The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-21
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TENstyE BUSINESS iNTERs
EsTs ARE LookEp
AFTER

i NEW YORK, May Presfdenteas
I trois business Interests are being xel
looked 2fter while be IS enjoying
! vacation from the ofaciaI eaveso Q
Caracas. a statement gwen out 70
day by the New York and Bermude:
Company. whose asphalt lake WAS ..se
anesrated- by Castro insIse4 pufports
TO show that the venezuelan pres7
dent has two very energetic Amer
can allies One These IS mining g
phalt in Venezuela, and the otheE seq
ing It in New York for Castro proae.
The statement explains as follows aoN
these two Americans became associa.
ted with Castro IN the asphalt indus:
try at the expense OF thesrealS Sowners
of Bermudez lake:
When the plotto get possessfonsoe
The company,s property was acdyeIy
taken up by Castro early In the sprinS
of 1904, new and dimportantfn fnterests
were introduced OF the new anies of
President Castro. the principal ones
are Anazi L. Barber the promoterSof
the unfortunate Asphalt Company OF
America and AmbroseH Garner. fSrS
many years managing director IN Ven
ezuela. under Barber OF the Neu
York and Bermuda Company
Coveted Rermadex.Eak
Barber Corner rand otaers::w had
been dropped during the reorganIza-
ton OF BARRIERS unfortunate hotatfons.
formed The Pan,Anerican Company
and leased asphalt deposits IN Sfezf
co. They soon found ttnecessagto II
secure new sources OF supply. andthen
turned with coretous eyes 70 Bermus
dez lake. which had In the pastsbeen
lie source of fruitful promoters profs
its to Barber.
The sequence OF events from that
time TO the present shows tae worf-
inss Of a carefully laid scheme ofspoH
alton. -
In March, 1901. Garner appeared
in Caracas In consultation with two
who were wen Known to BE
intimate friends OF castro,s andsbitter
enemies of the. Bermudez company
by which they had been formerIyers
ployed
In April, 1s0i. Garner. Is bacIsa again
in New York. and his: associatesBar
ber. induces the, Board OF Estimate to-
so change the city,s paving sDecifea
lions as TO exclude an but yenezuelan
aspaalts. At the same time the word
was passed around by Gamer that he's
was going to spring a great snrpases
on the Bermudez Company. that he
was soon TO return to Guanoco TO take
charge again Before the seizure oc
Lhe asphalt lake. Barberss Advance fn-
formation enabled him toSonersBermns
1ez asphalt for sale IN NewYork
Telegram, Starts Trouble.
Meanwhile asteIeEram had been
sent 70 Caracas from government:
agent at Guanoco. saying that thesc con-
'any lad not lived up TO the terms oe
IS concession This ten-words dispatch
which was made the basis for the se
,uestration of the asphalt lake syn-
with the actvfties ofsBar
'er and Garner. r.constitutedsthes frsk
'tep in the judicial HaYesty sinceser
tcted In the venezuelan couts.
Garner as receiver immediateIy
'esan shipping asphalt It was defivs
red. not to the Bermudez company
shich in spite OF the receMersaips SIN
'wned the property. but tos Bar6er
partner IN the Pan=American
1T thus appears thar Casro:scdef
lily in the desto1ation of thelsNew
'ork and BermudezS Company Is the
anne Barber who twice caused the
took OF the companytosbe sold sby the
which he controlled TO CON-
anies which hepromoted. finally ans
oadins the whole at inflated sprfces
pom stockholders whom he asasn
eeks TO deprfreof their dearly bougnf
ropertx--'
Girl stransIes MAD oos.
NEW YORK, May 1sSAnaa-:@iIs
rs, IS year ldSs1rI proved a;hsro-
re- when she transledstos death
ad dog which had attacked hef
brother In the yard OF theifhone
Jersey CITY: The girl While stranE
az the animal lsbeatsi head agas snst