(Cotton yarns cornered by Patten crowd – Newspaper item)
Perhaps
that man named Patten,
Who likes to corner things,
Thinks
he kin get a corner
On all the yarns, I jings!
P’raps
he can corner cotton,
An’ other yarns galore;
They’s
some that he can’t corner,
The yarns in Stokes’ store.
Tom
Barry useter try it,
An’ Tom’s a wonder, too;
He
tried to cover stories
Ez drummers gen’ly do.
But
‘twain’t no use, by hokey,
We had him good an’ sore
Each
time he tried to corner
Our yarns in Stokes’ store.
An’
now this man named Patten.
A cornerer uv fame,
Accordin’
to the papers,
Is goin’ to do the same.
Now
he may corner cotton,
An’ other yarns galore,
But
wish he’d try to corner
Them yarns in Stokes’ store.
Sept.
24, ‘09
James
A. Patten (1852–1928) was an American commodities speculator,
financier, and politician. The mayor of Evanston from 1901 to 1905,
Patten is best remembered as a leading financier of the Gilded Age.
United
States v. Patten, 226 U.S. 525 (1913)
There was a Charles Thomas Barry who was a purchasing agent
for Arlington Mills (earlier worked for Wellington Bros.), “well known” in the
Boston area.
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