The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-11

! was q special partner III DD6 10 pAulS
| on Black Friday, when men IN wall street
acted more Ike 1unatics than rational, will
not be forgotten as long as any OF the men
] who were on the great stage OF life on that
] day remain, aud il will always be an inter-
esting part of the history OF Wall street.
The corner In gold was broken by sales of
the yellow metal by the government Suits
followed, in which Belden & Co., Connor's
employers, were defendants. Their defense
was that the books OF the firm had disap-
peared and they we're unable to prepare an
answer to the complaint Did young Con-
nor take those books over TO Jersey City and
keep them there1 Certainly he disappeared
about that time. Did he force Jay Gould to
take him into partnership on the streugth
of this service with the alternative Of ex-
posing the contents of the books in COURT
That is Wall streets belief. He made, It is
believed, cool, nervy play, on the chess
board of finance and Jay Gould was not In
a position 30 checkmate him. For years
they were in partnership in the diugy
brown stone building on Broadway,
through which thousands hurry daily to
the elevated railroad trains st the Rector
Street station. He is faultlessly dressed, is
a member of the Uuion League and the
Lotos Club. aud affects the society Of
artists and literary men.
There is Edmund Clarence Stedman, the
poet, as much at home in Wall street as on
Oiympus. John Slayback, one of the hand
some men of the board, is a cool, intrepid
operator. He used to be Sunday school
superintendent. He has had his mutations
of fortune. bnt has been in the main sue
cessful. He has fair place at Montclair,
n. J. he is now bidding up sugar stock,
but has been passing from group to group
bidding up other stocks. Albert V. De
Goiconria moves about from group TO group
of shouting brokers. He is selling Atchison.
Besides being good broker he is the best
boxer of the stock exchange. plaster
cast of his arm is exhibited at the New
York Athletic Club house.
Over in the lonely room q man of the me-
dunn height. rather slightly built, with
sharp blue eyes Is beckoning to a broker.
It is James r. Keene, no longer the
wounded lion Of Wall street, but one who
has shaked It a little with the roar of
healthy king of the forest. he was knocked
down years ago by three strokes OF fate-a
wheat speculation, the blows of Gould,
Woersshoffee, Cammack and Osborne, who
caught him long Of stocks and finally by
reckless writing Of puts" and "calls" Mr.
Sage lost 81, 100000 by writing 'puts" be-
fore big decline, and privileges wrought
the final overthrow of Keene. He 10 be-
lieved to have made good deal of money
this year in sugar, cordage and granger
stocks, generally as bull, but now and
then in turns on the short side.
Around the Rock Island port brokers are
| climbing over each other to sell this stock,
because they have Just heard that Mr.
Gould has threatened to bring grain by a
new connecting link of railroad to the Gulf
and that it will cut down the earnings Of
the Rock Island. Nathaniel 8. Jones has
just bought 1000 shares of st. Paul. He is
q shrewd trader on large scale, a man of
U a ms fVNlyr No.
than talker, yet courteous when he
speaks.
Henry Allen is selling Atchison. He is
well known in New York and Chicago.
Charles J. Hudson is trading in sugar stock
be is slender, wiry, nervous and wealthy
He used to be cashier for Henry Clews.
Mr.. Clews, by the way, seems to keep a
college for the education of rich men.
Charley Jones, now in retirement, as ill
fated now as Prince Charley Stuart Of his
tory, meeting a sudden Culloden, made a
million as a room trader, after serving as
an office boy for Henry Clews. The high
| pressure of Wall street, burning the candle
| at both ends, wrought his eclipse. Louis
Schepp, the millionaire chocolate manu-
facturer, who seems as unable to let stocks
alone as Mr.. Pardredge is to resist the al
lureDients Of the wheat pit in Chicago, has
| just bought 1000 shares Of Atchison. The
| Wormsers are by the Missouri Pacific post
bidding up that stock. They wear enor-
nous collars high felt hats and used to sell
clothing in Sacramento. Alfred De Corr
dona IS selling st. Paul. He used to en-
| ploy carrier pigeons 10 transmit communi-
cations to his home. The birds carried thin
slips of paper containing stock quotations.
Louis Bell has Just sold 2,000 Missouri
Pacific. He is supposed to be operating in
sympathy with Jay Could and Addison
| CammAck. Years ago he was always ready
to match coins for $500 or 81 600 at any
| time. de is one of the leading board room
traders, like John D. Slayback, Jacob Kirk
ner and others eqnally well known in Wall
street. He is wealthy and has a fine place
at Oyster Bay, Long Island.
These are only few Of the men less ia,
nous than others widely known, and vet
all of them have had an eventful history.
| But there 10 Henry Clews, who has lust
hurried on to give some directions to his
representative, although he does not 90 the
| exchange go much as formerly. He directs
his business from offices in the Mills build
| ing. He is as quick and bright as ever
John Clews is one of his representatives
and James Blanchard Clews is another
! There is Jacob Kirkner, who is a room
| trader as distinguished from the broker who
merely trades for others. He used to be q
| pedagogue, and at times metaphorically ap
| lies the birch OF his opponents in the och
| speculation. Richard Halsted is there
Besides being an active broker he is a gen
| eral athlete and fine musician, playing OF
| almost any instrument that can be named
He has collectson OF paintings worth
| $4,000.
Finally that strange instrument of au-
cient Chinese warfare, the gong sounds, and
| its hideous clamor speedily drives every
broker from the floor. 1t is 8 o'clock and
the session is over for the dav. Outside OIL
Broadway Addison Commack, with square
resolute features, a gray mustsche and cold
! gray eyes, Is saunterlng slowly toward the
elevated railroad station. Roswell p,
Flower emerges from Exchange court on
the way uptown. He is bull on stocks
Russell Sage. looking like an old farmer in
city clothes, is coming down from the
Western Union building He has contro
of more ready money than any man in the
| United States. Alexander +. Orr is hurry.
INK down to see ]. Pierpont Morgan about
funding the indebtedness OF the Union
! Pacific. A young man of 81 with dark eyes
and round features, cones out Of a build.
ing at No. 1876 Broadway, where he has beer
at hard work all day as any dry goods clerl
and with instructive frugality, directs his
steps to the elevated railroad station rather
than take carriage to his home. Ii i:
George j. Gould, who has been swapping
his fingers in the face of Wall street, after
having been it is said. badly bitten on the
short side Of stocks. His fathers manners
are more quiet and courteous than ever be-
fore. The hand OF iron is there but the
glove of velvet is there too. George on the
contrary is open and defiant almost to reck-
lessness, a veritsble Prince Rupert OF
the stage of the great fheakar of finance