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4 VOYAGE TO A FORBIDDEN ISLE GREENLAND AND ITS PEOPLE. EXCEPT ,\RCTIC EXPLORERS, NO VISITORS FOR TWO CEN'TFRIES. Foil, Ice Pact, BerK, Tren<'hfron Current*. Death Trap Reef* ana International Treaty Rar Oat Cannal Shipping—Denmark Alone Control* the Country—An Ameri can Steamer Attempted a Cruise of the hiaiui in ISIi-l, Rut Wns Wrecked—The Most Xortherly Mouse on Enrth and It* Occupant. London, Dec. 17. —Being resolved upon visiting Greenland, I found that some difficulties had first to be over come, says a writer in Black and .White. No private vessel plies there either with passengers or cargo from any port of the world. Of the Dun dee whalers few remain, and if they happen to take fresh water on the Greenland coast their stay is limited to hours. Some fishing schooners of Gloucester, United States, frequented the Green land banks ten years ago, but after a couple of seasons found the halibut catch was not to be relied on. The 'Miranda, an American steamer, at tempted a cruise with tourists in 1894, hut was wrecked at the gate of the first harbor she tried to leave. One of the fishing schooners brought her people home. Apart from Arctic expeditions, no other foreign visitors have risked a voyage for about two centuries. The whaling ships are handled by experi enced men, yet the Vega was nipped last year, her people barely escaping. For Arctic expeditions, one ship lost AN IWI'I.T BELLE. In each twenty measures the scale of risk. Fog, Ice pack, bergs, currents and death trap reefs bar out casual shipping. Oreeland a Forbidden Country. There also exists an international treaty, whereby most Europeans and Americans are forbidden to enter Greenland. This treaty is enforced by Denmark on behalf of her royal trade, a government department, which is frying to civilize the native tribes of the country. By this means alone can the Eskimo people be shielded from disease, alcohol and interference with the hunting on which they depend for existence. I was fortunate in getting permis sion—the second granted to an English speaking man since 1735 —to visit Greenland in one of the royal ships. At Copenhagen I was examined by a doc tor to make sure that I carried no con tagious disease to the Greenlanders. So we sailed from Elsinore on May 17 in the little bark Thorvaldsen, and Just a month later sighted the Greenland coast. The coast of Norway, best seen in mid-winter, and certainly the grand est in the Old World, Is tame compared with the seaboard of British Columbia and Southeastern Alaska. I would not disparage that coast, and yet it is not so beautiful as the west coast of Greenland. The Arctic Day. The sunny Arctic day which lasts for months, a sky all flaming glory, the fretted spires of the Alps flanked with stupendous cliffs, and based on the rest ful levels of the sea. cities of crowded bergs, compound of dazzling light and radiant color—such scenery as lhat blots out one’s former memories. The ship went drifting on, and slowly 800 THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT For Wife, Mother, Daughter Sister or Sweetheart By this Sign f These Machines you may know are never sold and will find to dealers. Singer Stores aA Only from Maker Everywhere X, vjxwJT 1 to User A small payment down, the rent at convenient intervals. Four different Kinds and a wide range of prices to suit. Select Now-Delivery when wanted Cet the Bt it snd you get the Singer ISO Whitaher Street, Savannah, - - Georgia. of heaven unrolled before us its varied and wondrous loveliness. Our first port of call was Jakob shaven, at the head of Disco strait, largest of the northern villages, a metropolis of nine white persons and 400 natives. Beside a pocket harbor, perched on round shoulders of the naked granite, are the buildings, all tarred black, of the royal trade. For a background to the dismal scene rise higher rocks, littered with garbage, and turf huts, the homes of the na tives. A Greenland Metropolis. At heart the place is gay, for our sailors went ashore every night to dance with the Eskimo girls, while the officers of ship and colony swapped dinner parties, breakfasts and lunch eons, all through a nine days’ festi val. The place might have been a Hud son’s bay port uglified, but the Danish traders are much more civilized than the British. Men and women alike were lln quists, well read, accomplished, a lit tle too polite for comfort, living a metropolitan life on one batch of letters a year in an Arctic outpost. Expecting the pathos of banishment, I found the gayety of perfect content. The Danes of all the settlements were alike in social charm, gentle and polish ed. arrant gossips, too; and the indoor life had iittle to remind one of the out door wilderness. The Innuit servant maids wore the furry