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James Stillman change at the other apex of the triangle. Keene "the calmest man in Wall Street", that day-supported the market with orders given his three secretaries in his little office on the fifth floor of 30 Broad street. And in his own office Morgan, rising 70 and at the peak of his power, mobilized the wealth of New York, in bank and out, to be pledged with the government for currency to withstand the bank runs. About the grim old financier and filing past his desk as if they were mere clerks and not the money masters of their time, Rockefeller, Ryan, Harriman, Frick, Gary, Vanderbilt pooled their securities in a common fund. MORGAN ruled by right of personal force throughout the crowded day as lines lengthened outside the Trust Company of America, the Lincoln Trust Trust, the Morton Trust; as the gigantic Westinghouse combine failed in Pittsburgh for $60,000,000, closing the Pittsburgh exchange; as call money went to 125 per cent at the lending post and dozens of houses faced suspension. The Knickerbocker Trust had gone; but the other large trust companies must be preserved. Morgan and the National bankers didn't like the trust companies, but if they succumbed no one could foresee the effect on the conservative banks. Cortelyou had arrived at 9 p. m.