Show HARRIMAN SHOWS S R I SOME iOME SENTI SENTiMENT SENTIENT tENT Saving of Erie From Receivership Receiver ship May Have Been Unselfish 4 lew York April l 12 I 1 I I had no selfish motive Some one had hl to save th the Erie ElJe May lar be le I did li vo some I sentiment about It Many st stories fles have been circulated as to Just what my moat motive mo mo- mo- mo tire tive was In taking the action 1 did at rut the last moment I cannot start stait 0 U Uto to confirm or deny these stories I never would reach an end If I did Enough h that the Erie has been saved enough that I had no ulterior motive In saving raving It ft I trust I can now b. b by b left alone on tho Erie matter Such was the comment of ot E. E II Jl in an interview In his home toda today oday Tho The Republican representative ob obtaIned obtained ob- ob details of oC the last Jast meeting of ot the he board of or directors who with the exception of oC Mr Harriman ha hail l practically practically deserted the road hours earlier All AIl kinds of reports havo been circulated cir cir cir- I culat d all all wild guesses said mid Mr Harriman Wh when n asked to for l' l his rCa roa motivo and If Ie It was true truo that h he ho expected expected ex ex- ex- ex to unito the Union Pacific and tile the Eric Erlo In a vast trans continental system saved av the n. n c h l PD I years cals I 1 1 tl for honest 1 m motives Only tor or him the Erie Eric would have been in a a. receivers receiver's hands before today The fact that an Erlo Erie r d director had sai said that nothing but a no receivership loomed loome ahead of the tho Erie and theother the theother theother other fact that a fellow fello banker took his sug suggestion e to sell short is proof that the directors had given givan up hope I ISome Some people wont won't like It it but he did lecture somo pretty big men nen that day llY said The rhe Republicans Republican's Inform Inform- In orm- orm ant He lie called a a. spa spade o a spade and it was not a VCr very flattering talk taU either cither La Lay to ono one side what effect a a. re receivership receivership re- re cel will have on the public he ho said Can wo we we afford to let tho the Erie Eric go into a receivers receiver's hands As S AsI SI I stU study tho situation wo we cannot We Ye owe ve moro more than the money loss to the people who have invested The Erie Is a wonderful road It needs to be put on its feet teet and I am going to do doall doall all aU within my power to do this I will even go so far tar as to pledge m my word to savo save the road was Mr Harriman's Har- Har riman's statement |