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The
engineers told George Clinton that he needed a bridge high over the surging
tides from one side of the east river to the other. At a tremendous cost George said yes because he
could triple his passenger traffic if people could walk across the river on his
new bridge and catch his scheduled train.
The bridge would also be a victory over the natural forces of the east
river but the engineers told him it might also be the most costly bridge in the
area.
The
shoreline on both sides of the river would need a lot of work at they told him
the gigantic project might cost $35 thousand dollars maybe even more. They had to sink 159 wooden piers for
anchorages to make the crossing at the narrowest point and some kind of pier in
the middle to hold up the connecting wood beams. The bridge would be 197 feet long crossing
the river and the piers would have to hit bed-rock to make it sturdy, safe and
long lasting.
The
shallow water would make the work easier but parts of the river was very deep
and would require thousands of tons of rocks to be placed at the bottom of the
river for a solid base. George had also
decided that he wanted a boat harbor on each side and maybe a nice Palace Hotel
built up on decks about the water attracting high priced customers.
The
roadway to the bridge had to be graded up in some easy sweeping curves to make
it look good and easy on the horse drawn wagons.
He
would call the hotel The Fort Point Palace Hotel and it would be a three story
brick building having at least 25 rooms and a grand restaurant at the ground
level on the river side and a railroad station on the inland side. The engineers loved it but were watching and
waiting for the money so they could get started.
George
knew all about the banker John Flynn even though most people called him Banker
Flint because he was so cheap.
George
Clinton and Hillary Rodham got all dressed up to honor their appointment with
banker John Flynn in the city as their carriage waited at the fork in the road
as the soldiers of the Army of the United States swarmed the road returning
from Pennsylvania. It was a ceaseless stream of men walking in full uniform
moving north most likely on their way to West Point New York.
Banker
John Flynn was the president of one of the biggest banks in New York City so
George was a little worried as his experience was only with little banks and
littler bankers. The New York Bank has
powerful interests in Washington D.C. so Hillary Rodham got a congressman on
some committee to set up this meeting.
George
Clinton and Hillary Rodham were now on their way and had to stop and pick up
their hardware merchant friend and one of the bridge engineers to take along to
the New York Bank and the scheduled meeting with banker John Flynn for a loan.
The
big banker meeting went pretty well and Banker John Flynn liked the bridge idea
and guaranteed the loan if George would allow a property lean on his river
front acreage. John Flynn said that he
wanted George Clinton to meet a few people that maybe could help him with money
and other expenses. The man in the next
room went by the name of Giannini and he was a young Italian man that owned
banks in San Francisco and Los Angeles in California.
Mr.
Giannini banks were backed up by the Bank of Italy and Banker John Flynn shared
an idea with George Clinton and Hillary Rodham.
The bankers wanted to set up a holding company that would have a board
of directors and George Clinton would be the boss. The holding company would sell stock shares in the "The
Public Good Foundation" and for all intents and purposes George Clinton
would never run out of money.
Mr.
Giannini owned hundreds of bank branches and Mr. Flynn controlled dozens of
smaller banks in and around New York which he called chain banks. Banker Flynn and Banker Giannini proposed to
send out a chain letter to all their hundreds of bank branches and have them
sell stock shares in the holding company for The Public Good Foundation. The bankers even had friends in Michigan,
North Dakota and Montana. They could
raise millions of dollars if given enough time.
Banker
Flynn and Banker Giannini had been working with Congress to permit large scale
branch or chain banking by national banks legal inside the entire United
States. Congress knew that little banks
were failing and they were about to fail again because of the cost of the great
internal war that recently ended. The
southern rebellion ruined the south and just about destroyed the north and
thousands of little village banks were about to drown in debt as very few men
could pay their bills.
The
"Clinton Foundation" was born the next week on Friday and the once
empty cash vaults were quickly filled with cash money and gold and the streams
of cash were endless.
The
Clinton Foundation was the holding company for The Public Good Foundation which
owned the property and owned the entire project and received cash money from
the Clinton Foundation.
George
Clinton was the top man at the Clinton Foundation and the top man at the Public
Good Foundation and of course George Clinton became a multi-millionaire almost
overnight but George soon found out that bankers are not as foolish as
construction managers and supply merchants.
Banker
Flynn and Banker Giannini had set up a Bank called The Bankers Company of Trust
as a separate company that sold the stock shares of the Clinton Foundation all
across the world. George Clinton agreed that these two men would have the
monopoly of selling the stocks and the sale of the Clinton Foundation stock
created a small explosion of opportunity as the stock prices doubled in the
first six months and people were begging to buy into the Clinton Foundation and
of course the Public Good Foundation that would own the east side railroad and
the hundreds of buildings and small businesses waiting in line to sign up.
George
Clinton told Hillary Rodham that he didn't need any more money and he was
afraid that many a good man in the banking business were over selling the
Clinton Foundation. The country was
entering a time of a slight depression and even the smartest bankers were
starting to get a little afraid as their large profits were becoming smaller.
George
and Hillary knew that banks are established for the benefit of the bankers but
against great odds the sixteen mile railroad was about to open next month for
the benefit of the people.
George
Clinton and Hillary Rodham knew that if they could serve the people well and
good the profits would come and the tiny villages built on both sides of the
railroad tracks would prosper and create their own wealth as Hillary taught
George that it took a village to create prosperity just like it took two people
to establish sexual relations.
