The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-06-03

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II don't believe Ital c|incr dcc|ared
Rensselaer,
As Henry HrPel w. sIsid from Iei.
uhan aud breakfast opened ,lis door
o. Kclelns onles lilllen started has.
lily from the back OF Phillips chair
over which she had Teen leaning. The
girl WIS confuseul but The young man
was not
How nearly dbyyou knows asked
Breed ignoring i6e SRI aI,osetheg.
Kelvin us nlappiit away NOW lieflt
over 4 very large Get 3 d card
board. ruled I'D cross ruled ili Dlite7
ana red. ana spdpt hl5 eye atross ttle
tIiagramma ticaily Aftanf q tIgltes
.,fhe situation clegls % more the
further / igo iGib, h lld III soatof'
the panic Ne haze enitre With a
considerable profit IN 81 and With
actual p6ssessionot IS per eelt Of the
New York eentFaEqnd abqrt the same
of the PennsslSahla 9nlnertI and
Union Pactac, N6Etaeftl L aelsiC South
ern railway and 5Nea1l tiasen3efonps.
These practically govern 4 4 other rail;s
roads, :,
p Breed sat dbwdiatons The stia settee
which Kelvin hadlRststed upon taying
in this room instead Of u padded NOR
ris chair. IIss bead gttttered
above his h9wkllkS nese;; bis pointed
chin was tilted. ME- w
els 1t enoughg III laskttEtlt'l want
absolute control oteyery milesof rail-
road in tie United States. :
u think sog h9ye enough replies
Kelvin.
Bred looked ltlHiAl stioningIy.
then he turned sharply to his grand
daughter. Lillian you Ind better run
along and get rGSdy II you are going
out upon the ilnksiwftli J
II want to sIayr she declared.
aGrandfatller, DO you know what you
are doing tolmea thaye all the nery-
GUS energy you taed to bequeath to
my father YOU csbp me 10 here L
must have an 4ittete 3 in aometlllng;
something big. or shall so mad! /.
tell you shall def lhaye no battle
to fight except myself annd the 80.
cial inanlties which Mis- Hepss elaer Is
presumed to teach me before l may
show myself in Madison avenuem she
declared. ..As anS4nbition that does
not seem to promise mich scope. l
want larger things. They cannot be
too large. /, too. would build -an en-
pire or destroy oner m
Kelvin looked quietly up atsiera She
was a picture of striking beauty. but
there was about her certain savage
ness, such as Q .LuctesIaS Rergla might
have had. Kelvin 'th6Iight sor-sachS as
animated the woman yultures Of the
French revolution, u
Henry Breed was possessed sot no
such dramatic Comparisons, ssLeage
the room!' he said curtly. She whirl-
ed upon her heel and strobe out the
door, slamming ittehind Sher.
Dr.. Zelphun followed her with bis
eyes. but a half smile was still lurking
under his beard. The other two heay-
ed signs when s6ewas gone. Breed
dismissed the episode nme dlatelys
itSs&ow you may eSpIain.A he told Kel-
vim Nv. -.
.tWell," said Kelvin, "the entire rail-
road map Is changed since the panic.
All the names familiar to the rail
road world have pissed into history.
Next week they wllhaye been forgot
ten. Not one Of item can rise again
from the wreck.
Breed nodded his head in compre-
hension, and his thin, flexible lips bent
into cruel smile, ~ know" said
he. tThere Is d red mark upon each
Of their Photographic
Kelvin nodded briefly. ''But those
men have shown US the why. Let me
give you as an illustration the control
Of one man. For five years he denied
that he had any interest in a certain
large road. But there came time
when a holding company in which he
was interested had secured Is per cent
Of the stock of that road. and this 10
per cent was the largest single minors
ty holding. The mantti question held
In his own name less than 10 per cent
Of the stock Of the holding company.
but It was to the interest Of every
member That he nominate his own d.
rectors and control tile destiny Of the
company, Through this control. there
fore, he virtually possessed personally
that Is per cent Of the stock Of the
big railroad. With that IS per cent
he sent in his own nane an appeal to
the scattered stockholders for proxies.
and through his personal prestige he
came into the stockholders meeting
of the big road tvotlns 90 per cent Of
the stock and put through his own
sIate Of directors aud officers, Then,
through similar; means and through
this one road, he controlled oil Its
branches and dependents. aggregadng
many thousands of,nllestand nil de.
spite the fact that he himself actually
held not / per cent Of the value Of all
this stockn