The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-26

hundreds of thousands they climbed into
the millions. The increase in the value
of Brooklyn Rapid Transit shares up to
the first of the present year was S.
$50, 600; of Atchison Sc, 120, 900 in common
stock and SEE, 947, 49O in preferred, in
which the pool was principally interest
ed. Common stock of the Federal steel
shows an increase of 1851, FOB and pre-
ferred an increase of 1921, 800. Brook
lyn Union Gas increased $3,OOO,OOO. In
all these shares Mr.. Flower and his fol-
lowers were heavily interested, and in
all of them they made fortunes.
CROWDS FOLLOWED HIM.
1t was enough for Mr.. Flower to be in
anything to have the public follow him.
Speculation in whatever he was known to
furious. There was that in his plain.
of such prosperity as the country had
port Of any stock % kfa o 3 Gff~
voring eye to send it skyward The pubic
IT'S mer f0 And # Wa street.
had faith in the hayseed ex-governor, it
was one to eonjure with in his native
WATERFOWL. He has a fine Fifth avenue
WATERFOWL and goes there every week,
and Watertowners were not slow In FOL
drich court building None Of his callers
is more welcome than they. If their boots
hair, the happier the Wall street monarch
ed TO ou see Wits fhe roWtS o little hes
of its. own All who had few dollars to
fellow-townsman and none OF them has
The -Rockefellers. John D. and William,
were from the outset of the boom silent
but tremendous force. H. H. Rogers and
can Tobacco and American Sugar John
d. Rockefeller is said to control, and be-
crease in these shares, he. his brother Will
liam, Mr.. Rogers. and Colonel Payne were
Missouri, Kansas and Texas. Consolidat-
ed Gas went up Sc. 691, 400 in value, Ameri.
their holdings in proportion. This is to
say nothing of an advance of ST ,oOo; 600
Teller is estimated to be worth $50, 1000
m0re than an he WAS before the boom began began
Teller, $1,000 600; H. H. Rogers, SO, 100000.
f fhs gPoap c pgni Pyne is the only fa
miliar figure on the street The others
Among those who have had tremendous
fortunes thrust upon them by the rise is
tnes bave ncrenfeG Hs fo
suns Meopolfta9ao 600 s aoo @o RaIlway alone
Farley, a compare lively new figure in the
street IS one OF the fortunate d19tI ones He He
ara for, 81 900, 900 This he invested in the
through the t treachery yS of 'f brokers' 4 He
came here, bought a house in Tuxedo and
financial strength. William K. Vanderbilt
is one of these, and he it was who pulled
by trying to shoulder too heavy a load of
Pan Handle. He is a slight-built man.
head and has come to be one of the best
known men on the street.
Common BUSY WITH ADDITION.
OF the Gould-Sage combination the most
interesting figure is, after Mr.. Sage. Wash,
operator tlS on the street-one who can lose
or make million without the CULVER of
His life is as regular and even as that of
a country parson He goes to bed at
known to drink an alcoholic beverage in
his life. He is broker for George Gould
them make and keep their millions. He is
estimated to be worth about 100000 more
haitian haiti has increased $S,55o.oO0; Missouri
Pacific 1892, $50. and Western Union 81
is the Heaviest beneficiary He Is easily
100000 further away from want than
The les Story lr.S of Edward v. Talcott is one of
soe of Pe ana nce tine r e p
cyclone began. He was Of the firm Of
Gas. St. Pau. Rock Island and Pitts f9rr
Cincinnati. Chicago and St. Louis, made
babe good-by to the street forever.
James r. Keene. who is regarded the
wisest of the oraeles in financial matters,
has come out of the shuttle about s., 100000
T W6e6 fhen he oSer TBS ar5
ton, which increased 81, 0O0.0 900 and over,
and preferred stock increased upward Of
$16OO0.O0O were his favorite shares.
VANDERBILTS PROFIT HEAVILY.
Cornelius and William K. Vanderbilt are
each credited with having profted $40 0o0,-
900 by the rise. Their holdings chiefly
in New York Central, Lake Shore, Union
Pacific, Michigan Central, P. C., c. &
st. L. and d., L. & W. Union Pacific
went up over $24 100000 and New York
Central over SIG, 100000.
J. p, Morgan has made, enormous sums
on all his investments and also in lending
call money. He is fully 100000 better
off than he was when the peace protocol
signed August 10.
1t was from that date, in fact, that the
real deluge of wealth began, having been
ushered in by. the. showers which follow
nd f tb fst ~ Asf ~ fhst l o1
hand