The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-23
4 SLICK ENCLISHMAN
He Takes in Chauncey NJ. Depew
and Many Others.
ANNUAL PASSES GRANTED HIM
One C. H. Cook Represents Himself as the AS
sistant superintendent of the London &
Northwestern Railway.
Especial to THE MISUNDERSTANDING Dispatch !

loptclal 10 The Observation-Disclosures Dispatch. I
NEW York, April Railroad magnates
OF New York and Chicago, who nave the
reputation Of being the sherpest people on
earth, have been taken in, and by clean
cut little Englishman at that. They have
pressed upon him private cars, annual
passes and theatre boxes, little dinners for
select parties and luncheons ad hbitum.
Chauncey M. Depew mourns some annual
passes, and his gray side whiskers tremble
with sorrow as he thinks how he was
worked. George B. Roberts, the astute
president OF the Pennsylvania, was so
taken in that he furnished his new &C
quaintance with fiattering letters of intro
ductlon to western, friends; Stuyvesant
Fish, of the Illinois Central, and the Bur-
llngton people-every body that this smooth
Tiger from Brltain's isle met-was caught
IL came about like this: One G. H. Cook
landed II New York, and said he was as
slstant superintendent and civil engineer
or the London & Northwestern railway
ana was visiting this country for health
resi- and recreation, and incidentally de-
sired to see how the great American rail-
ways were run. The London & North
western is Britain'S crack road, and Mr.
COOK was received with open arms. De-
Dit lines and nice new Wagner pass, a
luncheon, with pretty speech and ream
OF letters Of introduction.
George b. Roberts furnished the free
doIn OF the Pennsylvania system and sent
Mr.. Cook to the great Altoona shops TO
look them over, which he did, under the
guidance of officials whose time was worth
In the aggegate, $500 day. At Pitts6urg
the iron kings and high tariff barons wined
and dined the great English railroad Off
cial, and Chicago Burlington s. Quincy
private car was procured to bring the
faVorlte to Chicago. Who sent that car
| after Cook the Burlington people refused
TO tell. When MIR. Cook arrived at Chi
cago there was a great to do. He was
smooth. quiet, affable, courteous, and
with majestic minuet step he invaded the
hearts of al he met. President Roswell
Miller, OF the Chicago, Milwaukee q st.
Paul, at once interviewed Mr.. Cook on
elevated terminals. When Mr. Cook found
out that Mr.. Miller was in favor of surface
tracks, Mr. Cook promptly declared that
there were no elevated terminals in Eng
land to speak OF, because they were i'm
practicable.
Mr.. Miller sent Cook to Milwau-
kee to inspect their shops. Then
Cook called en- j. D. Springer,
third vice-president of the Atchison
q Topeka and told him that elevated ter
minals were of the greatest benefit to Eng
land, and that gentleman gave up com
plete assortment of passes on the Atchison
/ Cal1fornia's lines. But the Illinois Central
was struck the very hardest. Cock pro
duced pass to New Orleans and return.
and paid the fare south for his wife When
the Central heard of this the officials sent
I by telegraph free transportation back for
! Mrs. Cook and asked permission TO refund
/ the amount paid for her going south. Then
| l.O0lI lnnrnnUn1 W act 10 ho,
America thoroughly from the Atlantic to
the Rocky mountains and is now doing the
Pacific coast in a Southern Pacific private
! car.
Had Cook remained quiet and not been
interviewed, he could have kept up this
pace for year. But some of those inter
views came to the notice of G. A. Barra-
toni, the London 81 Northwestern general
passenger and freight agent for America,
at $50 Broadway. New York. He never
heard of him, and after communicating
with the home Office in London, he tele-
graphed TO Chicago as follows: &C. H.
Cook has never besn associated with my
company in any official capacity whatever,
and is a fraudulent person"
Red hot on the heals OF this is letter
from Mr.. Barrstoni to the RallUdy Age,
which reads as follows: ITO railway Of
ticials in the United States, Canada and
Mexico 1t has come to the knowledge,
both at the headquarters of this company
in London and AT their New York agency,
that one G. H. Cook, styling himself as
sistant superintendent and civil engineer
Of this company in England, has largely
imposed upon railway officials on this CON
tinent by obtaining transportation favors
under false representations. l therefore
take this public way of warning those
interested that the said Mr.. Cook is not
connected with this company in any way
whatever, and must be considered and
treated as fraudulent person. Respect
fully, G. A. Barratoni. G. P. 81 F. A"
Local railway officials tonight are kept
busy explaining" how they happened to
yictimized