Fleming, 14 July, 1897; reel 689, Schiff to E. Cassel, 6 Aug. 1897, 9 Mar. 1898;
Kennan, Harriman, 1:127–29.
45.Unless otherwise noted, all material for this and the next four paragraphs is
from Kennan, Harriman, vol. 1, chap. 11; Martin, James J. Hill, 485–509; Ca-
rosso, Morgans, 474–78.
46.Reel 687, Schiff to R. Fleming, 28 May 1901.
47.Reel 687, Schiff to E. Cassel, 15 May 1901.
48.Ibid.
49.Ibid.; reel 687, Schiff to R. Fleming, 28 May 1901; Chernow, House of Morgan,
p. 91; Adler, Schiff, 1:106.
50.Reel 687, Schiff to E. Cassel, 15 May 1901; Adler, Schiff, 1:106.
51.Kennan, Harriman, 1:366–67; reel 696, recollections of Otto Kahn [1925], in
CA MSS, pp. 1818–24 (Kahn’s account differs slightly from Schiff’s letters on
dates and places}; reel 687, Schiff to E. Cassel, 15 May 1901.
52.See for example Martin, James J. Hill, 494–504; Carosso, Morgans, 474–76;
Kennan, Harriman, 1:307–17.
53.Reel 696, recollections of Kahn in CA MSS, pp. 1818–24.
54.Reel 687, Schiff to E. Cassel, 15 May 1901; Carosso, Morgans, p. 477; Martin,
James J. Hill, p. 504.
55.“The Wall-Street Smash,” Literary Digest22 (18 May 1901): 598–99; Joseph-
son, Robber Barons, 441–44; reel 696, recollections of Kahn in CA MSS, p.
1824; reel 687, Schiff to R. Fleming, 28 May 1901; Schiff’s letter to Morgan,
16 May 1901, in Adler, Schiff, 1:102–7.
56.Kennan, Harriman, 1:318–31; Carosso, Morgans, p. 478; Martin, James J. Hill,
pp. 508–10.
57.Reel 687, Schiff to E. Cassel, 11 Nov. 1901.
58.NYT,23 Mar. 1901, 21 Jan. 1915; reel 696, Schiff to G. Kennan, 16 May 1916;
Report of the U.S. Industrial Commission(Washington, D.C., 1901), 9:769–77.
59.Reel 687, Schiff to L. Littauer, 24 Mar. 1902, to E. Harriman, 15 Apr. 1902;
Adler, Schiff, 1:45, 111–12.
60.Reel 687, Schiff to H. Schueler, 26 Feb. 1901, to S. Rea, 13 Apr. 1903; reel 676,
Schiff to E. Cassel, 16 Apr. 1902; reel 685, Schiff to E. Cassel 24 Apr. 1903.
61.Carosso, Morgans, pp. 453–54.
62.Ibid., chap. 15; Martin, James J. Hill, pp. 511–30.
63.“Many-Sided Jacob H. Schiff,” New York World Magazine, 16 Apr. 1905.
64.Reel 685, Schiff to E. Cassel, 24 Apr. 1903; reel 687, to H. Schueler, 26 Feb.
1901, to S. Rea, 13 Apr. 1903; NYT,15 Apr. 1904; Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph
of Conservatism (Chicago, 1967), pp. 67–68.
65.Kennan, Harriman, vol. 2, chaps. 25–26.
66.Reel 687, Schiff to E. Cassel, 1 Mar., 1 Apr., 16 May 1907; Adler, Schiff,
1:132–34.
67.Kobler, Otto the Magnificent, pp. 46–48; NYT,5, 10 Apr. 1907; Adler, Schiff,
1:132–34.
68.Reel 687, Schiff to E. Cassel, 11, 16 May 1907, to R. Fleming, 24 May 1907, to
H. Schueler, 24 July 1907; Adler, Schiff, 1:114–15, 118–21. The Union Pacific
was hit again in 1912, when Taft ordered the railroad to release its stock in the
Southern Pacific.
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