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Show PATTEN'S VERSHON Of HIS "BOOING1 DIFFERS FROM PREViOUSM NEW YORK. March 17 James A. Patten, the speculator, who arrived from Liverpool tonight, explained in detail his "booing" on tho Manchester exchange. "There wsis no violence offered me," he said. "The story has traveled three thousand miles, and I understand tho further a story truvcls tho bigger It grows. Hero Is the truth of the Incident: Inci-dent: "In the first place, the Manchester exchange ex-change is not a cotton exchange exclusively, exclu-sively, but a general board of trade, to which merchants of ever.y variety belong. 1 wns escorted on the lloor of the exchange ex-change by James Brown, one of tho oldest old-est and largest cotton spinners of Great Britain. I noticed the crowd looked me over curiously, as tf lo sec whether I had horns or not. Then I began to hear cries of 'boo.' which 1 did not in the lesist understand, until by physical pressure pres-sure It was borne In on me lhat tho crowd meant to push me out of the ex-chsmg ex-chsmg We wore Jostled and pressed for about seventy-five feet. I should say, before wo turned lo the door of our own volition nnd walked into tho street The crowd followed me, shouting 'Yankee1' "Mr. Brown led me .across the street Into a private office, where, later, various vari-ous prominent members of the exchange and several largo exporters called on mo to express their regrets. . "To understand the action of the exchange, ex-change, it Is necessary llrst to know the membership, so fsir as the cotton mills arc concerned, is largely made up of factory managers, and that these msinagcrs In great part nrc raw Lancashire Lanca-shire and Yorkshire men. who have never nev-er had any commercial training or any contact with the outside world of affairs. af-fairs. They know how to run the mills nnd that Is all. "Therefore, when many of the mills were forced to close down by the high price of cotton, these managers, informed in-formed only by tho newspapers, attributed attrib-uted the depression In the trade to me exclusively. 3 aJHcJwR the incident and I whatsoever." Mr. Patten conflrrnea retirement from 1,U,3M ready been announccflW Bartlett, Patten & he said, by he Jan Ior he still would hold si A&cd if he a'wgSB good and all from sPct ten smiled wisely and Wk don't you ask air. v Rockefellcr?j |