breeches, boots to the hip, and curious topknot of their national dress—one had to fall promiscuously in love with all of them. The Dan ish men also wore native dress, with only one distinction —that they washed. Food of llie Greenlnnlers. The food, apart from Danish gro ceries, was seal meat, fish, reindeer, venison, shellfish, ptarmigan, sea birds and their eggs, which as serv ed in Greenland are always pronounc ed in flavor, like the political egg used at elections. There was only at one port a dish called mattak (the skin of the white whale), a hard fat with a delicious nutty flavor, which would be esteemed by epicures in Europe. Tasteless radishes and other small vegetables are grown under glass, and ;here are plenty of blueberries on the hills. ■ : :.V J'm I ', FJ . I MOST NORTHERLY H OISE O.Y EARTH. Nearly the whole of Greenland is covered with a continental Ice cap like that of the Antarctic continent. Nansen and Peary have crossed the inland ice, but even to reach the edge is a difficult journey. At Jakobshavn I persuaded a sailor to come with me, chartered a skin boat with a native crew, and set off at 3 o'clock one sunny morning. Our way led south ward. past the mouth of Jakobshavn Fjord, where a shoal about the size of London is covered with jammed and stranded bergs. Some of the spires are said to be six hundred feet high; the overhanging coast of ice was cer tainly more than two hundred. The Interior of the Couutry. Beyond it we had to carry the boat over two ranges of hills, then traveled one day’s march along a fjord, and finally the sailor and I, with a guide, set off affoot upon a four mile walk. The land was hilly, of broken rock with a layer of moss on top. so ar ranged that one sinks through the moss into unseen holes full of pain. The land is not good for cripples, and yet there were compensations, for I found native silver and a precious stone called olivine, besides many love ly flowers, including the bluebells of Scotland. There were also mosquitoes in great plenty. Five hours of climbing brought us to the top of Damned Mountain (Krakraptak), and after X had photo graphed my companions, we sat down to fight the mosquitoes and try to enjoy the view. After leaving Jakobshavn the Thor valdsen called at an outpost north ward of Disco Island, where we pick ed up the Governor of North Green land and officers of the staff, taking them on to Upernavik, the most north- SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1904. erly settlement. Thence the Governor went by boat on a cruise of hundreds of miles through the Archipelago, in specting outposts, and he was kind enough to take me as his guest. Even in skin clothes and heavy winter furs we suffered discomfort from the cold, as. traveling night and day and spreading our sleeping bags in the boat for rest, we threaded amazing channels choked with bergs. So we came at last to Tassiusak, the most northerly house on earth. Its tenant is Neilson, a Dane, under whose guidance we ventured another sixteen miles into the wilderness. TO GETMEN TOWORK WITHOUT SUPERVISION. One of tlie Big Business Problems of the Day. New York, Dec. 17. —The biggest business problem we have,” said the treasurer and largest owner of one of our great trusts to me yesterday, “is the problem of getting men to whom we can entrust a duty and dismiss the matter, knowing that it will be at tended to. Look here,” said he, point ing at his big library table and his equally big roll-top desk, "do you know what nine-tenths of those pa pers, memorandums, letters, telegrams and so forth represent? They repre sent matters which I have turned over to the different departments and em ployes in our various concerns for at tention. By rights, I should be able to sweep all thia stuff off my desk into a basket and give it to a clerk to file, for as far as my end is concerned, I should be through with it after I have given elaborate and full instructions regarding each case. But, as a mat ter of fact, I do not dare to dismiss a single item of this big business that way. I have learned by bitter experi ence that out of a hundred men, not more than ten can be trusted implic itly to carry anything through. It isn’t because they are overworked. We have stenographers for every employe who h,as any letters to write; we give our men a staff of boys to fetch and carry; our department heads need not lift a hand or waste a minute in getting any thing they need. I have even given orders that they shall use the office boys for their personal business so that they shall not be distracted by little matters. Yet I cannot feel that anything, big or little, is done until I get the final report on it, and I wouldn’t get the final report if they didn't know that I never forget a thing or dismiss it from my mind. It is only by practical