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Title: Twenty years among the bulls and bears of Wall street
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Matthew Hale, 1810-1879
Subjects: Securities industry
Publisher: Hartford, J. B. Burr & company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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MAN. In his style of living, Mr. Bonner is as simple andunostentatious as can well be conceived. He lives in aplain brick mansion, which he bought many years agowith his first earnings. It is his boast that his horsesare as well cared for, and have rooms as airy and com-fortable as he assigns to himself His marble build-ing, known as the Ledger Building, is severely simple,but massive and commodious. His great recreation iswith his horses,—not even these interfere with hisbusiness. Late in the afternoon, when the days workis completed, Mr. Bonner starts for his stables. Theteam assigned for the afternoons drive is ready. Hedecks himself in his road gear, and with the ribbonsin his fingers, moves onwards through the Park for hisdaily drive. His coming is awaited by the crowds,who gather around the hotels, and never tire of thematchless speed of Bonners horses. How he appearson the road, and how he drives, will be presented inthe article in which Wall street exhibits its -fast teams.
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XV.BENNETT. OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Early Life.—New York Cabeeb.—As a Journalist.—Starts the NewYobk Herald.—Herald Buildings.—Arrangement Inside.—Edi-torial Council.—Domestic Life.—The Household.—Foreign Em-bassy.—Personals. Oxe of the most marked men in New York, re-garded from any standpoint, is James Gordon Bennettof the Xew York Herald. Whether we regard hishumble origin, his bold and successful journalism, hisearly struggles, his triumphant success against all odds,his massive fortune, or the influence of his paper, whichis felt in every part of the civilized world, the man isin every relation a marvel. The English press wereindebted to the Xew York Herald for their news aboutthe operations of their own armies on their own soil.The paper is read in the Tuilleries. Whoever visitsMr. Gladstones private office in Downing street, willfind a well preserved file of the Herald in a place ofhonor. In the American Bankers rooms, in everycity in the world, the Herald i

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