New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23

HOW A FORTUNE WAS LOST BY NOT FOL-
LOWING THE RULE PLAY WHILE
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.'Whcn take vacation nowadays take it, re-
marked a prominent NewYorker, as he rehectivey
let the tape run through his fingers and into the
ticker basket Il don't read the newspapers. hold
myself completely aloof from the world ana take
particular care TO know nothing about what is going
on. | keep out of The reach of the telegraph, 100
and let no demands of business sort call me back
10 the city before the time | set when wen; away
Coming back once. right In the middle Of my
planned vacation. cost me nearly slco~"
This is the story of il. An old chum and myself
had mapped out a ten days fishing trip up North
and made up our minds to leave civilization COM
ple,ey behind. AS sailed up the Hudson on the
night boat | fel: peculiarly contented for | had
picked up a little bargain on the Street that after
noon-a block Of stock that had cost me 49, and that
| was certain would ADVANCE sufficiently 10 give me
on my return profit Of 500. or even a trfe more
Tho stock was already at rock bottom. and felt
10 anxiety abou 1t.
1--WE found an excellent place to put up-a little
inn far In the pack woods. where the cooking was
capital and within easy walking distance of the
best fishing in the dstric The fish bit splendidly
and for three days all wen: well Then my friend
had a touch of some ament other, and nothing
would do but he must go into the county town, a
dozen miles away. and get some medicine Rather
than be left alone volunteered to accompany him
After the solitude the woods the life of the
as pleasant. and when we had bought the medicine
and paid for 1t decided to take look into some
of the other shops We argued that We needed some
writing paper. anyway
at was late in the afternoon when we strolled
into the one stationery and book store the town
possessed BY evil luck there lay display ed
on the counter a pile of New York newspapers We
had forsworn the world. but the temptation
too strong for ! picked up one Of them. 1t
was that days paper. and through force of habit
turned TO the Wall street page at once. BY all the
gods. wha. was 1t there The stock had
bought bad closed the following afternoon 10 points
OH my giving profit
Of over 5000 The market excited the paper
said everybody had been jumping for 1t, and there
we're ndica that the top had been reached. and
that a heavy reaction would set in within day
or go oar ,,o,ch, Of ,elocranb,ne. # seemed 70 me
and pocket my profit a, once. turned TO my friend.
Bob | said I've got TO take the evening train
down. ! cant 90 back to the inn with you. And /
show ed him the paper His eyes grew big as
saucers and he answered back that rather than
stay by himself he would travel 10 the city with
me SO sent boy back with the wagon hastily
scribbing a note TO the landlord TO send on our
traps and that would remit him the amount OF
AT the hour of the opening of the Stock En-
change the next morning | found the stock rather
weak and trife lower than IT had been. Never
thelcss readily sold at 90 cven and pocketed very
close TO 5000 Neither OF us-my friend or myself :
had the slightest fishing interest left. and we called
off the rest Of the trip
profit you say? Not at all. hut unfortunate. The
very next day those shares commenced rising. The
combine that manipulating them got their
full grip. and the stock broke until six days
leaps and bounds reaching its highest point on the
very day 10 co ne home. II had never looked
/ been very nearly 10000 to the good-clean cash
| profits"