The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30
COULD AND MORGAN.
How he Former Secur,d Rocke- feller's Friendship o Offset
 Morgan's Hostility.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 As the head of a mighty transcontinen- tai railway system it has inch by inch fought its way into the front ranks with US pltterest foes, and which gives prom lse of soon outstrlpping them all. George J: Gould is today one of the most remark able and one of the least understood of those picturesque characters in that most thrilling of melodramaS-Money.
 But Gould Is more than picturesque; he Is more than dramatic. He is tragic for he has arrayed against each other two great armies of multi-millionaires. A move for supremacy-one way or the other-may lead to such a battle as the world has never known.
 Soon after George Gould had obtained full charge and was practically dictator of the interests left by his father he call ed at the office of J. Pierpont Morgan in regard to the purchase of the New York and Northern Railway by the Manhattan Eleveted Road. There were some things on which the two did not agree; some re- mark was made by Morgan; words passed and Gould left the office in anger. In tell ing the circumstances to a friend, he af terWard said that he would never again enter Morgan's office, and he never has. The friend, however, who had known his father for many years. took the young man to one side and said;
 George. you are just beginning your career where your father left it for you to resume. Now, let me give you a bit of advice. If you desire to be successful, as your father was you should not begin by making powerful business emenies.'
 Gould said nothing, but he thought of the matter carefully. He had made al enemy of Morgan and he was too prou to make any concessions to him. The !,
 powerful friends to offset the powerful enemy and he determined to seek the strongest man financially in the world At that time John D. Rockefeller was on of the heaviest stockholders in Union Pacific of which the Gould Southwestern Railway system was direct rival Gould, accordingly, called on Rockefeller. He said frankly that he did not want to run the Missouri Pacific in competition with the Rockefeller interests and he asked the great financier much after the man ner in which a son seeks advice from a father. just how he could conduct his road and its branches in harmony with it's former rival. There was something about Gould. something in the confidence that he reposed in Rockefeller that won his Friendship. 7 A harmony plan was at once arranged and from that time forward the friendship between these two men grew stronger. The more Rockefeller say of Gould the more he liked him and be- lievcd in him. When the split between William and John D. Rockefeller came the business interests of the latter and of Gould were strengthened. Rockefel- ler's millions began to pour into Gould propositions. An extensive system of ex- pansion was planned and the Gould roads reached out toward the Atlantic and the Pacific.
 Gould. realizing the importance of mak- ing strong allies and planning for the fu- ture, was quick to seize upon circum- stance that brought him and Audrey Carnegie together. Carnegie. who may be said to have changed the railway map of the United States, was engaged in Il fight with the Pennsylvania Company, which he thought was charging too much for freight. He had heard of Geo.e@ Goud's ambition to bring the Wabash to an Atlantic port and he determined to use him as wedge against the Penn sylvania neople. Gould and Carnegie had several conferences, the result of which was that a contract was entered