0 BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON EPTEMBER 24 | gixtieth 1 event, now almos dence of of the h KO CT specn ray stocks, an elusive wit- a partner-—"as nearly men could be Gould" with Erie railroad f pariner one was Jay two when famous } for ing anderbilt and in some of al-finaneial schemes of him the gold faced ne was to buy gight, a comparatively simple m for was only about 220000000 of It in elrenla- tion. Ti more risky, was to keep the United States treas- ury, which had $100,000,000, from sell. fng gold while the operation was on and breaking the corner, 30 Gould took » to corner all Two into his schen problems ntter, there other, and the Gould's first step was to seek the aid of A. R. Corbin, a Wall street gj eculator who had married a sister of President Grant, When Grant stopped In New York in June, 1560, while on the way to the Peace Jubilee in Boston, he visited at the home of his brother-in-law where Gould called upon the President. When Grant con. tinued «n his way to it waa on one of Fisk's Fall river steamers His Phrase Famous The expression “innocuous desue- tuge” was made famous by Grover Cieveland lu his message to the sen- ate on March 1, 1886. The sentence that contained It was: “After an ex- fstence of nearly twenty years of al most innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.” The senate had claimed that ns the assent of the sen- ate was required to confirm the ap- pointment of certaln officers, those of- logton Gonl the ti Gould to the ought ihiects of oo ier price to ptember this point bed by Corbin’ i% Ie Sejiie, . A oad 4 on s fre "a wild tried to bribe Co in into disre garding the President's Instructions but Corbin refused. Then Gould, see- ( his scheme 1 about to collapse, de termined to double-cross his own asso He gave orders to his brokers to begin to sell gold. Fisk faith with Gould and_ continued When the n losed on eptember had ciates, gecret kept arket « on ie le ¢ high nark LL to buy. Thursday, gold reached the 145. But worse was to come the next day —Friday, destined to be known as “Black Fr 1 The next morning Fisk entered the gold room and loudly Albert to buy all the gold avs Next he sent orders By noon it was up ' ve orders to Speyers ot | broker, up to 145 put it up to 150, to 160 and Speyers, who had bought G0 millions, now had in his for Fisk's account half of all the gold in Of what followed Fuller name the country. writes: It seems absurd that the orders giv. en by Jim In Heath's back room and executed by that jumping-jack, ers, should have paralyzed busine they did, from Boston to San ciaco, Wall Street's bedlam was only a sample. Thousands of men in ev. ery city were reading the astounding figures that came out of the ticker tape~figures that told that they were ruined. The fluctuations in the price of gold were so rapid that it was Im. possible to keep up with them. No speculator outside the gold room had a chance to protect himself. He gave itis order to buy or sell, and after that he was in the hands of blind fortune. He might as well have gone fishing as tn have tried to follow what was go- ing on In that densely packed, suffo- Fran- ficers were not subject to removal by the President without the senate's per- mission. This claim was based on the Tenure of Office act, passed In 1867 during the conflict between congress and President Johnson, Cleveland maintained that In this particular mat- ter that law had up to that time been allowed to remain In a state of harm. less disuse. Superior to Rockies The valleys of Tibet are higher than the tallest peaks of the Rockies. the Lire from demorialivg the the minutes fallen 20 points, was ended, A moh, led by brokers de } rit, gathered in front of the biokerage Louse of Gould, Smith and Martin, for Gould. A moh assembled in front of the of Fisk and Beldan shouting for Fisk ut the two who had expected some such result as this, had fled from Wall street the ket broke and sought refuge in the Erie offices in Fisk's Grand house, where they were guarded by their band of hired thugs. Gould millions out of his coup. fact that he had betrayed Fisk, latter forgave him and they con. tinued friends. As a matter of fact, Fisk lost nothing, for with the aid of “Boss” Tweed's corrupt judiciary he was successful in repudiating his mil- lions in debts. When the whole affair was investigated later before the Gar. field committee it was found that half of the business houses on Wall street hed been ruined. And it was not until the report of their committee became public that public suspicion of Grant's part in the conspiracy wns allaged. For neither the President por any of his kin except his brother. in-law had profited one cent from the shame of Black Friday, samilnr howling office conapirators, when mnr Opera have made eleven Deapite the is said to the Engine’s Wild Journey There have been few more spectac ular rallway runs than that made by a great locomotive stolen two years ago by thieves from the Volk rust (Transvaal) engine sheds und driven by them fifty miles to Stand erton. There they reversed it, opened the throttle, and jumped clear. The deserted engine thundered back at forty miles an hour. Right back tc the sheds it stuck to the track. Then it smashed into some wagons and was wrecked, a Bishop All Right, but Oh, You Cannibal King! Traffic cop gets Summons Hopwood, the bril- A "heed ool Even he can’t get away with it The late Hant piny younger ut nn lune ment: “The younger generation Is cent, It rough, but it is cent at beart. 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