THE REPORTER AND THE MILLIONAIRE,

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13921, 27 March 1909, Page 10

THE REPORTER AND THE MILLIONAIRE,

It isn't often that J. Pierpont Morgan confesses that anyone has beatenhim. Perhaps the only time when he has had this experience was when he returned from' a trip ioJSarop.e. M^ Morgan is hated cordially by all of the, New York ship-news reporters, who have to go through the motions of trying to get an interview .frosn me fin-* ancier every time, he comes back to America. Invariably they receive this answer, which is given in tones gruff enough to scare any new hand : "Don't yog know I never talk? Don't boiher me. Oefeawayl" One of the reporters on this occasion — a new hand, by the' way, said: "Oh, but, Mr Morgan, the great American people want to .hear your views on the finincial crisis I" > "D » the great American people 1" Baid the financier. ,

"Thanks," said the \ reporter. "I can make about three columns and a poster out of that." , "What do you mean, sir?" "Oh, you'll see in 'The World' tomorrow, 'Morgan's feelings- towards us in our time of trouble. He says, «D the American people 1" Will he leave our widows and 1 orphans to starve?"

"Look here, young man," said Mr. Morgan, "come into my cabin for a moment. There's something in you." And the- reporter came away with the right kind of interview.