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Show Honest, In Wall Street. A few soars ago a Wall street fl-m was agent for a coterlo of atreet rail-load rail-load inpltnllsls on in 11 gin shares tli it tho I'hll.idelpliliua weio under 1110..1I obligations to .outrnl Ono da the iiBCiits sent wind to the l'hUadelphlarn that those shales must b taken up at once 01 they would bo tin j "11 on the innikct. Tho New York lutn knew that It would bo Impossible for the l'hlladelphlans to take up thine stocks on such short notice Antlilpntlng their fiilluie to do m, the New Yoilt iiBenta hid UBtiod to sell .it n low pi Ice fill more of the sto.l. than they had held. Thes expected tint when the 1,0,(100 shares weio cast upon tho market, mar-ket, they would bo ablo tn buy ut a Hi III lnwtr pilco all that was needed to till their own contracts, and that a heaiy pain would be mule This was a schomo that In othei ears would hns 0 (Winked, and to the serious Injury of tinny mora than those Immediately iiinccineil Hut u new power had conio Into Wall street The I'lillndelnhln inn took 11 special train to New iork 11" sunt to Mi J IMerpnnt Morgan They informed him of their Preilica-luent. Preilica-luent. 'Tell those fellowa to send that He. In in im'. ' replied Mr Morgan at on o. Tli 0 iw nl" weio In despair They weio folic, to ask for the twentj-four horns allowed by the stock exchange In such ortietRtncles Next morning tho agents 8jbl that by a nils take In hookkeeplnk It had been UiourIi th it ne.iiiltles weio n New iorK wnicn vVLio ically n London, and they muld 5ot bi d"Krl for a ncilc o, mora went UP nnd the ngenta were fniced EDBOd-sonioryliif lb, wa administered beforo the Incl-I Incl-I ain't Tan closcU.-WorWB Work. |