Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-08

= ~ 80" ftf' "f'|FN'' ~ 2 NN"tANNf IWNu"WM1
then engaged IN the liquor business. lafrF
was asspelaied with "chafsio', Osborn a.
stock broker. mellsa fortune. mud then,
seyeripR hss connection with III. osborn,
bepainp snrcnesini operator GA hia own
account Hein a mcflher Of the stock
nNchnnKr1 hnt II seldom eron there
Many persons unfamiliar with the WAYS
q fnauplptH suppose that such men AZ
Jay Gould, Russell Rage, sidney Dillon,
G. Y, Huntington and William NJ Van,
derbilt, whnu NJ wax alive, might Be aeon
~ any Time 0u the stock exchange OF
course othors know that thay are nnvhf
seen there, though of the pureons named
Russell Sage and rdllls l.. llnnlln9ton,
tbe terror q Jay Could, are holh mem
1 bcrs.
But, 90 reinrn 70 Addison caMmatk.
AS az panNs up and down tho marble floor
% The Whids9f lobby between the ffons@
pillars NJ salka rapidly and oonstAuiiy
/ ahoutthu hsfeinpnlcnt OF the day ~ Wail
/ Nsreot lle has q cohnrlncd habit af nit,
/ cfatont he VIII often fcpeatA ftmaF9
TWO 81 thfcc hmra, adding almost insan.
I ably tbp Slous,lske inlsrforatina
Z ''liubfv ~ ~ aiieh grnn 81 the Az
/ tieiae, Init his friends c6lAdcf him a
! kuhpuurli an nnpoilehod state. Ona o.
\ them once said q lnNt
~ see, Mr.. raihmAck that yhn are
eallad iho Mephistopheles Of wall
street,
Gran.
because you raise badcs down there, n
1 was the reply, which here soften 1T
pWell, = said the speculative chioitalu,
~ they mean by that title that ! do as /
| nlcasoi they're right, aud / don't care q
tinkers damn what they call me-
he used 20 stop az The Windsor, but
now he ~ at the i.angham, few blocks
further up Fifth avenue The Langham,
by the way, Is the old Restcll manaion
renovated. Il was there, Il viii DO rc-
inembored, that Madame RcStell, The no.
torlous nb0rtioniet, committed suicide by
cutting her throat IN one OF the Injurious
hath.rooins, after tho law had fastened ito
clutch on The gray.hairea abetior Of crime
among the wealthy Of New York while MIR.
Cammack stopped at the Windsor he was
| regularly shaved by certain barber
| there, who was NJ attentive as an Oriental
slave IN his tonBorial mlnistrationA When
the barber had chance 10 buy shop
ana start In business on his own account,
\ Mr., Gammuok, such IL the Morality OF tho
man, let him have $4,000 This was gem
erous, but II N not surprising IN man
who, IL Is well known, omen lent Jag Gould
| S2,0d0,00G without so much az scrap OF
paper nh security, He Is sometimes q
bear 90 the wrong Iine, ~ no WA recent
! ly, but In the panic OF 1879 he made
$1,000, goo on The short side, and the great
decline Of later years brought $4,000, 600
more 20 his Golfers
The barber story about MIR. Cammack
recalls somewhat similar one about that
| plumed knight Of Wall street whom
! hope 20 see again enter the Isis for vic.
torious tourney, James u, Keene. One
day, when IN the zenith Of HIS imam
! cial power, he hnrriedly hailed a
| rlckoty-lOOking coupe, more inter-
eated In getting up town quick
than on going In style. Tho man was
shfowd and attentive and pleased the
large-heartad speculator. Mr. kecne boz
came o steady patron, aud one day dnmb,
founded the cabman by presenting him
with q handsome new coupe and line
strong horse. The act waa characteristic
| OF MIR keene.
There Is nothing more said about sales
OF stocks for the estate Of the late -. r..
Morgan One who knew him well said
10 me the other day 81 don't know ex.
| hiAiy INV MUM Nfpfi tfNtHt Ntif NnViKhn
left, but II has been placed az high as
$4,000 shares. iIe also owned some
oregon Transcontnontai at the time OF
! his death. | think that the value OF his
estate has, since hls dcceaee, increased
$500 ,000n
The obituary notices OF u. II, Morgan
were meager, and yet he wae one OF Wall
streets Interesting characters. In one
respect he was exactly tho opposite
Of MIR. Cammack that ls, he was
| always inclined 10 be on the bull
| side He Jumped quick, however,
! from one aide OF thcImarket 10 the othcri
he ran like deer when he found he was
on the wrong side Of the fonco. He had
q wonderfully tenacious memory; he
could remember stock figures az Henry
j Raymond could election statistics He
| would at tunes deal In from fifty 10 sixty
| thousand shares OF various stocks In O
day, backing and illiing and never make
I The smallest memorandum. He never
| used tobacco or liquor and nt ono time he
| weighed ip5 pounds, though u short
| time before hin death When 10 London
or Paris his mind YVES always on The stock
exchange, and he often spTsulated by ca.
| bic In from 10000 10 $4,000 shares Of
stock IN a single day.
/ M w HiVaiA7f ifthAt fFAfIfFf - AAAtAtNfl
bniiish. The bull sentiment has lalteriy
become the Gemlnant one. Plenty 81
money obtalnable az low rates, the proba'
blllty that there viii DO no important ex-
ports Of gold, the peaceful outlook
among the trunk lines, the prospects Of D
coal combination, better dry,RoodH
trade and large and steady demand for
railroad bonds and 70 some extent
for stocks, greatly encourage the bovine
brethren. one ~ the kceHest men "a
Wall street said 70 me the other day
~ believe the Drexol- Morgan syndicate
that took such large amount u stocks
last summer IL still heavily Interested
and viii protect The market u necessary
OSCAR WlIouangY ihnGs.
The hours Of New York balls having
gotten SO late that those who arrived ~
II O'Clock frequently found themselves
first, the h0steseee are making q grand
combination ~ favor of early hours, ami
Mrs George ). BowdoIn IL 10 DO accre0-
tied with the admirable beginning. All
her beautiful little ball given last Thurs