Julius Finn - Olimpiu G. UrcanJulius Finn was born in Russian Poland, and came to New York in 1887 at the age of 16. From a humble start as a street peddler on the Lower East Side, Finn swiftly rose to become New Yorks champion chess master and one of the countrys best blindfold chess entertainers. Finns chess success contributed to the rise of the chess scene in the Big Apple in the early twentieth century, and he fared equally well in business, parlaying his skills into a highly