The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-14


From the New York World.
There is a new boy in Wall street and
he is called the Infant Napoleon of Finance
DO not think you can skip a word that is
now TO be written about him, for you
can't This boy. slim as a swallow. sal
low. ungainly, perhaps not seventeen. GER
tainly not more than eighteen years old
has a right to the admiring attention Of
every American. He has gambled in thu
street, fighting the big sharks with his
half developed brain. and he has won al
ready about $4,000. He has been in the
street but a few weeks. He spends his
days and bites his nails in Henry Clews
private sheepfold on Broad street.
''He's a new customer says Mr.. Clews.
gazing with great respect upon the Infant
Napoleon Il would not have you publish
his name for anything. He is very young
just boy: but he is very quick and intel
ligent. He has made a great deal Of mon
ey. He is full Of nervous energy, but he
Is calm and patient. He viii be a very
successful operator"
The new boy sat in the Broad street
sheepfold yesterday almost all day. He
Is tail and thin, very thin, with face
that is as full Of care and worry as the
whitest face at the Monte Carlo tables.
He has q queer old young face. a pointed
face with a trace of color or beard. Ills
eyes are big and his eyebrows are thick.
His hair is very thick and rather long,
He seems not to have time to get Il cut
Part of his winnings glistens on his
youthful person in the shape of diamonds.
He has a large diamond and opal pin N
his gray tie, and on his hand great eol-
den snake keeps company with a large
solitaire diamond. The Infant Napoleon
is wiser than he knows. He is getting at
least a little pleasure out of the experience
which is sure to make him very sorry
some day His boots are yellow and
pointed the tails of his gray coat are
foolishly long. His legs are slim. lie Is
not merely a luck accidental young boy,
for he has curious hands with long I'M
iiers, and with big middle knuckles. HIS
forehead bulges out like the forehead OF
a precocious Boston child In a comic
weekly. The back of his head projects in
a very unusual way.
Old sheep who have been shorn as
often as they could raise any wool, sit
around the new little lamb looking at
him with envy and gravely asking for
his advice on the market, Yesterday
he sold Chicago Gas. and 1t went down
to please him. He made about 5000 on
that as part OF his days work. While
he was waiting for the tape to tell him
what he earned without toiling or spin
ming, he sat smoking cigarettes and deal
tng out advice to men old enough to be
his grandfathers.
Every man who talked to him told him
that the world Of finance had been wait
ing for his coming; that the Rothschilds,
Belmonts and Morgans would soon have
TO worry about him. The men who we're
too busy to flatter an Infant Napoleon
looked at him with interest and pity. They
believed without any exception. that how
ever clever and cool he might be, he would
soon be eaten up by the spirit Of gambling
and the brokers' one-eighth Of one per cent.
1t may do the young man some good to
hear what those who really know some-
thing would advise him to do. They would
advise him to take all his profits and what
ever money he may have had originally
and go as far from Wall street as he can
possibly get, taking good care never to
come back. They will not tell him this
personally, for in Wall street it is proper
to let a man ruin himself in his own way.
To interfere with anybodys one-eighth of
one per cent is bad taste. and to give
advice is considered a waste of breath
anyhow. Perhaps the Infant Napoleon
will take the advice here at second hand.
doubtedly clever head will eventually find
fuller and more rational occupation at
work as an Office boy.
Mr. Clews' sheepfold winch harbors this
young lamb, Is one of the most interesting
and cozy corners in the Wall street whirl-
pool. 1t is filled with big chairs. Black
boards tell how your money is going with
out even troubling you to look at the tape,
and Mr. Clews the ancient shepherd, ever
and anon raises his voice to expound a
theory or to encourage the down hearted
The news comes in that New England has
been sold for five millions to the lawyer
OF the syndicate that bought control on
behalf OF the New Haven. I'D rather have
what the syndicate will make out of that
than all the New Haven stockholders win
ever get says Mr.. Clews, and then ram
bles off into a bullish discourse. The PEN
niless financiers who fill some of the chairs
look sad and hungry at the mention of the
syndicate's profits, the Infant Napoleon
glances with kind approval at the wise
CleWs, seeming to say: You and / know
these Morgans and Rockefellers," and
lights another cigarette. An occasional or
der is given, one sheep takes a seat as
another vacates it. Mr.. Clews begins an
other little speech whenever he has not
talked for some time, and so time passes
IN typical successful Wall street sheep
fold.
In Wall street, but that street is never
dull except to one blunted by strict atten-
tion to transactions on the exchange TIC
stand before the Mills Building with eyes
open is as interesting a trip to Europe
even in these dull financial times A mar
new to Wall street stood and watched yes
terday. Along came the Warner Miller OF
the breastworks and canal fame He
steamed slowly along in the heat, as ma.
Jestic, broad and slow as a Liverpool tram
steamer. On the opposite side Of the street
walked John 1. Davenport, patentee of the
iron cage. His everlasting SLOUGH hat was
down over his forehead and his eye was
full of thought. Something in Wall street
interested him. He always looks like q
st. Louis man, except when he is vera
much interested, and then he looks like
man from Kansas City, Kan. He looked The
Kansas City man yesterday.
Just after o'clock the street went
suddenly crazy. as it does every day
Men and boys dashed in every direction
running into old men and women bump,
ing against each other without a word OF
apology. To a stranger that is an excft.
ing moment in the street, for he thinks
that fires, robberies or murders must
have broken out in a hundred places al
once. 1T simply means that IL is the do