The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-04-18

A nldTFSIOuSly USCO1dl Wall lSlll, Ill
which was the finest china and silver
service, was set apart for his high
ness.
From Mexico came choice fruit for
his lordship's exclusive TASTE curacao
from the spice islands, monopole from
abroad, nothing too costly nor diff
cult to obtain for Lord Gordon-Gordon
who was to buy 100000 acres of land
from the Northern Pacific. Wagon
loads of rifles was followed by packs
of deer hounds in which the party
was to engage in the excitement of the
chase. A wagon load of boats and
fishing tackle we're carried along so
that when camp was struck along the
river or mountain lakes his lordship
might while away the pfn toying
with the mountain Dreams or trout in
the lakes. For three months did this
swindler lead COL LOOMS and his
layout through the wilderness, hunt
ing, fishing and eating of the delicate
viands of the world all at the expense
of the Northern Pacific laying out
thousands of acres of land, town sites
church and school house sites, naming
them all as he went along.
In the meantime he extracted small
loans of several thousands of dol
lars from Col Loomis while his re-
tinue ran riot with the shop keepers,
until the lords remittances arrived.
Does it look possible that such a fraud
could be perpetrated upon corpora
| ton of such gigantic proportions and
such an array of talented dignitaries
as the Northern Pacific at that time
possessed? But he did it and more in
few months in the east. Col. Loomis
spent $4,000 on the trip outside of the
loans and shop keepers accounts and
told the directors it was money we'll
spent as the lord vas one Of their
richest clients and would in all prob
ability invest $5OO,000 if not several
millions with them.
The trip over, he had urgent bus1-
ness in New York for which place ne
left early one morning after drawing
his $4,000 from the bank the evening
before Of course all his and his SER
wants debt remained I. o. U.
He struck New York, the financial.
metropolis of the new world, at the
same psychological moment that he
had found at Minneapolis. The great
Erie railroad war was on. This, at
that time, was the biggest system in
the world with the wizard OF finance,
Jay Gould, at its head. He and his
conferees we're about to be downsd by
great syndicate, with Generals Dix
and sickles at the helm. s3O,OOO-OOo
were at stake. The road was about to
be sold, Gould and Col Scott, the lead
ing luminaries in possession, were
being forced to the wall. Scott was
at that ime the leading railroad mag
nate of the world and Gould the
wealthiest and shrewdest fnancier
then on the continent.
The road somehow had got into the
courts and his lordship saw an open
: ing whereby he could take hand.
Penting whole suites of rooms in
the most fashionable hotelin the city,
the Metropolitan, he there Installed
himself with his great suite of equer-
ries, secretaries, and valets in all the
pomp and paraphernalia of lord to
the manor born" Horace Greely,
then editor-in-chief of the greatest
newspaper in the country, soon to
become candidate for the presidency
of these United States, and dies of
broken heart a few months after his
defeat, heard of this visiting noble
man with the lamp Of Aladdin visiting
him in his sumptuous quarters. Gree
~ fell on the neck of this blatan i'm
roster.
The spurious Gordon-Gordon. 1eir
of the great earl of Gordon and de-
scendent of the bold and warlike Loeb
invar, told Greely of his great pur-
chase of lands in the west, his town
sites, ETC., of the congested condition
of his tenants, of his purpose to build
palatial residence near New York in
which nobility might be entertained
when they visited plebian America, and
incidentally dropped out to the great
editor the fact of his having sixty
thousS,d shqros Of Frie in his own
right ard fifteen or twenty thousand
more holonging to relatives and