202 Reminiscences of 



extremity fled before the old Commodore Vander- 

 bilt. 



I knew both Fisk and Gould somewhat well, and 

 many a cigar I have smoked with Fisk before he be- 

 came notorious, when he was an employee in Boston 

 with a mercantile firm, of which he afterwards became 

 a member but was dropped for his conspicuous for- 

 wardness. Not now, for I have diverged too long, but 

 later on I may relate an incident of peculiar interest 

 in the life of Mr. Gould not known, when he more than 

 found his match in C. P. Huntington, his superior in 

 patience and astuteness. In this case Gould held the 

 superior hand, but threw it down in complete surrender. 

 This after a three days' interview in St. Louis. 



OF the fviture of Q>lorado one may be well assured 

 with its agricultural values exceeding its miner- 

 als ; its inexhaustible mines, which have already yielded 

 a billion of dollars ; with its coal deposits equalling those 

 of any other State, though not yet producing one tenth 

 of the product of Pennsylvania; and its facilities for 

 sustaining more than twenty times the present popu- 

 lation. Can one doubt the future? What shall be 

 said of very many more areas of similar value in the 

 Union ? What is to be the future of the great Ameri- 

 can Republic? What will be the result of many hun- 

 dreds of millions, as comparatively soon there are to be 

 on the North American continent ? 



There can be no retrogression. The phantom of 

 the Yellow Peril unfurled by the Muscovite to enlist 

 sympathy for his aggressiveness in the East, which has 

 met with disaster, fails to alarm the American people. 



