New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-17
MR.. GOULD'S INTENTIONS.
a REPORT THAT HE WILL ATTEND THE PRO
POSED MEETING IN THIS CITY.
CHAIRMAN WALKER DENIES A WALL STREET
sropv-spEcurATIoN OVER THE OBJECT OF

CHAIRMAN WALKER DENIES WALL STREET
sroRy-sPEcUIATIoN OVER THE OBJECT OF
MR.. pEPEw's VISIT TO THE FAR WEST.
poston April 1e.-Messrs Clark, Ward & Co. arc
,oruea from trustworthy that Messrs. Could
Trar and Dillon have notified to the Western Traffic
Association that they will attend any meeting held In
New-York.
chicago. April 1e.-The Wall Street story that Mr.
ou1d had telegraphed Chairman Walker that his roads
had formed their connections to the seabod and would
therefore need his services no longer is denied py
chairman Walker who said to-day
al have received communication from Gould or
Huntington on that or any other subject"
The officials of the Rock Island and the Atchison
affect to treat the matter lightly and say that they are
ahc to take care of themselves without the aid Of the
Gould and Huntington interest.
Members Of the Vanderbilt party, which arrived here
TODAY and left here tonight for the West specifically
denied any knowledge of the alleged ldHuntngton
deal and declared that their trip had no special
sleniHcanoe Nevertheless they had no sooner landed
in Chicago than various rumors as to their mission
heran 10 circulate. One that the alliance between
The Newyork Central aud the Canadian Pacific had
armsed the ire of the Michigan Central and Lake shore
manacements and that Messrs. Vanderbilt and Depew
had come West to satisfy themselves to the effect Of
the deal on those properties. Another story is that
they are going TO Denver to what methods are en-
Moved by Mr. Gould to divert the traffic Of the Union
contract with the Chicago and Northwestern IT
hardly be said that this trip ADDS c01r to the report
that the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul are TO be consolidated as there
Is In the party interested in the latter road ana
Ines - wv ''
The failure Of the Advisory Board of the Western
Traffic Association to qnorHm in Chicago con-
tinued to be topic of interest in Wall Street yester
day. The surprise and perplexty at the attitude Of
Jay Gould toward the loudly trumpeted organization,
and at the silence Of the Huntington interests in regard
their position, did not diminish Discussion Of the
affair still largely speculative, and the return
this morning of the New-York members Of the Board
who went to Chicago looked forward to with
high degree of interest Among those whose arrival
here this morning is expected are George c. Magoun,
of Kidder, Peabody Co.; Samuel Spencer, jr. OF
Drexel, Morgan & Co., and John ]. McCook, who was
been of the most active and enthusiastic
promoters of railroad associations
The "bears" continued to insist that Mr. Gould's
absence from the Chicago meeting meant that he was
ready to see the Western Traffic Association die
Others, and among them supposed to be more
or less connected with the Gould interests asserted that
Mr. Gould was only taking this method of forcing
the realization of some OF his pet schemes, for
instance the adjustment of individual agencies and
the establishment of joint agency for outside busi
ness. All agreed that II a meeting were held in New
York, was rJmored 1t might be, on May 6, there
would be an interesting exhibition of wrath on the part
Of those members Of the Advisory Board who had been
induced to attend the worse than futile meeting in
Chicago
1t was reported that no word of Mr. Gould's alleged
Illness had been received at his Office in the Western
Union building, and that the statement was dis
credited there.