| Show ISSUES STATEMENT ro Declare IV I is III Not In Any n l In Merger SUpt t W V P I S Hawk of or the Postal Telegraph ph b company with In this olty Illy ha has furnished Th The New Ne with the th following Item telegraphed td him last night nl teasel from Nw New N York clarence H 11 Mackay Markey Alka t of the Mackay Macka eom Issued lud th the follow following f lag ing statement to 10 th the public yesterday W We have hav ha had nothing to do either directly or Indirectly I with the eon com combination of or the t hp American Telephone and nd Tl gr ph company with th the West Western Western ern em Peon Telegraph company We WI Weme beye me not wib wished d to Join It and end hate hav ha hanot not been IKIn Invited to 10 Join It There Ther have hav ha been no negotiations whatsoever with u ua In I regard to the th matter and there I Is Ie every eer reason reen why by we W should not have had anything to do with It Wa W knew nothing about ab tut It until the day cIa when It II wo wa publicly announced It 1 is Ie true that we own a large block of ot stock of th the American Telethons Telephone Tel and ami Tl Telegraph gra h company but that Is ie one onn on of ot our many man Investments We e never have hav had hod and haw h ve n not t now any Ian representative on th the board of ot that com company company pany eny and our mfr stock 1 I Is not oot consulted or considered any more mOn than th the stock of ot any other stockholder to as you willi wille will i e e from the fact filet that we knew noth nothing nothing ing about Id out title tit deal dAl until It was wall made rondo public The statement that Mr Wil Wll William liam llani II H Dakar represents us Is I Incorrect rf t He lie does doell not represent us U In any anything anything anything thing In the slightest lIght st degree Neither have bave we had anything to do with the Ure l purchase of or the telephone company In Inthe Inthe Inthe the middle west wet Our company compan Is slow and conservative In Its 1111 Investments but swift and land aggressive In Its It II service We Weare Weare v vare are not disturbed d In any ways way wa Wo We have hove successfully met hard com competition competition petition for over IS as years and haze prospered and are In tn first Bret class financial better than ever before We W have waited until this thin matter hal had simmered down clown so that we wo could blake one statement covering th the tha whole sub suh subject subject As All I 1 stated several weeks ago ogo competition will continue and It will willbe willbe be real al competition the same Iame as oa heretofore here bere heretofore tOto The above ab ne bears Nan out Just what Supt W P S R Hawk of ot this city said suld in inThe inThe n The News New two days ago on announce announcement announcement ment through the Associated ProM Press of ot the absorption of ot the Western Union by the billion dollar trust trot |
