National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-11-17
THE MAN ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About the Men and Measures that
peonie Iihe 10 Think or

aud by quick turns he soon amassed s3J00OO or
S4O0,UJO Suddenly he discovered that Cinciu-
natl was too small for him, and he shifted the
field Of his operations to Chicago. He
made money rapidly. Then he went home
and told his moneyed friends now very
easy II was to make money IN Chicago. He
sbo ;cd them his bank book, gave a history of
bis successes, aud laid before them the outlines
of scheme to sweep the deck and get all
the money In sight. He proposed to them
to make pool and show tho sharp
grain gamblers OF the Garden City some points
IN business they never learned. His friends
were captured and pool of between 81 100000
and sl,5OOOJO was made up This sum ho
carried back with him, and Immediately
jumped into tho wheat market with grand
flourish, buying right and loit. The "crowd"
rubbed its hands in glce. The old veteran
knew the symptoms Many time and oft had
they seen other new men wrestle the crowd
and get thrown. and very rarely had they
seen new men, or old men either, win fall.
The big gamblers sized hint up and when they
discovered that he had tho swinging of big
pot Of money they rejoiced some more, and
fed him wheat until ho couldn't take any
more. Then they licked their chops and said
"Now Just watch us. Oh. my, what a soft
thing. Did you ever see anything como easier.
We will get his money and divide IL up In
short order"
with whoop and a hurrah they jumped on
the market aud ralnod wheat upon II, dump
ing millions into the pit. 1t seemed as
though nothing could stand tho pressure, but
strange to relate the market merely sagged a
trifle and then recovered, and prices actually
advanced. The gamblers were dumbfounded.
They thought that Armour, or Alexander
Mitchell, or some heavy men of that caliber,
had taken q hand, but these men and their
followings were on the bear side, and taking
courage they threw more millions on the
market. Somebody took 1t and after while
they discovered that II was the great country
which had taken hold. The crop was short
and the country dropped to 1t before the gam
blcrs. Armour and few of the biggest oper-
ators on the board "tumbled" " first, and shit
ing went with the country. They make IL
rule never TO buck against the country
when the current Is unmAtakably drifting one
way strongly, and so they turned bulls Prices
went kltlng. Handy, who had got panic
stricken when the crowd first went at him,
and who had sold out nearly all his holdings
quickly caught on again and went with the
tide, buying enormously, and closing out his
deal at profit of not less than s3,0OO,0OO,
nearly 81, 900, 900 OF which went TO his individ-
ual account.
lie returned to Cincinnati honestly believ-
| ing that he had done 1t all, and that he had
been holding the market up by the tail
throughout the period covered by the deal,
and entirely unconscious of the fact that the
| Almighty had taken it out of his hands at a
very early stage FOR several weeks ne
playeu WIN corn anu wheat, nahiig h.'ic
ana losing II again. ohe day nc cohcluueu 10
run another deal A second pool was iormoa'
considerably stronger thah the hrs'' ana inc
great man Oh latest creation most recent mag.
hihcehce' ana picturesque acnleVeheh's went
~ inc crowd once moro 70 ea ~ up lne
iates were not kind to him THIS tlme ana ne
was tossed up, jammed against the walls,
thumpod upon the hoor ana mashed natter
than griddle cake, and what he had ana al
that his friends b2d invested was divided'
The crowd WIS 'hungry, and 1t ate him up
h'csd raI. His brokers were caught In the
Grassland went up for million other houses
were crushed, ana TWO OF threo Oh the piihci'
pals In the pool not only lost all they had put
III ana made on the hrst aeai' pu' Ill 'hey
could scrapc 'ogethor, peslues.
truman liandy's pack was broken, ana ms
pump OF seitesteem was pareu uowf 10 Hs
proper SIZE. lie subsequently es'aplishea
legitimate commission business, ~ whion ne
made some money but MS hea'th was shat-
tered ana nc never aNonpteu 10 swaiiow tue
carth asaiu' ne was hliieu Ny peins tnroWh
from buggy MS weakened system succuiho'
ing 10 the SHOCK
~
The 10 per centers had lively time Satur-
day. 1t was pay day and they swooped down
on the departments in force. They wanted
their money, and they wanted 1t very, very
bad. They took the boys into dark corners
and whispered words OF love into their ears,
also remarkng that times were hard, and
that any small sums would be properly credited
on 'that note, you know" Times were as
hard for the average clerical borrower as for
the lender, and the 10 per centers had hard
time. They found themselves trying to plow
in very stony ground. Nevertheless they Will
return later, and 1t may be assumed as among
the ceralntles that they will be on hand
regularly when tho boys draw their salaries
from this time on.
T."
"a ray of sunshine picrces the universal
I gloom Of defeat and falls upon the saddened
republican heart with consolng grace" OBJ
served the philosopher land that is the
thought that Whitelaw Reid, Charles Emery
3ihi'i'' uhu wv o'"e' i''''"SeN Po',''o'' sNN
that nave been annoying the Doay poiilie ana
bnI@ing III the patient car oil lne distressed
puDilo ior 10 theso many years nave peeh nat
( tened out Inc pihhead statesmen VINO
fastened themselves on Blaine ana posed De-
fore and alter the nomination as tho CHOSEN
representatives OF Mr.. Blaine were the Jonahs
: that brought bad luck to the republican party
and It's candidates Ihey were intoierapiy
offensive In the eyes oil seli'respectlng people
who nave no trouble distinguishing DC,
, tween llght'walsted shams ana rea
men at hrst sight, II Blame mac
been elected we couldn't nave lived IL
town without permits irom tue oscar Wiide
who would nave insisted on occupying Hoh'