Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
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R\aaell '" COClpaIV 'IIere
the
promoter. and after "oms vieiIlU1J.de.,
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lucea.stlll, under
the
n&il:;8 of
the
ShaIlghai Steam 1:a't'igation Company . We
had.
plan of
the
B8lG8 kind under consideration but I ,ave
it
lip.
I
think:
at111 n 'IIere right
in
dol~
BO, tor althouch Ruuell '" Co. '!flirt!
ve~
.
u.c_
cantu!, for a
10118
time
it
had
the
effect of Il>erging the houu. _ the mer _
cantile hout", into a .teamer agency . I think ..e
nre
perhllpe bette%'
It
tll–
.
ted
than
tlley WEIr. to c/U'17 out
the
enterprite, and I mention particular_
~
that
I refuBed
W,f
consent , bec&1lIIe Albert lIaa very anxlo1Ul to go into
1
t.
To
thh
da¥
I
am uncertain whether
I
'
II••
right or wr0rl€ . '!'here
ill
•
good deal to be ,aid on both aidea .
I have before Bpoken of
IIIOf
dhl1ke of Joh:lBon, and of my dnuB
to get rid of
him.
He gave me
the
chL~ce
before long.
He
waB
~~der
t he
~
prell10n
that
the
large profits tblLt ina.uaurated IIteamerfl on the rivet'
would not
l&.$t ,
and, probabl¥ . =derstanding taat
he
'
II'a. didiked. re_
solved to get out at high water.
T'h1.
met our vie.... exa.ctl¥. and I ...
.9..
ready for him ...hen he came to know
if
WII
would like to
buy
him Ollt. I knew
aho, altho'll&h
he
did not know
that
11
m.... . that
he
had made an arrllll&e–
ment with Antrobu•• of LlndBa3
&
Co., to go to .berica and bui l d a ,team–
er for theln . I do not knO'll' that I have before said that Captai n J ob!lson
had an inter8llt of $5 , 000 in thll Fire Dart , which"'l1 paid for . and ...h1ch
1
had
thov,ght it wile t.; give him that he might have an intereet in her
doing 11'1111 .
'
l'h1.
inter.st
he
now ...anted to sell . We soon C&Ie to term• •
H. wanted $20 , 000 for it and I wae glad to givlI
it.
to him. I ...aa =h
pleased afterwards to kno... that the
Ite~er
continued to pay as large .
if not la.rger, profit. than ever . John'on brout:ht out a .teawer for
Antrobu, called the Ftre-Craciter . but I believe
,
he
dtd not turn out a
fl~cial
lucceBS .
I made ,everal tripi
up
the Yllll&tU8 afhr th!s . _
it
wal a very
pleasant
-1
of spendill6" a fortnight, and 1 remember that we made the
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