Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-11-18
''John Paul, on wall.street Operations.

'John Paul" the humorous New York
correspondent of the Springfield Repabli-
can, narrates his experince with the Wall
street brokers wien he stepped down
amorg them after the fridays battle TO see
what he could pick up:
'What do yeu want of us ?" would be
asked as l entered the office.
ITO buy some stocks for me-"
"Have you any money!
"have l any money? Do 1 look Likes a
person OF that charac r? If hal do yCQ
think I'd come down here with IT,"
Then we can't do anything for you"
Cant eh? What's to hinder your buy
ing me any stock that looks likely TO go up
twenty or thirty per cent. at the lowest.
letting it go up, selling it at the highest,
taking out what it cost and your commits
sions, and giving me the balance / don't
ask you TO give me any money beforehand,
and you make your commissions and have
the fun Of doing the business in any event. +"
None OF them saw the profit that must
result to them from this thing, which
simply shows that they are not business
men. There's not woman who reads this
article but can see with half an eye-unless
she has wall, or Wall-street eye-that
they're sure TO make commissions if the
lateral if it goes down.
Zone of these persons-when I wish 10
be particularly severe on a man I always
speak of him as a person--called to me as
| was going out of the door, and said .:Are
you James Fisk, Jr. p
NO." replied, ''why do you ask r.
Oh, explained he, Il thought that no
one else in the city could have that amount
of cheek"
have since thought that he might have
meant chic, which is French for style.
However, notwithstanding their combi-
nation to crush me, they cannot prevent
me from operating. This is the way to do it.
When see stock which think is going
up, enter the price down in a book, and
the number of shares I would probably buy.
If il goes up / can calculate the profit ]
should have to a nicety. If it goes down.
can calculate the saving have effected
| by not buying, so you see / have q sure
thing either way. Putting both sides to
gether. find that make and ave about
81, 900. 600 week.
This is much better than doing business
on q margin" Imagine me as ''rivulet
of text meandering through meadow o.
margin"
By the way. it is stated that Lucille
Western and Pauline Markham were dowr
in the street on Friday. driven in close
carriage, and people were wondering whai
they were doing there. 1t seems to ms
lair to suppose that Lucille was looking
after the Western stocks. while Pauline
being one Of the bares of the period, pro
badly went down tn keep the clique il
countenance. She's been s'short," $50 fal
as skirts are concerned) ever since shei
been in the country.
1 It was supposed that the clergymen. Sun
day, would fire in platoons at the sin ant
folly of speculation, but they didn't. /
may be that not few of them took a turl
in the street. During my investigations
on Saturday, ! thought I saw the Eide
Tyng trying to get "put" on Daniel Drew
but / may be mistaken-it may have beel
Vanderbilt Rev. Mr.. Winkler preache
from very appropriate text, though tn
sermon had nothing to do with the lat
corner in gold and decline in the stoc ks
Buy the truth and sell it not" My eye
though, won't they go ssshort" of it in Wa
street, 1t seems to me that an ingeniou
clergyman might have made very intel
esting discourse from that little episod
in the life of Elijah, or at least drawn
: clever parallel, comparing gold to th
, Baldhead, and the bulls to the boys wh
; cried go up" until at last the bears gol
bled them.