Arizona daily citizen., 1901-05-14
Cleaned Up a Fortune
In a Single Day

prominent member Of Tammany Hall,
friend OF Richard Croker and former
Sheriff Thomas J. Dunn, made more
than $3.50, 900 during the remarkable
rise in the stock markets. According
to his own statement, Mr.. Britt has moi
stopped speculating, and does not in.
tend doing so, for the hopes to make
much more, 1t is said that he aspires
to clearing half milton dollars befor G
he abandons the present market.
Brooklyn is greatly interested in the
stories being told to the effect that sew.
eral kading politicians OF the borough
have grown wealthy in stock specula.
tion during the last few weeks. Follow.
ing the announcement that Senator Nc.
Carren had made a million dollars In
the market and his denial of the story
as "rot, =" saying that he had made only
$3.50 oJ0o0. now comes the stories OF other
fortunes made by the Willoughby street
politician. Hugh Mclaughlin, the De.
mocratic leader, is credited with the
biggest winnings, and IL is from him the
tip came to others, it is stated. He
bought Amalgamated Copper stocks
some time ago, as low as so, it is said,
afterward increasing his holdings to
1900 shares. buying mostly at 81. II
was not bought on margin. That is not
Hugh McLaughim's way Of dealing in
stocks. He buys them outright, pockets
the dividends, and they say there are
always dividends, coming on stock he
buys-and when he 10 satisfied with the
rise he sells out. Whether he has sold
bis copper stock yet can not be iearned
but at the present market price he is
nearly one million dollars to the good.
James Sheylin is said to have bought
from 5000 to 10000 shares, former SEN
ator John McCarty like amount and
former Representative Clancy and for.
mer Superintendent OF Police Patrick
Cambell about 1000 shares esch. All
these men are thought to have sold out
at about lol, at the profits ranging up to
$500 GOO each, but whether Mr.. Nc.
Langhlin held on until high water mark
was reached is not known.
Oscar Tscherky, who runs the restau.
rant department Of the Waldorf Astoria,
and whom the patrons call Oscar, and
the walters Mr.. Oscar, Is credited with
cleaning mp small fortune in day.
As for Dsear, who has long been regard.
cd as q man OF means, and whose PEN
chant for speculation 10 an interesting
theme for the walters whose chief he is,
this is what prominent stock trader
Who is also a Waldorf-Astoria habitue,
said yesterday of what he made in one
day:
Oscar must have cleaned up $40, 900
or $4,000 in Atehison common" said
he. "The night before it had that To-
point rise-you know have been bull
on Atchison-I was talking TO him about
it, and he told me he was going to buy
5000 shares in the morning. The next
day he told me he had bought it. un-
derstood that he got IL around ~ or rs,
and cleaned up good or 10 points in
the stock"
Charles Strong Guthrie, who lie TO re-
sign the presidency OF the American
Steel Hoop company is credited with
having cleaned up sl50,000, having
ing bought Atchison around 70 to the
tune Of 10000 shares and sold it at
about SS.
One Of the big winners in the post
election market about whom the public
knows little, is quiet San Francisco
man, George Whittell, now staying at
the Waldorf He has been a
bull since last October and has bought
some standard stocks not traded in on
the exchange, which has marveiously
appreciated in value, as well as taking q
"fiyer" at noted speculative issues. He
was wealthy before he began, and an ac-
quaintance OF his said positively yester.
day that Mr.. Whitte:l's fortune had
been swelled by 5000. 900 since election
| IL know it, for he made it under my
!, very nose" said this man, who is more
or less OF public man and widely
known trader. "He made it in Nationa
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City Bank, Standard Oil, Atchison and
Union Pacific principally" 1t is quite
possible, however, that the sum OF Mr.
| Whittell's winnings have beens exagge-
rated.
1 The clique OF western men identified