The evening world. Newspaper, April 3, 1905, Page 3

as <7 i "WO QUARTER!” “CRY BOTH SIDES IN HYDE FIGHT nN "Leaders of Rival Factions Will Not Accept Any Compromise, SOME ONE BLOCKS PEACE Gage E. Tarbell, Say Friends of Hyde, Is Real Leader of His Opponents, ° WeTATE MAY INVESTIGATE. B eenator Brackett Has Bill Heady Providing for a legislative Probing of Society. ‘The fretfonal fight in the Fquttable Ue Assurance Soclaty grows more bit ter every day, and all hope of @ recon- efliation between tho various inter wtruggiing for control of its enormous wealth was abandoned to-day, and the ery of "No quurte came from ail sides, A leader in the fight, whose name has figured but ttle in the more rovent controversies, but whose worl more and more apparent dafly, id Vice-President Gage 1, Tu is credited with an ambition succeed James H. Hyde ag First ssident, and then Jumes W. Alexander ag President, That Mr. Al- exaniler will retire aa moon a the preg ent row Is over (here fs Little doubt, Mr. Tarbell ts a d with the Alexan- | der forces and has all the strength of the Equitable agenctes bohinf him—« tremendous factor under a mutualiza- tion administration, ‘A prominent director of the Eqult> able, who {= strongly In favor of peace, gaid' to an Evening World deporter to- day: Tarbell Blocks Peace? “I know a director in the Society who | has made threa distinct efforts to bring about harmony, On each occasion, just when he thought he had accomplished something, had 6 rd and blocked him. miatemont In answer to that Issued by Mr, Hyde on Saturday, Meantime, a gentleman closely identified with hig in terests had this to say to-day: ops mand Is not over, Hyde's de for an Investigation has ened him and strengthened our side. State Superintendent Hendricks may rest assured he will get all the ald he needs from us. ‘This Investigation just suits us, We started the fight for a certaln purpose and we will not quit until wo have accomplished it. The thing has gone too far for either side to retire, ‘The strongest kind of press- ure has been brought on us to let up, but wo do not propose to do any such. Heht thing, War to Go On, "We have given no consent to the mutualization plan adopted Saturday. 1 think I can almost hance that we will @ point yet, and are cept anything that y euit us.” John D, Crimmins was disturbed to-day aay there Is little We haven't lost not apt to ac- does not exactly not greatly the cries of cer- tain of the members of the polley- holders’ committee, which he formed, and which ts popularly known as the Crimmins Committee, that he is @ traitor who had gone over to the Hyde side "Ha! hat More of Frank Platt's work,” sald Mr, Crimmius when he read an account of his alleged treason, “Well, the strongest answer I can make to these velled accusations Is that the vote of our comnilttee to accept the plan of mutualization before the Super- intendent of Insurance was unanimous. “This charge against me ts drawn to make it appear as though our commit- tee wag formed to oust Mr, Hyde, It ‘was not, It was formed to force mu- tuallzation, and {f the Rquitable direc~ torate accepts our plan of Savurday our work will have been accomplished, Crimmins Lauds Hyde. “There {8 nothing traitorous in my #aying that I regand Mr, liyde as an ahle youne man. J do so regard him, arid T do not think any {a to be served by forcing The mystery of the small sleuths which follows James H, Hyde wherever ho goes, was xolved to-day when a lawyer, who Is Interested In the Equitable squabble, sald; “Pheae mon that follow Hyde are not a b dyguard, as people think. They are a detachment of 10 private detectives who have been hired by the contietins interests to shadow the principals in the fmht.” Not True, Says Harriman. Ha was asked to-day about his companies had bor from the Equitable So. him army of out, Mr. rowed heav clety. Ue sald “YT never borrowed a dollar from the quitable Society; my companies neyer borrowed a dollar from the Equitable Boclety: I never wold the Baultable So- clety aly bonds; my companies never old Bil Ra inital oe Ack y bonds. Mr, Harrlman's Was allen that cords whaowed the Baulfatle of $4). sat} fact that the s hecessarily mean that 1 sold them. ‘Ato youl a polley-bolder In the Riquit- ebie?” Wan tubleod oe Mm, Harriman, “F refuse to aiswver,” was the reply, “Do you hold auy etock wave the five a to you by Mi ie