CHAPTER II 



FIRST DAYS IN WALL STREET 



According to his card, Mr. Marquand was a 

 broker who dealt in notes, bonds, stocks, and for- 

 eign exchange, but business had not commenced 

 with him at the time of my employment. He 

 had desk room for himself in the inner office of 

 the American Fire Insurance Company, and he 

 was agent for his brother, Frederick, who was 

 the owner of five stores in Broadway, an equal 

 number in Liberty Street, beside much other 

 property. 



My duties were to collect the rents and stand 

 off the complaints of the numerous tenants of 

 these buildings. Sometimes something had to be 

 done by carpenter, plumber, roofer, or rigger, 

 and then I made bargains with workmen and 

 bossed the job. At times I did things myself, 

 and I remember robbing a rigger of a job by 



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