CHAPTER XIV.

DANIEL DREW.

Drew, like Vanderbilt, an Example of Great Success 117

without Education.—Controlled more Ready Cash than

any man in America.—Drew goes Down as Gould

Rises.-“His Touch is Death.”—Prediction of Drew’s

Fall.—His Thirteen Millions Vanish.—How he caught the

Operators in “Oshkosh” by the Handkerchief Trick.—The

Beginning of “Uncle Daniel’s” Troubles.—The

Convertible Bond Trick.—The “Corner” of

1866.—Millions Lost and Won in a Day.—Interesting

Anecdote of the Youth who Speculated outside the

Pool, and was Fed by Drew’s Brokers

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