Show FOUGHT FOR THE CONTROL tells story of contest between morgan and kuhn loeb co tor tho northern pacific new york oct 6 otto kahn a member of the firm of kuhn loeb co today gave testimony before the referee saying that in may J P morgan co and kuhn loeb s co were competitors in a fight for control of the northern pacific they were buying northern pacific common for this purpose said he and so were we mr kahn made the statement that the panic of may 1901 was caused by J P morgan co s purchase 0 stock he maintained that it was not the call made by kuhn co lor its common lent out which caused the criffis cri flis J P morgan co he sald buying northern ncr common Kuhn Loeb co h a d also been buying northern pacific we began to fight them because we assumed that they were trying to do the jame that we were namely to get control of the north em pacific railway london oct 6 an equinoctial gala of some severity visited the english coast during the night but up to tho present no serious damage has been reported |