| Show MEN OF or THE HOUR some are born bo rn gallt great some achieve greatness ami and so me r greatness thrust upon the them m S xia M JAMES it KEENE AND OWNER OF this gentleman noted on wall street as the man who has lim had jay gould down several times and on the turf as the owner of foxhall and other racers came to new york from the pacific slope a few years ago ago ho ile is about forty five years of age shrewd cooil coo ambitious and bold while not uniformly successful he lias lins always manage managed 11 to make his is gains more than his losses his is winnings ings on the turf particularly durin during the last season in france nee alig and england have been ve very r large when nhen lie came to new york he had determined on oil cleaning out wall street but he was not very successful in his undertaking in fact wall street got rather the better of him in the big western union deal when over shares of stock were purchased ure based gould and keene withdrew with spoils to the amount of but in the division that followed gould got the money and keeno keene had to pocket his wrath then came the atlantic pacific poolin which keene and garrison were joined and to which gould was admitted gould went west and keene and garrison went in for themselves but more stock was piled on them than they could carry and garrison sold out gould had been selling all the time they were purchasing this time russell sage came in winner to the amount of principally principally at goulds expense keene c ne however had not unloaded in the transaction and came out ahead in the spring of 1878 gould spring again went west ivest he c was carrying of union pacific at tho the time and nearly all of it borrowed money keene got up a big scheme then it was to make a basli on the market and send prices down with a run gould returned and found things in a fearful condition he lie unloaded shares of stock andrut for sago sage coming to his assistance si would have been compelled to leave wall street one of air mr keenes operations was getting into a deal on union pacific at 55 and selling at 95 making ho is regarded as one of tile ri richest eliest operators in new york |
