Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — "Jim” Keene’s Neat Present. [ARTICLE]

"Jim” Keene’s Neat Present.

“Jim” Keene having once been nursed through a very dangerous illness by the late Sam Ward, upon his recovery handed Mr. Ward one day a letter which he said contained a statement of account. Mr. Ward opened the letter in my presence on the trip from Long Branch to New York City, and, having read it, gave it to me to read. It waß a delightful statement of account. It showed that a large block of shares in the Lake Shore Railroad had been bought some weeks previous for the account of Samuel Ward, had been sold the day before and the account closed out, and that, deducting commissions, interest and expenses, there remained to Mr. Ward’s credit with the brokers some thirty thousand dollars. “It’s the first I knew of it,” said Mr. Ward. “Mr. Keene put these shares to my credit without my knowledge, and tiis brokers have been carrying them for me/’— York Letter to Philadelphia Press.