The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-26

,-OR many years Daniel Dittenhoener had desired
the ruin of John +. Greener. dutch DAN as
the street called Dittenhoene. was buriy
man with blonde hair. a red noise and loud voice
Greener was "a s8llow swarthy bit Of a man, with
black hair and sQueaEy voice He had furtNe brown
eyes and a. high forehead, while Dittenhoefer had
frank blue eyes and the pugnacous chin and thick
neck of prize fighter Both were members of the
New York stock exchange. but Greener never was
Seen on the "n00r" after one of his victims lifted
him bodily by the collar and dropped him fifteen feet
into coal cellar ou Exchange place lie would plan
mary 90 their absorption just ass "a boa constructor
brushes s victim iuto pulp the more easily 20 swa-
low H. But the practice. unchecked for years had
made him nervous and soul-hdgety.
Dan spent hIs days from I'D 90 9, on The stock exc
change and hs nights from I'D 10 8. at the roulette
upies or before faro layout ie7lesa as the quiF-
ering sea and suffering from chronic insomnia he
had pcrtorce 90 satisfy his constitutional craving for
powerful stlmuIauts: but as me hated delirium
tremens, he gave himself ceaseessy big doses of the
as the best whisky lie would buy or sell ogOll SHARES
of stock and he would bet $4,000 on the turn of
a card. ON one occasion DE offered 10 wager Tor
tune mat ne could guess Whlch oil Two es lh"I Hao
Dit on "a table would be- the first Co hy away.
Grcener found Boo The stock exchange the means 10
a desired end. Despite innumerabie bits OF STOCK
jobbns. he had exalted opinion. i'm his heart of
hearts of stock operations But Duenhoener thought
the stock market the court of last resort whittier
nnanciers should 60 when they In the right. 10
get their deserts, and when they In the wrong
overcome their deserts by the brute force of dol
Iars nd was natural that i'm their operations I'm the
market the two men should be- dissimilar as they
in their physical and temperamental character
isucs-AIachlavellj and Richard Occur de Lion
Nobody knew exactly how the eumity between
Graener and DIttenhoeder began. The Little Napo-
leon of Railroading' had felt toward Dutch Dan
certain passive hostility for Interference with sundry
stock market deals But Dan hated Greener rady.
probably for the same reason that hawk hates
snake-the instructive anupathy Of the utterly dis
similar
scores OF men had tried TO ~hustr Greener. but
Greener had grown richer by their efforts the growth
of his fortune being prOpOrtOnate 90 the contraction
of theirs. sam sharpe had come from Arizona with
fl-Vg'ooo- a'oWruiy to snow lHe eIle1e e,at Mo" 20
crush financial skunks of the Greenes class And
the financial skunk learned lesson. though
the privilege or imagining ne was siNlns one cost
Then. after Sharpe had learned more of the game
ana OF Greener-he joined hands with Dittenhoeler
and together they attacked Greener
without unanclal Tear, And they loatAed Greener. In
a more gorgeous age they would have cut the Lit
lie Napoleon Co pieces and passed his roasted heart
ON platter around the festive board I'm the color
less nineteenth century they were fain to content
themselves with endeaVorlng 90 despoH him of his
tcar-stIined millions. 90 do which they united their
. smile wreathed miIious-some seven or eight of
thgm-aud Oneued fire.
Their combined fortune was divided into ten pro-
Jectiles and one after another hurled ar the little
man with tne squeaky voice and the high forehead.
The little man lodged the hrst and the second and
the third the fourth his Leg and the nth
knocked the wind uut of him. The street cheered and
showed Us confidence boz the artilersts by soing short
But just before the sixth shot Greener called TO
his assistance old Wilbur Wise. the man with the
sSin-fnty heart and thirty millions i'm cash. A pro-
tectng rampant man-high. of government bonds was
raised about the PROSTATE Napoleon, and the dnan-
new forthcauons were mpregnablc and they knew
30; $50 they coutented themselves with gathering up
their own shot aad a small railroad two dropped
hy Greener u his haste 20 seek shelter Then sharpe
went TO England to win the Derby and DlttehhOeffer
went TO- Long Branch t0 amuse himself playing a no.
limit faro game that cost him on average $4,000
"a night for % month.
There a period of peace in Wall street follow
ing the last encounter between ne diminuuye Ma
poleon and dutch Dan" But after "a few months
the fight was resumed. Greeuer DESTROYS of
"hullng' his stocks generally and his pet Federal
Telegraph company particularly. Just TO show there
was no need tO hurry tine "bu' or upward movement.
Dan sold the stock short time Csreener tried
Co advance the price. -Four times did Creener try.
and four times Dittenhoeuer sold him "a thousand
shares-just enough t1 check the advance. Up To a
certain LuInL manIuuIaLur Of STOCKS is su.cessful