The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-24

INC CultOT OF lnb ~ OItu ANU Ilb iIltIu, anu Il
self to such a scheme as they set FORTH
and the frs1 man referred to both came down to
Lawrence, l.. l., where. 1 am living, and pro-
HIgesd a long typsw itten : cry the Pub
them that i they had business with. me to
standing my protests I found that the Worid
stated more positively than ever that I was
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Washington at tho request Of, the President.
The The parties ,Gs, ,, rSsp Gos bo ,h for that tI pnD l .iCn
statement. had no idea Of going to Washing:
tSE n n hsG id NO idea of Wji fSSrNip ri, {. 5 pny syndicate syrdn Ss IL /
! 'idc matter, and in no way have i said or done
h0ss been reported. Ali such stories have been
got NJ for the interests of those publishing
When Gen Sam. Thomas finds that he has
been bpncoed by the uo'id, or any other con.
i ihn, ,h0 ,s OF r rhsnid ha ne IS kpSr,GTt'y te W !. nns
OF those men who believes that The more the
public knows about tho transactions Of
home at Dobps Ferry last night
,Sri nHG OF ih s0T iTo q ffps syndiS G' me Now own Nth nss
Gen. Thomas has spoken. perhaps tho .lPorli
sNn ten jpst what the real interest u nus;Sil
MIR. Sage can tell what was the. UO,lis real
interest in That SYNDICATE. Gen. Thomas said:
ginia Hot Springs. where | had been ON II vaca-
ton. While l was ava l devoted my entire
l was taking no part in the life OF Wall street. l
wa. not Interested in the business OF the .reor.
ghnization syndicate or In the business OF any
other syndicate having any connection, or in.
IemhinS e. h"YS an; conneGi,on, Win Ti1n ,hhe
reorganization syndicate. its methods and pur.
pose. and | had NV own nation about 1t. ! am
no person to mix myself up in other peoples
business, however, ana. as was not interested
In 1t, paid little or no attention 10 what IL was
doing. l certainly never thought OF going into
an opposition syndicate. because ! didn't know
that ANYBODY wanted 10 20 into such Il syndi-
cate, Manifestly, | couldn't form such u syndi.
cate by myself.
ION "Wednesday afternoon OF this week I was
playing Golt on the links at Ardsley. \ ser.
some G%msS was waiiing to talk with me o'1 the
telephone. left the golf ground and went TO
the telephone. A man at the other end said that
Russell Sage wanted 10 SEE me in town that
night on important business. i said to him:
His reply vas: 4 am in Mr.. sago's office and
] represent him
What does Mr.. Sage want to see me about .
Mr.. Sage is trying TO form n syndicate to
bid against the Reorganization syndicate OF the
a Hb%'on b paeinG, ana a sn he WIals w TO Tux fbS o Wii9 you
Then the IN IN. said. in answer TO my inquiry,
that Mr.. Sage would NEE me at any hotel l
Sage at the Plaza Hotel that evening. | went
back TO the links; finished my game, packed my
the hotel n man whom ! had never laid eyes on
before stepped up TO me and said:
This is Gen. Thomas, ] believer
II replied that | was MIR. Thomas, and he said
~ am Mr.. Lamar. David Lamar. and l repre-
sent Mr.. Sage
Where is Mr.. Sage IL asked. 'Iexpectcd
Mr.. sage. you know. seldom goes out at
here, he feared, at the last moment, to venture
out, and he asked me 10 see yon Tor him
from Adam: Who are you!
"i am MIR. Sage's Attorney was the answer.
i" thought IL II little strange that Sage's at
torney in so import, mt a matter should be a
person that | didn't know even by sight, and OF
dreamed of anything crooked. Therefore ]
ordered a room and asked the man to come up
settled in tho rooom Lamar told m" that Sage
wanted to form d. syndicate OF 81 1O,UOo.UOu 10
Sage S"t {" was Al in {" communication with th !, i'rcsidcnt..
and that the President had asked him tSaEcI to
go ahead. lie said that Sage wanted to sub
Il told Lamar that il ] could be assured that
the proposition was made in good faith and
coulu secure among my friends suhscri ptions tn
the amount Of 10000 600, But. said I.
what proof can you show nc that your repre-
sentations are bona hide
II had hardly aSked the question before he
Of which were signed by men OF great wealth
and leaders OF finance. ! know they were signed
o. enoSe men, ns o. III | w km9m tnTtr sishn,+ires :
form. and were addressed 10 the Hon. Russell
Sage. Tho letters were all offers 10 subscribe
to the synd cate various sums and ended with
the statement that the offer MAS not To be con.
sidered binding until the nal plans were sub.
II read the letters over carefully. md know.
Ing at least four OF the SIGNATURES, was con;
some grammatical mistakes in the letter, how.
ever, and | told Lamar that would write n sim,
liar letter, but one which wou d be grammat
icnlly correct.
"'Of course, said Lamar, 1T isn't for me to
say what you shall or shall not do. But that
think he'd rather have the letters all alike
THAT'S odd ! TGid. IT don't seem TO mo
that was just What Mr.. Sage did. 50 / fol:
buncoed M over. As soon as l had writ:
ten the letter and signed Lamar told me
1 mM,p,n nc ma mho ina, ma y ri I, ,lrnnS him 10 I ma n slmfS
go down into the cafe nnd order some supper.
ic went. Soon after that went downstairs to
get some papers. and while | was standing at
the newsstand l. mar came up and introduced
a man 70 me WHO, he said. was one q tho editors
moro amazed when Lamar said to the Uorid
man:
v, VEN asan Th ,na 1;D w"n psc to g 1--we you an inter
Then ! beg IN to grow suspicious. The intro
duction showed on the face OF it that Lamar had
arranged to have the man from the porld
transaction kept quiet But, remembering
part Of the game and so l said TO the lPOrid man
~ haven't anything. particplnrt to say about
ment ought to get more for its claim than tho
present syndicate is to give
1--WE had talked but a short time when this
editor of tho U0rid asked me II l knew Lamar
/ told him that ] did not. Then he said that he
believed that he had been misrcprescntin
things to Mr.. Norris. who. he said, was man
aging editor of the UOFlf. The man saiL
that he was going to telegraph his sus
picions of Lamar to Mr.. Pulitzer mt Bar Harbor
I don't remember This mans name. but he wa,
large. with n full face covered with an ir"n-gral
beard. and he had Two or three loose upper tcctt
that dropped down when he talked.
THE WOrM man left ami ! went to bed. TIT
next day. when | got to my Office. | began TO b,
ovcrrun, with nowspapcr men. They wanted t.
know about the new syndicate. To some o
until yesterday. Then there was so muci
talk about bunco games and such things
that. at noon. went over to SCI
office. When | wont in, Lamar went out at Mr.
Sage's request. ! asked Sage what the syndi
cate business meant, anyway. He then dGnict
} having amy connection with 1t whatever. IL
said he had been greatly annoyed by Lamar mn
had been misreprcscntrd by him.. He salt
+ Lamar had never showed him my letter. AN,
did not know, he said. anything about any o
the other letters.
+, but, Mr.. Sage said ], this man said n
renraspnicd vDu. He tgleUhOned to ma from