The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-25
FIGHT AGAINST GOULD.
The Pennsylvania Scheme 10 Even
Up aud Secure Wabash Failed.
GOULD NOT NOW IN WESTERN UNION
As Soon as He Heard that the Pennsyl-
vania intended to Force Him He
Disposed OF His Holdings.

The Associated Press dispatch from Phil
adcphla, published In The Post Tuesday, 10
the effect that the Pennsylvania railroad
would endeayOr to force the Goulds TO
yield the Wabash to that company at fig
ures decidedly uninvitlng 10 the Gould In
turests, seems TO be pretty reliable piece
Of news, Notwithstanding the fact that Its
correctness was denied yesterday by Vice
President Green.
The fight between the PENNSYLVANIA and
Gould interests has been on ever since Mr..
Gould commenced to seek an Atlantic out
let for the business OF the Wabash over its
own line. Various rumols have been IN cir
cuation since concerning the autagonlstc
movements made by each SIDE, and 1t has
developed That nearly all OF these rumors
were based on actual conditions and what
was, at the time Of their dissemination,
facts--clther actuaa or prospective, with
good foundations.
The dispatch referred to above stated
that President CassaLt Of the Pennsylvania
lines had given George Gould anal notice
thnt unless the latter would dispose Of
the Wabash, which has been the cause o.
all the trouble between the interests, at r
price set by the PENNSYLVANIA system, the
Western Union telegraph lines ON that en-,
tire railway system would be cut on and,
to make the proposition still stronger, Mfr.
Cassatt added that aid the Vanderbilt lines
would take the same action, allowing the
Postal telegraph full swing In the valuable
territory traversed by these lines
The primary object OF this movement on
the part of the Pennsylvania Is to obtain
| possession of the Wabash in order to e.
/ ngaNH Ngl la Her gaE m
| petitor and to guard against the still
! greater menace winch IL would prove II II
ever succeeded In finding the mnch-sought
| Atlantic outlet Then, too, the Gould in
terests have assumed an absolutely de
| hant attitude toward the PENNSYLVANIA in
forests, and nothing could give more sails
| faction to the latter than to compel Gould
| to do something which he dlsHked 10 do.
telegram from Philadelphia to The
| Vice President Green's denial the ultl
! matum has passed from the Pennsylvania
interests TO George Gould. and the dlspatcl
| states further that the Western Union
contract with the penusylvlnia system ex
! pired on September 10, and instead OF thu
! contract being renewed the wire system
along the vanderbilt lines had been onere'
While this scheme could not have faile
| of success to the system making the de
! mand under ordinary circumstances AM
| with ordinary nnanclers in opposition ther
| Us the strongest probability of II not M
tainlng the end sought by the Pennsy
lnuucier, as has been demonstrated tim
and again, and his financial enemies nov
seem to have no more the advantage d
him than those who have engineered simila
schemes against him In the past
II seems that Gould got wind Of tn
intentions of the Pennsylvania interests
reach him through the Western Union
which has heretofore been recognized as
Gould institution. and In order to foreSta
his enemies In their designs, he dispose
! Of the bulk Of his holdings In the Wester
! Union company. AS consequence, h
closer friends smile serenely when III
, PENNSYLVANIA scheme Is mentioned to then
] ami declare that Mr.. Gould viii continl
TO push his railway system to the Sc
= board
Whether the PENNSYLVANIA people will
convinced that Gould has disposed OF h
Western Union stock. and call off their a
parCntly frustrated scheme, Is n matter
conjecture but It Is pretty certain IN Il
v minds of those who know George Gou
, that II would take much smoother wol
~ than that the Rpnsylvania people dctc
mined upon when they sent him an ult
A matum to close out the Wabash to the
a or accept the penalty through Injury
1 his companion Industry, the Western UniC
| Telegraph company, to get the best Of hiI
| To carry out their scheme now-if. as h
friends declare, Gould has disposed Of h
interest In the Western Union-woud on
- be r blow to innocent persons and OF
that could not In any manner hurt Goul