Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — How Bloom’s $200 Has Grown. [ARTICLE]

How Bloom’s $200 Has Grown.

Chicago Herald. Leopold Bloom, the daring speculator of the Board of Trade, is perhaps the wealthiest young man on ’Change. He was born in Clinton, La., May 22, 1858. When he was 20 years old he was the proud possessor of S2OO in currency. He was down town" one bright afternoon, and while in the old Board of Trade alley he hought a call on 100,000 bushels of eorn. He went home, had , a good night’s rest, and when he awoke next morning and went down town he found himself just SIO,OOO better off than wh<m he had retired the night before, hostilities having been decided on and corn taking a big jump. That S2OO made him an even $50,000 in six days. He took his profits and made some investments in real estate, which proved even more profitable than his corn deal, for Chicago property was then a drug on the market, and Bloom was just sharp enough to anticipate the city’s rapid growth. From that time on Bloom became a noted plunger on the Board —not always, of course, making make great losses. To show how much of a plunger he is, it may be cited that at one time last winter Bloom carried 1,500,000 bushels of corn, 18,000 tierces of lard, and 40,000 barrels of pork, the whole netting him a clear profit of over $140,000 when he finally sold. Leopold Bloom is worth in tangible property and real estate over $850,000.