Category: Biographies
My Adventures with Your Money
The place was New York. The time, March, 1901. My age was thirty. My cash capital, tightly placed in my pocket, was $7.30, and I had no other external resources. I was a rover and out of a job.
Chapters
12. CHAPTER XI
Its first offense was to reduce its commission rates. This move set the whole Curb against the enterprise. But as the play progressed it proved to have been unimportant in compa...
4. CHAPTER IIIMr. Sullivan's gambling-house affiliation was not considered a drawback to the trust company. George Wingfield, vice-president and heaviest stockholder of the leading bank in Go...
7. CHAPTER VIThe _Goldfield News_, of nation-wide circulation in those days and up to then unshackled, sought to stem the tide. It published a double-leaded editorial, in full-face type, set...
9. CHAPTER VIIIProbably the most scientifically press-agented camp in Nevada had been Bullfrog. Bullfrog was born two years after Goldfield. The Goldfield publicity bureau by this time had gre...
6. CHAPTER VIt was early in November, 1906. Indian Summer held Goldfield in its soft embrace. Nature wore that golden livery which one always associates with the idea of abundance. The mine...
1. CHAPTER IThe place was New York. The time, March, 1901. My age was thirty. My cash capital, tightly placed in my pocket, was $7.30, and I had no other external resources. I was a rover a...
2. CHAPTER III had never visited San Francisco. Being close to the city of the Golden Gate--within fifty miles--I decided to "take a look." So one evening, in the late Fall of 1904, I packed...
10. CHAPTER IXA man who thinks he knows what happened to me in Wall Street, and _why it happened_, suggests that the New York section of "My Adventures With Your Money" be prefaced with the f...
11. CHAPTER XB. H. Scheftels & Company, Incorporated, mining-stock brokers, successors to B. H. Scheftels & Company, for many years stock brokers in Chicago, opened its doors on Broad Street...
3. did. His enemies go so far as to allege that he, his brother, and hisI have an opinion, and I may be allowed to express it. Mr. Schwab, at the time he became a promoter of Nevada mines, was an expert steelmaker. He knew little or nothing about si...
5. CHAPTER IVWhen the excitement was at fever-heat in Goldfield over the stupendous rises in market value of Goldfield securities which were being chronicled hourly, news came to town of the...
8. CHAPTER VIIBecause Rawhide, the new Nevada gold camp, was born during the financial crisis of 1907, I couldn't see any future ahead of it from the promoter's coign of vantage--not "through...
13. CHAPTER XIIDon't speculate in Wall Street. You haven't got a chance. The cards are stacked by the "big fellows" and you can win only when they allow you to. The information that is permitt...