. Wall Street guide /. leaving a fortune esti-mated at from three to six million dollars. siderable height. They had everything planned tobring the corner to a climax at two oclock on acertain day, and supposing that Little was in igno-rance of their plans, had expected to completely over-whelm and hopelessly ruin him. An hour prior to thetime appointed by the clique for his disaster hewalked into the Erie office, opened a bag filled withconvertible bonds, and requested an exchange ofstock for the same. He had purchased his bonds inLondon and had them safely locked up for the emer-gency, which
. Wall Street guide /. leaving a fortune esti-mated at from three to six million dollars. siderable height. They had everything planned tobring the corner to a climax at two oclock on acertain day, and supposing that Little was in igno-rance of their plans, had expected to completely over-whelm and hopelessly ruin him. An hour prior to thetime appointed by the clique for his disaster hewalked into the Erie office, opened a bag filled withconvertible bonds, and requested an exchange ofstock for the same. He had purchased his bonds inLondon and had them safely locked up for the emer-gency, which he promptly met on its arrival. He gotthe stock, settled the contracts, and broke the cor-ner. Mr. Littles convertible-bond trick was usedlater with signal advantage by his speculative suc-cessors in Erie, who demonstrated on several occa-sions, using Mulberry Sellers expression, that therewere millions in it. JACOB LITTLE. In the early days of the Stock Exchange, when itsbuilding was located on William Street between. JACOB LITTLE. Beaver and Exchange Place, Jacob Little was one ofits leading members, and made and lost in that his-toric place nine fortunes. He was one of the mostprominent speculators in Erie in the early days ofDaniel Drews manipulation of that property and itsstocks. This was early in the history of corners,and as Mr. Little was almost invariably a bear, theloading members of the Erie board formed a pool to corner the stock and ran Erie shares up to a con- GEORGE J. GOULD. Like WTm. H. Vanderbilt, George J. Gould was edu-cated by his father to manage and care for the im-mense Gould properties which had been organized byGould the elder, and like Wm. H. Vanderbilt, his suc-cess has been remarkable. Of course ho has had thebenefit of a period of unusual prosperity, duringwhich stocks of his various companies have greatly
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