Show A SLICK ENGLISHMAN He Takes in Chauncey M Depew and Many Others ANNUAL PASSES GRANTED HIM One C I Cook Represents Himself as the Assistant As-sistant Superintendent of the London Northwestern Railway Special to THE HEBATJ > Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK April 22Railroad Apri 22Ruirold magnates oi New York and Chicago who hare the reputation of being the sharpest people on earth have been taken in and by 0 clean cut little Englishman at that They have pressed upon him private cars annual passes and theatre boxes little dinners for select parties and luncheons ad libitum Jhauncey M Depew mourns some annual passes and his gray sidewhiskers tremble with sorrow as ho thinks how ho was worked George B Roberts the astute president ol tho Pennsylvania was so taken in that ho furnished his new acquaintance ac-quaintance with flattering letters of intro uction to western friends Stuyvesant Fish of the Illinois Central and the Bur ington peopleeverybody teat this smooth tiger from Britains isle metwas caueht It came about like this One C H Cook landed in Now York and said he was assistant as-sistant superintendent and civil engineer of the London Northwestern railway and waG visiting this country for health rest and recreation and incidentally desired de-sired to see how the great American railways ways were run The London Northwestern North-western is Britains crack road and Mr Cook was received with open arms De I pew gave up annual passes on the Vander bit lines and a nice new Wagner pass a luncheon with a pretty speech and a ream I of letters of introduction George B Roberts furnished the free dom of the Pennsylvania system and sent Mr Cook to the great Altoona shops to look them over which ho did under the guidance of officials whose time was worth in the aegegate 500 1 day At Pittsburg the iron kings and hightarfff barons wined and dined the great English railroad official cal and a Chicago Burlington Quincy private car was procured to bring the favorite to Chicago Who sent that car after Cook the Burlington peoplo refused to tel When Mr Cook arrived at Chicago Chi-cago thore was 0 great to do He was smooth quiet affable courteous and with a majestic minuet step he invaded the hearts of all he met President Roswel Miller of the Chicago MilwauKeo St Paul at once interviewed Mr Cook on elevated terminals When Mr Cook found out that Mr Miller was in favor of surface tracks Mr Cook promptly declared that there wero no elevated terminals in Eng land to speak of because they were impracticable im-practicable Mr Miller sent Cook to Milwau tiee to inspect their shoos Then Cook called en J D Springer third vicepresident of the Atchison aS Topeka and told him that elevated terminals ter-minals were of the greatest benefit to Eng land and that gentleman gave up a con pleto assortment of passes on the Atchison Californias lines But the Illinois Central was Gtrucl too very hardest Cook produced pro-duced a pass to New Orleans and return and paid the fare south for his wife When the Central heard of this the officials rent by telegraph free transportation back for Mrs Cook and asked permission to refund the amount paid for her going south Then Cook journeyed west Ho has Been America thoroughly from the Atlantic to Atantc the Rocky mountains and is now doing the Pacific cnr coast in a Southern Pacific private cnrHad Cook remained quiet and not been interviewed he could have kept up this pace for a year But some of those interviews inter-views came to the notice of C A Barns toni the London Northwestern general passenger and freight agent for America at S53 Broadway New York He never heard of him and after communicating i with the home office in London he telegraphed tele-graphed to Chicago as follows C H Cook has never bean associated with my company in any official capacity whatever and is a fraudulent person Red hot on the heals of this is a letter from Mr Barmtoni to the Railway tae which reads as follows To railway officials of-ficials in tho United States Canada and MexicoIt has como to the knowledge both at the headquarters of this company in London and at their New York agency that ono C H Cook styling himself assistant as-sistant superintendent and civil engineer of this company in England has largely imposed upon railway officials on this continent con-tinent by obtaining transportation favors under false representations I therefore take this public way of warning those interested that the said Mr Cook is not connected with this compnnyln company any way whatever and must be considered and treated as a fraudulent portion Respectfully Respect-fully C A Barratoni G P F A1 Local railway officials tonight are kept busy explaining how they happened to victimized |