Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-04
SYNOPSIS.

Chapter Bob Brownley creates q
panic in Wall street. He Is friend OF
Jim Randolph Of Randolph & Ran
dolph, bankers and brokers. Brownley
and Randolph had gone to college to-
gether and entered the employ OF Ran
dolph's father at the close Of college
days. Brownley is Virginian by
birth. Beulah Sands, daughter OF an
old Virginia house, calls on Brownley
and tells him her father has been
practically ruined by the stock oper-
ations Of Reinhart. She hopes to util-
ize her own money in Wall street In
retrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known, and
asks for employment in the office that
she may have an opportunity to better
understand how her money Is invest
ed. She does not want 1t used In
purely Wall street gamble, but in the
buying and selling Of legitimate Sc
curities. Brownley agrees to help her,
and falls in love with her.
Chapter ll-Brownley plunges In
sugar stock He uses the money OF
Miss Sands, his own and in addition
is backed heavily by the Randolph
and he tells Miss Sands that she has
cleared s1.S00,000. But the market
had not closed.
Chapter IIl-Barry Conant, head
broker for Standard Oil and sugar in
terests, suddenly begins to sell sugar.
In the midst Of panic he breaks the
market and with its fall carries away
the earnings and much Of the capital
Of both Miss Sands and himself. A
pretty love scene occurs between the
two at the Office when Bob attempts
to tell her the terrible truth Of their
fall Brownley takes trip to Vir-
ginia.
CHAPTER lv-Beulah Sands and Bob
become engaged. Randolph wants to
loan her father the money to meet his
obligations. She refuses. Bob figures
on how to beat Wall street at Its own
game. Sugar takes another sensation
al squirt upward, but Brownley keeps
out.
Chapter V.-The "bulls" toss sugar
to record breaking point, and the
"street" goes wild. Barry Conant, for
the system" pushes prices up and up,
and a wonderful cleanup is promised
when the exchange closes, Thursday,
November IL. Sugar opens higher
Friday morning, November 13. When
the price had passed all bounds
Brownley steps into the pit and be-
gins to SELL He sells every share the
system's'' brokers will take, and
pounds the price down and down until
failures are Of momentary occurrence,
and "the system has lost millions. He
has made millions for Beulah SANDS
and her father.
Chapter VI-Beulah Sands insists
upon being assured that there Is no
dishonor connected with the money he
has made for her, and he cannot hon.
estly answer mo-" He leaves her to
think II out. When he returns he
finds her staring at the glaring head
lines Of a newspaper extra announcing
that her father, while temporarily in
sane, had killed his wife, his daughter
and himself, and Beulah Sands had
gone crazy.
Chaoter VlI-Bob Brownley marries
beautiful. insane Beulah Sands, and
takes her to Virginia. The sight OF
the old home does not restore her rea-
son, and he returns with her 20 New
York and builds q palace for his BRIDE
one floor Of which Is designed espe-
cially for her He begins plInging on
the street" and adds millions to his
now great fortune. He always opposes
the System" His every appearance
on the floor Of the exchange means
panicky conditions. Time after time
he has "the street" seemingly at his
mercy, but relents before the great
crash comes.
Chapter vllI-Brownley proposes to
breaw Wall street. In the midst OF
panic he has created Randolph threat
ems to commit suicide If he does not
stop. He stops. but assures his
friend that 1t is the last time he Will
stop, that the next time he will COM
plete the Job when he begins 1t.
Rrownley bears" Anti-Peoples' Trust
stock. He pounds "the systems
prices down, down, down.
Chapter lx-When the whole street
is on the verge of a crash he desists
and tells them a few plain truths, and
how a panic can be created by almost
any one with nerve.