ait “be aah fart he found eome irreconcilable | Known as the Sphinx of Wall Street Where He Began His Career 34 Years Ago—Left Banking for Raiiroad Organ-| izing—Wrested Crown trom, Morgan. Thirty-four years ago A ‘boy of nino- | teen sought his fortune in Wall etrest, He was the won of a New Jersey clermy- man and poor, To-day he ie a mul'l- millionalre and dominates various rall- road and other Interests whore agere- gate capital 1s estimated far above the billion mark, ‘The boy was Edward Henry Harriman Of no othes financial :magnate'a per- sonallty and private history. perhaps, 4s so little generally known os Harvl- man's, Ho has @ genuine abhorrence of publicity, and carries hie modesty into his finamela) operations to 80 great an extent that for years he has beon nicknamed "The Sphinx of the Brest.” For yenrs he even successtully dodged the camera, His personal appearance abets his dislike for oonspicuounness, Undersized, almost shabby of drens and wholly lack- ing in the distinguished bearing sup- posed to encompass a King of finance he moves quietly and unnoticed amta the well-dressed and self-tmportant Wall stroet throngs, Few public mon are tess familiar Wy sight to the cos- mopolitan New Yorker. Stunted In Stature, Harriman ta stunted, being scarcely feet 4 Inohes in helght. A decided stoop of the shoulders accentuates this brevity of stature. Save for absence of swartiiness, he {8 In many respects the physical counterpart of the late Jay Gould, The plainness of his habitual dress would shame the average $12 a week clerk, While Horr Jam began sand Mis brother WIll- their Wall street careers With practically no inherited capit the family had wealthy and powerful outside connections which enabled the boys to get a start In the banking firm of Loow, Harriman & Co, Here E. It Harriman's rise was steady and rapid. | A few years after his Initial venture he | 0 dominated the affaira of the concer that the name was changed to Harrl- man & Co, Th 181 Mr. Harriman retired from the company, He had discovered that his Natural bent did not Me tn the direc- on of banking, He had trom the first had @ strong taste for railroad man- Jof his tise to the control of #0 many | | railroad syetome terested Jn the Tilinola Central mecurt- | Wes. 1 began looking tnto the affairs of the road and made trips over it, The property was not in a condition to ui to earn $13,000,000 gross they earning 21,000,000, We gaye the public facies, We protected the loeal points because we got 100 per cent of the business of those points Roads Made to Pay. are to-day | line and the Oregon Rallway & Naviga- | tion Company we were able to maintain our position. We started in on the same principle we made use of on the the (raffle which orteinates on that line, We have put the Union Pacific from Omaha to Cheyenne in almost perfect condition," Mr. Harriman openly declares his be; Net In the advantages to everybody of mergers or “'combines* “In. rallroad an or myself or any one elae towned railroads there would be better HARRIMAN ROUTED IN BIG MERGER SUIT The Court’s Final Ruling in, Northern Securities Is for Morgan and Hill, WASHINGTON, April &—In the Su- |preme Court of the United States to-day the Chief Justice handed down the opin- jon of the court In the case of Harri- Phe Northern Securities Com- ani su an man va. pany, the decision in which nounced several Weeks ago, part » motion for the Immediate Insu- an date a. ‘This decision means that BH, H, Harrl- man hay been routed In his suit aga{net J, Plerpont Morgan and James J, Hill in the Northern Securities Company, and that the matter has been definitely settied. © of thy mandate was denied, the for Iseuance being fixed for April vita ne Mstribution | 5¢ other, signal. man, Mr. that that $20,000,000 IN HARRIMAN SECURITIES. The records of the Equitable Society show the pony sion by that tnatitation of $20,000,000 of the bonde of B. M. Harriman’s companies, RISE OF EDW In 1901 came the sensatic onal fight ro so far as the public Spietnatel In he disast May 9 1 Harriman the offects were more Morgan and Hill acknowledged themselves defeated. hitherto Invincible dictator of the Amer Jean rallroad world, Individually. | total of ratiroad mileage t After the Harriman's. pov | Was wld to exceed Morgat TRE REAL DR. JEKYLL BEHIND MR. HYDE? ~ , t pped forw Ipulation and is said toh me _ } We have no