United States or Cambodia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In seeking the nomination for governorship he had made the usual overtures and had in turn been sounded by Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb, and various other corporate interests who were in league with Cowperwood as to his attitude in regard to a proposed public-service commission. At first he had refused to commit himself.
"Dot must be a right cleffer man, dot Cowperwood," Mr. Gotloeb told several of his partners, rubbing his hands and smiling. "I shouldt like to meet him." And so Cowperwood was manoeuvered into the giant banking office, where Mr. Gotloeb extended a genial hand. "I hear much of Chicawkgo," he explained, in his semi-German, semi-Hebraic dialect, "but almozd more uff you.
The man was enormously wealthy. The firm of Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb & Co. represented a controlling interest in some of the principal railways and banks in America. Their favor was not to be held in light esteem.
Are you goink to swallow up all de street-railwaiss unt elefated roats out dere?" Cowperwood smiled his most ingenuous smile. "Why? Would you like me to leave a few for you?" "Not dot exzagly, but I might not mint sharink in some uff dem wit you." "You can join with me at any time, Mr. Gotloeb, as you must know. The door is always very, very wide open for you." "I musd look into dot some more.
By a curious coincidence it was mainly financed by Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb & Co., of New York, though Cowperwood's connection with that concern was not as yet known.
Lucas, the great money houses of the East are interested in this local contest here in Chicago. For example, Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb & Co. would like to see a consolidation of all the lines on a basis that will make them an attractive investment for buyers generally and will at the same time be fair and right to the city. A twenty-year contract is much too short a term in their eyes.
"Peeble are not ferry much indrested in tees short-time frangizes," observed Mr. Gotloeb once, when Cowperwood was talking the matter over with him. He wanted Haeckelheimer & Co. to underwrite the whole issue. "Dey are so insigure. Now if you couldt get, say, a frangize for fifty or one hunnert years or something like dot your stocks wouldt go off like hot cakes.
Men such as Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb, Fishel, tremendous capitalists in the East and foremost in the directorates of huge transcontinental lines, international banking-houses, and the like, were amazed that the newspapers and the anti-Cowperwood element should have gone so far in Chicago. Had they no respect for capital?
It was decided, after some talk, that Addison should go. When he reached New York he found, to his surprise, that the local opposition to Cowperwood had, for some mysterious reason, begun to take root in the East. "I'll tell you how it is," observed Joseph Haeckelheimer, to whom Addison applied a short, smug, pussy person who was the head of Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb & Co., international bankers.
By that time public sentiment as aroused by the newspapers would have had time to cool. Already through various favorable financial interests particularly Haeckelheimer, Gotloeb & Co. and all the subsurface forces they represented he had attempted to influence the incoming governor, and had in part succeeded.
Word Of The Day