terrorism that I can keep the army of our employes up to the mark. I know that they look on me as a hard master, but X can’t get any thing out of them any other way.” "He’s right,” said the manager of a much smaller concern 'to whom I men tioned this. ‘‘That nVan over there," pointing to a rosy-faced man who was unmistakably English, “is the fore man or superintendent of our foundry and machine shops. He is a plain machinist; doesn’t know anything of the new technicology of metals and mechanics, although he is studying it now and improving fast. He Isn’t a money-maker for us, either by econo mizing or by increasing the output. Yet we ‘are paying that man $75 a week, and are so glad to pay It that we have just made anew three years’ con tract with him. Do you know why? Simply because he never falls to at tend to everything that comes along, when we get an order for a machine to be shipped at a certain date in a certain way, we don’t have to think of it again after we turn the order over to him. If a man telegraphs to us to hurry something forward, or to make an alteration in an order, or to trace a shipment, we can send this foreman thu telegram without making a memo randum of it. He doesn’t produce new ideas. He has not improved ;he quality of our ouput. But he can be trusted down to the ground, and that is the rarest talent there Is these days. It makes that plain machinist worth twice $75 a week to us, -and there Is another $75 Job wait ing for another man like him.” Duane. MONEY "ORDER CHECK RUF FLED A FOREIGNER’S DIGNITY. British Pnxt master General’s Sad Experience In the N. Y. PoatolHce. New York, Dec. 17.—The man who is the biggest toad in his own local pud dle doesn’t amount to much in New York. There wus an amusing instance of this fact at the postofflee the other day. An Important-looking gentleman presented a foreign money order and demanded to be paid. The clerk sug gested that he had better identify him self, which he could not do. "But do you know who I am, sir?" he thundered. "1 am the ex-Postinas ter General of the British colony of Jamaica, sir. 1 held that office for over twenty yours under Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and the pres ent King, who decorated me with the companionship of the Imperial Service Order on my retirement. Do you mean to say Hint I, a Postmaster General, uni to be put to all this trouble In your wretched postofflee?" "Kure!" said th* Irreverent clerk. "You may tu the Lord High Panjan drum with the little knob on top, but you've got to be identified befors you get money out of this office. '* Luckily, at that moment a man came along who had known the ruffl'd I’nst niaetiT r le'ieral on his nativa heath, utid who also ha|i|iened to know the ofili mu or tin New York pmm , I The money wee then forthcoming, but hi pmiliii, of ill. Imperial fm(i< • Duane. Suffering Women Cured Grateful Mrs. Dawson and Mrs. Beans, Restored to Vigorous Health by Duf fy's Pure Malt Whiskey. Heartily Recommend Its L'se to All Wom en Who Suffer From N'erv ous Break-down and *2 if J ■ Hejjyt Trouble. -' ~ _ MRS. A. DAWSON. 310 Pleasant Avenue, New York City, May 31, 1904. For over a year I have suffered in tense agony from nervous debility and prostration. 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New York, Dec. 17.—1 t is strange that New York city should have given up the most beautiful place within the boundaries to be the home of the crim inal, the pauper and the insane; yet it Is the fact. Blackwell’s Island, the long narrow Islet lying in the middle of the East river off Long Island City, is un questionably the most picturesque of all the islands that stud the shores of Manhattan. Even to-day, when it Is covered with institutional buildings of all kinds and descriptions, it is still a delightful place—beautiful with trees and shrubs in places, and in summer the coolest spot around New York, thanks to the breezes that sweep down the river. It would be an ideal spot for a gTeat park for the crowded districts of the upper East Side, if it were not given over to the most criminal, ignorant and depraved sections of the commu nity. This seems a shame, considering how little available open space Man hattan has. A Great Park Sometime. The idea of making the island into a great public park has been frequent ly mooted and lately revived. Un doubtedly it will be carried out in the end, but not for many years to come. The prison, almshouse, hospital and other buildings, on the island repre sent a large capital. It is true they cost comparatively little to build, for they were built by prison labor with stone dug by the prisoners from a quarry on the island; but the cost of erecting similar buildings elsewhere would run into many millions of dol lars. Nevertheless, it will be done some day; for New