Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-29

forgotten. that a few years ago, when
Morse was the active head of the ice
trust. he boosted the price of ice to cent
pound in New York. There isn't any
way of getting at exact statistics in such
d case, of course: but IL is middling GER
tain that lot of babies. the children of
the exceedingly poor, persisted In New
York as a result of that boost, and people
who weren't exactly poor were subjected
TO severe hardship.
They're willing enough to acknowledge
over here that Mrs Morse, an energetic
woman who doesn't like to see her hus-
band locked up in prison for fifteen years
is entitled to circulate petitions for her
husbands release if she wants so to do
But they don't grant that because Mrs.
Morse is an energetic woman and be-
cause she dislikes the idea of her hus-
bands incarceration Morse ought to be
turned loose. The fact that Morse. while
he was in the Tombs. addressed himself
to the task of strengthening out his af-
fairs was taken into consideration by
the people whose money Morse had con-
verted to his own uses: but naturally
enough, they regarded that as something
which he ought to have done: they don't
understand why he should receive any
particular amount of credit for it,
Morse was a rough-shod individual
when he was on top in this town He
didn't consider anybody. He took a cyni-
Ice trust activities. Worse than that
Morse didn't stick to his friends when
ne was man OF power. He developed
a remarkably acute case OF enlarged
head. One peculiarly striking illustra-
ton OF this / saw myself. I was riding
down to Charleston, S. G.. on steamer
on which Nor Morse happened to be pas
senger. This was at the time when
Morse was organizing the big coastwise
steamer combination. Another passen-
s ger on the este steamer happened to be an
Morses state. This business man, when
Morse was making his first start up in
Maine. had come 10 the front for
Morse and furnished him capital to con-
duct his affairs and helped him along
generally He hadn't seen Morse since
those days and SO. when the steamer
was surprised and pleased to hear that
Morse was among the passengers. I'm
mediately be went to dig Morse up for
friendship. He found Morse in the
smoking room and approached him with
smile and an extended hand. He told
Morse appeared not to remember him.
Morse ignored the extended hand and
turned his back on the man who had
helped him in his younger days. saying,
II don't know you and / don't want to
be annoyed
This was of a piece with Morse's gem
eral conduct and manner when he was
skyrocketing around here as a heap-big
hnancier. He seemed to rather enjoy
making enemies. 1t is the commonly
accepted story here that he carried this
To tue IOqISN eS-
IRENE of deliberately making at least
two renowned enemies. financiers of the
first magnitude in New York, who are
directly and delightedly responsible for
Morse being where he is today.
Lawyers of mark over here who know
all the circumstances and possibilities of
the Morse case tell me that the chances
of Morse getting out of the Atlanta in
stitution before his time is up are about
three in thousand. and persons of a
sporting turn of mind will easily be able
TO calculate for themselves how often
they've seen 333 TO l shot win.