The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-04-27
THE MONEY CZARS OF WALL
STREET.
More Luxurious than Babylonian
Kings.

Broadway, New York, claims her
share of spend-thrifts- pleasure
seekers. gamblers and rich men who
come from all parts of the world
TO win their spurs on the Great
White Way; but Wall street holds
the palm of big spending. gambling
and pleaSure-seeking over any dis
trict Of any city in the world.
London with all her immensity has
nothing like this wealth show; Paris
with the everlasting whirl of pleas
ure, where IL is estimated that
Americans alone spend SIS, 100000
annually, cannot display the luxur-
tousness of the Wall street men,
and the stakes at Monte Carlo re-
semble white chips to the golden
chances taken in the narrow street
with its edifice of worship at one
end and the great river at the other.
1t costs nearly 100000 daily to
feed Wall street, and some of the
largest banks and brokerage houses
maintain their own kitchens at tre-
mendous cost, where the clerks eat
the best in season and the directors
the richest the land affords out of
season. Some of the best chefs In
New York are paid enormous salar-
les to ponder at the lasts of these
Wall street epicures. Many of the
offices are stocked with wines or
rarest vintage and wine merchants
make most of their profits selling
their best wares to Wall street
brokers.
Office furnishings truly surpass
those of the palatial homes uptown
and often the palaces of Europe. 1t
should be remembered that just be-
fore A. o. Brown failed the eXpend-
ed 100000 on the appointments and
furnishings of n couple of large Of
siCe rooms. The wood carving in
some cases surpasses the best seen
anywhere else. Walk into the large
banking firms offices and note the
cich marble interior work, the mag
aificent carved desks, the gold and
silver desk appointments.
Recently well-known partner Of
an old brokerage house entered Il
famous art dealers office on Fifth
avenue and ordered 100000 worth
OF tapestries which he had had his
eye on, to be sent to his Wall street
offices, where they now hang. Hen
cy Clews is partial to artists mas
terpieces and his offices resemble a
first-class gallery.
Perhaps there is nowhere in the
world where gambling for enorm-
Gus stakes is done with so much
iaNiu III " al SbitCN, anu
when the market is closed gambling
TN cards and other games goes on i'll
the offices of many of the big
firms, where table stakes at poker
are the usual limit and checks writ
ten to five figures often exchanged
at the end of n couple of hours
play.
The firm of Charles G. Gates &
Co. before it dissolved was un-
doubtedly one of the greatest gamb-
ling centres of Wall street. One
could walk in there and Charlie"
would bet anywhere from $5 to
$4,000 on the next quotation fig
+;t4-s as the tiekei: worked on The
Western clique which followed the
master leadership of John w. Gates
who worsted several OF the greatest
banking houses in Wall street and
even dictated terms to J. p Morgan
I'm the Louisville & Nashville corner,
would take chance at anything he
suggested from buying control of
railroads, cornering stocks or wheat,
although in his attempt at the sta
pie Il is believed that John w. and
his paladins of finance dropped
cool 100000 between them,
tion of the partnership.
Go into the ordinary customers
room of the average brokerage firm
and you will see nothing unusual,
but IL you develop into a big GUS
toner you will be invited to come
into one of those mysterious little
back offices laid with the finest
rugs, where magnificent paintings
adorE the the wall and attendants
await to fulfill your slightest desire.
Aiaddin's genii. Here you will prob |
IDLY be introduced 10 a rich South I
IN planter who has come up North |!
For : little gambling in the market, !
Or YOU, surely will meet sooner or
later bejewelled Broadway favorites. /.
both male, and female, who have |
ernor's of States. Captains of In
dustry, even rich clerics are to be |
found in these little rooms gaming |.
with golden chips. One house /
alone carries accounts OF opera sing F!
eTs valued at S1,0O0,00O, and the /,
manager states they are not only
poor losers, but invariably get clean
ed out.
Everything that goes to make life
one luxurious dream is to hand for
Wall Streeties, and they don't have
to leave their offices to get what
they want. The telephone or mes
trom a barber to the rarest feast
which a Lucullus could wish for
Jewellers do an enormous trade;
their agents are all over the street,
and the finest gems brought into
this country are first shown to the
money kings between 10 a. IN. aud
: p. m.
Things are done so quietly. so
mysteriously that only the initiated
ever get glimpse of the Oriental
splendor surrounded by which are
the elect. Let none be carried away
with the idea that at o'clock,
when the limousines wends its way
from the Street. that the men are
leaving hard strain of business Off
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