, 1872-12-11
A Daslling Career in Finanee---He Sits
at the Feet of MIR. ScaHmon.
Evil Results of E9il Company--.His
European Trip, and tho Sequel.

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hiset' on On Wh'ch business LIE visited montreal
Mr. "1nsiow seemed IN no way ANXIOUS to
illustrate the name he bore, for he was disposed
to take ventures of the most niry kind. even ven
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soild successes, ana especially MADE handsomely
in acre Investments in the Northwestern Park
and Boulevard region Of the city, by subdiyiding
larro tracts and SAILING 1ots
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oo1uo 4t1ontn7 aoo no "en' ooioso III coaupany'
though in no association with Perry Il. smith
and George L. Dunlap, whom he WAS incidental
" to aid in placing securities, his main purpose.
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no"esol' po.n a. ettenp1 loi u1e o"u iouT1 m Ia
entlfel5 distinct neso11atlons OF MS OWL Ihese
latter entirely failed, and silence came over the
whereabouts and doiugs Of Mr, Winslow. A
month oco +he rnnoor was rita hara that Mr.
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as the sequal to
HEAVY LOSSES AT THE GAMING TABLE.
A reporter of The TRIBUNE visited tho scandi-
rsz.;,r porl en3 ,nn,7ro3 90 :, 10 r,,rnor
Ia Id 1'a DAnA' Aau 1uq ~ 1ue .un4oi
ihe answer OF Ar. oller vas 1rank ana cour-
teous, and to the effect that there was no belief
in the minds of the bank officers or Mr. Wins
Lincoln rarl, tnas Ihe report was .rue, ano 'nat
Mc' nlnslo" proEfacteo silence alone gave any
cause for anxiety. Since then ho has been heard
from il Italy, though it is unlikely he will again
vieit Chicago. The Baden Baden report
had this basis, that Ar. Winslow did sit down at
the Baden-Badeu table, and made q run of sixty
or eighty thousand francs, greatly to the admira-
tion Of American lookera-on. The next day he
tried his luck again, bat Fortune turned her back
peared, and the Kursaal knows too well what be-
comes Of suddenly missing men under such cir
cumstances, thus the 1umor referred to VAS set
was set anoat.
The monetary column Of T4E TRIBUNE pro-
sents to-day the features Of the affair affecting
tho Scandinavian Bank, and it only remains to
add the personal facts OF the horo Of so remark
able a nasco in banking and finance. a few
paragraphs will answer the question.
WHO WAS FEED. s. w1ss1ow7
Ferdinand 8. Wins}ow was born in the City OF
Copenhagen. about the year 1925. His parents,
who are said to bo very respectable, gave him q
good education, and when OF proper ago he was
apprenticed to banking-house in that city.
Here, on account OF come Irregularities his SUBJ
sequent life had well covered, he had only brief
career, and in the year 1858, be left Copenhagen,
and emisrated to this country Shortly after ariv-
ing in New York CITY he obtained q position as
clerk in tho banking house of Gelpcke l. Co.
In the year 1857 le left New York
to accept the position Of Cashier in the
banking house of Gelpcke. Jr,, at
.vlous to the war, under highly suspicious cir
tneuselses III d ecliHI, anu ailel"aio Aee !tulu