Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-10-14
FIRST LOVES
By Felix Diesenberg


Almon otrauSS, cabling iron
Paris, urged John Breen to con
tinue the work of Colfax:
You have never met me, but
know and have confidence in you
We must not despair, no matte:
how dark the night. We must g,
forward wherever we see our way
or where we feel our way. Plan.
ming must continue so that late.
on we will know what to do.
John Breen didn't know wha'
to do. The pay he was gettins
was necessary. If only the in
stable city would calmn down
How it tossed and squeezed ane
misused its people.
When the youth, Mitchell, wa,
overwhelmed by the myth, Hy-
Ian, when the shaky city was be-
ing pounded hourly by rumors, III
that time when shipping and mer
and dollars mingled in red carni
val, Josephine Rantoul splurged ir
a splendid orgy Of waste. She
even made money, and she demon
strated her ability to spend it.
The war carried Gerrit Rantoul
into financial whirlpools where he
navigated with much skill. NUM-
lions speculations sent his star te
dizzy attitudes, shot him upwarc
on a rise of values. Rantoul, at
last, was many times a millionaire.
Rantoul, at a dollar a year, also
served his country while his New
York office, in Pine Street, burn
ed with activity. At the very be-
ginning of the wild time, a Rus
sian Commission, headed by a
Grand Duke and carrying an un-
limited credit, fell to the wiles of
Josephine. A neoteric cult to
she subscribed included sew
eral Russians, who, in return for
entertainment, indicted the
Duke and his advisers to
the genial atmosphere of St. Boto-
[ph and the tender mercies of the
great St. James. Rantoul after this
in which Josephine felt she
aeld a charter interest, fell into
he expanding schemes of George
It. James.
Almost, without trying and be-
ause of Josephine "Clever, you
he found himself on the
inside in Shell Case Consolidated
fifty million dollar combination
# enterprises previously defunct.
Tri-Nitro-Bullion also began the
erection of vast explosive works
n New Jersey, manufacturing an
unstable compound with great
rapidity as its chemists learned the
business, in quantity production
tests. R%antoul, who took on a
strange fictitious Importance, was
made Chairman of the Board. Tri-
Nitro scared to dizzy heights with
the booking of further Russian or
ders. Josephine did much to recon-
Gle Gerrit Rantoul for her many
annoying traits. Tri-Bull, as ii
was called On the curb, led Ran
tout into the picric acid pool, /
sweet bit of business engineered BY
St. James.
St. James, swinging Rantou
with him at the head Of a GROUP
of the more daring newer men
bought a fleet of lake steamers ane
founded the world trading corpor
alton of Jason, Fillmore, an'
Jones, with pretentious offices O.
Broadway. This firm vas nance
after three likable chaps in his of
flee. The issue was listed on tn
Stock Exchange and skyrockete'
from the start. The world wa
hungry for genius, it Tapped u
stocks and produced profits, an
fought for the privilege of givin
away its money.
But St. James greatest achieve
ment was Safety Submarine, sell
ing on the curb at ten, with fe'
buyers, while jobbers washed tn
stock in petty larceny against
! few lucky simpletons who bougE
before the upward trend of wa
With the advent Of St. James an
Rantoul, and the infex of follow
ing money, came a classic upwar
dash. Safety-the name itself ga
security-begnn to soar an
touched a point where the stoe
could not be bought at any pric
Five hundred dollars a share W
offered but few were wise enoue
to sell.
Rantoul's new place at Sout]
ampton, bought lock, stock, ar
cellar from a German dye ma
under suspicion and therefore SUI
ject to forced sale, appeared
pictures in the Sunday papers.