The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26

paigns, not all of them successfully. He was well trimmed in Leather few years ago, when he undertook to run corner in that stock He put the price up to 34 for common, at which figure large quan- titles were unloaded on him, and he was obliged to let the market down to 10 and under.
 He hung on. however, and figured in the subsequent reorganization, and, in connection with his friend, J. Ogden Ar mour, is said to control the property. A feature of the junior Rookefellers Wall street campaign in Shelters is the olreu- latlon of q flood of bull tips. Thus far the dope has been good, but the specu- lators who act on 1t are willy and him. ble-footed set. They will run at mo- ment's notice. Help from thlt quarter is dangerous. Too much company of that particular description Is making young MT. Rockefeller very nervous.
 Persons in the confidence of 2s Broad way had the tip on that Chicago decision nearly a week before 1t was handed down. This Is another Illustration of the fact that Wall street Is always able to get advance information on important court decisions whenever 1t wants to
 It has always been able to tap Wash ington supreme court decisions and seems to have had no trouble whatever in reaching the fountain sources at Chicago Indeed some very ill-natured enemies of Standard oil sneeringly intimate that the decision might as well have been written at 26 Broadway, and that 1t reads like a brief prepared by Standard oil attorneys all of which amounts to nothing
 
 The advance of nearly 30 points in Westinghouse in three days supplied ex- citement to the put and call crowd on New street. Some good ''kilings' were made by the votaries of 'privilege'' spec- ulation And there were also some very narrow escapes. J. Arthur Joseph, the financial writer, is kicking himself over failing to get call on 100 shares offered him at 611s cents for $20
 He had made up his 5n1nd to take tho call, but turned his head a moment to answer a question: and before he could get his money out another man had grab bed the paper" The next day the mar ket jumped F points and the day follow ing IS points mors, which would have netted g., 800. The joke in this particular case is that the buyer of the call referred to was satisfied to take a half point on his 100 shares, getting back his invest ment and $30. He, too, is kicking himself over having lost a golden chance to win a prize in the lottery
 Once more the blOTy pl Il between Hartman and George J. Gould was trotted out, and as usual it met with prompt denial all along the line. The only way there can be entire harmony be- tween Hartman. and Gould is when liar. riman swallows and assImilates the oth- er That is the only kind of reconcilia- ton MT. Hartman knows anything about.
 Wall street does not take seriously re- ports from the west of the Alleghenies that MT. Bryan is goin to get large re> publican vote alleged to have been "Bry- anized' by MT. Roosevelt a vote whicn refuses to be turned over to MT. Taft. The Wall street politicians are perfectly well assured that MT Taft will get the full republican vote, and any one who thinks differently is practicing self-decep- ton. Upon one point, however, these politicians are in doubt, and that is the possible effect on the radicals of the Grosscup decision reversing the Standard oil $29O ,000 fine. They confess to a se- cret fear that the decision may be a boomerang.