. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . quare he was hissed bya few ill-bred people who had been honored with specialseats. That evening the Grand Duke was serenaded by the bandof the Ninth. Thousands of people crowded the streets inthe neighborhood of the Clarendon
. The life and times of Col. James Fisk, Jr. : being a full and impartial account of the remarkable career of a most remarkable man, together with sketches of all the important personages with whom he was thrown in contact ... and a financial history of the country for the last three years, embracing also the lives of Helen Josephine Mansfield ... and Edward S. Stokes . quare he was hissed bya few ill-bred people who had been honored with specialseats. That evening the Grand Duke was serenaded by the bandof the Ninth. Thousands of people crowded the streets inthe neighborhood of the Clarendon Hotel, where Alexis wasstopping, and the marvelous performance of Levy and hisfellow artists evoked thunders of applause. Colonel Fiskwas sent for by the Grand Duke, and for half an hour ormore he chatted with the young scion of royalty with all theease and abandon which ever characterized Jim Fisk, whetherengaged with the fireman of his express train, with the bro-ker who sold his stocks, or with the President whom he de-sired to win over to his side in gigantic speculation. In the early days of the Union Pacific Railroad, when Cor-nelius S. Bushnell, of Connecticut, Mr. Oakes Ames, of Mas-sachusetts, and others, were laying schemes for the accom-plishment of one of the greatest undertakings ever inaugu-rated, Mr. Fisk wanted to purchase a large amount of stock. GRAND DUKE ALEXIS OF RUSSIA. JAMES FISK, JR. 327 by paying only a certain per cent, of the value down (as isgenerally done on original subscriptions), that he might havean important voice in the councils of the road. He fully re-alized its importance. His intellect, whatever may be saidof its education, was broad-gauge and comprehensive in itsrange, and he readily foresaw that the first trans-continentalrailway must command a traffic which would insure itsprofitable operation. His keen wit fully understood that,first, a scheme of so gigantic a nature would, as a matterof news, be thoroughly heralded throughout the civi
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