Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-12

TO know that the kind Of industry and
business intelligence you have shown
here would have won you recognition
in any banking house on the street
want you both in the firm-Jim to
learn his way round so he can step
into my shoes; you, Bob, to take one
Of the firms seats on the. stock ex-
change"
Bob's face went red and then pale
with happiness as he reached for my
fathers hand.
I'm very grateful to you, sir, far
more so than words can say, but l
want to talk this proposition Of yours
over with Jim here first. He knows
me better than anyone else in the
world, and I've some ideas I'd like to
thrash out with him."
Speak up here, Bob" said my
father.
well. sir, l should feel much better
II | could go over there into the swirl
and smash it out for myself You see
IL / could win out alone and pay back
the seat price, and then make a pile
for myself, if you felt later like giving
me another chance to come into the
firm, then l should not be laying my
self open to the charge Of being a
mere pensioner on your friendship
You know what 1 mean. sir, and won't
think l am filled with any low down
pride, but if you will let me have the
price Of a stock exchange seat on my
note, and will give me the chance,
when l get the hang of the ropes, to
handle some Of the firms orders, /
shall be just as much beholden to you
and Jim, sir, and shall feel a lot bet
ter myself"
I knew what Bob meant so did
father and we were glad enough to do
what he asked, father insisting on
making the seat price in the form Of
present, after explaining to us that
foundation stock exchange rule pro-
hibited an applicant from borrowing
the seat price. Four years after Bob
Brownley entered the stock exchange
he had paid back the forty thousand,
with interest, and not only had a snug
fifty thousand to his credit on Ran
iolph e. Randolph's book, but was
sending home six thousand a year
while living up to. as he jokingly put
it, IAN honest mans notch" I may
| say in passing, that Wall street
mans notch would make twice six
thousand yearly earnings cast an un-
certain shadow at Christmas time,
Bob was the favOrite Of the exchange,
as he had been the pet at school and
at college. and had his hands full of
business 300 days in the year. Besides
Randolph & Randolph's choicest COM
missions, he had the confidential or
ders of two of the heavy plunging
cliques.
l had just passed my thirty second
birthday when my kind old dad sud
denly died. For the previous six years
had been getting ready for such an
: event; that is, had grown accustomed
to hearing my father say: Jim, don't
let any grass grow in getting the hang
Of every branch Of our business, sc
that when anything happens to me
there will be no disturbance in the
street in regard to Randolph G. Ran
dolphs affairs. l want 10 let the world
know as soon as possible that after
am gone our business will run as 1t al
ways has. So will work you into my
directorships in those companies where
we have interests and gradually put
you into my different trusteeships."
Thus at fathers death there was not
a ripple in our affairs and none OF
the stocks known as The Randolph's'
futtered a point because Of that, tc
the financial world, momentous events