The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-12
HOTEL LOBBY CLEANlNCS
GUY VI. WALKER, OF NEW YORK,
VISITING BROTHERS IN THE CITY.
He In General Counsel of the Everett
Moore Syndicate, and Interested
in Street Railroads.

Guy NJ. Walker, of New York. is in the
city for a short visit with his brothers. Pro-
bate Commissioner Merle n. A. Walker and
Grin ID. Walker. Mr.. Walker is an Indiana
man who has had a "meteoric career" in
the world of finance. Six years ago he was
an attorney i'm Terre Haute, ploddng along
in a rather humdrum way; to-day he Is
general counsel for the Everett-Moore syn
dictate and is classed by the Financier Of
New York city along with George w. Per-
kins and Charles NJ. Schwab as one of the
younger experts and specialists in the world
OF finance who have earned advanced posi-
tons.
Mr.. Walker. I'm his relations with the Ev-
erett-Moore syndicate, is especially inter-
ested in the promotion of electric traction
propositions, but his visit to Indiana at this
time has, he says. no significance in bust
ness way. He is returning from a trip to
st. Louis. Kansas City and other Western
cities, and has merely stopped off in In
dianapolis for a visit with his brothers and
his friends in the legal fraternity of the
city. He said last night that there was no
Interior purpose in his visit here, but limited
that there was something lin the air" that
might bring him back here in a few weeks.
Mr.. Walkers rise in the financial world Is
best told In a recent article in the Financier
under the caption, "A Young Specialists
Successful Career" which says in part:
Among the younger experts in financial
and transportation problems VINO nave
come TO the front in the past few years Mr..
Guy Morrison Walker Is entitled to men,
ton. His name Is familiar to readers or
the Financier from the fact that he is a
regular staff contributor to its columns, his
many articles on the phases of modern
finance and transportation problems having
attracted much attention. Mr.. Walker Is
well grounded In the subjects on which he
has written so entertainingly and so au-
thoritatively. His first financial paper or
note was published In the Financier In 1896.
This was study on trust companies. which
Association. Among his other Contributions
have been treatises on municipal bonds, In
secure foreign loans which have been float
ed in this country, Quasi-public corporation
securities, interurban railways as invest
ments. railroads and wages, etc. These
articles, first published in the Financier.
have had a very wide circulation, many OF
them having run through several editions
in pamphlet form.
"Mr. Walker is a native of Indiana, hav-
ing been born in Fort Wayne in January
versity and also of the law school. He
holds degrees of A. NJ, and LII. B. and
courts eas ee of fnGians t Se% york Michigan
Tennessee and Arkansas. He has travelled
extensively China, Japan, the United
States and Europe. For ten years he re-
sided in the Chinese empire, and Is an adj
mitted authority on all questions relating
TO the Chinese and their land. During the
recent Chinese war he edited all the matter
relating to China in a well-known weekly
and was caiied into consultation by Presi-
dent Mckinley during the uproar in the
empire.
HE is best known authority on
electric railroads, and is perhaps one of the
best traction experts in the United States.
He was active in the organization of the
Lake Shore Electric Railway between To-
ledo and Cleveland; negotiated the pur-
chase OF the Maumee Valley and Waterville
Southern railways by the Toledo Railway
Light Company, and within the last month
closed the sale of the Detroit a. Toledo
Shore Line Railroad Company, of which he
is the vice president, to the Grand Trunk
Railway Company of Canada and the To-
ledo, ST. Louis Sc Western Railroad Com
pany jointly.
During the reorganization of the Ev-
erett-Moore syndicate his work was consid-
cred very valuable. In the final adjustment
of claims his services were complimented
in the highest terms by the parties at in
terest. In the group of younger experts
and specialists OF which Charles M. Schwab
and George w. Perkins are types, Mr..
Walker has earned legitimately an adj
vanced position"