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Show Where Henry Yillard Stands. i New. Yobk, February 3. A prominent Wall street operator said yesterday: If I Henry Villard returns to this country he I will lie the biggest jnan in Wall street. He i still has the confidence of a great many men, who profited by following him m the past. We all know what a gigantic failure I his blind pool was; but the mere fact that he was implicitly trusted to such an extent, proves what I state. The decision of the Northern Pacific directors last week to build the Cascade branch, was soinethmg in the nature of a death warrant for the last of the Villard interest. They staved off the letting of the contracts as long m they could to save the Oregon Railway. & Navigation Company; but the influences in that board are dead against them nowadays." nowa-days." - |