York city does not seem to care how much money it spends for parks and open spaces. A movement toward the conversion of the island into a park is already being made by the construction of a large bridge connecting the island with the banks of the East river. Large appropriations have been made by New York city for this purpose, and the huge towers for the bridge, which is to be on the suspension order, have already been put in place. Sulfut Prison in the World. When Blackwell's Island ceases to be a prison for the bod characters of New York city, who have not com mitted crimes serious enough to jus tify an sentence of penal servitude, one of the most remarkable penal es tablishments in the world will go out df existence Blackwell’s Island is probably the safest prison In the world. It is a Jail from >vh!ch it Is practically Impossible for a prisoner to escape, except by the collusion of one of his jailers. Yet It la only about a quarter of a mile from the shore, and the prisoners are allowed to work about the Island on various tasks under comparatively slight supervision and guardianship. You can see the "trusties" doing all kinds of Jobs with nobody watching them. The wardens know that their task Is lightened for them by Jailers who are always on the watch, always re lentless In keeping the prisoners con fined to the Island. These are the ruahing, whirling, bubbling currants that tear along the shores of the Is land on all sides, like a veritable mael strom. tanking it impossible for even the best of swimmers to cover the short distance to the Manhattan or Long Island shores. Ruse Ever Keeaprd lr swimming. No msn has ever been known to swim the short quarter of a mils which separates the prisoners from liberty; but many b* tried, and Titl ed, and been drowned It would li as easy to swim the Whirlpool Rapids of Nlag#is Among the prtsobeis confined on tin tsisr.d, Orvrs are often some of the 1 "wharf rats" of Mew York boys and j msi who bavs bs#n In and out of lbs New Haven, Conn., April 2, 1904. I am now 62 years of age and for a number of years have been troubled with my heart and the least excite ment makes me very nervous. Your Malt Whiskey was recom mended to me four years ago, and it has been my only medicine ever since, doing me more good than all the doc tors, whom I now have little use for. I am never without a bottle and can recommend it to all nervous people or those afflicted with any heart trouble. It is truly a wonderful medicine.— Mrs. Lucretia J. Beans, 133 Bradley street. MRS. LUCRETIA J. BEANS. water, stealing from ships and docks almost from the time the could walk Swimming comes to them as naturally as talking, and there are no better swimmers in the world. But they can not swim from Blackwell’s Island, and nowadays very few of them try Too many of their ’’pals" have been drowned that way. Eleven Drowned In a. Year, A few years ago there was an epi demic of attempts to escape from the island. Within four months five men were drowned while trying to swim at night of the Manhattan baYik of the river; and in the succeeding seven months six others perished. That was the most fat'al year in this history of the island, and attempts at escape have been less frequent since then. But a year rarely passed without a death by drowning being reported. Hast winter two "yegg men,” who had the reputation of being daring and desperate criminals, actually suc ceeded in making good their escape from the island. They did not, swim, however, They managed somehow to get hold of a rowboat, possibly with the help of some official on the island. They rowed quietly at night down to the lower end of Manhattan. On the way they met a police patrol boat, etop ped to clalrnly exchange greetings and answer questions, and then went on their way, leaving the policemen un suspecting. Next day there was a hot search for them. They lay low for a fort night, and then made the mistake of returning to their old haunts on the Bowery. A “stool pigeon” put the police on their tracks, and they were captured In a saloon in Chinatown of ter a desperate fight. Escapes Through Connivance. Despite the confining currents, es capes from the island are more fre quent that they ought to be, owing to the fact that some of the minor prison officials are open to receive ■graft” from “yegg men,” "panhan dlers" and other crooks. The Charity Organization Society of New York has just been calling the attention of the Department of Cor rection to these cases. One of the most flagrant is that of a notorious "panhandler" named Edward Ash leigh, who is better known in police circles as "Pekin Eddie.” This man once boasted, in the hearing of the writer, that he has "worked" every big city in the country clean through to the Pacific coast. He was sent for a term on the is land by a New