Show WHERE HERE OFFICES ARE I NOT IT NEEDED I I t Many Big Deals Are Made in Places That Are Peculiar I J i P MORGANS BIG DEAL i CLOSED A MILLION STERLING I DEAL IN A TAXICAB B BLondon I London Anvil Auril amazing man math PIerpont Morgan recently completed a deal involving over a million sterling In a taxi taxicab cab on the way to his Wall Nall Wallstreet Wallstreet street office To us on this side of or orthe the Atlantic there is something a trifle trifles s ls about such methods Yet het here hore in London never a day da goes goesby goesby goesby by without U transactions involving very VOry large sums flUIDS of money being carried through g la in the open streets Visit Sh court at 6 in the evening even evening evening ing during a New York boom Six In London is 1 p m in New NewYork NewYork York and the height of activity on Wall street So although our own stock tock exchange has been closed Lon London London London don brokers standing along the tho pave pavement pavement pavement ment call out bids and nd offers from group to group roup Nine years ago when the powerful groups of capitalists were fighting for forthe forthe forthe the control of Northern Pacific stock with the result that prices soared to amazing figures tens of thousands of pounds worth of shares changed chal ed hands bands in the open London street Again during the last great Kaffir boom the crowd of brokers dealing in South African shares after hours be became became became came at times so great as to require the services of the police pollee to clear cear morton street Visit some of o the little restaurants Dear Bear near Hatton Garden about lunch time You ou will frequently see a man pull a crumpled envelope from his waistcoat pocket and tip its contents a stream of fire into the palm of his hand h ml You realize reaUze with a gasp that these are diamonds and it frightens you ou to think of gems of such price being so carelessly handled But with the diamond merchant familiarity has bred contempt and under your very nose a deal In thousands of t pounds worth of gems may be rapidly carried out Was Vas it not the late Barney Bar ey Barnato who when going through the Kimberly works with Mr Rhodes casually offered of offered fored to buy all the rough diamonds mined during the previous year All right replied air Mr Rhodes But let us first lu ve them photographed This was done and Barnato there thereupon thereupon thereupon upon made an offer something like three millions we believe It was ac accepted accepted accepted and taking the stones he sent them to London and Amsterdam James Patten who came nearer to cornering wheat than any other o her oper operator operator operator ator for a generation Is a man who has never considered that a office a desk and a doorkeeper in livery are essential ess to a business deal One day da one of Pattens clerks ran in to ask his employer his de decision on a point that Involved Inv a loss or gain of many thousands thousand He found the Corn King in the street getting his boots blacke i Patten would not stop the bootblack but resting a l scrap of paper on his knee wrote his directions in pencil and gave them to the clerk That Flint night Patten counted his gains at pounds po Mr r Schwab of o Steel S trust fame tame is an another another other of or the k al millionaires Nine years ago when motor cars were loss less common and more costly than titan they are today Schwab went to Paris At Athis Athis Athis his hotel he was introduced to a French Frenchman Frenchman man The talk fell on motors Schwab had never owned a car car c r but the French Frenchman Frenchman man was an enthusiast Come down said the latter One Om of my cars is at the door I 1 will till show how howIt It you ou ouS Schwab S wab looked at t the car How much did it cost coat you he I asked Sixty thousand francs I Will Vill you sell Because If so Ill buy bu buYes Yes Fifty Flit thousand rid francs Ill Fit take tako that too And pulling out outa a checkbook from one pocket and a afountain afountain afountain fountain pen from another Schwab there and then wrote a n check for francs and handed it over overs s |