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Show WESTERN UNION WAS BBAVY LOSER NEW YORK, Fob. 15 "The cutting off of tho race tiack business cost the Western "Union Telegraph company a million dollars a year' This is what General Thomas T Eckert, forinerl president of the Western Untou, told him In a discussion discus-sion of the company's dividend, swore Thoma-s Rcllh a nurse, testifying to-dav to-dav in the Eckert will contcBt Rellly tesilfio.l that 'Just to liven up the general," he often started arguments, ar-guments, and on one occasion hud told him for the snke of argument thnt under un-der his (General Eckert's) ndinlnls tration the company was not well managed aud did not pn enftugh dl l-dends l-dends It was tho general who told him about the race track mittei, the witness wit-ness said, and added that "he was sotry that he had not put his stock iu when the consolidation with tho Amorlcnn Telegraph & Telophone company took pluce.' He said that George J Gould had adUscd him to do so, according to Rellly. |