This acquaintance with the
fundamental basis of law, cursory as it was, became like a gospel to
Edward Bok. In later years, he was taught its value by repeated
experience in his contact with corporate laws, contracts, property
leases, and other matters; and he determined that, whatever the
direction of activity taken by his sons, each should spend at least a
year in the study of law.
The control of the Western Union Telegraph Company had now passed into
the hands of Jay Gould and his companions, and in the many legal
matters arising therefrom, Edward saw much, in his office, of "the
little wizard of Wall Street." One day, the financier had to dictate a
contract, and, coming into Mr. Cary's office, decided to dictate it
then and there. An hour afterward Edward delivered the copy of the
contract to Mr. Gould, and the financier was so struck by its accuracy
and by the legibility of the handwriting that afterward he almost daily
"happened in" to dictate to Mr. Cary's stenographer. Mr. Gould's
private stenographer was in his own office in lower Broadway; but on
his way down-town in the morning Mr.
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