Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-07
GIDDY GOTHAM.
THE WINTER SEASON IN NEW
YORK CITY.

Financial Matisrs-Cammack n Reush Dis-
mopd-rhe Drama Barrett aud Beoth-
Society Esriy Hours.
Correspondence ofihe Richmond Dispatchl
New YORK, February 5, 1856.
Addison Cammack is always quick
to run when he doesn't feel sure Of his
ground. and in one day this week he
covered at least so, 900 shares Of various
stocks. He is usually interested on
the same side Of the market as Baron
Woerishoner, but the Baron changed
front late last week and closed most Of
his shorts. The two great bear traders
have, therefore, taken water and gone
into winter quarters. The story in
Wall street was that Baron WORKSHOP
fer applied the milking" process to
his usual ally, Mr.. Cammack, buying
freely himself and selling to "0ld
Cam. at an advance Of several points
each time. This didn't last long, how
ever, if it ever occurred. Bluff Prince
Cammack fastened to get on the sunny
side ofthe barn to bask in the genial rays
of 4" bull prosperity, Addison Cam
mack, by the way, is one Of the shrewd-
est operators in Wall street. lie is a
natural pessimist, however, and rather
too apt to take the bear side. lie has
at times lost heavily in the past in what
he calls testing the market as
much as a million in one year | have
heard-but to-day he is worth $1,000
600, and is recognized power
in Wall street. Gray-eyed, heavy
featured. broad-shouldered, tall and
massively built, with a resolute jaw,
often abrupt to crustiness in his man
ners, he is a favorite topic Of converse
ton among Wall-street men, as they
puff their Reina Victorias, or clink
their champagne glasses in Delmonico's,
or rattle up town in cOup6s Of black
and-tan, or more elegant pure black,
after a successful day in the board
room. lie is often seen at the Windsor
Hotel, the nightly resort Of Wall-street
brokers. There it is seen that he
dresses extensively but plainly, as be-
comes his iifty-eight years. He usually
carries a stout walking-stick, and
PAGES up and down the lobby,
as upon a quarterback, and he
Pirate Of Penzance. II is fair
to say of him, however, that
such a title could never be in any sense
anything more than a humorous one in
recognition Of his sailor-like bluifness
of speech. The report that he was
once in the slave-trade is mistake,
though he was once, it is understood,
part owner in a blockade-runner. lie
sold his interest in it. went TO London,
came back TO this country, was par
doned by President johnson, then en-
gagged in the quOr-business, later was
associated with Charley Osborn
as a stock-broker, made a fortune,
and then, seyering his connection
with Mr.. Osborn, became a successful
operator on his own account. He is a
member of the Stock Exchange, but is
seldom seen there. Many persons unfa-
miliar with the ways Of financiers sup
pose that such men as Jay Gould, Rus
sell Sage, Sidney Dillon, c. p. Hunt
ington, and William II. Vanderbilt,
when he was alive, might be seen at
any time at the Stock Exchange. OF
course others know that they are never
seen there, though Of the persons mem
toned, Russell Sage and Coils p. Hunt
ington, the terror Of Jay Gould, are
both members.
a ROUGH DIAMOND.
But to return to Addison Cammack.
As he PAGES up and down the marble
or Of the Windsor lobby, between
& g bronzed pillars, he talks rapidly
d constantly about the developments
Ct the day in Wall street. lie has a
c nfrmed habit Of reteration; he will
often repeat a remark two or three
times, adding almost invariably the
Sioux-like interrogation "Huh - He
is often gruh in the extreme, but his
friends consider him KOhinoor in an
unpublished state. One Of them once
said to him
IL see, Mr.. Cammack, that you are
called the MephistOpheles Of Wall
street."
Why so:" growled the financial
veteran.
because you raise lIades down
there" was the reply, which | here
soften little.
well" said the speculative chief
tain, q" if they mean by that title that
do as l please they'r right, and don't
care tinker's dam what they call
me-"
lie used to stop at the Windsor, but
now be is at the Lapgham, few blocks
further up Fifth avenue. The Lang
ham, by the way, is the old Restell
mansion renovated. 1t was there, it
will be remembered, that Nine. Restell
committed suicide by cutting her throat
in one of the luxurious bathrooms
after the law, long defied, had fastened
its clutch upon the gray-haired alder
and abettor Of crime among the wealthy
of New York. While Mr.. Cam
mack stopped at the Windsor he
was regularly shaved by a certain bar
Der there. who was as attentive as
an Oriental slave in his tonsorial minis
trations. When the barber had a
chance to buy shop and start in busi-
ness on his own account Mr.. Cammack.
such is the liberality Of the man, let
him have $500. This was generous,
but it is not surprising in man who,
It is we'll known, once lent Jay Gould
$4,000 coo without so much as scrap
of paper as security. He is some
times a "bear" at the wrong time, as
he was recently. but in the panic of
1873 he made 81, 100000 on the short
side, and the great decline Of later
years brought two millions more to his
Golfers.
THE PLUMED KNIGHT.
The barber story about Mr.. Cam
mack recalls a somewhat similar one
about the Plumed Knight Of Wall
street, whom | hope to see again enter
the lists for victorious tourney--James
r. Keene. One day. when in the Ze-
NTH Of his financial power, he hur-
;odi- bo;iad A.. rickefv lacking emma