New York, and in fact the whole country, according to a New York telegram in the London Daily Mail, is experiencing one of the greatest wavea of speculative excitement ever known. " During the past few month* thousands of people have doubled and trebled their incomes, while hundreds have made actual fortunes, through the enormous rive in the value of stock which followed the close of the war Vith Spain. Stocks are still going up, and everybody is asking: " Where is it going to end ?" but the upward move* ment still shows no signs of cessation* Among the lucky men whose fame is being heralded far and wide is Mr Jas. B. Taloott, a Wall street broker, who has temporarily retired from the Stock Exchange, having cleared 1,000,000d0l since laßt August. Mr Taloott made money through the phenomenal rise of Union Pacific, Atchison, Burlington, St. Paul, Bock Island, and Pan Handle railway shares and People's Gas and American tobacco shares. Since August Mr Boswell Flower, a former Governor of New York State, has cleared 20,000,000d0L through the rise in Brooklyn Bapid Transit, People's Gas, ond Federal Steel. Mr George Gould is credited with 5,000,000d01., made out of Manhattans and Missouri Pacifies; while Mr John Rockefeller is said to have added 8,000,000d0l to hii wealth through the rise in Standard oil shares. The stories of those enormous profits appearing in the newspapers are hav ing the effect of stimulating wholesale speculation among all classes."

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