The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

at disadvantage, and. pressing his own
advantage relentlessly. he. so the story
runs compelled Gould to plead for terms.
BY appointment the Two men met at the
Windsor Hotel one night. and Mr.. Russell
Sage was present. at Mr.. Keene's invita-
ton. as a witness.
Mr. Gould admitted that he was in des-
perate straits, and that without very ex-
tensive financial aid he could not save
himself Mr.. Keene's terms were implaca-
be He insisted that Gould should retire
permanently from Wall street and cease
to be a disturbing factor there. He was
willing. provided Gould consented to his
proposition, 20 allow the latter to retain
enough of his fortune TO support him in
comfort. Gould was 10th to surrender on
such terms and Russell Sage extended
aid to him, greatly to Mr.. Keene's sur
prise. Sage told Gould that he could have
as many millions as he needed, and the
financial world soon saw the effective use
that the Wizard OF Wall Street made
Of Sage's assist
It was one of the traditions of the
Windsor Hotel that during the exciting
times following the Cleveland-Blaine pres
idential election in 1884, Jay Gould spent
a night or two in concealTnent on the top
floor of the hotel in the servants quar-
ters. 1t was on account Of a message that
was flashed up town from the Western
Union building that an angry mob was on
its way up town singing, ''We'H hang
Jay Gould to a sour apple tree" There
was a feeling OF intense bitterness against
Could on the part of many Democrats,
who suspected that the machinery of the
Western Union telegraph was being used
to falsify the election returns. The ex-
citing events Of those nights of uncertainty
are matters of public record.
In one of the upper rooms of the Wind
scr Hotel, Cyrus w. Field appealed TO
Mr.. Gould to help him when he saw the
impending crash in Manhattan Railway
stock. After his fruitless talk with Gould
Mr.. Field, who had been originally the
wealthiest and most influential patron Of
the hotel, left it's doors, broken in spirit
and practically ruined in pocket, for the
next day Manhattan stock. with which
he had overloaded himself, tumbled from
us 10 105, and Fields fortune was swept
away.
One of the odd things told about the old
habtues of the Windsor relate to the late
Calvin S. Brice's passion for riding in
cabs. Brice and his friend. Gen. Samuel
Thomas, spent much of their leisure time
in the Windsor, and on the slightest pre-
text for taking a short trip Brioe would
order hanson brought to the door. He
told his friends that when he was a poor
boy he used to yearn to ride in a cab,
and after he acquired sufficient means TO
indulge that yearning he found cab riding
to be great source of pleasure 1t be-
came one of his fads. Another interesting
Windsor Renaissance is that Jay Gould
took his first Turkish bath in the bath es-
adjustment attached to the hotel
Hotchkiss & Burnham, a Wall street
brokerage firm, had an office in the Wind
sor Hotel at the time of the great tele-
graphers' strike several years ago. The
Wall street men were grea thy embarrass-
ed by the stoppage of their telegraphic ser
vice, and the strike was so well organized
that they found it difficult TO hire opera
tors. Mr. Hotchkiss had been a telegraph
operator in early life. and he won the
plaudits of his fellow-brokers by taking
off his coat and working the key in his
Windsor Hotel office as long as the strike
was on.