Every one on the Stock Exchange was interested in B.& I.'s, and he settled himself down comfortably to hear what his companion had to say on the matter.
"There's old Dreadnought Phipps," White continued.

"Peter Phipps, to give him his right name.

Well, has ever a man who aspires to be considered a financial giant had such a career?
He was broken on the New York Stock Exchange, went to Montreal and made a million or so, back to New York, where he got in with the copper lot and no doubt made real money.

Then he went for that wheat corner in Chicago.

He got out of that with another fortune, though they say he sold his fellow directors.