Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . d upon Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan,then a Director in the Mexican Telegraph Company, to explainmy scheme. In the course of our conversation, I casually inti-mated that I purposed going to London to raise the necessarycapital there. Mr. Morgan quickly responded (as I thoughthe would do) that I could do better in New York than I could inLondon, and he immediately invited me to meet some of hisfriends at the Union League Club the following evening at din-ner. The dinner was a most enjoyable affair and Mr. Morganhad as his guests, a
Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . d upon Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan,then a Director in the Mexican Telegraph Company, to explainmy scheme. In the course of our conversation, I casually inti-mated that I purposed going to London to raise the necessarycapital there. Mr. Morgan quickly responded (as I thoughthe would do) that I could do better in New York than I could inLondon, and he immediately invited me to meet some of hisfriends at the Union League Club the following evening at din-ner. The dinner was a most enjoyable affair and Mr. Morganhad as his guests, among others, Edward D. Adams, CharlesLanier and John W. Ellis. The conversation was most generaland not a word was said about cable enterprises until the coffeeand cigars were served. It was then that Mr. Morgan turnedto me and asked me to explain my Central and South AmericanCable scheme. I did so as briefly and as concisely as possible,and Mr. Morgan and the others seemed to be greatly interested. 77 O CJ W Cu ^ Di e> • o &3 W H 52: w P::i ^ « 1^ ;2: psl.
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