York magistrate, but after serving part of his sentence he managed to get a suit of plain clothe? in place of his striped convict garb. Then he calmly walked on board of one of the department launches which run between Manhattan and the is land. He mingled unobserved with the crowd of visitors and discharged pris oners aboard, and got safely away. The Hume of “Yegg Men.” Blackwell’s Island Is known to the “ycRR’ men” and other petty crooks from ope end of the United States to the other. These professionals “play New York" as regularly as the bet ter class out-of-town theatrical com panies visit Broadway. There is a saloon on the lower end of the Bow ery which is recognized as their head quarters; it is kept by a retired "pan handler" who made a small fortune out of the business, incidentally "do ing time” on Blackwell's Island more than once. There are always half a dozen notorious "yegg men" standing in line at the ibar of this saloon. It Is the place from which dozens of crooks graduate to Blackwell’s Island. The police tolerate it because its existence renders it easier for them to "keep tabs" on the under-world of graft and crime. A Cinch for Prisoners With Money. Among this floating criminal popu lation. Blackwell's Island has the repu tation of being "a cinch so long hs you can put up the dough." as one "pan handler" expressed it. It is said by those In a position to know, that all the prisoners have a comparatively easy lime, while those who have mon ey ean buy many Immunities and priv ileges. This has been long suspected by those familiar with criminal mat ters in New York, but It has now broken out into utt open scandal. Blackwell's Island, however, is not merely a prison. It Is the home of several city Institutions. The alms houses for the aged poor are equal to any in American cities, and far above the common run. The hospitals ©on neetrd with the health department have cost many millions, and are equip ped with the latest Inventions and ap pliances of medical science. An interesting experiment Is being conducted on the island in the treat merit of tuberculosis by fresh air and sunlight. During the summer the pa Heme wers out In the open all ,)u> long, letappcd In blankets, Now that the bit uk winter hue arrived, the) •lend their lime In a long covered g u l let y with glses sides While the re suite of the treslmenl Sic not y,-* conclusive, the majority of the pefient sre arid to have derived great benefi from u. LAWSON AND GREENE KEEPING WALL STREET IN A TUMULT The Street Has Finally Come to Believe That Lav. son Is After More Than Notoriety. By W. G. NICHOLAS. New York, Dec. 17.—Its a pity the police regulations do not cover Law son. As matters stand he appears to have the untram meled liberty of beating the tom toms and keeping everybody awake nights with his noise. The vague alarm which was felt in Wall street when he leaped screaming into its midst, has given way to a feeling of anger mixed with contempt and impatience. The conclusion has been very generally reached, that whether sane or insane, he is dangerous, and that he is really actuated by a motive deeper and more sinister than that of merely gratify ing an insatiate craving for notoriety. It is a peculiarity about Lawson that those who know him best mistrust him most and most seriously question his intentions. Legal proof appears to be lacking, but all Boston, or at least that part of it with which Wall street has contact, believes him to be finan cially interested in a group of bucket shops, centering in the New England metropolis. On this unproved assump tion the theory has been built that his campaign was organized and carried out to save himself and his bucket shops from tremendous loss, if not ex tinguishment. One Boston story has it that Lawson was in the hole $4,000,000, by reason of his bucket shop connections, and that, as a result of the scare he threw into Wall street he saved the entire amount and reaped a huge profit besides on the initial break and subsequent violent fluctuations. This same story deals with the ease of one individual who had a paper profit of $700,000 In one of the alleged Lawson bucket shops, which he was not allowed to take down, and which he saw vanish into thin air. Results of “Frenzied Finance.’ Whether or not there is anything tangible to the story of the Lawson backing of New England bucket shops, it is cold truth that by reason of his crusade the bucket shops in question and others all over the country were saved from ruin, and their colossal losses turned into profits. It is also notorious that by reason of this same fire brand performance his alleged en emies, H. H. Rogers, William Rocke feller and others o? the Standard Oil crowd, were able to wrest from Col. Greene and his friends, coveted con trol of the Greene Consolidated Copper Company, which they had been plan ning for years to get. So far as can be learned Rogers and his Standard Oil associates were in entire sympathy with the slump in the market, and that instead of being caught with the goods as claimed by Lawson, they were fixed to profit sublimely by the slump. If Lawson is not working in alliance with the Standard Oil speculators and the bucket shops he has certainly been playing into their hands of late, if he is entirely honest in his wolf hunt ing he has badly failed, for he has not bagged a single wolf, while multi tudes of helpless lambs that ca -*P e within range of his guns, litter the landscape. Brought l'l Some Queer Flsli. The Lawson craze has brought to the surface some very queer fish. A species of an emotional wave seems to have swept through the speculative zone. A somewhat similar phenomena attends revival meetings and all kinds of campaigns calculated to work on the varying phases of unbalanced human sentiment. Doubtless when the Law son incident fades into the perspec tive the ludicrous features of the af fair will stand out in clearer relief than they do now. The shriekings and ravings of the Boston freak have stir red up the entire menagerie. One phase of the excitement is observable in the tendency of many queer people to slop over into the advertising col umns of the daily newspapers and thereby find a vehicle for the expres sion of views about other people and the problem of stock speculation. Col. William G. Greene, lately a bad man from Arizona and old and New Mexico, was an illustration this species of mania. Asa literary pro duction the effort was a dismal fail ure, but it added momentarily to the gayety of Wall street and was of pass ing interest to the general public which may always be relied upon to take notice of the comicalities of such a situation. Another person with a mania for notoriety, one William G. Young of Chicago, took advantage of the Lawson occasion to secure a place under the headlines for one day on the announcement that he had come to take charge of the anti-Lawson forces as the representative of the Standard Oil and other important interests. Young turns out to be an ally of one “Sid” McHie, who made his money in Chicago bucket shops. Following In the train of Col. Greene and Mr. Young, a number of misfits jumped into the advertising pages of newspapers with communications addressed to H. H. Rogers and other distinguished finan ciers, thereby inducing many people to read down the column to the signa tures. It is regarded by lightweights of a certain class as a great feat if they can in some way link their names with the great ones of the earth, even though they figure as having been kick ed into the gutter by the great man’s butler. “Good Old Times” In Wall Street. There are people who talk to-day in Wall street about the good old times when there were giants in the stock market and they mention in the same breath Commodore Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Werschoffer, Cammack and oth ers conspicuous in their day as spec tacular operators. That kind of talk sounds foolish to those who are in a position to compare those good old days with the present time. Never in the history of Wall street have there been as many giants of such large size as now figure actively In the stock market. In those good old days it was a rare thing for a trader to swing as large a line as 100,000 shares. At THE CABLE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF PIANOS AND ORGANS. Buy your Piano from us and save middle man’s profit. The finest line and largest stock of Pianos at closer prices than ever before. THE CABLE COMPANY, SSSOU.EE, this writing there are fifty men, many of them entirely unknown to the pub lic at large, who think nothing 0 f buying or selling 100,000 shares, and there are many groups of financiers whose investment holdings in single corporations range from 500,000 to l. 500,000 shares. Messrs. E. H. Harri man, Jacob Schiff and their imme diate friends hold ownership control of at least 2,500,000 shares in the se curities of the Union Pacific combina tion with its 25,000 miles or more ot owned, allied and subsidiary lines and systems. “Jim” Hill and a little co terie of Canadian, Scotch and Eng. lish friends hold more than 1,000,040 shares of the stock of properties which Hill dominates and largely created Messrs. D. G. Reid, W. B. Leeds and W. H. and J. H. Moore, com posing the Rock Island party, have pooled an individual investment hold ings of more than 1,000,000 shares of stock. John D. Rockefeller’s individual holdings of railroad and industrial stocks probably exceeds in market val ue $500,000,000 which reduced to shares at par would be 5,000,000 shares. Holders of lOO.IHK) Shares or .More. Among those whose permanent