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Show HE LEARNS SOMETHING ABOUT HIGH FINANCE New York. April 27. Although a speculator In Wall street for many years. State Senator Patrick H Mc-Carren Mc-Carren of New York, has learned something he did not know before about high finance. When the receiver receiv-er for the defunct brokerage firm of Ennis & Stoppani called on hltn for a settlement of his accounts of $450.-000, $450.-000, the senator said he would pay the amount if the receiver returned to him 2.G00 shares of Amalgamated Copper; 2.000 of R. R- T. shares, and 2,000 shares of the United States Rubber Rub-ber first preferred. The receiver was unable to find this stock as it had Ions ago been disposed of in the market. But accepting McCarrcn's ofTer, the receiver wont Into the market and purchased the required stock at about $100,000 less than the similar shares had originally cost McCarren. He thereupon traded the shares for Mc-Carren's Mc-Carren's check for nearly $10,000,000 On being questioned by the receiver receiv-er aa to any assets of the firm of which she might have knowledge, Mrs. Thomas Ennis, wife of the head of the Arm, expressed her willingness to turn over to tho receiver, all of her ! private fortune to pay creditors. |