Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-22
ONETYPE OF NEW BOY
WALL STREET oUes HIM THE "iN-
FAINT NAPOLEON OF FINANCE

While Great Schemes Are Hatching This
shrswd Young Lamb OsmboIs Profta.
biy-Hs II . Protege of Henry Ciews.
IL Consulted Widely.
There IL a new boy In Wall street, and
no Is called tho infant Napoleon OF
finance. DO not think you can skip Il
word that IL now 70 bo written about him,
for you can't. This boy, slim as IA swal-
low, sallow, ungainly, perhaps not H. GER
tainly not moro than 10 years old, has u
right to the admiring attention Of every
American. He has gambled In the street,
fighting the big sharks with his half de-
veloped brain, and he has won already
about 800, 900. Ho has been In tho street
but few weeks.
He's new customer, says Mr.. Clews,
gazing with great respect upon the infant
Napoleon. 81 would not have you publish
his name for anything He IL very young,
just "a boy, but he il very quick and intel
ligent. He has made great deal OF mon
ey. He Is full of nervous energy, but he Is
calm and patient. He will be very sue
cessful operator"
He is tall and thin-very thin-with a
face that Is as full Of care and worry as the
whitest face at the Monte Carlo tables. He
has queer old young face, pointed face
without trace of color or board. His
eyes are big, and his eyebrows are thick
His hair Is very thick and rather long
Part OF his winnings glistens on his youth
ful person In the shape OF diamonds. Tho
infant Napoleon Is wiser than he knows
He IL getting at least little pleasure out
of the experience which is sure TO mako
him very sorry some day. His legs are
slim. He is not merely lucky accidental
young boy, for he has curious hands with
long fingers and with big middle knuc-
kles. His forehead bulges out like the fore
head Of precocious Boston child In q
comic weekly. The back Of his head pro-
jects in very unusual way.
Old sheep who have been shorn as often
as they could raise any wool, sit around
the new littlo lamb, looking at him with
envy and gravcly asking for his advice on
the market. He sold Chicago Gas, and 1t
went down to please him. He made about
$4,000 on that as part OF his days work
While he was waiting for the tape TO tell
him what he had earned without toiling
or spinning ho sat smoking cigarettes and
dealing 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 waiting
for his coming that the Rothschilds Bel
monts and Morgans would soon have TO
worry about him. The men who were too
busy TO latter an infant Napoleon looked
at him with interest and pity They be-
lieved, 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 per cent.
It 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 oil 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 1t is proper
to let a man ruin himself In his own way
To interfere with anybody's one-eighth Of
per cent is bad taste, and to give advice
Is considered waste Of breath anyhow.
Perhaps the infant Napoleon will take the
advice here at secondhand. If he docs
not, 1t is certain that his undoubtedly
clever head will eventually find fuller
and more rational occupation ut work as
an office boy.-New York World.