This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...of his children that the matter be explained after his death. We present the following explanation of the affair from the New York Tribune: One of the most important incidents in Mr. Gould's recent life, as noted in the sketch of his career elsewhere, was the transaction by which the control of Manhattan came into his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...of his children that the matter be explained after his death. We present the following explanation of the affair from the New York Tribune: One of the most important incidents in Mr. Gould's recent life, as noted in the sketch of his career elsewhere, was the transaction by which the control of Manhattan came into his hands. There has long been a feeling among Mr. Gould's friends that great injustice was done to him in the popular view of the matter. John T. Teny, of E. D. Morgan & Co., has for years been one of Mr. Gould's most trusted counsellors. While Mr. Terry has not been as intimate as other men in the stock operations of Mr. Gould, he has known of many of the investment policies pursued by the dead capitalist, and his sound judgment and high reputation in the mercantile and banking world were frequently availed of by Mr. Gould in important affairs. In the case of the sale of Mr. Field's Manhattan stock to Mr. Gould, Mr. Terry was the medium through which Mr. Field was able to effectively appeal to Mr. Gould's resources to assist Mr. Field in the time of his need. Mr. Terry's friends say that the confidential nature of his relations to the negotiations at that time forbids him to tell too much of the secret history. But yesterday Mr. Terry made the following statement in regard to the Field-Gould transaction: "Mr. Gould has been for years the subject of much misrepresentation and unreasonable abuse, partly from misapprehension and partly from malice. Even those of his transactions which have been beneficent in their character, and which have been prompted by the best motives, have been turned and twisted by attributing the worst possible motives to him. Take for example the case of Mr. Field and the Manhattan Railway. Mr. Gould was applied t...
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