
| CGicagO Tribune gives some further insight
| into the matter. 1t is from an interview
| with q Western railroad official:
ha. l,o+
| has the interests OF the Western traffic as
Sociation at heart is all bosh. A sufficient
answer is that he told several persons be
| fore he left New York that he would not
| attend the Chicago meeting, but carefully
concealed the fact from any member of the
association. Then | know that he is and has
been in better than his average health. but
he plead sickness as his excuse for staying
away, when he had been informed his pres
ence was necessary to make 4 quorum.
"NOw I'll tell YOU something that very
few people know. Gould raised $4,000 900 OF
the 81, OU0, 900 necessary to pay the floating
debt and secure control Of the Union Pacific
from the Equitable life insurance company
He had 10 borrow the money necessary first
to buy large block of Union Pacific stock
during the panic. Then he gobbled the
road. But the dear public was too sUspi-
ciOus TO buy his load of stocks, and his fer
tile brain conceived the Western traffic as
y
doomed as the savior OF Western roads and
in the momeutary confidence inspired he
unloaded $40, 900 900 in 4 lump on the Equit-
able and enough besides to pay the Union
Pacific floating. debt.
Then the figures show that he began
Immediately diverting former Union Pacific
traffic TO his Missouri Pacific, he having so
in the latter TO 81 in the former. The West
ern traffic has now served his purpose. and
he gives it two able bodied kicks with the
sugar tariff and his absence from the meet
ing.
But don't believe for a minute that De
pew thinks what he said, and also don't
believe that the Vanderbilt party has any
other object i'll its western "Trip than to
again get for the Northwestern the traffic
formerly turned over to 1t by the Union |
Pacific
1t is said that when Hughitt found |
Gould was determined to ignore the meet |
ing at which his proposed consolidation OF |
the Southw estein lines into one system I'M |
der one financial management, he at once |
wired Depaw. The result was that Depew |
Vanderbilt, Rooster and Twombly started |
at once for the West in a special train |
stopping at Chicago only long enough to get |
dinner. From there they went direct to |
Ogden which bears out the statement of the
Western railroad official quoted in the Tri- |
bune. II evident their object was TO be |
first in the field
When the traffic alliance was made with
the Union Pacific the work of construction
on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri
valley was stopped, the western terminus
remaining at Fort Casper, Wyoming. From
this point ii is only necessary to lay some
200 or 800 miles of track in a
southwesterly direction to connect
with the Central Pacific at Ogden.
parallel the Union Pacific its entire length,
and viii have an immense advantage over
it in the possession of 4 Chicago terminus |
and close connection with the Vanderbilt
lines for New York at that point. Now
that there is no longer any reason to doubt
Goulds duplicity, the above is the result to
be expected. 1t is thought the Vanderbilts
are too incersed to consider any compro-
mise. Should this surmise be the true one |
it is not at all likely the Vanderbilts Will be
content with parallelng the Union Pacific,
and thus limit the power of the Could
combine, but they will, in all
prObility carry the war into the South and
throw lines out paralleling Gould where
ever possible, and thus force him to the
wall. While the Gould Huntington and
Vanderbilt interests were in harmony,
the power of either of the trinity was well
nigh supreme. and it is possible this battle
may accomplish what long legislation has
failed to effect. Vanderbilt and his con-
freres are needed in Texas.
WHAT GOULD SAYS.
Special to the Gazette.
New YORK, April 2O-The following
statement was yesterday made by Jay |
Gould to member of the Denver press: |
$50 much has been printed concerning this
present trip OF mine that l have no obiec-
lion to being placed in the right light. / |
wish to emphaticaily deny that L am seek
ng to disrNpt the Western association.
While do not deny that such thing has
entered my mind more that once, still it
would not be policy for me to do so. Don't
hink for moment that am afraid 10 at
empt such thing l dare anything. The |
Santa Fe and Rock Island are often in print
IS great rivals 1t is bOsh, for reasons both
slessrs. Marvel and Gable can explain. Nei-
her one of these two roads dare make a
move without consulting me. As for my
liverting traffic that naturally belongs TO
he Union Pacific 10 the Missouri Pacific
story is absolutely untrue; l know TO my
,wn knowledge the Missouri Pacific has l
urned over to the Union Pacific twice as c
much business as the former has received c
rom the latter. There will be no change 7
II the present traffic arrangements with the i
chicago and Northwestern because it |
would not be policy. As for extending the | c
Missouri Pacific west, work is progressing c