Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-23

/ Europe with Beulah. A great Ger
man expert on brain disorders haC
held out hope that a six months treat
ment at his sanitarium in Berlir
Knight aid in restoring her mind. They
returned the following August The
"trip had been fruitless. 1t was plair
Ito me that Bob was the same hope
lessly desperate man as when he left
more hopeless, more desperate if any
thing than when he warned me of his
determination.
When he left for Europe "the
Street breathed more freely, and as
time went by and there was no sign
OF his confidence-disturbin influence
in the market, the System" began
10 bring out its deferred deals. Times
were ripe for setting up the most
Wildly inflated stock Misunderstanding
traps. 1t had been advertised through
out the world that Tom Reinhart, now
a two-hundred-time millionaire, was to
CONSOLIDATE his and many other enter
prises into one gigantic trust with
twelve billions Of capital His Union
and Southern Pacific railroads, his
Southern lines, together with his
steamship company and lead, iron,
and copper mines, were to be merged
with the steel, traction, gas, and other
enterprises he owned jointly with
I"Standard OIL" Some of the railroads
owned by Rockefeller and his pals, in
which Reinhart had no part, were to
go in too, and with these was to unite
that mother hog of them all, STAND
ard OH itself The trust was to be
an enormous company, the like of
which had until then not even been
dreamed of by the most daring stock
manipulators. The Systems" banks,
as well as trust and insurance com
panies throughout the country, had
for a long time been getting into
shape by concentrating the money of
the country for this monster trust
1t was newspaper and news bureau
gossip that Reinhart and his crowd
had bought millions of shares of the
different stocks involved in the deal,
and it was common knowledge that
upon its successful completion Rein
hart's fortune would be in the neigh
borhood of a billion. On October LIST
the certificate of the Anti-People's
Trust, $12,OOO,OOOO 900 capital, 100000
BOO shares, we're listed upon the New
York, London, and Boston Stock Elk
changes, and the German and French
Bourses, and trading in them started
off fast and furious at LOG. The claim
hat one billion of the twelve billions
capital had been set aside to be used
IN protecting and manipulating the
stock in the market, had been so wide
" advertised that even the most dar-
ng plunger did not think of selling it
short.
It was evident to all in the stock
gambling world that this was to be
he Systems" grand coup, that at
is completion the masses would be
-udely awakened to a realization that
heir savings were invested in the
combined American industries at vast
y inflated values, that the few had
all the real money, and that any at
tempt upon the peoples part to regu-
late and control the new system Of
would be fraught with I'M
paralleled disaster--not to the "Sys-
tenn" but to the people
Since Bob's return from Europe l
had seen him bat a few times. Up
to October LIST he had not been near
the Stock Exchange or the Street"
Shortly after the listing of the "Peo.
pie Be Damned" as the Street" had
dubbed the new trust, he began to
show up at his Office regularly. This
was the condition of affairs when
Fred BROMLEY called me up on the
telephone, as / related at the begin
ming Of my story which did not real
ize had been SO long in telling. /
My thoughts had been chasing each
other with lightning-like rapidity back
over the last five years and the Is be-
fore them, and each thought deepened
the black mist over my present men
tai vision In the midst of my re-
hections my telephone rang again.
Mr., Randolph, for Heavens sake
have you done nothing YETI" It was
Fred Brownley's voice. Things are
frightful here, Ec5's brokers' are sell
ing stocks at FIVE and ten thousand
lot clips. 70 y Conant is leading
Remnants forces 1t is said he has
the pools protection order in Anti.
Peoples and tlst it is unlimited. but
Bob has t-e Te.rtcct crowd pretty
badly scared swa1 has Just finished
giving Cc"alt hundred thousand off
the reel in 10000 lots, and he told
me moment age he was going to
get FEB himself TO fcco Barry Conant
They're down 20 points on the aver.
age, although they haven't let Anti.
Peoples break an eighth yet. They
have It pegged at 106, but there is an
ugly rumor just in that Bob, under
cover Of a general attack, is unloading
Anti Peoples on to the Reinhart wing
for Rogers and Rockefeller, and the
rumor Is getting in its work. Even
Barry Conant is growing a bit anx,
ious. The latest talk is that Reinhart
is borrowing hundreds Of millions on