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MEN AND MYSTERIES - 1870 - TABLE OF CONTENTS - CHAPTER I. PAGE
PRELIMINARY m 1 CHAPTER 11. TEE NEW YORK S TOC E K X CHANG . E . m
13 CHAPTER 111. A DAY AT THE BOARDS . . 25 CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V.
MARGINS A ND TEE LOAN M ARKET. . . . 64 CHAPTER VI. THE METHODS O F
SPECULATION. CHAPTER VII. CONCERNIN S G T OCK-BROK . ERS . . 109
CHAPTER VIII. HABITS AN D HUMOR OF S THE STREE T . . 139 CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IX. TIIE G OPTERA TORS . 152 CHAPTER X. Tm OUTSIDEB . S .
CHAPTER XI. Tm MOBILIT O Y F STOCK . . . 207 CHAPTER XII. IN THE
GOLDR OOM ., . . . 231 CHAPTER XIII. TI E G OLD-BROKERS . a . 244.
CHAPTER XIV. THE MINING BOARD . . 274 CHAPTER XV. EEFORE18 37 S . .
. 286 CHAPTER XVI. FROM 37 TO 60 . . . 299 CHAPTER XVII. LIST OF
ILLUSTRATIONS. . BULLS A ND BEARS . Frontispiece. THE LONG ROOM . .
Page 38 THE REGULA B R O ARD . . . 119 BROAD ST REE F T RO M WALL
ST REE . T . 142 THE GOLD ROOM . . 23 1 MEN AND MYSTERIES OF VALL
STREET. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY. THE farthest reach of audacious
speculation in our day is not without a definite background of
conservatism. An age of steam has stringent need of immense
balance-wheels. The sharp and fevered struggle for wealth has
created a necessity for secure investment and no man, however
gigantic may be the balances of his ledgers, feels himself safely
over the bridge of fortune until his assets assume the shape
of-quickly realizable values. Hence the ease with which national
debts are now funded and joint-stock enterprises are set on foot.
With an instantaneous exchangeable value for all kinds of property
in the worlds market, and an average certainty of return to
invested capital, mankind would deem itself not far from the
threshold of the millennium.And it is because civilization has as
yet failed to make adequatIe progress in this direction with
reference to the products of aa culture and machinery, that great
money-marts have arisen and expanded into paramount importance.
Cotton is good, corn is good, real estate is very good but none of
these have the beautiful qualities of 3 percent British consols or
United States 5-20s. Commodore Vanderbilt can convert the bulk of
his vast property into money in a day. There is no similar market
ready to perform a like service for TVilliam B. Astor. a he
Spragues of Rhode Island are slaves to their factories. The heavy
cattle-raisers of Texas, the great farmers of California and
Illinois, the mill-owners of New England, are not merely subject to
fluctuations in the prices of their products, they are the veriest
victims of circumstance whenever they attempt to turn their
property into coin, or the equivalents of coin. Daniel Drew, the
drover, had come to comprehend this serfdom very thoroughly before
he took up his quarters at the Bull Head Tavern and mastered the
subtleties of Erie speculation. Up and down the human gamut it is
everywhere the same, even to the affairs of the most modest of
capit. alists. The clergyman whose ten years faithful ministry has
resulted in the painful saving of a thousand dollars is very much
at the mercy of his parish if his money is in land, and quite his
own master if it be locked up in bonds or shares, merchantable at
once in the great city which lies an hours distance from his
village. The tradesman in extremity is keenly aware of the
advantage of collaterals over mortgage. Gloucester fishermen know
the difference between sloops in the Bay of Funay and apackage of
Boston and Maine R. R. stock stowed away in a bank-vault...
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