The Power Of Money

H. E. Huntington and E. H. Harriman are interested with Edwin Hawley, T. F. Oakes, Frederick F. Eldridge and other New Yorkers in a syndicate to get railway concessions from China to build several important lines says a San Francisco dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean. One agent of the syndicate, A. W. Bash, has gone to China to secure the concessions. Another representative of the combine, R. M. Hopper of Philadelphia, who was in San Francisco on his way to join Bash, says the outside world generally believes that the reverence of the Chinese for the graves of their ancestors constitutes a great obstacle to the building of railroads in China.

"This is a mistake," he says. "If necessary, they will put the bodies in new graves, but they charge a pretty sum for violence to their feelings. They hare an eye to the main chance."