CHAPTER XXII.

VILLARD AND HIS SPECULATIONS.

Return of the Renowned Speculator to Wall 209

Street.—Recalling the Famous “Blind” Pool in Northern

Pacific.—How Villard Captured Northern

Pacific.—Pursuing the Tactics of Old

Vanderbilt.—Raising Twelve Million Dollars on Paper

Credit.—Villard Emerges from the “Blind” Pool a Great

Railroad Magnate.—He Inflates his Great Scheme from

Nothing to One Hundred Million Dollars.—His Unique

Methods of Watering Stock as Compared with those of

George I. Seney