The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05

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 An alliance between the house of Rockefeller and the house of Gould has been suspected for some time In financial circles The recent capture of the con trol of the Colorado Fuel and Iron conF- pany by Mir Rockefeller and MT. Gould both acting together, sets the seal or that have been made in this auestionably the very greatest of 'monied that have been made In this country or even In Europe in many years. With the Standard oil on one side and the Gould railroads. cables and telegraph lines on the other. the interests thus blended are colossal in their magnitude, wealth and ramihcations of operation They Include banks of the first impor' tanee, strength and capital, and numerous other corporations which are hourishing moneymakers In the management Of the Immense property accumulated by Jay Gould, the son, whom he so carefully trained. has proved that he possesses ability and genius fully equal to that of his father The railroad system which the elder Gould built up is infinitely great CT now than when he died. and its value Is increasing year by year. Jay Gould left some seventy millions of dollars to his children. The addition to them under the control of George Gould and his brothers has been enormous. A member of the stock exchange, who has done much business for them tells me that the Gould holdings today must be rather above than below the hundred million point.
 A business acquaintance of mine Is himself upon his victory over n recently formed trust which has its office headquarters in the vicinity or the big St. Paul building on lower Broad way Six months ago the manufacturing in question was formed, and the new officials under the consolidation scheme informed many of the old em- ployes of the parent company that for them there would not be anything doing in the future. My acquaintance was aud itor of the old establishment. Turning up at the office every day as usual he was told there was nothing for him to do. He reminded them that he had a con- tract at stipulated salary which had several years of legal life in 1t. They did not care about contracts was the reply insultingly given. He persisted in com ing to the office during business hours week after week not leaving until he was told to go out and see what was new on Broadway. This sort of thing ran along during several months. His salary was paid every week. Finally the new trust proposed compromise on the basis of a years compensation. He declined and threatened suit We will fight you in the courts and keep you there for years" the trust defiantly answered. Then came another round of daily visits to the office and reports for duty At last the trust thought better of the law business and handed him a few days ago It's check for nearly ten thousand dollars. But it was hard work to make 1t give up.
 The Republican club of this city, an orga anization which exists mainly for the purpose of getting hold of the state and federal offices, is In state of mind about the southern negro and the suffrage. It is clamoring for a new crusade Tn his behalf and declares that the heart of the country must be fired" and all that sort of thing. There were some po- litleal fireworks of this kind recently in the aristocratic Union league, but the good sense of the majority extinguished them. Thousands of cclored men vote the Tammany ticket and there are more men of that race holding office under Tammany than under the republican par ty.
 Hamilton Fish who al one time repre- sented the smallest county in the state in the legislature, and is now in charge of the sub b-treasury in this city, is one of MT. Platt's candidates for governor next year His chief qualifications are that he is rich, tractable in the political har- ness. as every Platt man must be, and has a long line of ancestors. By way of helping along his boom, Mir. Fish has been digging into the family archives and turned up three or four old letters which recall the fact that his father was In Grants cabinet, and previous to that a governor of the state ages ago. Peter Stuyvesant, the old Dutch governor. was another of the Fish forbears. It Is said Mir. Fish will shortly publish something new about that shrewd old speculator In corner lots on the bowery. In the hope of capturing the east side vote of the city
 One of the intimates of the new Tam many chieftain Charles P. Murphy, tells me that nothing will be left undone to reunite the democratic party in this city so as to make the state far more than doubtful fighting ground for the republi- cans next year. To this end the Tam many nomination for mayor will go to some eminent democrat who will be cer- tain to carry the independent vote ana thereby make MT. Low a political back number, unless Mir. Roosevelt can find a place for him either at home or abroad. MT. Murphy feels that with the city in the control of the democracy and Judge Parker as the candidate of the party next year, New York would be shifted to the democratic column of states
 
 Coogan, the old Bowery furniture man on the instaliment plan, carried Dick Cro- ker's handbag during many moons in the hope that the Squire of Vantage would pick him out as Tammany's candidate for mayor. Dick, for some reason, did not do it. and now Coogan Is going to New port. He has bought a cottage there and is going into society on his favorite in- stallment plan. 1t Is supposed Well, that is how they all get there.
 The Pennsylvania railroad tunnel under the Hudson Is magnificent, but the money to dig the thing out Is not yet in sight, except on paper. Under present condi- tlons 1t Is vain to appeal to Wall street. The fact is Wall street does not subscribe to anything it's own money. When 1t goes into anything 1t is with other peo- ples money on which 1t charges promo ters fees and commissions. That Is it's business Popular credulity is it's only stock in trade. but it is hard to make peo- pie understand 1t until they get on the wrong side of the game. as they do soon- CT or later. The only way to win in Wall street is to buy at the right time for keeps and hold on to what you buy