Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-09
NOSES TAYLOR.
How He saved &3OO, 900 by Trusting
90 His InTuitiOns.

Ne1c York Correspondence Philadelphia Press.
Moses Taylor was a man who had the
gift of turning into gold everything he
touched, man whose judgment was so
true in all questions of money getting
that he was said to arrive at his cOnclu.
sions not by deduction, but by intuition
-instinctively rather than by the or j.
nary courses of reasoning. OF course
Moses TAYLOR reasoned out his conclu-
sious, but the process was with him so
1rapid and accurate as to be almost in
| voluntary. He got the reputation of
being clairvoyant in all that pertains to
the investment of capital.
One day a Wall street man entered
Mr.. TaYlor's little room in the City Bank
with an unfavorable report concerning
some mining property in which they
were both interested.
els it true?' the visitor asked. 81
knew you would know the truth as soon
as anv body"
"But 1 don't know" said Mr.. Taylor.
81 know nothing at all about it."
''Well, do you consider it good thing
to go out of 2"
Mr.. Taylor shook his head again. 81
haven't sold a dollars WORTH" said he.
And the inquirer left, greatly treasured.
A little later in the day somebody else
came in with the same damaging story
about the mine.
sis it so, Mr.. TaylorH"
cit may be, and it may not be. know
nothing at all about the facts"
"But are you selling?'
No. sir; haven't begun to sell that
stock yet"
The report very soon reached the
| street that Moses Taylor knew of nothing
to the disadvantage of the property in
| question and laughed at the idea of sell
ing. The stock at once stiffened and
closed firm.
After business hours Mr.. Taylor sent
for one of his four trusted friends and
said to him: "They tell me there is
something wrong with the Blank mine.
| We must go down to Blank and see,"
CAN right" said his friend, who was
also interested, II can go the last of the
week"
'Not the last of the week." said Mr..
Taylor, calmly, ''but tonight. Tonight
by the six O'Clock train" The other
protested that it was impossible that he
had important engagements; that his
business would suffer; but Mr.. Taylor
would hear of no pOstponement. He
sent for carriage, and they caught the
train. 1t was N the days when sleeping
cars had just been introduced. In the
middle of the night Mr.. Taylor's COM
panion found himself vigorously sha en-.
Mr.. Taylor was standing by the berth,
all dres ed, and with his satchel in his
hand.
"Get up and dress yourself" said the
| great capitalist. 1--WE must get out at
so and so station and take the next train
back to New York"
"But," said the astonished friend, II
thought you considered it absolutely
necessary that we should 90 over to
Blank and look over matters at the
miner"
"Not at all, not at all, remarked Mr..
Taylor. Things are all wrong there.
have been looking them over in my
mind since laid down. | know how
the case stands quite rs we'll rs if we
had been to Blank. All we could get at
Blank would be the facts, and tell you
don't want to know the facts. 1t would
cost me $500 coo to know them"
Glow SOP" demanded his more aud
more astOnished friend, as he hastily
buttoned his suspenders.
Because then l couldn't conscien.
tiously unload"
The next morning Mr.. Taylor was at
the bank as usual All day long his
brokers were selling Blank mine stock
cautiously and in little pieces All day
long Mr.. TaylOr's friends were rushing
into the City Bank to ask for information
and advice "Have you any bad news
from the mine? What had l better do
with my Blank, Mr. Taylor?" II have
no news. good or bad" was his stereo
typed reply, land l never give advice. -
His imperturbable serenity prevented
what would have been a panic Moses
Taylor always had the earliest informa-
ton. and if he was not alarmed the
! properly was safe.
Twenty-four hours later definite news
came that sent Blank stock down into
the teens, but Mr. Taylor had sold his
last share. He had saved $500 600 by
trusting to his intuitions and changing
sleeping cars, instead of pushing on to
| Blank to obtain the facts. And he had
not even told Wall street lie!