The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03


NY g.gsYt amay'nl 70 ~ lsah ihsse
sefs hfmdNeta N men w AfisnHa shu
sUuht ~ gyef ~ hafsiEF 80 taae ~ ihsig
hufasf rHpid rs9fg tbsfn
tIeeassl Ielisf eas lnsplfaihy ghs Coloeeia
asrfrtHeHa, ~ ~ nH4aHa tlst v laHt ~
Nsny yeHfi .hss ~ |
IN agnBe fhe AgsfaHa sea kgW Nsttse
toftist fsna l~fuFe ~ t~saeuu"t ths aHtHelsi
title ~ 4 StfHal
~ ssni h lHena ahput thirty yeers aso
fem WeFsgheatef en'ints Shets ~ Nas
sisn Jw-' s,rWs ,eg ssT,hsss, srd ne
efsga f0F ganfa ltks ~ hat ar1NHfet IN Ne
fd,fh slfrf ~ hin Nheh no fpHrhfgl tbe
s,qne " hts hieala SyIfe W ne ffietds
ten f~sfsJiSus iaies n hiq efuNrsa ~ 4 auH
hehfef bsa erafsfr .entidtanen sft ~ NJ
sIel Nhiie hpeFf W fh%sA gfH balpHbiy A.
eUff fhHH ehu NHuN ne fet1Ni cav that
NJ vaf ~ fesrufeefH aNsi hsfinf ~ The
avrraer ~ the cBNtsiya ~ least W. beUieH
s s,',a,. ! 'As ~, =. s,.n Z H. e."f s,;."sv I"c. .TI
stagy gtuWf M Riltlus afstern Ihdlgns
single baHlef ~ etHfaefafef 4 feN
npihts thew sss enBslFh truth " The tHIrs
shust hiin ~ lus'lfy. the cohgliIslgs lhai. he
~ the plalhs IN lh,ilah hahtlhe ~ IN haf
frUu etpl gambling .den.
rsenfuaIv tla folonel eut tired N MI slng
n tp, aaveI srfFp tnohey ard hpigm = little
flnth Ot Tho AftfvHH Fft" Nv tNe NUs NUt
fsr from him IN N~Sic2 = hynd'yate llNndci
hr Senator Oesyfge >. q fefkIna ~ talfUsHia,
hal = Ne plot N Juatnfe lqHd az eehe
rode ovuf ifpfn his fahch Frequently aud
avn marie tho diHcpvefy that there NHfo
coptrf dep"iis on rat ~ The perbina
anvp The Prrhiua syndtcat" rights only to
The tn agtifr Uferta p~fosppUted quietly,
ni~i his ciaIms Va the mines With the sIes.
i,nn Government and than bought out
tho riahts ~ tho fefkina syndicate Ter q
small hgurc Arm after he got the prop
rr,y senator Perkins caUsed al inveltigh-
ton IL the mineral deposits 70 ir made,
with the idea. apparently. ~ finding out
how much he had lost. After the invc-,i.
II beiIrve the greatest copper mines In
Tho world have bccn found there and that
there - enough copper now In sight 90 re-.
dnce prices the world over
COT Greene orFani,ed q company and in
1914 landed IN Wall Street. When he got
here he owned every one ~ tho shares ~
the company himself, hut he needed money
90 develop the property and soon found him
self involved In q now kind ~ lighting
he made munlfcent offers to those who saii
they could help him, became intimate with
Thomas W lawson. John W. Gatos. John
A. Drake and other men whose experience
in the market was much longer than his,
and In the course Of q short time was IN
yolved In innumerable lawsuits.
His breach with lawson was one OF the
most picturesque incidents Of his expert
ences. lawson had attacked the value
Of his properties In a series Of characteristic
advertisements. Col. Greene met him at
his own game. He published broadcast a
lurid half column advertisement in the
course Of which he said that lawson, pos
ing as n friend Of the people, was robbing
widows and orphans OF their hard earned
savings" characterized him as "a liar,
fakir and a charlatan," and concluded
lu unnnItnpinp that bo would call uDnn him
at his office the following day.
The meeting took place a few days later
in the Hotel Touraine. Boston, but the ex-
pectation that there would be bloodshed
was quickly dissipated. There wasn't a
gun shown or a blow struck, but there was
a war Of words, then a trucs and finally
a battle of bottles. Col, Greene said he
had lost more than 1900, 900 in Lawson's
raids on his stocks.
business associate, fell out and talked blood,
but at the same time apparently they locked
up their guns and threw the keys away.
Their differences were ~reconciled at a meet
ing last December, and since that time
with the woHd. He went South several
weeks ago, and though there have been
reports that he was afflicted with a severe
illness, all these reports have met prompt
denials from officers Of the company here;
violent alterations with Lawson and Tustin,
friends Of the Colonel said yesterday the
Colonel would not. shrink from the fray
in any such contest as that In the mines.
They had no doubt. they said. that full
reports of the fighting would show that the
former cowboy had displayed res ource-
u'neSs and courage.
Officers OF the company were very much
surprised at the reports of the shooting.
They had no intimation, they said, Of i'm
pending trouble and could assign no reason
for it except a sudden angry outbreak on
the part Of the Mexican miners, instigated
probably by labor leaders. There are 5000
men employed in the plant, they said. but
of these not more than 40 per cent. are
Mexicans. The plant covers a territory
about seven niles long by three and a half
miles wide and is patrolled by 200 Mexican
police. TIL police, officers Of the company
said, have always been loyal and they had
toned in Col. Greene's despatch as titled
were members Of the Mexican police.
The men named Metcalf mentioned as
killed were George Metcalf, superintendent
William Metcalf, who acted as his assistant.
Arthur s. Dwight, reported badly injured
in news dispatches, is one of the best known
metallurgists and mining experts in this
country. He was graduated from the
Columbia school of mines in 1888 and has
held important posts with the Kansas City
Consolidated Smelling and Refining Com
pany, with the American Smelling and Re-
filming Company and with the ~Compania
Metallurgia Mexicana. He resigned the
sup~erintendency of the last company to take
a place with the Greene company.
Officers Of the company said that the
loss, according to the despatch from Col.
Greene, was Of no great consequence;
That the Mesa lumber yard had burned
was Of no importance, for work on this
yard had only recently been begun and
not much lumber had been moved there.
The company sustained a much greater
loss, it was said, in a strike which tied up
the railroad on the c%ompany's property two
years ago.
Greene Copper was attacked on the curb
yesterday morning and pounded down
from 281l to 244.. The prompt action OF
the directors in declaring a dividend at
II o'clock stopped the slump and the stock
closed at 24H, two points below Fridays
closing.