Show Honesty In W all Sired I A tow years ago n Wall street firm was agent for L coterie of street railroad rail-road capitalists on margin iihnres that thin PhllndelphlaiiH were under inornl obligations to control One ilay the ngcnlB sent word to the Phlladclphlans that those shares must be taken up at onco or they would bo thrown on the markot The New York men Ime v > that It would he Impossible for the PhiladelphIans to take up those Blocks on such short notice Anticipating tholr failure to rloso the New York agents had agreed to Bell at a low price fur more oC the stock than they had held Thry expected that when the COOOO shares Were cast upon the market mar-ket they would be able to buy at a tlll lower price nil that was needed to nil their own contracts and that u heavy gain would be made This was r scheme that In other years would have worked and to the serious Injury of many more than those Immediately concerned But a new power had come Into Wall street The Philadelphia men took a special train to New York and wont to Mr J Plerpont Morgan They Informed him of their predicament predica-ment Tell those fellows to send that mock In to me replied Mr 1 Morgan at once rho agents werx ln despair They were forced to oak for the twentyfour hours allowed 1 by the stock exchange In such emergencies Next morning tho agents said that by n mlstakd In bookkoeplnk It hud been thought that securities were In New York which were roally In London nnd they could not be delivered for I a week or more Meanwhile the stock was largely bought on lhl tock exchange the price went up and the agents were forced to buy Rt very high prices In order to deliver tIme fiOOOO and other whores they hind agreed to deliver nt reduced prices Th < agents had extreme dllll I cult In retaining their Sat on tho exchange and some very salutary u l ilea i-lea was ndminlatorod before the Incl I dont was cloed Worlds Work |