The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-14
MRS, HOPKINS MAKES DENIAL
AtlN >HE DIDN'T INTRODJ CT
WIS. BILL iND QJlLEI.
ra, NniIng To. hut before she HAD n
chance Mrs. BuIl HAD I sed the TeIs-
phone and Later said ThAt she
uad HouEht some MaEnesIa stock.

h. ,''uru"v. John r Mcintyre that she
~'f make 4 statement TO the news
,a..., nr the Stone Age Plaster Com
r..ss factory IN Newark Mira Hop
Nj V"rt th"re IN an atuomnbil" just
D.. .r q o'clock after Nj. Corhett hal
.. 81 th" reporters over the factory
~...atg with Wilhelm Funk. portrait
"a -. IT New York " IN recently moved
r,.. lnto Jersey. and Dana u Pond
be- -..rr"t.,ry she talked it'll the reporters.
Nj linpEIns denied emphatically at
,ae uIr-"t that she had introduced Mrs.
Bal g. Qualey. -BIt the way thcy
d. H"c' she said. was very interest
rs had tod Mrs Hull abou, the Mag
re- Asbestos Company on an occasion
WI She had asked me where had
invested my money. / did not try q
interest her IN the concern---
.ut curse che didn't interrupted
Sir FuuA
i merely told her about IL and why !
lad ,ui my SO, OOD m it continued Mrs
HnpNus Well she became Interested and
waited very much to know MIR Qualey.
! sad | would introduce them. but the
matter drifted on for some time on ac-
c5uut & my neglect
You see said MIR Pond. Mrs Hop
.us vas not anxious 10 get Mrs. Bull
INTO ne concern
What was my surprise then went
Mr.. Hopkins. when Mr. Qualey
called me up and told me that he was
g. take dinner with Mrs Bull at Newport
and would | be there. ! asked him how
he had met Mrs Bull and he said she had
called him up on the phone and asked
about the company with the idea e IA
vesting. Why. was dumfounded
Well. We all had dinner together
Mrs Bull began by recalling TO MIR Qualey
hat they had known each other when they
were children together in Columbus. OHIO
She mentioned the name of many com
mon friends to help his memory On the
= hoi" the dinner was something Of a bore
70 IN" because | did not know the people
hoy Kept talking about. MIR. Qualey
eft soon after dinner. on the Q clock
tram. | think It was, and then Mrs Bull
told me she had given him a cheek for
n block Of stock in the MagnesiA company
she didn't tell me for how much and OF
curse when . woman doesn't tell one a
thing like that one never asks
Just then Frank NJ. McDeEmit. Newark
counsel for the firm. asked:
Are YOU thinking 81 trying TO sell
your stock in the company
40. aid Mrs. Hopk ms. and II
hs1 the money would buy more Of II
nv. gentlemen. this plant here Is won
Car''... understand IL all. about how they
'a.e he magnesiA out OF the rocks and
Rat . and run the carbonic acid gas
trough pipes and-why. it's great
a.h.-ys nent IN chemistry as we'll as IN
re architecture Of machinery. Yesterday
80 eN, erts went over the whole place
m me and set a value on the machinery
~" machinery itself il worth more money
mn mas been paid in by the purchasing
stock
Iirs Hopkins said thai she never gave
anything 10 the company for which she
bat not teen compensated
Nhv did YOU come back from Europe
-.fdenly7- soDe one asked Was
r connection with this''
" fNuTse u was, tne replied ]
.Ara hack tn help my frisnds when |
rcsrStood that they were In trouble
o.. the company was being vilifei
Nh"u first learned Of Mrs Bulls action
tom reporter who called To interviews
80 / az once cabled Funk to invest gate
io~- interrupted Mr. Punk. and
answered that there was no cause To
~
You were not connected with the firm
any othe- way than as an investor
Mrs Bull. were your
So replied Mrs. Hopkins. but many
'.orl" were in IL through me. like MIR
NIX and MIR Pond here. and felt a
- ~ responsibility. and besides | was
ragged 10 think Of my friends Mr.
4.A."y and Mr.. Corbett being in that
nd Jefferson Market jail
lr" formal statement which Mrs
H.psIns gave to the reporters was a.
lows
several months ago I received a check
'-.'u uy brokers for the sale Of some stock
alt rg.ng that the Magnesia plant was
o. net = some money with which e.
''nasa machinery Endorsed the
took r"twe-u four and Ave thousand
.ars over 20 tho Magnesia Asbestos
-.pahy a. a loan. distinctly a loan.
srI iur which received their note pay
ar.o IN demand did not purchase
'ngI"s.a stock with this money because
at already invested 81 90 in the com
'a'r and knew that | should need some
r '.- money before long have AZ
'.-r..- other times loaned small sums
90 ~n.~y "a the company. sometimes
'E heck and sometimes by cash. all q
Uf'. nas Dc~n returned. ! have com
o.. !l.Hlmentary eyfdenoa Of thIz eu-