My Adventures with Your Money
BY GEORGE GRAHAM RICE
RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS BOSTON
Copyright, 1911, by The Ridgway Company
Copyright, 1913, by Richard G. Badger
All rights reserved
The Gorham Press, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
To The American Damphool Speculator, surnamed the American Sucker, otherwise described herein as The Thinker Who Thinks He Knows But Doesn't— greetings !
This book is for you! Read as you run, and may you run as you read.
G. G. R.
New York, March 15, 1913.
You are a member of a race of gamblers. The instinct to speculate dominates you. You feel that you simply must take a chance. You can't win, yet you are going to speculate and to continue to speculate—and to lose. Lotteries, faro, roulette, and horse-race betting being illegal, you play the stock game. In the stock game the cards (quotations or market fluctuations) are shuffled and riffled and STACKED behind your back, AFTER the dealer (the manipulator) knows on what side you have placed your bet, and you haven't got a chance. When you and your brother gamblers are long of stocks in thinly margined accounts with brokers, the market is manipulated down, and when you are short of them, the prices are manipulated up.
You are on guard against the Get-Rich-Quick man, and you flatter yourself that you can detect his wiles at a glance. You can—one kind of Get-Rich-Quick operator. But not the dangerous kind. Modern Get-Rich-Quick Finance is insidious and unfrenzied. It is practised by the highest, and you are probably one of its easy victims.
George Graham Rice
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
THE BIRTH OF AN IDEA TO COIN MONEY
THE HIGHER MATHEMATICS OF THE OPERATION
HOW "THE ONE BEST BET" WAS COINED
REAL INSIDE TURF INFORMATION
THE PUBLIC ASKS TO BE MYSTIFIED
PRESTIGE RESTORED BY A CLERK'S RUSE
A BOASTFUL RACE PLAYER GIVES AID
FORTUNE CHANGES HER MOOD AND SMILES AGAIN
THE KENTUCKY COLONEL FALLS IN LINE
BETTING THE PUBLIC'S MONEY AT GREAT PROFIT
$130,000 IS LOST AND WON IN A DAY
A DISASTROUS NEWSPAPER WINDUP
A PARTNERSHIP OF PURE NERVE
BUCKING THE TIGER ON THE DESERT
BIDDING $3,000,000 WHEN BROKE
MILLIONS IN THE VISTA HELD NO CHARMS
"HUMAN INTEREST" VERSUS TECHNICAL MINING
BEGINNING THE ADVERTISING BUSINESS
SOME ADVERTISING THAT PAID
BUILDING GOLD MINES WITH PUBLICITY
HAIR-RAISING STORIES FOR DISTANT READERS
THE MERCURY OF SPECULATION
THE BIRTH OF BULLFROG
ENTER, CHARLES M. SCHWAB
WHY THE BOTTOM FELL OUT
HOW ABOUT THE PUBLIC'S CHANCES?
JUMPING JACK MANHATTAN
TRYING IT ON THE STRAY DOG
ADVERTISING FOR THINKERS
YES, "BUSINESS IS BUSINESS"
FORTUNES THAT WERE MISSED
THE TALE OF BULLFROG RUSH
PRIZE FIGHTS AND MINING PROMOTION
THE YEAR OF BIG FIGURES
THE STORY OF GOLDFIELD CONSOLIDATED
AT THE HEIGHT OF THE FRENZY
GETTING INTO THE GAME
ALL THE COPPER IN THE WORLD
THE COLLAPSE OF GREENWATER
THE SHAME AND THE BLAME
THE RISE OF WINGFIELD AND NIXON
THE WINNINGS OF A TENDERFOOT
I AM LANDED HIGH AND DRY
THE BEGINNING OF THE RAID
SOME PERTINENT PERSONALITIES
THE TIME WHEN MONEY TALKS
CLOUDS IN THE WESTERN SKY
FROM CREDIT TO CRASH
DOWN WITH THE SULLIVAN TRUST COMPANY
SOME HINDSIGHT THAT CAME TOO LATE
AN ORGY IN MARKET MANIPULATION
THE GUGGENHEIMS ENTER NIPISSING
NIPISSING ON THE TOBOGGAN
WHO GOT THE $75,000,000?
THE WONDER MINING-CAMP STAMPEDE
TEAGUE ATTACKS SENATOR NIXON
"CALLING FOR A SHOW-DOWN"
MANIPULATING GOLDFIELD CON
THE STORY OF THE GOLDFIELD LABOR "RIOTS"
THE DEATH OF GOVERNOR SPARKS
REAL GOLD AT RAWHIDE
THE RAWHIDE COALITION MINES COMPANY
A RACE OF GAMBLERS
PUBLICITY VIA ELINOR GLYN
"AL" MILLER'S SIEGE
THE FUNERAL ORATION FOR RILEY GRANNAN
AMONG THE "BIG FELLOWS"
THE REVERSE ENGLISH
THE POWER OF THE PUBLIC PRINT
RAWHIDE AGAIN
GOOD BIG FISH VS. BAD LITTLE FISH
RIGHTEOUS WALL STREET AND THE "SUCKER" PUBLIC
THE MARKETING OF MINING STOCK
I BUCK THE WALL STREET GAME
THE "DOUBLE-CROSSING" OF RAWHIDE COALITION
"INSIDE" MARKET SUPPORT
MORE TRUTH ON THE "MINING FINANCIAL NEWS"
THE SCHEFTELS PRINCIPLES
THE SCHEFTELS COMPANY AGAINST MARGIN TRADING
THE FIRING OF THE FIRST GUNS
THE STORY OF ELY CENTRAL
THE ASSAULT ON ELY CENTRAL
THE CLASH OF BATTLE
A BOMBSHELL IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP
A GOVERNMENT RAID IS RUMORED
A TOOL'S CONFESSION
THE GUGGENHEIMS
