Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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THE REVEREND FRANCIS XAVIER BRADY, S. J Twelfth President Loyola College.

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THE LOYOLA ANNUAL 17 nf 0II|antg HE telephone jangled loudly. It was nearly eleven. All morning I had been expecting a call. I had an important deal on hand in Wall Street, for the success of which it was expedient that I be absent from ’Change till the very last mo- ment, so I had secluded myself in my country home, two hun- dred miles from New York. However, I could reach Wall Street in plenty of time, for outside puffed my high-power Packard and the Exchange did not close till three in the after- noon. It was most important that I should arrive in time, for,, though I was understood to be in the deal, I had not yet paid for the stock. I was not legally therefore a member of the corporation, whose object was the control of practically all the copper supply. Taking up the receiver I heard the voice of Brice, one of the leaders of the enterprise : “Hello. Is this Jim Ferris?” said the voice. “Well, Jim, everything is progressing finely. How- ever, the Harriman interests are making a big fight, but your appearance, with the cool million in cash, can safely be de- pended upon to swing the deal. Without you we would surely be whipped ; so be in tim.e. If you start now you ought to be here by two-thirty. Goodbye.” As soon as our talk was ended I descended the steps and entered my waiting car. No time was lost in the start and I was soon whirling over the turnpike leading towards New York, with the Hudson to my right and to my left myriads of populous villages. On I sped, as through a land in miniature, so rapidly did man and beast, forest and hill pass by. The hands of my v atch pointed to one when I reached Cragmont, with half the distance covered. But from here on a very god of 2