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2 THE NIGHT OF MONDAY Except where otherwise indicated, the following account is based on Ray Stannard Baker, “The Great Northern Pacific Deal,” Collier’s Weekly, 30 Nov. 1901; Commercial & Financial Chronicle, 1902, 843, 1011, 1062; and Martin, James J. Hill, 495ff. Additional atmospheric details from New York Sun, 12 and 13 Nov. 1901.
3 three financiers conferred The standard biographies are Martin, James J. Hill; Maury Klein, The Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman (Chapel Hill, 2000); Strouse, Morgan; and John A. Garraty, Right-Hand Man: The Life of George W. Perkins (New York, 1960).
4 This common need Isaac F. Marcosson, Before I Forget (New York, 1959), 221–24.
5 huge damp mustache “I never could figure out how he drank his coffee” Averell Harriman interview, 14 Feb. 1981.
6 Decent, driven men TR, First Annual Message to Congress, Works, vol. 17, 101; Faulkner, Decline of Laissez-Faire, 24–25, 92–93.
7 Yet they had Martin, James J. Hill, 505; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 347.
8 Their meeting tonight Balthazar H. Meyer, “A History of the Northern Securities Case,” Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin Economics and Political Science Series 1.3 (1904–1906): 229–36; Martin, James J. Hill, 394–504. The panic occurred on 9 May 1901.
9 Right now, Hill Martin, James J. Hill, 504–8. Harriman had acquired the Southern Pacific earlier in the year. He also had interests in the Santa Fe.
10 What lay before Meyer, “Northern Securities Case,” 236; Martin, James J. Hill, 509.
11 Anybody could see Meyer, “Northern Securities Case,” 240; Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 2, 370.
12 The flaw in New York World, 15 Nov. 1901, quotes an unnamed trust expert as saying that Hill’s charter was “unquestionably … a violation of the spirit of the law against combinations.”
13 But Hill was New York World, 15 Nov. 1901; Thorelli, Federal Antitrust Policy, 445; Martin, James J. Hill, 511.
14 THE NEXT DAY, Tuesday TR to Albert Shaw, 12 Nov. 1901; TR, First Annual Message draft (TRP). See Waldon Fawcett, “How President Roosevelt Wrote His First Message,” Success, Jan. 1902.
15 Roosevelt worked Washington Evening Star, 12 Nov. 1901.
16 ROOSEVELT HAD TAKEN The following profile of Philander Chase Knox is based on descriptions and photographs in Edward G. Lowry, Washington Close-Ups: Intimate Views of Some Public Figures (Boston, 1921), 194–96; New York Herald, 7 Apr. 1901; The Historical Register (New York, 1921), 54; Philadelphia Press, 10 June 1904; Thompson, Party Leaders, 310ff.; and Samuel Flagg Bemis, The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy (New York, 1927–1929, vol. 9, 302–10.
17 In the words of Lowry, Washington Close-Ups, 194. Kate Carew in New York World, 10 Mar. 1904, satirizes Knox’s impenetrability.
18 Knox was the By the late 1890s, Knox was said to be charging $250,000 for a case. A. T. Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox” (Ph.D. diss., Catholic University, 1959), 10. See also Minneapolis Times, 17 Jan. 1903, in Knox Scrapbook (PCK).
19 The Attorney General New York Herald, 7 Apr. 1901; Kate Carew in New York World, 10 Mar. 1904; Knox to Delmonico’s, 13 Jan. 1902 (PCK); photographs of 1527 K Street NW (FBJ); Knox qu. in New York Herald, 20 June 1901.
20 His languid, laissez-faire Peck, Twenty Years of the Republic, 686; Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 232. Thorelli, Federal Antitrust Policy, 404–5, notes that Knox showed little spontaneous inclination to activate antitrust enforcement until galvanized by TR.
21 A friend remarked Thompson, Party Leaders, 318.
22 Roosevelt was quick TR qu. in Samuel Leland Powers, Portraits of Half a Century (Boston, 1925), 218; Washington Evening Star, 18 Oct. 1901; Henry Loomis Nelson, “Three Months of President Roosevelt,” Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1902.
23 Knox, Roosevelt discovered Philadelphia Press, 10 June 1904; Knox scrapbook (PCK); Bemis, American Secretaries of State, vol. 9, 309–10; Eitler, “Philander Chase Knox,” 25–26, 32; Lowry, Washington Close-Ups, 201; White, Autobiography, 342.
24 Such a truce Hill had visited Washington at the beginning of November, and asked himself to