evidence of who the Irrec-| time in off houra t 0 have founa | f onctlablo {s, but we believe tt Is Gare | jert $0 completely they n, Wlt Bubs | for there would be freer movement Er Tarbell, Mr. ‘Tarbell ts not in tavor| Know ay erally that he grew to when conditions were such as to allow . . Mr. af every inch of ternite of any peace terms whioh do not IN| initey Statow and ita exact ny In the | rittie by Mette and by various math clude the complete ousting of Mr. 19M. | a panioud Value from | oda Mr, Harrison and his allies galnes His ambition to ‘be president of the siya IM control of one road aficr Society. is well known, , With James} . Mis “Autobiography.” yee if, Hyde out } 1 to ; ‘ Hurviman's hatred ot | t ii would bo clear and probably nothing |Publlelty hax made him inpreenanel a ica SRIAn ana ypoutnern, ae can slop him achieving his ambition | (> Interviewers, he made ® speech in| ton and others qulckiy caine under (ie within a year." enver in the course of which he gave | Harriman swaj President Alexander ts preparing a} the following autoviographical history Northern Pacific Fight, |the control of the. Nortte ‘1 was brought up in the Ananotal cen. | Hallnoud: | Harriman anal 1 m, trevor New Yoncu we ne Co, were opposed. to J 6 Of “he sald, und Twas) and Jo J. Hille, Phe Be sens Ago left In the ownership of a few) however, appears to be miles of railroad in contra) New York. | personal battle betwi that litt ao’ I got} gent the road's stock rockating. and. aet | Ue road in condition and| the whole financial world axge M sold out to the Jatter, T became in-|lons were nade and lost, and the aftair, were cone 1 vs panic Harriman emerged do the business it might carry, We be. / from the battle with the Faput ah c wanto put the road in shape, On the | Beving practically dictated s mileage on which they were struggling ible digtn ten, ron a contr ufaly matters Had Standard Oil Backing. “The Union Pacife was over-capital- ized, It could not carry the great | site om load, Hy acquiring the Oregon Short because the Hill- Morgan syne cate refused ine | Harriman ts kaid backed on that ocoasion by the Rocke. feller and Vandenbiit millions, Harriman is director of an in- The fight for control of Northern Pa- cifle was begun by I wrriman and J, to have been itely large number of railroads and her flnancial ventures, ode a it, d fled, Since the curities stock had passed Into the hai was an-|of mare thom In Grevt Britain, 3 of Hurope: the filing of the Government bill 7, ghares wore sold for Seah, con pladnant Harriman Ilinols Central, A “We have acquired such an Interest | 2 eee in tho Southern Pacific that we have pone added to his Apart His annual for par seaston) Tarriman has had t'me to spor. and aka. @ few year ago, owns a ‘buying high-priced horses, matters, John. Gent al bolieve,” he told the InteratateCom: | bought auotion yh eta 319,000, mere Commissions "that it ded Til | and ‘Stamboul 2.00%) a 000 was feo ta trom" driving fast trotters and Chief Justice said: to 1 All Againet It. “The Clroutt Court decrees and the wetion of tho Untted States pub at rest any quostinn the ratable distribution resolve: upon was in violation of public polley "And It (s clear enough that the de- lvery ito complainants of a majority of tho total Northern Pacific stock and @ ratable distribution of the remaining assets holders would not only be in itself in- equitable, yene the object of the Shorman \ttornoy-General of the the other soourttias stock- but would directly contra- Jaw the purposes of the Government “And, without repeating In dutall what haw been already set out, right of rescission cubed contract of Noy, 1 rewolssion sustained, had beon lost by acquiescence lashes at the it ts plain of the exe 101, even It have othemvise heen could time this bill, wos transfor of that date se. 8 ters, many of nunce and othe a year after ‘than 2,500 ho nearly cancietn ne months: anc and the "Line Company, se plodsted 9 the Mqultable irrust Comonny; AReER EG Haste the de- cree of April rien as aiareionisra ang ic wae not until atten Ma ie Mr, To must bow to. the in- tegat they stood on their Hoh, % 1004, de- Directors resolved when ints Board yn & ratadle diateioution, that Inanta undertook to CEA an oe), In itnelt In tea view a ot To vigh ta (RD HENRY ate ti 10 meetings (at from $10 ary resi | mre reatimated at about $2, mnhBArt