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Show CONDOLENCE FOR HARRIMAN The arrest of E. II. Ilarriman on the Thames river at New London, is occasioning considerable merriment and it is remarked that on his return to Wall street, after a little interview inter-view with the United States commissioner com-missioner at New London, he was unmercifully guyed. Truth, through its special telegraphic connection with Mr. Harriman's office in the money center of America, was able to learn that on reaching his office, Mr. Harriman found a batch of telegrams tele-grams aud messages on his desk, having hav-ing special bearing on his "late affliction." afflic-tion." Among them were the follow ing: Marvin Ilughitt " Real sorry for you, old boy; but never mind, it was merely a piece of spite work on the part of Teddy. He has evidently got it in for you." James J. Hill "Please accept condolences. con-dolences. It was an outrage to seize your boat in the middle of the race, take you prisoner, and confiscate your craft. But that seems to be the, policy of the present Czar like administration, ad-ministration, in trying to repress the hand of enterprise in this country. Don't suppose you minded the $500 fine-mere bagatelle." J. Pierpont Morgan "What will the Roosevelt administration do uextr That minion of the president's staff m ought to be court martialcd and sent jl to the Dry Tortugas for six months. ''! When will this assault by a brutal 'W national administration upon the moneyed interests of the country let jl up? You have my sympathies." I George J. Gould "That assault up- Jl on your personal liberties by the ll president's naval attache calls for a "l righteous rebuke from the 'entire 11a- II tion. What right had he to run your jl boat down, right in the middle of W that race, and run you in like an or- II dinary Tombs prisoner? Things arc jl coming to a pretty pass. Presume the next step will be to hand the man- II agcnicnt of the Yalc-IIarvard race II over to the tender mercies of the In- jl tcrstatc Commerce commission." jl Irpiry Clews & Company "Our , jl firm collectively and individually dc- l sire to formally and informally ex- l tend our sympathiesto you in dc- 91 preciation and condemnation of this l gross outrage. But it is only just Jl what Wall street might expect from Jl such an administration as Roosc- I velt's. He evidently has it in not only tl for you, but for the entire capitalis- M tic class of this country." (I Kuhn, Loch & Company "This ar- jl rest of our most respected financier, -SI and his imprisonment on a revenue II cutter by the minions of the Federal l government, just because lie wished II to follow the Yalc-IIarvard race, is II an outrage on the palladium of out jfl American liberties which ought to be il severely reprimanded by congress. jl Rebuke the Roosevelt administration, , I and we will stand with you." .jH C. S. Mcllcn "What business had II the Treasury department to inter- II fere with your freedom of action in II endeavoring to follow that race? I Something ought evidently to be II done to curtail the power of this cion jl of Harvard and Montana. He is be- II coining altogether too numerous. Let (I him return to his former grizzly bear II haunts, and put in his time shooting jl up the Rocky Mountain wilds." II J. C. Stubbs 'It makes my gizzard jl fairly boil with ill suppressed indig- H nation at this affront offered to the 1 H honored head of our great Union Pa. I cific system. I should just like to fl get Teddy by the guzzle, for a mo- ;H ment; I'd make those grave stone teeth of his stand out like haystacks, jl and his eyes glint, glimmer, gleam I and glare like the flare of a Harvard H college bonfire on society initiatior H night. Can write no more ;my boil- H cr will burst if I do." jH Accompanying the above, were a H large package of other messages ol H condolence sent in from different H parts of the country, sympathizing (H with Mr. Ilarriman because of his H arrest for violating the rules, regu- H lations and ordinances of the Trcas- IH ury department in attempting to fol- jH low the Yale-Harvard race last cv- H ening, after being repeatedly warned H by the officials in charge of the course H that he must desist. The burden of H the diaspatches was that President Roosevelt has it in for Harriman, and H is bent on annoying him. H |