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Show Dr. irebb and Jay Gould. Tho abrupt marnerin which Vice President Webb treated a represent-ativeof represent-ativeof the Knights of Labor who called as mediator between the company com-pany and the men has recalled Uio fact Uiat all the Wbb boys are disposed dis-posed to be peremptory in business dealings, even with older and stronger men than themselves. In -Iho very older days of Dr. Seward Webb as a railroad man he attempted a little show of authority with Mr. Jay Gould, which Uiat gentleman treated In his dry. sarcastic sar-castic way. It seems that W. II Vanderblit was lint dead when his son-in-law. Dr. Webb, In a business letter, called Mr. Gould rather peremptorily to account, and presented pre-sented his ultimatum in a matter concerning some exchange of business busi-ness between Uie Vanderblit and Gould roads. Dr. Webb's Idea was to hurry Mr. Gould to a settlement. But Mr. Gould was not to be hurried, or even brought to a consideration of the case, and ho wrote a short note to Mr. Webb In which he sal J that his sorrow over the deatli o( Mr. Vanderblit three or four days before had liccn so inignant that he was unable to consider any business with his son-in-law at prescnL It Is probable that Mr. Gould has not heard from Dr. Seward Wibb since. IWad'Jphla JTcu. |