New-York tribune., 1900-05-01

any time Mr.. Gates is ready to receive that sum
/ mons. or any other papers that you may WISH 10
NICOLL ANABLE & LINDSAY.
! At p. m. MI. NicoH dispatched the final de-
! fiance of the day to Mr. Lamb, across the street
| I his letter which was delivered a few minutes
before Mr.. Lamb reached his office. was as fol-
| lows:
Messrs: g,, Lamb S voss Nc. 80 Nassau-st New-fOrk
Gentlemen ! wrote you this morning at about
O'clock notifying you that Messrs Gates ana
ready to accept service of any summons or other
They came to the Office at the time stated, and have
sent you frequent messages by telephone ana mfS f
your process server. They are still at, al your 70 dis
% Hotel Waldorf f't this hiss evening They are in New
York, you know, for the purpose of meeting any
TO make against them, and will remain here during
To DESIRE e GFofo o no kSf h Ga Of any
Your failure to meet them today creates the belief
newspapers. and that matter of fact you have
on either or M esSM #
is the case yoa will please notify me me- at ono once $50 so
have any papers which you wish to serve. will
you name an hour and place tomorrow where siee
!hsy ao! BE order that dsrTsi
A little after receiving this note Mr.. Lamb
tried to call up Mr. Nicoll on the telephone. but
as already said, Mr.. Nicolrs office did not reply
Washington Seligman the floor of the
Stock Exchange yesterday morning, but de-
clined to talk
J. & w Seligman & Co would not discuss the
matter in any of its phases
Steel and Wire common closed yesterday at
39A. a net advance for the day of rs per cent
The preferred declined q per cent closing at
761a.
TO use language familiar to those who
have read of Mr. GateSs alleged prowess as
a player of the great American game Mr'
Gates and his friends understood TO have be-
lieved from the beginning that Mr.. Lamb was
trying to work big bluff and that Mr.. Gates
has succeeded in calling the bluff AS to Mr.
Lambs charge of influence being exerted by
bank in tie interest of the Steel and Wir6 com
panys chairman, Mr.. Gatess friends say moth
ing contenting themselves with derisive smiles.
Rogers Brown & Co in their weekly review
say that there are already signs of a recovery of
confidence in the iron and steel trade, and that
within two weeks business will again be in a
healthy condition
At the Waldorf Astoria late last evening, in
the presence of Mr.. Gates and a number of his
friends. Mr.. Lambert, however. not being
among them, De Lancey Nicholl made the fol-
lowing statement in behalf of Messrs. Gates and
Lambert. Mr.. Nicoll said:
Messrs Gates and Lambert to New
York to meet any charge that any one was
desirous of making against them in respect to
their management or statements concerning
the affairs of the American Steel and Wire
Company. They were informed that Magistrate
Zeller had issued a summons for them upon
the complaint of Washington Seligman, or
after his withdrawal, of some other unknown
complainant. They have waited in New-York
over twenty four hours for the service upon
them of summons other papers, but al
though invited and urged to serve the sum-
mons or other papers, up to this late hour
Messrs. Lamb and Voss have failed to produce
their process. Whether they have or ever have
had any summons from any Magistrate Mr..
Gates does not know.
After delaying ali day without reply to the
demand of Messrs. Gates and Lambert to ap-
pear and make service upon them Mr.. Lamb
has now put out labored explanation of his
scandalous attack which neither excuses nor
justifes his failure to produce his summons.
AS nf T.
Lamb that any responsible stockholders of the
American Steel and Wire Company were con-
cerned in the assault upon Mr.. Gatess con-
duct and character is without foundation. Mr..
Gates had nothing to do with the preclpitate
abandonment of his proceeding by Washington
Seligman. He withdrew because he reared ne
could not realize the object for which alone he
instituted his complaint. After his withdrawal
Mr.. Lamb was without client although y
has made digent effort to procure one.
Up to this moment his seeking has gone un-
rewarded. He will not be thwarted in his fur
ther search by Mr. Gates. If in the future he
find some one who will aid him In his black
mailing stockjobbing schemes, Mr.; Gates VIII
come from Chicago again to meet him in any
court of the State of NewYork to which he
may make complaint. Messrs. Gates and Lam
bert are now persuaded that this widely ad-
vertised attack upon them is the result of con-
spiracy which they determined to expose
and punish.
the Calumet Club. After reading over Mr.
Nicols statement, Mr. Lamb showed the sum
mons which had been issued by Magistrate
Zeler but which had not been served. Mr.
Lamb said that he had client who would take
Washington Segman's place in the proceed
ines which he declared would be pushed to the
bitter end. Mr.. Lamb contended that 1T would
be breach of confidence TO make public his
clients name last night, but said that he would
do to-day. Mr. Lamb then wrote out the fol
lowing reply to Mr.. Nicolrs statement in behalf
of Messrs. Gates and Lambert
All 1 have say in reply to the statement
which has been shown me, is that these Western
gentlemen will make the discovery that there is
law of libel in New York, well a Penal
Code.