from his multifarious tusiness Intorest himself in sclénoe, farming, He fitted out a famous | expedition $8,000 farm near Tuxedo and some years HA veral child ‘a One of Harrima: wet financial a in parl dellcto because the parties act- ed in good faith and without intention to Violate the law ax without merit “With Imnowledge of the fact and the statute the pariies turned out to. be mistaken In supposing that the statute Would not be held applicable to the facia Nolther can plead Ignorance ot the ‘awa na daninat the othe: nad be 1 no unfalr advantage In consideration yoluntarlly ed for the price agreed, Ve tind no evidence of any express entitled it was the new common stoc tainly not the and natural in but the remit right of sub- ce crease of the old stock, of the exe scription," cise of the eee was on {ts own account and dn trust, 1 cannot sbe disturbed b: ewuse of illegal purpose at the oli of parties In pari delleto, And is here no offer of the restoration of the @tatus quo, If that were practical Cannot Reclaim Share “Doubtless It became the duty of the Securities Company to end a ettuation that had been adjudged unlawinl, and this could be effected by sale and dis tribution In cash, or by distribution. In Kdnd, and the" latter “mathod — was: adopted, and wisely adopied as Ww think, for the forwed sale of several | hundred millions of stock would have manifestly involved disastrous vesults "In fine, the tile to these stocks hay ing Intentionally been massed, the for- mer ownons, yart of them, eannot reclaim he clile shares and must thelr ratable propor- orate AsKet ee GAS KILL8 YOUNG WOMAN, Olivia, Sansen, a domestic of twenty- de {agreement that complainants should. be | “The nurchage of the securities com: | 4 THE WORTD: MONDAY EVENING, APRIT: 3, 1905. RRIMAN, acers Mr, Harrlman's chief amuse- | vantages te his facility for using other) CUP. > ! : Thont is wit, tis town house Isat No, {lien ahd thelr miluons, Rockefeller, | made Postum as we have {t at home 1 Bast Fifty-ffth street, He ds married | Gould, Schiff, Vanderbilt and Sullman]|—yich, clear and fragrant, after good, and has. s¢ are among his constant or occasional |i yy poiling to bring out the flavor, Hos SUSPENDED MEMBERS ree of the Wentminater P terlan Flock Will Dema | Recognition, Exeltement $4 promised at the moet- Ing of the congregation of the minster Presbyteslin Church: | Twentysthird sirect next | night, when three mem! been suspended fr the session will demand ivi hese ures stated by. th ut the ¢ pute offtel “Heart and John D, Cluss were ed trusteas of the chur meeting on Wednesday ni marriage ov re quso resulted In an appeal to the Vat to annul at previous marrage of the Princess: which had been set aside by the United States courts, the, sigarmon ¢ "Prine here of ‘was first husband, of Bangor, peng In 1901 OF CHURCH TO FIGHT. i “up. DINNER” TO’ MONTESQUIOU, | ‘Those who have heen descanting on | the excentnelties of James Hazen Hyde, recalling to the last elaborate detail the | | Cambon dinner and the famous French ball, seem to haye overlooked a ben- vet which this young man tendered to | | Count de Montesquiou two years ago | when the distinguished Irench noble- man was thrilling New York with his | touching prese | The atta exchisive and tn | 1 way ultra-aesthetle, not to | | clash with the mood of M'sieu te Comte, | Pho principal feature of the entertain ment Was In the decoration. ‘The fgure 1 but Was woven Into, embossed, en- | | HYDE'S FAMOUS “BAT | | the graved Wid affixed upon everything from the carpet to the cefling, and not ting t pattalls of the walters, OW tity bal banquet, asx It has since wen called by the few select who at- | was pot the result of some synorasy of Mr, Hyde, but a} ition of @ pect and apprec whim of Montesquiou. ‘The slen- | nobleman, who claims direet de- seent from D'Artagnon, the delightful swashbuckling guardsman of the Du- , thinks, speaks and uly, He has a large fol- ry persons uf a certain poetic | der lowing of lite netor 0) the Count the bat Is not a dark, lean thing, a pare the erawly Dhgit, It is a symbol of bevuty, and tts French ChAUy ess (bakt-mouse) JOHN SAYS “More of the New Colfee, Please.” A lady from the “Land of the Sky,” in N. C., says: “This winter, while on a visit furs ther down South, where everybody seems to be a slave to coffee, 1 one day found my hostess prone on her couch, how my head ach 1 sald warn- ingly. She supposed so, and what else could she drink?) ‘Why, Postun,' I replied, ‘But that is so insipid, and John docs not like tt, He calls tt dish-water,’ | thought of the kind of Postum the darky cook had served, and asked her if 1 might make her a So into the kitchen | went and “| brought it to her in one of the daintiexst cups, and she drank under protest, declaring it might make her ead worse, She exclaimed, ‘Why, how nice this is! You don’t mean this is Postum?’ I told her the differ- ence was only in the making, She d hud it before, boiled only a few niinites, and he had {t made ac- | cording to directions that are plain | enough on each package, ("In about am hour's tine she sat and, laughing a tte, sald her| Hhead felt nearly well and the giddi- | nees was almost gone, | “The next morning we had Pos-| tum (made right) for breakfast. We told John it was a new coffee we wanted him to try, He called for al second cup, and the next morning called for some more of that new coftee. | “Quite a while after we had been! serving It regularly John spoke of} feeling So much better, He had got-| Fy eee ie aietion or new |ten over his nervousness, and only tristec |then did we dare tell him he had} Seeeniteeenaceraneaae | been steadily using the once despised PRINCE ROSPIGLIOSI HERE. | Postum. . ean! fore I left off coffee my ecom- Keviven lil Heincaiay Avie wae plesion was bad and sometimes my der We The complexion has Mea, By od, Parkhurst, cloate dup ina most remarkable way. Prince and Princess Rosp a1, whose! ] had better refer to the other mem- hors of the family for « testimontal ns (o a change in temper; leastwise we all abandoned coffec about two y ago, for it affected us more (like liquor, and every member of my family showed the effect of it in ner- |vous, trembling sensations, occa- sional dizzy spells and more or less Myer complaint. AJl of these symp- toms have disappeared since we made the change to Postums Name given Post! | always rhymes with many pretty things, ‘the ligure of a bal is the Frenohman’a lit. erary crest. It i¢ stumped on the blue louther covers of Ia books: Ina OWNE, you amiKat a ind fow of hig poem clothes ftom ‘tho Imprint of the fying mouse: When Montesuuiou came tg America to reveal to us nome of the mysteries nd beauties of tls mind at 9% & reveal it Sherry's, Mr, Hyde was one of t Atak tovareet him ‘with the thigh hand clasp of friendship, “He bought a bunch of tickets for the Sherry afternoon Montesaulou lectures and’ gaye them to those of Its friends who could gauge their omelen to the a morta view Rani, But, it ts and t @, the Count got ortalt atten chile mat jet el Bue the front seats coated with leo, ‘Tho beautiful Parlatan and his dear friend, Gabriel do po toned Gow even ordered, the tnd when the bo was fitive Henchmen fatnted In this deaperato pili found them one day, remarkable broavhea the idea Mont gene frien. became eoatatio,. fel yy that night th rtd hia fet to Jay ous his pajamas, and the day Tefore Mrhen he appeared ot fairly resounded wun foe menthe,, frock coat and “pants.” aC AeA at 6th Ay, gest and most varied assortments Of parcel interest are the daily arrivals of Imported requisites for home fuinlehineeeee parel, dress noveltie: on : ‘specialty store basis, On Display Tuesday a Very Choice Collection of Persian and Anatolian Rugs. To-Day To-Morrow—A Score of “Tues+ Special Sales Starting fiom Every Department. day Special” S: TAKE A § ales Advertised Have You Inspected Macy’s Unsurpassed Stocks of Spring Goods? To-day you find the Macy store at STROLL THROUGH MACY’S—and you will readily understand what we mean by the term “THE NEW MACY STORE,” i to 35th St, best—ready withthe: of Spring Goods in Macy history, ‘oods—a il pee Involve Merchandise in Sunday’s Papers. Than Cost of Manufacturing. | tra This is the third factory-clea' Paper store has received this sea trio. It embraces practically every produces, Grades usually 18¢. Grades usually 26c, Grades usually 28¢, Grades usually 34c. Grades usually 45c, a roll, a roll, a roll, a roll, a roll, Papers for the Bedroom. 16c, grades, now | 22c, grades, now " 42¢, grades, now Te | 18c, grades, now ¢ ! Papers for the 34c, grades, now 16¢ 400, l Optical at $5.00 field of vi: Gold Spring Rimless f Ms aly patent nose clip; a pair.. 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