Mr. Connor was not only faithful, but quick and shrewd in his judgments. Upon him rested nearly all the details of the best operations of the house. These operations often required the assistance of fifty or sixty brokers. Often these brokers did not know that they were working for the same client. Sometimes they were ignorant even of the fact that Gould was their client. The prime necessity in great stock operations is to conceal one’s movements. Sometimes a part of the brokers might be selling and a part might be buying. Gould and Connor alone held the strings of the intricate operations. One of the first great successful movements the house undertook was in Kansas Pacific in 1879. The stock within a period of a few months shot up from 8 to 97, and the bonds from 10 to 110. Gould cleared nearly $10,000,000 by this operation. The most brilliant feat accomplished by the house was performed when Gould acquired Western Union. Mr. Gould for a long time, as has been related, had been an uncompromising bear on the stock. The whole street was aware that he and his firm were heavily short of the stock. Suddenly the stock began to rush up. Gould was caught for once, it was said. The truth was that Connor had engineered the movement and Gould had not only bought in all his shorts but purchased enough stock to give him control of the company. It was also this house that pushed Western Union up from 78 to 91 and pushed Henry Smith and other bears to cover their shorts at a heavy loss. It also handled the elevated railway deals. While Gould and the Beldens were in partnership at No. 80 Broadway, Connor had a small office in the rear. He was bright, sharp, sagacious, reticent and nearly as well informed as Gould himself. Gould was drawn to Connor naturally, and when the former fell out with the Beldens he and Connor formed a co-partnership. Mr. Morosini for many years had been Mr. Gould’s man Friday, and was invariably seen with a large canvas bag following his employer to the safe deposit vaults and protecting him against any repetition of the Selover attack. Morosini went into the new firm, whose limitation only ran from year to year. Connor and Morosini put in $100,000 each, and Gould, as special partner, $250,000. George Gould was admitted in 1881, but without paying in a cent. Although the nominal capital of the house at all times has been $450,000, the actual capital, at times of great activity on ’Change, ran up into the millions.