184* WALL STREET AND THE WILDS 



you wonder that he doesn't retire? I don't, for 

 often the way out of his worries is through ex- 

 pansion for it is while that is going on that oppor- 

 tunity knocks at his door. When corralling the 

 Atlantic Mail stock I bought some thousands of 

 shares of an English estate which had a lot of 

 uncurrent securities that it wished to dispose 

 of by exchange for something that would look 

 better among its assets and offer some possibility 

 of making good its losses. There was a big 

 block of shares of the United States and Brazil 

 Mail and important interests in a number of 

 promising but yet struggling railroads. 



Two million dollars in par value of some se- 

 curity was what the estate wanted and I offered 

 it that amount in the special tax bonds of the 

 State of North Carolina, while I was to have a 

 liberal time in which to secure the bonds. The 

 offer was accepted and I got busy. Commo- 

 dore Garrison controlled the Brazil Mail and the 

 transaction gave me a heavy interest with him. 

 Our private offices in Bowling Green were side 