As
required Bankers Flynn and Giannini through their Bankers Company of Trust Bank
always wanted to know what the money was used for as it was investors money to
the Clinton Foundation that moved to the Public Good Foundation at a rate of
about $300,000 every month.
At
least two times every month Banker Flynn and Giannini sent their own Bank
managers to visit the small villages that were being built along the railroad
tracks. What was good for the Public
Good Foundation should be good for the bankers and George Clinton. The banks were really set up to collect
interest on loans but selling shares in stock was a lot more profitable. For every dollars worth of stock the two
bankers made twenty cents creating their own millions in profits.
The
branch manager of the Bankers Company of Trust owned by Banker Flynn and Banker
Giannini came out from their Philadelphia branch and was a young man with a
great deal of ambition. George Clinton
was explaining the promoting of the project as rapidly as possible in bigger
towns as the young bank manager tried to shake the dust of his brown leather
boots.
"Well,
Mr. Clinton, you need some help here which is clear." the young man sat down in front of George
Clinton's desk. "Mr. Clinton if a
man would borrow ten dollars from you can collect all the interest which is
profits and you write your own book or rules." the young man smiled and told him about a
friend named Emery that always came into the bank in Philadelphia and borrowed
money and by the way always paid back the money on time with interest.
George
Clinton asked his secretary to have Hillary Rodham present herself in his
office as this young man had a lot to say.
"Mr.
Clinton, your foundation, the Clinton Foundation owns the money and if you read
the rule book you have the right to take your management fee and the rest moves
to the Public Good Foundation." the
young man knew his numbers and he also knew that George Clinton was paying
himself about $30 thousand dollars a month.
"I
propose Mr. Clinton that you open your own banking firm, endorsed by the
Clinton Foundation, which you own or at least control as a holding company,
backed up by your assets in the Public Good Foundation which you own and
control as collateral and start filling your pockets with gold coins and expand
your grand ideas all across the country."
"Mr.
Clinton, Your land and railroad are the biggest kind of collateral that the big
bankers love and I'll be your banks president!" the young man knew all about greed and could
see in Hillary Rodham's eyes that a big pile of gold is better than a small
pile of gold.
George
Clinton had paid Hillary Rodham back the thousand or so dollars she had loaned
him at the start and in fact he had issued her a bank draft for $10 thousand
dollars.
The
young banker talked for the next three hours and explained how a bank works on
the outside and how they really work on the inside.
"Well
Mr. Clinton, you see, a bankers best collateral in the public domain is a good
wife and Ms. Hillary Rodham has agreed to be the good wife to have the good
collateral needed to work with the big bankers."
The
countless little facts that strangers looked for in a banker made sense, a nice
home, a nice team of horses, pruned bushes and a well looking wife with some
kids. To be a good banker George Clinton
would have to pile up a lot of money, marry Hillary Rodham, make sure they had
a few children and build another family home closer to the city where people
would know his address.
To
be useful Hillary Rodham was willing to marry George Clinton and even pretend
not to whore in the city if it would help out this banking adventure.
In
her own right she wanted to be paid for services and didn't want to ask
permission when it came to money, travel and even boyfriends.
Hillary
Rodham Clinton would also become a silent director of the bank and she had
every intention on fu.king the young and industrious man that cooked the banking
idea up in the first place. She guessed
that Vince Webb might be twenty five years old and she would be sharing
breakfast with him often when the money started flowing.
During
the start up the bank prospered amazingly and the bank would lend all kinds of
small sums, five dollars, ten, fifty dollars and more but the small business
man is what George Clinton liked as they made money and always paid their
interest.
They
even loaned a young man twenty dollars so he could get married and before the
first baby arrived he had paid the whole loan.
Banking was a good business as the Clinton Foundation grew larger and
the trains ran on time owned by the Public Good Foundation and started
producing profits on their own. George
Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton had their child as customary of Bankers and the
little girl Mary Clinton was left in the best of care as George and Hillary
were busy enjoying their life, diddling away Saturday nights living the high
life on their large downtown estate.
Hillary
Rodham Clinton kept a dozen old gentlemen busy on Saturday nights and having a
field day watching George Clinton devour younger women every time he could
muster another hard one.
The
burlesque show down the street even had a special table for George Clinton as
he was kindly with his money and his gentle wife named Hillary practically sent
young women over to his table of friends.
The
village of little buildings that George developed into a cash making community
needed a mayor so George Clinton became mayor also with all the honor and
responsibility of a regular mayor.
The
main street was filled with women taking walks even late at night and many
business owners wanted a part of the action.
A clothing concern from Baltimore wanted a building, a food grocer from
Newark wanted a store on main-street and even a shoe maker wanted space next to
the drug maker that came from Pittsburg.
The
railroad was the ticket but the Clinton Foundation was the gold mine and
bundles of cash had to be transported often to the George Clinton banking
concern called the Wholesome Bank and Trust Company.
George
Clinton invested in about everything but his money makers were tobacco, cattle,
potatoes, corn, wheat but his biggest side line was whores that would relieve
any man for a dollar.
Maybe
a banker ought not to run whores but George Clinton followed the money and he
was he to interfere in copulation which was a natural event that saved a many
good marriage.
