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The clerk who had sent up the card therefore turned
to the caller.
"Mr. Drexel would like to have you come up," he
said.
A few moments later, when Drexel shouted "Come!"
in response to a rap on his door, instead of a trunk
borne by a husky porter, in staggered the "drunk."
Herman Oelrichs, agent for a big German steamship
company, was a good patron' during the first few years
of the Bar; and William N. Wood, head of the Ameri–
_can Woolen Company, was only one
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large number
of notable industrialists who were often button-holed
in the place.
Foxhall Keene, son of James R. Keene, famous mar–
ket operator and race horse owner, and himself one of
the foremost American polo players early in the cen–
tury, would drop in with a number of friends. Clarence
Mackay at that time was a very popular patron, not
only because of a pleasing personality, but because he
always gave generous tips.
E.
Berry Wall, kn_own as
the "King of the Dudes," could sometimes be seen
wiping his long mustache after a lioation at the Bar;
and in contrast with his slender figure the next .man
to him might be the portly Colonel William H. Roe,
manufacturer of woolen goods, but incidentally a con–
noisseur of wines and a big buyer at the bar-side.
"Joe" Leiter, son of a famous Chicago mercha·nt,
and brother of two beautiful women who married well–
known or titled Englishmen-himself a big speculator
in grain-was to be seen frequently. George A. Huhn,
a banker from Philadelphia, was well known there-
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