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Show JAY COOKE'S BIBLE CLASS. ' A reminder of the fact that Jay-Cooke, Jay-Cooke, the head of the once poAverful and famous banking house, is still very much alive, in spite of his 83 years, is furnished in a recent news item, Avhere it is stated that Mr. Cooke made the "star catch-' of the season on the fishing fish-ing grounds off his summer house at Beach Haven. Mass. The' entire lot of fish Avas expressed by Mr. Cooke to his suburban home at Ogontz. Pa., to be distributed among the. members of his Bible class. This class has been conducted by the financier finan-cier for more than fifty years and has a nv?mbership of eighty. Mr. Cooke Avent to Philadelphia from Sandusky, O.. a poor boy, and became a clerk Wi a bank. Fifty-six years ago he and j his sons founded the banking house of j Jay Cooke & Co., Avhich became one I of the most powerful financial institutions insti-tutions in the United .States. It handled" han-dled" the . larger part of the $2,000,000,- 000 in bonds issued by the general government gov-ernment during the Avar, and afterAvard financed the Xorthern Pacific road and Other great enterprises. In the panic of 1873 the house went under. Mr. Cooke saved a comfortable, fortune froi'.i . the wreck, and in more recent years he has been a large owner and dealer in Avestern real estate Leslie's "Weekly. 1 |