Monroe City Democrat., 1907-08-29
SYNOPSIS.

dolph had gone to college together and
entered the employ OF Randolphs father
at the close of college days. Brownlsy
n Virginian by birth. Beulah Sands,
daughter of an old Virginia house, calls
en- Brownley and tells him her father
has been practically ruined by the stock
operations of Reinhsrt She hopes to
utilize her own money IN Wall street In
,fetrieving her fathers fortunes before
his condition becomes known, and asks
Ser employment in the office that she may
have An opportunity to better understand
how her money IL invested. She does not
want II used in a purely Wall street
gamble, but in the buying and selling of
legitimate securities. BTownley agrees to
help her, and falls in fovS with her.
CHAPTER IT-Brownlsy plunEes in
fsugar stock. He useS the money of 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 has cleared 81, SOC, 900. But
I the market had not closed.
Il CHAPTER 1IG-Barfy Conant, head
! broker for Standard on and sugar in
terests, suddenly begins to sell sugar"
In the midst of a panic he breaks the
market and with Its fan carries away
the earnings and much OF the capital OF
Doth Miss Sands ana himself. A pretty
1ove scene occurs between the two at the
sofico when Bob attempts TO tell her the
terrible truth ofttheiY fall. BrownlSy
takes . trip to Virginia-
CHAPTER IV-Beutah ana Bob become
IenGaGed. Randolph wants to loan her
father the money to meet his obligations.
ehs FefusSR. Bob figures on how to beak
Wall street st fits own game. sugao takes
tanotheT sensational spEIrt inward, but
'BrOSrniey keeps out
CHAPTER V-The ,'buIls" toss sugar
ITO record breaking point. and the street
gees wild Barry CoEIAnt, for the "sys-
teHn," pushes prices up and up, and q
wonderful cleanup Is promised when the
seUchange closes. Thursday, November II.
Sugar opens higher Friday morning. No
V'eEnber H. When Ghe price had passed
All bounds Brownley steps into the pit and
begins to sell. He seIls every share 'the
System's" brokers win take, and pounds
ahs pricO down and down until failures
are OF momentary occurrence, and the
FyGtem" has lost millions. He has made
~N31licns for Beulah Sands and her father.
That night he married Beulah
Sands. The minister who united the
grown-up man and the woman who
was as newborn babe saw nothing
extraordinary in the match. He
murmured to me, who acted as best
man to the groom, maid of honor to
the bride, and father and mother to
both I'VE see strange sights, we
ministers of the great city, Mr.. Ran
dolph. The sweet little lady appears
to be 4 trihe scared" My explana-
ton that she and Mr.. Brownley were
the awful survivors of the awful
tragedies of the day was sufficient.
He was satisfied when he got no other
response to his question: DO you
take this man to be your welded hus-
band?" than a sweet childish smile
as she snuggled closer to Bob.
Bob and his bride went south to
his mother and sisters the next day.
He left to me the settlement Of his
trades. He instructed me to set
aside 100000 profits for Beulah
Sands-Brownley, and insisted that /
pay from the balance the notes he had
given me few weeks before. There
remained something over $5,OeO,OOO
for himself.
The leading Wall street paper, in
its preaching on the panic, wound up
With:
wall street has lived through many
black Fridays. Some of them have been
thirteenth of the-month Fridays but no
Friday yet marked from the calendar, no
Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
or Thursday yet garnered to the store
house Of the past was ever more Jubilant-
ly welcomed by HIS Satanic Majesty than
yesterday. We pray Heaven no com
ing day may be ordained to go against
yesterdays record for tigorish cruelty and
awful destruction. 1t is rumored that
AR. Brownley OF Randolph & Randolph.
either for himself or his clients cleared
81, ,oOo. 900 OF profit. We believe that this
estimate is low. The losses coming
through Robert BrownIey's terrible on
BlGuEht must have run over $500 ,OOo,Oo
Wall street and the country VIII do well
to take the moral Of yesterdays market
to their heart. 1t IL this: The concen-
tration OF wealth in the hands Of few
Americans IL q menace 10 our financial
structure. II is the unanimous opinion
.Uf the Street that Robert Brownley could
never have succeeded In battsrinG down
the Price Of sugar IN the very teeth OF
thO Camsmsyer ana Standard OIL support
aS he &id yesterday, without q cash back
InE Of frsm 1Eo. ~ 80 20 Sf0s ooe, Ooa. If a
vast ARRraERtion OF mohey owners delib-
erateiy place themselves behind an on
.plaliRht such - was 50 successfully made
yestsraAy, why can that BlauEhter net be
Tspested at any time. On any stock, ana
against the support OF enS becHnS
when I read this and listened 70
talk alonS the same lines, was puz5
,EIeG. 1 could not for the life Of me
see whore Bob BroRnNay could have
got Eve To ton RiilionT backing fer
Such a raid, nHoh less nfty to hun
H.aa Yat Nvaa SNrcad "a fonfeRR