The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-01-15

This millionaire 10 most skillful In the
diagnosis. II one company Is sics or
disabled. NJ. Gripperman Is called
Like the physician, he feels the pulse
and gives the financial physic. In one
week. or two weeks-presto,-that
company Is again On his legs. feeling
like the colt. Often that stimulation
Is so powerful hat the company runs
away. II cannot restrain the exuber-
ance!
NJ. Gripperman Is busy always with
!old companies which needs stimulants.
and with the infant new companies.
These patients are frail also. Yet n.
Gripperman has always the life-saying
apparatus at hand.
With kindness NJ. Gripperman In
vited me to remain In his office dur
ing one meeting OF those dit ectors.
Perhaps. tomorrow. | shall be one Of
those directors, NJ. Gripperman did
not say so much. but l have suspicion
OF good luck. AS those m~illionaires APP
peared l was introduced to them. All
greeted me with the politeness. One
millionaire said: "Ah. NJ. Clam | see
by that newspaper today that you have
closed the deal for Boa Constructor.
You. then. are the partner of NM.
lRothschilds? Those R~othschilds are
my dear friends Of childhood"
| said: M. Gates does honor me
too much. know nothing of NM
Rothschild. IL is the American joke"
The reply: "Ha. ha! Il right. NJ.
Clam If YOU wish 10 remain %incognito.
very Welt"
Diable! What could | do?
Immediately NJ. Gripperman did call
those directors To order. He said:
Are all ready? Very we'll. FRS. .e
are directors of Subterranean Limited.
Moved and seconded capital stock be
increased one hundred millions and
divided among us. Carried. Meeting
adjourned. Next, Aerial T~ransporta-
ton Corporation. Secretary reports all
rivals squeezed to the death. Adjiurn-
led. Next concessions from MeXiso and
Brazil worth one hundred millions se-
cured ON outlay of $500 for those sur
veys. Plan for absorption of Fennsyl-
cania and New York Central working
we'll. Adjourned. Next, K~nickerbocker
Nutmeg Co shall charter be enlarged 10
deal in the insurance, hides. sugar.
telephones, silk goods. and the barbed
wire? Carried. Adjourned. Next,
Mastodon Trust company. Stock OF
iAerlal Transportation exchanged for
standard Oil, share for share. Washing
ton legislative fund running low, Al
Ibany FUND exhausted. Moved and sec
onded that assessment be made on COL
lateral companies To %replenish funds.
Carried. Adjourned. Next, American
Toothpick company. Shall all forests
in British Columbia be purchased in
exchange for stock? Yes, II owners Of
forests will raise fund sufficient TO
build and equip plant for working
timber. Adjourned. Next"
Here n millionaire said: 1T is the
busy day. Excuse me. You, NJ. Grip
perman, shall vote for me-"
One other said: II, too. have bust
ness. Vote for me, NJ. Gripperman."
Soon NJ. Gripperman was alone with
me. He said: Now you see, my dear
Clam, the cares of us rich. All, IL is
the cruel world! Those people are I'M
grateful. Yet who will carry their bur-
den II those captains OF industry fail?
Let me see-the next, SocOboba Copper
company. Shall that capital stock ne
increased, or is II too soon since that
idSN lllnc. All III FAVOR OF increase
say Yes, Unanimous. Adjourned.
Meeting Of directors Of Artificial Bread
company, Farmers Insurance COM
pany, TenderfoOt Oil company, Pea
cock Copper. Consolidated company,
Sahara C~ondensing company, Death
Valley Refrigator company. Universal
Havana Tunnel company. Universai
Holding Corporation, Arizona Sky
scrper syndicate, Nebraska Corncob
and Breakfast Food Consolidated, and
all other companies. corporations. and
.syndicates postponed until tomorrow"
Mon Dieui 1t was with astonish-
ment that 1 saw such negotiation, such
commercial bigness! Almost the whole
world was before me. Sahara. Havana,
Alaska, Brazil, Spitzbergen, Nebraskal
All! this WAS the grand business! To-
morrow I. too. shall be one OF those
m~illionaires, With ecstasy I pinch.
Yes, yes, I am not asleep, II is true!
L look at those shares. Yes, ( am not
dreaming! Ten thousand of shares OF
Boa Constructor. Ciel, I am rich, I
n! Almost I cannot wait until
tomorrow.
Shall | become m citizen American
or remain a Frenchman? That is the
question. CLAM.
Copyright, 1907, by s. s. Cline.)