The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1911-05-18

In the United Statesp'
That night there was much quiet
selling Of stock and the Atlantic ca
BILE was busy with selling orders for
| the London Exchange There had been
eight of the mighty kings Of finance at
that dinner either in person or by
their near representatives
Rollins had walked away with Kel-
vim
"This is n marvellous thing you have
been telling u.s." said he. but an In
cendiary thing too. The strange part
is that II should have remained for
you alone to discover II and profit by
It. How did you find 1t outT'
well. with about 10000 distributing
agents each one instructed TO remit In
currency only. II would be very strange
II there were not leak. Doubtless a
host OF people other than myself know
| of IL. but the individual amounts were
so small that no one paid any atten
| ton"
That's precisely IT," insisted Rollins.
ut remained for you to appreciate
| and take advantage Of the enormous
possibilities Of the thing. to understand
/ its magnitude in the aggregate. You
/ are great man, Mr. Kelvin. You
/ have been selling all the time. haven't
| youT
Every morning." admitted Phillip.
smiling.
"You must have an enormous ac
count by This time"
CLOSE to 100000 shares" onfessed
Phillip
"And you held. back your explana.
tiou Of all this until you had acquired
all you wanted2 | thought so Well.
! it's an III wind that blows nobody any
good want some railroad shares.
suppose you realize what a calamity
you are going to bring on the coun-
try?"
81 think | do" And Phillips jaws
closed with snap
Rollins looked at him in slightly dis
approving speculation.
Cad" he said. Some of the big
men here have been pirates. but you
will he the most ruthless wrecker who
ever got into Wall street"
No" returned Phillip. with curious
Imile "You have read me wrong.
an not pirate am reformer"
II see" concluded Rolins-"in the
same manner that the inquisition re-
formed the heretics."
II decline to be interviewed" declar.
ed Phillip Are you going uptown
! At the Esplanade Kelvin found Rens.
selaer you are the only chap on my
! list who knows n lot OF the newspaper
crowd have an item for them. and
| don't want to give It out myself"
He told Rensselaer, what had trans
pired at the dinner Rensselaer, clap.
ped him on the back and laughed loud
and long
The newspapers will eat that story
he declared Its wonderful thing.
Great Scott. man, how many shares
are you shortr
About 7OOOOO"
Then every point drop means $700,
900 to you This will send the line
down thirty points Let me figure a
minute Why that's S2l.OOO.OO0p'
ii figure on a little bit more than
that" returned Kelvin dryly. But
don't let that distress you any, Bert"
You might have given a fellow u
tip" complained Rensselaer,
How much money have your"
"A little over $1,000 Of my own" re.
piled Rensselaer,. but can get hold
of $4,000 more"
"Do you know any way that you can
place your S12,OO0 on the London mar.
ket In the morning.
81 think | can Me for itv said
Rensselaer,, jumping up Watch me
make the sidewalk smoke" AT the
door. however. he paused. "And just
to think" he said. that all this glii
tering opportunity comes about
through old Henry Breed Why. !
have an aunt out at Forest Lakes. a
guest Of Breeds. she calls herself. but
she's a guest for pay and is sort of
bear leader for the fair Lillian. She
would be above taking money for
coaching Lillian and afterward in
ducting her into society. but she's not
pbove letting Breed handle her invest.
inents' of a paltry $4,000 on a guar.
,nteed return of 100 per cent"
If you want to get those selling or
ders away you had better hurry" sug
gested Kelvin. looking at his watch.
~ have an idea that the cables will
be loaded with just such messages be
fore morning"
Shortly after midnight Kelvin was
awakened by the ringing Of his tele-
phone bell. and from then on until
morning he was kept busy answering
calls from the various newspaper OF
fees. He gave them all the informa
ton he could They besleged him for
news. for photographs, for the story of
his life, and in the morning. having
given out all the information he had
at hand. he was compelled to 60 to
another hotel incognlto to escape the
reporters. he had brought to him all
the morning papers and read with
smiles the mass of naive exaggera-
tions. He was the shrewdest man
that had ever come into Wall street
He was combination of all the great
financiers In America. from Vanderbilt