. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . visits to Vanderbilt had resulted inan agreement to compromise matters. The Commodorewas to discontinue all his suits against the Directors, andallow the Exiles of Erie to return to their accustomedhaunts. He was to receive fro
. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . visits to Vanderbilt had resulted inan agreement to compromise matters. The Commodorewas to discontinue all his suits against the Directors, andallow the Exiles of Erie to return to their accustomedhaunts. He was to receive from them for 50,000 shares ofErie ?2,500,000 in cash, $1,250,000 in bonds of the Boston,Hartford and Erie Railroad at 80, and :• 1,000,000 cash addi-tional for the option of taking 50,000 shares more of Erieat any time within four months, at the price at which he hadagreed to sell. He was also to have the nomination of twonew Directors. Eldridge was to receive for $5,000,000 ofBoston, Hartford and Erie bonds at 80, $4,000,000 of Erieacceptances. Drew was to hold fast to what he had madeby speculating in Eric in his peculiar way, but was to payinto the treasury of the Company 8540,000 to settle whatclaims the Company might have against him. Fisk andGould were not considered in this arrangement; but to con-quer their hostility to the terms of the compromise their. JAMES FISK, JR. I47 associates agreed that Drew, Eldridge and some othersshould resign from the Board. The Fort Taylor garrison returned to New York onthe 22nd, and on the 25th of April, Wall street was in aflutter. The leading Vanderbilt stocks began to show in-creased signs of activity, and advanced in price. On the27th Central closed at 127, and Erie at 71^. A few days previous to this Judge Barrett had dischargedthe Jiabcas corpus proceedings against Gould, and as it ap-peared to the Court that Gould had intended no disrespectin disobeying the order served by James Oliver at Albany,the contempt proceedings were also
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