eight o'clock
He 's not bright ; he 's perfectly silly about some things , and yet he 's the most interesting talker I ever heard . And -- CA N'T he play a piano ? '' Hannibal Wharton arrived in New York at five o'clock and went directly to Merkle 's bank . At eight o'clock Jarvis Hammon died . During the afternoon and evening other financiers , summoned hurriedly from New England shores and Adirondack camps , were busied in preparations for the struggle they expected on the morrow . During the closing hours of the market prices had slumped to an alarming degree ; a terrific raid on metal stocks had begun , and conditions were ripe for a panic . Hammon had bulked large in the steel world , and his position in circles of high finance had become prominent ; but alive he could never have worked one-half the havoc caused by his sudden death .