Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-28
SYNOPSIS.

Chapter bob Brownley creates
manic in wall street. He is friend o
Jim Randolph Of Randolph & Ran
dolph, bankers and brokers. Brownie!
and Randolph had gone to college TO-
gether and entered the employ or Ran
dolph's father at the close OF colleg'
DAYS. Brownley Is Virginian b!
birth. Beulah Sands, daughter OF al
old Virginia house, calls on BroWnle1
and tells him her father has beer
practically ruined by the stock oper'
ations Of Reinhart. She hopes TO utli-
iZe her own money in Wall street III
retrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known, anc
asks tur employment in the office tina,
she may have an opportunity to better
understand how her money Is invest
ed. She does not want 1t used In 8
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 li-Brownley plunges IN
sugar stock. He uses the money o1
Miss Sands, his own and in addition
is backed heavily by the Randolph
millions. His coup seems SUCCESSFUL
and he tells Miss Sands that she mas
cleared $1,S00,000. But the market
had not closed.
Chapter III-Barry Conant, head
broker for Standard Oil and sugar IN
terests, suddenly begins to sell sugar.
In the midst Of panic he breaks tne
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 a trip to Vir-
ginia-
Chapter IV-Beulah Sands and Bob
become engaged. Randolph wants to
loan her father the money to meet his
obligations. She refuses. BOD ngures
on how to beat Wall street at Its own
game. Sugar takes another sensation
al squirt upward, but Brownley keeps
out.
to record breaking point and the
street goes wild. Barry Conant, for
the system" pushes priceg up and up,
and a wonderful cleanup Is promised
when the exchange closes, Thursday
November II. Sugar opens higher
Friday morning, November IL. When
the price he'd passed all bounds
Brownley steps into the pit and be-
gins to sell. He sells every share 'ths s
systems" 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 Boulah Sands
and her father
Chapter VI-Beulah Sands insists
upon being assured that there Is nc
dishonor connected with the money ne
has made for her, and he cannot hon
estly answer no" He leaves her to
think 1t 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.
Chapter 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 to New
York and builds a palace for his bride
one floor of which Is designed espe-
cially for her. He begins plunging 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 VIII-Brownley proposes tC
breaw Wall street. In the midst or a
panic he has created Randolph threat
ems to commit suicide If he does not
stop. He stops, but assures his
friend that it is the last time he vii
stop, that the next time he will COM
plete he job when he begins l.