Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-12

part of 1t which had invested in Mis-
souri, Pacific at 115, thought that
George" was specializing" and in a
way by no means small as to results, |
though perhaps small as to methods. |
1t should be said that when Prince |
George was shown the story at the |
time it was printed he said it was All |
boSh'' and a big fake" 1t was 4 |
good story, nevertheless. Ben royato, |
at least, if not e yero.
Jay Gould had gone away for six /
months on the first of his quests after |
that health which had irrevocably fed, |
leaving the hopes Of a number OF his !
friends and followers pinned to Mis- |
souri, Pacific, and George, who was a
director, in charge of his interests in
the board. Suddenly-it was in the
early spring of 1SSS-the stock began to
fall, and stood not on the order of its
falling. It fell like a Brooklyn bridge
jumper, and from its altitude of 10
it found its first resting place at 76 IA.
George has been coppering his faith
err was the howl that went up from
The injured ''He has been using
to his own profit without the risk of a
cent"
When the howl grew articulate and
Ineligible it was found that Georges
offending had consisted in his intimat-
ing that Missouri Pacific would pass
its spring dividend and profiting by the
rush to get out. which followed the init
nation.
81 haven't seen the roads report,
and 1 don't know whether it will pass
! the dividend or not" said Prince George
when the howl reached his ears III
| Florida, whittier he had gone to meet
| his father, but they may be sure Of
one thing, that if the road don't earn
| it's dividend we won't touch the surplus
| to pay it. That is against our policy
| To the losers, that looked like con-
| firmation strong as holy writ OF their
| charges. TO the imperial mind it is
! proof of Prince Georges conservatism.
! OF evidence that he did profit by his
| knowledge of the roads condition no
| whit was ever produced. Nor was he
removed from the board of directors
| by his father as his foes had fOndly
| prophesied. When talk was revived in
| the street the other day about George
| having ''cOppered his father" Mr.
Clews said: ooh, no, I guess that
story must have been about Eddie
| Col Hahn, who is not exactly in the
| street, but near it, increased his re-
st mblauCe to ex-senator Platt when in
Il diplomatic frame of mind, and Rus
sell Sage said he would be at his office
| tomorrow"
| When the Goulds came back from
Florida that spring they found them
selves engaged in a war, which, if not
| the fiercest, was the noisieSt of the dy-
nasty'S existence. 1t was that over the
"GOuld-Sage trust in Kansas Pacific
bonds. The attack, according to the
senior Gould, in a famous phrase, had
| "a newspaper, a cable company and
a woman" behind it. The proprietor
CT the newspaper in question leveled
it at Mr.. Gould, and when Mr.. Gould
leveled another newspaper at him the
sound and the stencil Of the explosions
which followed were such as to make
| love feast Of the present little I'M
pleasantneSs between Superintendent
ParkhIlrst and the Rev. DR.. Byrnes.
George Gould meantime made wordy
war on George Crouch and e. l.. An
drews, who claimed to represent the
disSident bondholders and charges the
young man with offering them Il $780,
600 bride to drop the prosecution.
He was singularly indicated in this
Oft Ind loo
prosecution out Of the very vestibule Of
court, not allowing it to 60 to the grand
jury, and Recorder Smyth at another
term of court followed Judge COwing' s
example. The improbability Of an offer
of $4,000 to stop & prosecution, which
could get no further than the grand
jury rooms door, thereby gave stout
backing to Prince Georges denial.
There is a man who is a bigger man
in Amsterdam, whence he came, and
whittier he returned last spring, than
he is in New Amsterdam, where he
did not taTTy long. In fact, among the
money changers Of the latter place
some have quite forgotten how to spell
his name, which is difficult one, Bots
sevain, AdolDhe his first name.
Armed with the shears OF foreign
stockholders privileges, he came to the
last annual meeting of the Union Pacific
to shear the Gould lamb, which he
thought was caught in the thicket. He
went home shorn.
OF all the services Of ''my son
George" reimbursed by that S5,000,OOO
this was probably the most signal. 1t
was said at the time that Jay Gould
WAS away when it became known that
the Hollander was gathering up proxies
and that George telegraphed him to
point in New Mexico, which was his
stated news headquarters for the time
being, but got no answer. The tele-
gram contained the news that the Hol-
lander was trying to defeat the Gould
| president, S. II. II. Clark, and set up
his own man in his place.
! Certain it is that on the morning be-
| fore the annual meeting last April, in
| Boston. George Gould told a friend in
| this city that he vas beaten: that Bots
sevain had got proxies enough to con-
| troll the election.
| Nevertheless he was going to work.
! he said. to get some Of the proxies
! back
| That night a special train rushed off
to Boston with George Gould as it's pas
| senger.
! When the meeting came next day the
! Notwithstanding at the ease with