share investments are up to or much above 100,000 shares may be named D O. Mills and James R. Keene, the last survivors of the California crowd j Pierpont Morgan, H. H. Rogers’ Thomas J. Ryan, H. O. Havemever J'ames B. Duke, the tobacco magnate’ Norman B. Ream, William Waldorf A S I tor, “Jack” Astor, W. K. Vanderbilt H. H. Porter, William Rockefeller h’ C. * ric k and Russell Sage, all of ,\ ew lork; Marshall Field, S. W. Allerton Martin Ryerson, C. K. G. Billings and J. J. Mitchell, of Chicago; thaniel Thayer and Benjamin P Che nty, of Boston. James Stillman, presi dent of the National City Bank, and Anthony N. Brady, the gas magnate should also be included in this list and doubtless there are many others entUl of there ’ The enumeration of market plungers who swing spe, u v th e Jsi eS 10 °’ OOU shares '• more tvith ease and grace includes John tv Gates, James R. Keene, H. H. Rogers' William Rockefeller, Wash. Connor c i/eirf Ch r"a h ’ Ha vemeyer, D. g. Reid, Judge W. H. Moore and his brother, J. H. Moore, W. B Leeds Ihomas J Ryan, Norman B. Ream’ J. Pierpont Morgan and E. H. Harrb Wh' ~S f o me of these names appear in ~sts > a ® they are combination of intestors and speculators, their opera tions oftentimes dovetailing This u crowd "S* With Rea ™’ ‘heßock island crowd. Rogers and Rockefel'er J. Pierpont Morgan and E. H H irri’ ™ an - “r. Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor the WO 000 V I? 1 * T° rld ’ is ri * ht op in and iho httl ' e lot as an investor, and there are many rich estates S£ ut the country with immense Verily, by comparison, the giants of rink a, yS " tke st ° ck ™ rk *t would brought ho Pl ifT eS ,f they coul(1 he brought back to earth and ranged un alongside the leaders of to-day. Thev but 6 the ln f their „ (,ay and generation. imnll Tho dL°l their o P erati °ns was small. They did business in a one-ring t ™ ! h'' herea! the stars of the Present whole h e a a?th. a CanVaS that COVers the The Steel Trust Manipulation. The greatest manipulation ever tin •*** in Wall street was connected with the flotation of the Steel trust, and was under the management of Mr. Jamies R. Keene. He was entrusted with the job of marketing 1,300,000 shares of common and preferred stock (face value $130,000,000.) He accom plished this Herculean task with sig nal success and to a syndicate profit of about $60,000,000, and this in the face of continuous realizing by a great many of the big insiders, including the present “Rock Island crowd,” whose aggregate holding were nearly as large as the syndicate allotments, and who “sold theirs first,” thereby getting best prices, genet’afld ertugoHr CO. ..a-? pfljsteJF Ihe Rears and Roosevelt’s Message, The bear p’arty in Wall street has made capital out of that part of the President’s message recommending •that greater power be conferred tipbn the Interstate Commerce Commission for the regulation of railroads. The falk indulged in on the subject has undoubtedly produced an effect upon the heavy interests in control of the railroads of the country. This feeling is reflected In interviews with leading bankers and railroad owners. It has put a chill on bullish enthusiasm in that quarter and has induced a gen eral taking in of sail. Plans of development and extension are being held up, or at least checked for the time being, until more can be known of the intentions of the Presi dent and Congress. Responsible inter ests recall the fact that for six or eight years after the passage of the Inter state commerce law, and pending judi cial construction of the powers of that body, railroad properties were con tinually under pressure. They have no wish to get uhder the harrow again, as they were during that long and painful period, and the remembrance of what they went through is distinct ly disquieting. Reassurances come from Washington th’at it is not the purpose of the politi cal powers to do anything oppressive, hut word of that sort is not taken as conclusive in view of the open White House encouragement of agitation for corporation regulation. The President's attitude in this matter is held by the more thoughtful element in Wall street to be the real underlying cause of the break in prices, the Lawson shrieking being only incidental, psychologically incidental, perhaps, but by no means • cause. Christmas Rates. Southern Railway announces Christ* mas rates of one and a third fares for the round trip between all point* east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. Tickets to be sold Dec. 23, 24, 25 and 31 and Jan. 1, with final limit Jan. 4. To students and teachers of schools and colleges, tickets will be sold Dec. IT and 24, inclusive, with final limit Jan. 8. upon presentation and surrender of certificates signed by their superintend ents, principals or presidents.—ad.