San Francisco, Sept. 3.
This article rightly should have! been headed "Millionaires and Mushrooms," for in this country the money-making animal and the rapid-growing vegetable are begirt a compelling synonimity. I understand, for. example, that in July of this year—a summer month during which little usually is done on the Stock Exchange—no less than 300 new millionaires rushed into existence over night.
People unfamiliar with New York, the great centre of stock exchange work, cannot, I think, even visualize the enormous interest that has come to be centred on Wall [Street from every nook and cranny in this country—for that matter throughout the world.. One need not: by any means be a New Yorker to dabble in New York arocks and One may live far away up) in the mountains of Kentucky, out in the Sierras or the Rockies, or i the sands of the Mojave and yet be in constant touch with his broker and transact qui
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