Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-12-25
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\ Stree Ia ne had SnosJd ea5DE
ssEinaEiIg sSuc q aeon oTtabl nm.S:
Three times .by she Ell accide nt, fof'
SMllisl che WAS blame: lhes haIt
Host aspyet tile for tune, saId shsss
believed 81 atsh lis s0Mll les riencsss
could Hesnissts hed by very any i0lfe:
EtheSAp eGtators OF the strcet OF
,,'s!s;aslfse sh9 except sttlhOs create ps
dfeTat0 q, sf 10 iflst hpiaF control lfs
]sHilgi1rfeifse aii cas from;
Their owners controlling In
.terests large sprope critics, and their
l.abilitYito inanipu late the market,
were placed beyond the power I'll
lucky or unlncky accident itozaf3s5z
greatly their wealth.
perhaps theimost remarkable
case that ever came under my OBJ
servation," the broker went on to
say, "wai that of one Of the most
conservative men now on the stre3t.
lie Is now simply broker, AMI
since Black Friday has never spe.:.
ulated one dollars worth. You re.
member that three or four mel
bronghton the panic now knoHl
az Black Friday by cornering gold
and Running the price up till many
operators were ruined, the street
was IN a wild panic, and universal
smash seemed imminent. These
men relied on what they believe
to be good assurance that the gov
eminent would put no gold on tbs
market that day, and they hal
locked up pretty much all the rest
Of The gold in the country that wa,
available.
fright in the midst of the panic,
when tile street was like mad
house. and many men who, IN the
morning, supposed themselves rich
were almost stark staring mail
over the ruin which bad befallcn
them in a few hours, and when al.
most the highest figures had been
touched. and nobody was sellln,
shok this broker to whom
refer suddenly losthis head
He had covered early in the
morning ut a comparatively small
loss, and had beenlooking in during
the day without any personal anx-
.iety except that caused by the fear
of a panic that would knock che
bottom outof everything. Sudden
ly, heneyer knew why, nor1las he
any butithe mostvag e:re Election !,
as
the bawling, bowling pit aud sold
right aud left at their highest fig
lres. He probably might have
avoided his contracts or his friends
have invalidated them for him, for
he was undoubtedly insane when
ne did this. At all events he was
still selling when suddenly there
came that little message from Sec
'etary Boutwell, that knocked the
bottom out of the corner in the
;Ninkling of all eye, Sell 5,OO0,0O0
IT gold
ain half an hour more my friend
would have been a lunatic pauper,
md, as it was, his brother, l think,
" some near relative found him ut
;erIy irresponsible, and with Il good
le al of difficulty led him away to
lis Office. There, when lie wsls told
II the order of Boutwell, and that
he bottom had dropped out OF the
,aic, lie did not seem to compre
lend the truth at all, but mumble;l
which nobody under
TODD. His contracts, however,
we're found and taken care Of by
lis clerks, and d rapid estimate
howed that he stood to the good
rot far from S250,0OO. When they
old hun, lie did not seem to com-
,reheud. He had not been drink
ng for he was teetotaler. Sud.
Ienly they missed HIM. They
;uuld, not fnd him in the street,
lor in the gold room, nor!n any Of
he other brokers' offices he was
to- visit. Nobody had
cen him. He had not gone TO his
ZONE, and his family at midnight,
,ecoming thoroughly alarmed, no.
fled the police that he was mis-.
ing and temporarily derangeeaai.:~HHe
1as found wandering w Broadway
,ng past mldnght, nlutterlug his
illls and.recognizing no one. Nor
nd he know any enc for nearly
wo weeks. He was ON the verge
t paralysis OF the brain, and bare
, pulled through. When after two
,eeks' ilIne s he woke one morn
ne, rational, his first thought was
ha5 he was on 'Change.' He re-
rendered nothing OF his opera
lons, but recalled wildly so much
f the panic as he had witnessed
efore he began to operate himself.
c was loug time before his phys
,lan permitted him to be told that
e had by his crazy freak made u
)rtune. be has kept 1t, TOO, Tor
ON that day to this, as ! said, he
as never bought stock except
" investmeut.-New York Letter. y,
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Lost His Sight.
He wore upon his hand organ