The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-22
WALL STREET sILHoUETTEs.
The Daily Process sion in That Finan-
clal Thoroughfare.

and around Wall street. The successful
men pass quickly along rapt in thought
and scheming for new millions, aud the men
who have been struck by the hammer of the
| financial Thor and are mere wrecks Of form
er opulence move slowly. as TO the sound of
funeral drums II is far across the treach-
erous straits to the palaces Of Corinthian
ease and elegance; all are not LeandeTs TO
! swim the financial Hellesp0ot. But let the
halt-droWned waits and strays on the Dead
Sea of speculation pass and notice only q
lew VINO have, as the French say, "ar-
rived ~
That plainly-dressed, smcoth-faced gen.
tleman hurrying into the United Bank
building at the corner Of Wall street and
broadway is Alfred Sully, who was recent
~ reelected President Of the Richmond and
West Point Terminal Railroad Company,
destined 10 be one of the great carriers Of
this country He was formerly lawyer in
Davenport, Iowa. Now lac is worth five or
SIX millions. Austin Corbin enters the
Boreel building ON Broadway, having just
returned from Philadelphia, where, as Pres
ldent Of the Reading railroad, he has been
fighting strike of 5000 men, evidently
laboring under the impression that he IS
CULVER among swarm Of pigmies. Such
men as Mr. COrbin benefit the cause Of labor
by cOmpellingit TO consolidate fOrthe strug-
gle, which can only end in democracy OF re-
publlcanlsm-intercha terms here
III trade, and the degradation of commercial
power 10 the mass OF the population, even
as the republican impulse III the direction of
government IS gradually overcoming mon
archy among the civilized nations of the
earth. Mr.. COrbin has made considerably
more failures than successes IN the various
enterprises which he mas undertaken in his
busy LIE; he has been a sort Of William the
Third Of finance, receiving severe drub-
bings on the field of railroad contention,
yet with stubborn pertinacity turning TO
something else, ami at last succeeding in
amasslng a large private fortune. His
greatest success was in developing the Long
island railroad. There he had no conpeu-
ton. He is 90 years of age, and his firm,
square jaw tells of decision of character,
even If there is nothing in his features or the
shape of his head 10 indicate ANYTHING more
than mediocre abilities. His manners are
usually bluff, though among his frie nds be
can be the courteous gentleman. Some are
inclined to accuse him of double dealing
with the Reading operatives, but there is as
yet no evidence to indicate this, and Wall
street men consider him man of principle
and one who is straightforward in all his
dealings.
Commodore James D. Smith is one of the
notable figures He is the President of the
Stock Exchange, and personally one of the
most popular men in Wall street. He woul
have been defeated at the last election, how
ever, if a candidate had been nominated
against him. When he found that Henry
$. Ives, that reverend looking young gentle
man of railroad celebrity, had changed
from chrysalis germ of uncertain future
TO bright-wlnged butterfly of wealth he
sought to fOist HIM upon Wall street, on the
principle that the end justitios the
means, the Stock Exchange President con
curing apparently with the Quaker who
said to his son, just beginning life: My
son, get riches. Honestly if thou canst-but
get riches The easy going Commodore
saw no reason for ostraciZing the young ad-
mirable Crichton of finance: he had merely
cornered few mapping brokers with the
view OF gently but firmly administering an
old-tashioned allopathic dose of medicine
which they naturally prefer that others
should take. The brokers awoke in time to
put aside the bitter draught, but they have
never recovered from the shock that the
mere sight Of it gave them.
There is William c. Reeves, the lawyer,
who has just been elected President of the
Southern Society of this city, club COM
posed exclusively of men of Southern
birth. He is the son of William G.. Reeves,
one of the well-linown statesmen of Nir-
ginia beforeth the wal, who was twice Minister
to France and who was a United States
Senator from 1882 to 1915. John c. Cal
hOun is occasionally seen in Wall street. He
is identified with large Southern railroad
interests and is Vice Pre- ident of the
Southern Society. President Norvin Green,
Of the Western Union Telegraph Company,
AMI Vice Presiden0 j. II Parker. OF the
Cotton Exchange, both physicians by edu-
cation, ard successful assbuslneSs men, are
often seen in the money region, and both are
members of the Southern Society.
There is President Alexander +. Orr, Of
the Produce Exchange, tall, OF wiliowy
figure, with square features and of courte-
Gus manners He walks with a cane, as
years ago he broke his ankle. He was born
IN Londonderry, Ireland, but has the &C
cent and appearance of an Englishman. He
Is Republican, but for years a personal
friend of Gov. Tilden. As chairman of the
arbitration comlnittee of the Produce Ex-
change, whose decisions carry with them
the Judgment of the Supreme Court Of the
State he was really Judge. He was re
Gently elected a director of the New York
and New England railroad, and he Is iden-
tilted with half a dozen other corpora
tions.
There is a square-featured, resolute-look-
ing young lawyer, whose name is known all
over the United States. 1t is Delaney Nc
oil. He has been retained by the Stock
Exchange to exterminate the keepers of
bucket shops.
Ine snort, thick-set figure of District
Attorney Fellows is occasionally seen in
Wall street. He is the man whom the limo
cent lambs of the metropolitan fold sup
p sc will zealously prosecute Jacob Sharp
and the rest of the boodlers, and that he
will really do something toward bringing
jay Gould and Russell Sage to the bar OF
the criminal courts. The faith of such per-
sons would seem TO be sufficient to say TO the
mountain, BE thou removed and cast into
the sea- and to have il done.
And here comes Daniel Magore, Collec
tor Of the Port of New York, the LAWYER
from Ogdensburg. who sits at the rec ,ipt OF
custom III metropolis. Collector Magone
has passed busy day. He has sharply in
terrogated inspectors, treated mechants like
schOOiOoys and unfo.ded 10 tho reporters a
tale of reform in the matter Of six forger-
les or undue whisky sampling, whose light
est word will raise the hair Of the guilty
person on the morrow. Mr. Magune la,
the manners of an old-time admiral and he
may be found pacing the quarterback in say
age z Hndeur IN the antlquated novels Of
Capt. Marryatt. He works u good deal
harder than the average cistOm house
clerk His pleasant Office, with its quaint.
Oid-time aspect, carries the visitor back
fifty years. To the lef. as you enter hangs "A
picture of a heavy-faced. massive lawed
man. 1t is Grover Cleveland, whose
friends term him the imam of destily.n
and whose enemies call him the man of
luck.
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