The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-11

ioi hic L he answer, was, Do not
understand you Have bought no
Jacket for you took the train that
night and found on arrival that news
OF the discovery of bonanza was out
and Jacket was selling at forty dollars
per snare The brokers disclaimed
the receipt of any letter from me.
believed that they had really received
it and had kept for their own ac-
count the purchases made for me.
The next morning Jacket opened at
eighty dollars per share. The proceeds
of sales of all my other stocks would
not have served to margin more than
hundred shares. and 1 did not invest
at all, but watched Jacket advance ten
dollars at a time, until within a week
it reached two hundred and fifty dol
lars a share. If my letter had been
received and its instructions followed,
would within fifteen days have real
lied over two millions of dollars.
These figures are not conjectural for
those, who like myself were in the Sc
cret, made five times that sum out of
the strike in Yellow Jacket
AAA
Several years afterwards, on my re-
turn from Arizona. I met on Mont
gomery street, the head of the firm
whom L supposed had availed himself
of the secret that the miner eonfided
to me, and so robbed me of fortune.
greeted him cold1y He took me by
the arm, Come with me to my private
office" said he, II have something to
show you" Arrived at his private
office, he pointed to a roller top desk,
which had stood there for years
This morning" said he, 81 threw back
the top of this desk hurriedly and it
carried with it a contract which my
clerk had placed there. In order to
recover the document I had the back
of the desk taken off, and found lying
there this letter addressed in your
handwriting, not to the firm, but to me
individually. The envelope is creased
and dusty, but as you see it has never
been opened, for knew that you were
in town and waited until I should see
you. If it had been addressed to the
firm, your orders would have been car
ried out and you would have been a
millionaire. Being addressed to me, a
clerk probably placed it in the crack of
the desk and 1 not noticing it, must
have opened the desk hurriedly and
thrown it into the receptacle where it
rested until this morning"
There was no more to be said, ex-
cept to express ardent wishes for the
future welfare and happiness of the
inventor of roller top desks.
AAA
! I related this incident to a friend,
who said, Don't you know 1 was in
that Jacket deal? I had a tip from
one of the Nevada Bank crowd and I
ran a thousand dollars up to a hundred
and fifty thousand What did you
do with it?'' said I. ooh, I bought a
raisin vineyard for my wife, down
Fresno way with twelve thousand of
it, and as for the rest''-he hummed
softly from popular tune:
There was a young ass who came
from Jerusalem. festive and gay,
There was an old ass returned to
Jerusalem, foundered and gray"
AAA
A new mining stock board was or
ganized in San Francisco and Lucky
Baldwin" was elected president. A
grand banquet was given at the Pal
ace hotel, to members and invited
guests. I was not on the list of speak
ers, and was at liberty to enjoy the
dinner without being possessed by the
awful apprehension that I would forget
my extemporaneous speech.
The first toast of the evening was
! 1.-The President of the Pacific Stock
Board. and imagine my dismay wher
Mr.. Baldwin responded by saying, 81
am not a speaker and I have arranged
with my friend Fitch to reply for me-
My disclaimers were of no avail and
ra1ucf ntly reSnOnded "sTp SDea king