Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-22
HELP JAY AITCH."
Why Seligman Likes John Hoey
and Dislikes Henry Hilton.
FINANCIAL AID TO H0EY.
Tho Ve1ed Question of Jews in Hotels.
What VIII Next Summers Policy BE?
How Hoey Made Friend and
Hilton Made an Enemy.
Special TO the Gazette.

New YORK, Nov. 21.-Among the papers
left by John Hoey in his desk at the time
of his hasty expulsion from the presidency
OF the Adams express company was found
little slip of yellow paper bearing the
written words: Help jay aitch." Mr..
Hoey had taken away his private papers,
leaving only discarded scraps of memoranda
and other matters which he deemed worth
less. 1t was in this letter that the sentence
quoted was found on what, as it proved,
was bit clipped out from the center of Il
cable dispatch. Every trace of the eX-
president was being carefully and eXpertly
scrutinized, but this slip of paper was a
puzzle, to be solved only when somebody
brought clew to its meaning. There can
be no certainty that his solution is true, for
silence or denial meets the news-inquirer;
but the story current to-day i'll Wall street
circles is at least plausible. According to
this explanation, "Help jay aitch' was con-
tanned in daily telegram from Jesse Selig-
man, who is travelling in Europe, to his
clearinghouse in this city, and it meant,
Help John Hoey," the initials of Hoey's
name having been spelled out, according TO
usage, in order to avoid blunder in trans
mission. 1t Is also said that, i'll obedience
to this direction, the Seligmans have prof
fered more or less of financial aid to Hoey
in his present troubles.
This matter opens up freshly the old
wound which ex-Judge Henry Hilton in
excluding them from the Grand Union ho-
tel at Saratoga because they We're Jews. IL
will be remembered that Mr.. Hilton, having
acquired the hotel property from the Stew
art estate, resolved upon the policy of u
Jewish taboo; and, In order to emphatically
advertise the pact, he had the wealthy and
socially eminent Seligmans openly and sud-
denly turned away when they applied for
accommodations. Hilton's course enraged
the Jews generally and those who We're in
the dry goods trade boycotted Hilton's
wholesale dry goods business in retaliation.
On the other hand, people with prejudices
against the Jews declared that Hilton's ac-
ton would make the fortune of the Grand
Union. Sentiment altogether aside, how
ever, the anti-Jew method was abandoned
at the Grand Union last summer, and no
body with money enough to pay his bill was
turned away. This abandonment of Hilton
of his determination was decided upon be-
fore the season opened, and an eminent
Jewish physicians very influential man
among his people was invited to take up
free quarters at the hotel, becoming the
hotel physician, which is place commonly
sold at pretty good figure. The idea was
to have this man lead his fellow Israelites
back into the Grand Union. He refused
the offer. Jesse Seligman remained bitter
and retaliatory toward Hilton, and last
summer, no member of his family would SO
much as set foot on the Grand Union
grounds, although they frequented the two
other great Saratoga hotels, the United
States and the Congress.
John Hoey's great business venture, out
side of the express company, has been the
Hollywood hotel and cottages at Long
Branch. Into them went the money which
he gained from the presidency of the
Adams express company. He was inclined
TO shut out the Jews, too, as they had been,
and still are, from the adjoining Norwood
park of rented summer residences, owned
by the wealthy Norman L. Monroe. But
after a season or two, he declared himself
unprecedented, and Hollywood became recep-
tive to Jews and Gentiles alike. Jesse Sc
ligman's summer villa is close by the Hol-
lywood property. He and Hoey had been
intimate friends. When Hoey leaned TO-
ward anti-Judaism, almost an estranSe-
ment ensued; but at length they talked the
matter over frankly and Hoey, as a result,
removed all barriers to the entrance Of
Jews at Hollywood. 1t is said that Selig-
man promised financial aid in case any loss
should arise On the contrary, Hollywood
was prosperous last summer for the first
time. But the message attributed to Selig-
man, "Help jay aitch," is read IS a sequel
to the bit of story here told.