Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-09
BY JAMES Fl. CANNON, Jr.
Copyright, by Street & Smith.

/ w. Barr-the Dick Turpin
- Of Finance, as scandalized
f1nanciers insisted him to be-the one
of which Barr himself was proud
est was that he ever referred to laugh
ingly as the corner in matrimony:
The street called it the deal in
Suburban Trolley" and ranked it
among the lesser accomplishments OF
the daring western operator. But
Barr who had more intimate knoWl-
edge and juster appreciation of the de-
tails, chung to his corner in matrl-
mony," and placed it first.
Perhaps the fact that he shared the
glory-and the spoils-with two part
ners, one of them the only woman,
young or old, he ever enthused over,
swayed his judgment.
At the beginning Of the winter sea-
son, the stock exchange house of Will
lis, Barr &, Co. had opened a branch
office at Palm Beach for the convent
gnce of it's customers who were Win
tering at the Florida resort. John Mar
shall, whose father had been one OF
Barr's stanchest friends in the old
Chicago days, was transferred from
the New York office, where he had
been placed by Barr after the fathers
death, in straitened circumstances, to
the Palm Beach branch.
John Marshall, who was always
Young John" to Barr in spite of his
six feet of aggressive manhood, had
viewed this ostracism with conflicting
emotions. While he recognized the
opportunity presented, under Bars
keen eye, to prove his ability as man
ager of the Office, a stepping-stone to
higher place, there were personal rea-
sons, which, however, were not entire
ly personal, since he believed them to
be shared by one other, for which he
would gladly have accepted New York,
even as a winter resort.
To Palm Beach he went, feeling
more or less like a martyr, but the
season was hardly under way before
he received a convincing proof of the
virtue of self-denial. 1t was in the
form of a note, in a wide, mannish
hand, from Elizabeth Rogers, the
daughter of Morton Rogers, the presi-
dent of the United Trust company, and
head of the Urban Traction system,
announcing her near departure for
Palm Beach in company with her
mother.
Johns thoughts on receipt of the
note underwent series of fluctuations
curiOusly like those of some harassed
stock under the manipulation of Joseph
w Barr.
For Morton Rogers had views as to
Eizabeth's future which had so far
failed to run parallel with those OF
John. The president of the United
Trust company, bulWark Of the old
school of finance, had opinions of Jo-
seph w. Barr which included, impair
TALLY, everyone connected with the
western operator.
In his estimation anyone who &C
cepted employ with Barr might fairly
be regarded as one Of the crew of a
pirate, ready at the word of command
to scuttle and quite sink the fairest
ship afoat on the financial seas.
While all this was a matter of regret
to John it troubled him les than it
might have had Elizabeth seemed to
take a different view of the situation
She was a young woman of riotous in
dependence ard determination, who
might be counted on, under provoca-
ton, to take her fathers stubborn will
as she had often taken five bars in
flight across country with hounds.
She accepted the young westerner
frankly as good comrade. She liked
him because he never sawed his
mounts mouth into bleeding patches
so that she might get in at the death
first: he won if he could. He worked
earnestly to beat her eighteen up on
the links, although it was seldom more
than two finally, for her drives and
brassie shots were those of st. An
drews' professional.
On the night before his departure
for Palm Beach, John had called on
Elizabeth, and under the influence OF
the coming separation had spoken
E~ASN~S'
Its no use, Bess," he said finally,
in mock despair, after they had touched
lightly from many sides the parental
f1rmness. I've got to put through
some kind of a deal that will establish
me as the Napoleon of finance, and
then I'll win recognition don't care
for the money"
Il intend to be q syndicate member
in that same DEAL" retorted Elizabeth.
Yes, it will be syndicate of two
babes in the financial woods" said
John. And they laughed, perhaps not
quite heartily.
AS it turned out, however, it was a
syndicate of three, and as Tor the
babes-it is difficult to believe that Jo-
seph w. Barr ever tolerated swaddling
clothes Of any sort
Three weeks after the arrival of Mrs
Rogers and Elizebeth at Palm Beach