The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-09-27
VAIL .sTREET SKE1CIfES.


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:" on 'ahii''k W'aN p''l' S''n'S !" Nv "'9
calv's' Ana ne - rlEhi mere Tor you ''ilhV'
Ind handsomcr pair "f calves IN the whol'
city oi New YORK N"'our' or stage phuulne u
'uu"i 10 H. M" th'n' "H"lh' Wha' spIcnuluS
itilng trousers lie manages To nave! h' Is
un1ucs,ionaply the pes' lr'us'fcu man on 'h's
continent
Outside of this. there is no Kind OF concch or
codueiry about oidOainm' ~ ne ~ '"mlharly
called in Wall street. He IL as un"ssunlhE IN
ms manners as ne II ou'spVN'h III Nus i''nu'
Shrewd, sharp. perspieacious' ana thoroughly
businesslikc. he does not care ABOUT "hyp"uy
or anything. II he mas yet any weak
ness lett IN MN AT AL. II Is lor huIS'
racing lie was once phr'h'r ol - W.
boswell. the owner ol the c'ieDrateu fIhh'''
dowh III Nlrsihlh' anu nus ir'p"'".S "'"" 10
timer. But nowadays he mas gwen up even
this fancy. IL Is all pH WIN hlin' ana hoihlhS
else. lie goes to bed every might NJ III "ciock'
ana sleeps IKE n stone uIi next morning Ut y.
DO you suppose am gong 10 71 ulNlhs
all night WIN SCI OF loois' s'i lulI oI rum
ana nave hrndarhe next day No' ny
damned sirh'. want 10 Keep my he"d clenr.
don't know that Cammarke tasted splrlts
in his me- though his lac" Is reddish enough 10
suggest the idea of man who likes stlihulah's.
HIS sobriely is all the more m'rlt"riouH' ~ ne
IL henturky man. lie SMOKES t"ud h"h
though, ana thl- seems 10 DE- ms Only VICE.
oi MS virtues couid NOT say mu'H'lor u"hl
know MN pu' am 'oiu ny an lht'h"'' run"
OF MS that Wheh '"hiil hiah'S ms n''hh "l l"
do good thing' ne uo's II more thoroughly
than any other man. ana no one ever KNOWS
anything about it.
lie Is man ABOUT oo years ct age ms
father was tobacco planter from virginia. II
You ask Cammack what is his origin. he Will
answer;
don't know much about 1t. and don't care.
either. believe We are ol scotch descent. but
| was born in kentucky. and that Is good
enough place for any man TO bc born in
When about ~ years of age. Cammack LETT
has fathers plantation. went 10 New Orleans.
and entered the shipping mousse OF q. L. WHIT
ncy ~ Coz then the largest in the South He be
gan H. an office bow and ros" to he tine senior
partner. He outliv"d and outworked everybody
In the concern. and had never been connected
with any other firm or trade till he came To New
York in 1860
When the war was over and the business Of
the South thoroughly ruined. Cammack liqu-
dated his concern and went to Europe. He
knocked about for Will" in England ana
France and then came to Wall street TO look cut
ital he hnd already accumulated He WAS too
intelligent and cautious To rush. rs most people
do. headlong into speclatons before they learn
to know Wall street or the men concerned there.
For nearly two years he remained u passive OBJ
server OF men ana things. and only when he
FELT that he had acquired the necessary insight
into that peculiar trade. h" entered into part
nership with Charley Osborn and began active
operations Yet even then Cammack relied
mainly ON commission business. ana Osborn
has never since had the BIG customers ne used
TO nave during his partnership WITH OaminhcA.
TN" hrm oi Osborn tanllnack WAS remark
ably prosperous. Money was simply coined
and the TWO partners scarcely known nj an up
to that time. became the leading hroh'rs "i wan
street S'''Ewrll' Jay Count H. y. smith,
'hapin. John urorsc-all wcrecns'omers "lth"
concern
In lsfi' 'ammn'k seems To nave h"d enough
ho'i oi me partnership ana "' tnn commission
business lh'h lie male up MS m'nn 10 be-
come IN luuepehu'h' 9p''u'"'"r' ne ulssuNcu
me olu concern r'an@lhs Il very hrse c"pl'"
ana J"ln'n inc a'-aI'u lWoHS-,nlru street
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