The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-01
GOULD AND MORGAN.
Former Secured RockefeIIer's Friend
ship TO Offset Morgan's Hostility.

ship to Offset MorEan's Hostility.
Brooklyn Eagle.
AS the head of a mighty transcontinental
railway system that has inch by inch fought
its way into the front ranks with it's bitter
est foes. and which gives promise Of soon
outstripping them all. George ]. Gould is to-
day one of the most remarkable and one Of
the least understood of those picturesque
characters in that most thrilling of melo-
dramas-Money
But Gould is more than picturesque; he is
more than dramatic. He is tragic, for he has
errayed against each other two great armies
OF multi-millonaires. A move for suprem-
acy-one way or the other-may lead TO
such 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 called at the
Office Of J. Pierpont Morgan in regard to the
purchase of the New York & Northern
Railway by the Manhattan Elevated road.
There were some things on which the two
did not agree; some remark was made by
Morgan; words passed and Gould left the
ofiice in anger. In telling the circumstances
to friend. he afterward 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 ca
reer where your father left it for you to re-
sumo. Now. let me give you bit of advice.
II you desire to be successful, as your
father was. you should not begin by making
powerful business enemies"
Gould Said nothing. but he thought of the
.f,.II.- h-1
of Morgan and he was too proud to make
any concessions To him. The next best thing.
therefore. was to gain a powerful friend to
offset the powerful enemy and he deter
mined to seek the strongest man financially
I'm the world AT that time John ID. Rookie
feller was one of the heaviest stockholders
I'm Union Pacific, of which the Gould South
western railway system was a 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
hnancier. much after the manner in which a
son seeks advice from father, just how he
could conduct his road and its branches in
harmony with its former rival. There was
something about Gould. something in the
confidence that he reposed in Rockefeller
that won his friendship. A harmony plan
was at once arranged and from that time
forward the friendship between these two
men grew stronger. The more Rockefeller
saw of Gould the more he liked him and be-
lieved in him. When the split between Will
liam and John ID. Rockefeller came the buSl-
ness interests of the latter and Gould were
strengthened. Rockefeller millions began TO
pour into Gould propositions. An extensive
system OF expansion was planned and the
Could roads reached out toward the Attain
tic and the Pacific.
Gould. realizing the Importance of making
strong allies and planning for the future,
was quick TO seize upon circumstance that
brought him and Andrew Carnegie together
Carnegie. who may De said TO have changed
the railway map of the United States, was
engaged in a fight with the Pennsylvania
Company. which he thought was charging
too much for freight. He had heard OF
George Gould's ambition To bring the Wa
bash to an Atlantic port and he determined
TO use him a wedge against the Pennsyl-
vania people. Gould and Carnegie had sew
eral conferences, the result of which was
that a contract was entered into by which
the Wabash was to receive % per cent. an
nually of the output of the Carnegie Steel
Company In consideration of a railroad be-
ing built TO Pittsburg. The United States
Steel Corporation. OF which j. Pierpont Nor
gan Is the head and front, and one OF
Goulds bitterest enemies, has now that con-
tract TO fulhll. This one tonnage contract is
enough 10 guarantee the financial success OF
the new line from the start. and the most
the money comes from the very men who
most strenuously opposed the entrance OF
the road into Pittsburg.