A DERELICT OF WALL STREET.
On his way back to the office Jack stopped at the Seaman’s Bank, on the corner of Wall and Pearl Streets, and opened a personal account for $150. The balance of the $200 he had received from Mrs. Breeze he handed over to his mother when he got home that night. You may be sure there was great joy in that little household over this unexpected windfall, and now the future looked very bright for them indeed.
On Saturday afternoon Frank Simpson severed his connection with Mr. Atherton’s office, and the two boys parted in an especially cordial way.
Nothing of any moment occurred during the next three or four months to interrupt the regular routine of Jack’s duties.
He and his chum, Ed Potter, both had the Saturday half-holiday during the summer, and they put it in mostly playing ball up at the Olympic Field.
One day Jack learned that Hartz’s messenger was about to leave him, so he called on the broker and asked him if he would give his friend Potter a trial.
Hartz, who had a good opinion of Hazard, readily agreed to oblige him, so next day Ed came down to Wall Street and Jack introduced him to Hartz.
In a day or so, Potter was taken into Hartz’s office on trial, and, proving satisfactory, was told that he would be advanced, if he deserved it, when the opportunity presented itself.
Everybody who ran across Jack Hazard liked him.
This was especially true in respect to those in the office with whom the boy came into daily contact.