The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-13

OTk, the overturned glasses on the table the melting ice in the silver champagne buckets. the rumpled nap kiuS and the faces of the servants told the story of the night. All the guests had gone. all except one She had fingered.
 The train" she exclaimed, the train. I shall miss it. The man sprang to the wall and touched a button. Within moment a motor car was chugging in front of the great steps which led to the manor, a befurred woman hurried into the limousine and the start, with the man, was made. Risks made no diff ference to the driver of the car and the start hardly had been made, it seemed, before the station appeared, framed in a circle of the motors lights.
 The station agent didn't appear a bit worried Yes, the train had gene just five minutes ago. But there'd be another in an hour An hour. It diUn't seem long to the station agent, but it did to the woman. Her host jumped to telephone and asked for hurried connections with the general offices of the Long Isl and Railroad.
 This is Robin," he said, when the telephone rang again, Joseph c Robin. the banker. One of my guests has missed her train to the city. Send me a special train. Yes, l know about that, but l don't want to wait. l want a special train. Huh, never mind the cost"
 And perhaps that helps to ex- plain why Joseph G. Robin now stands accused Of wrecking the Nor thern Bank of New York, and of the Washington Savings Bank of New York So far he is shy s2S0,- O0o and the books are being gone over.
 a steamer from Russia gave forth four persons who were listed as Herman Rabinovitch, wife. son and daughter. Gradually the son and daughter drifted away from the par snts. The daughter became a phy siCian. Dr. Louise Rabinovitch. The son became Joseph G. Robin, rated in 1903 as worth S1,000O0O and rated now. according to himself. as with out penny in the world It is said the daughter still remembers her mother and father, and sends them money occasionally. The sons memory was not so good.
 IL was in the New York diStriC, attorneys office the other day that an old man and woman sat waiting. A young man entered The man and the woman started forward.
 Josef" the old man exclaimed. Josef. Don't you know me? Ach, Got, don't you know me?'
 The young man turned and smil- cd, then laughed.
 "You?" he questioned, who are you?"
 Josef" came the reproach, you know me, Josef?"
 The young man cursed
 The denials could not last. Cues T. ms from the district attorney brought from the indicted man the admission that the man and Wo- man who confronted him had brought him to this country 16 years ago.
 But they're not my father and mother" he said; they're just . II IGlluS u lIlE IdIlllls .iOu Stc tHtN brought me to this country. and af- ter awhile, l left them and started out for myself That is all there is to it."
 But the older woman and the old CT man would consent to no such story He was their son, they said, son who had forgotten them, who had neglected them in times of need, but still their son. But Robin had regained his composure 2nd ques- tions Cnly brought laughter. The fortune which Robin built, in the years he was forgetting the days he spent in the steerage, was built out of nothing. From one small deal to another he got enough money to go into the building and 1 loan business. But the business was not profitable. He soon was broke" again. Just how wildcat financiers can make the acquaintances that will enable them to do their work is something that's hard matter to fathom. but just the same they make those friends, and it was such friends that enabled Robin to do his work.
 | When the receiverShip of the Ham, ilton bank came to an end in New i York in 1907, Robin, through his friends was put in position to bid for the stock. He obtained a con- trolling share, with the promise that he would pay the money within a year. He also promised to have 1 $1 100000 ready to pay depositors on l the opening day of the bank. h. 1 stead, bank loans had come due in the time of the receivership and were collected by Robin. When the bank l opened it paid the depositors with it's own money and Robin thus prac- tically was given the controlling in- terest in the bank. for he had not put up dollar The payments on ! the stock, also. were made out of 1 the banks income.
 | With the start the Hamilton bank had given him, Robin began to ac- | quire others. The Riverside bank was obtained through practically the same methods, through Charles w. Morse, and in it, like in the Hamil- i ton bank, Robin threw out the old officers and placed in others of his own selection The Northern bank 1 Soon, with the aid of the Washing l ten bank, acquired easily" Robin owned chain of banks with total deposits of s7,000,OO0.
 1 When a man has $7,000,000 practi- cally under his direct control, there's mighty strong temptation for him