| Show A gentlemanly profession A city mau man was lately asked to recommend a nice gentlemanly profession in v which bich a quick fortune could be made without risk he be replied that he be know knew of only two such professions and they were both rather hard to ret get into they were the professions of kaffir millionaire aud and american railroad reorganizer the kaffir millionaire is not entirely unknown to our readers but perhaps they are not so well acquainted with tho railroad reorganizer his native habitat is new york and he is only to be een seen f in loudon london as a bird of passage he be may honor us ua with his company for a few days when on his way to tho the riviera or the upper tipper nile but ho be would bo be making himself too cheap if lie ho were wera to recognize such a thing as business when lie ho had only inn over for a short holiday his work here is done vicariously through sympathetic agents or public spirited committees he has also committees in now yolk and nowadays he finds it necessary to have syndicates and underwriters as well A playful professional fiction assumes th that it these committees have been elected by the reorganized bond and stock bold era to protect their ts another pleasant illusion gives the syndicates and the underwriters credit for stepping into tho the deadly breach to save tile the reorganization from imm imminent im mient ilent peril arid and they have to be pa paid id accordi accordingly ugly or in professional phraseology compensated pen perl sated saturday review |
