The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-03
LADY GAMBLERS.
rb, She Bears and Speculative Heif.
ers of Gotham.


The She Bears and Speculative Heif-
erS of Gotham.
ruu Ten Years In Wall street.'J
Woman Of a certain type are naturally,
o. by education, inclined to speculate in
,lcis Perhaps they may catch the in.
ec,iou from their brothers, or uncles,
gho talk stocks while boiling their meals
M haste, 50 that they may hurry down
Two, and buy a little more Central, or
sytf their short gold, Wealthy ladies,
Tlo are their own mistresses, and have
enty Of leisure time, might be expect.
d, 8 they sit cmbroIdering golden bees
,,l butterflies on black velvet, to have
sstr thoughts turned upon stock. flyers,
80! 10 dream Of new equipages, jewels
sol silks won out Of stocks or gold.
From whatever cause II may arise, there
Ne no more eager and VenturesOme gam.
bes at Baden. Baden, in Germany, than
Eauen, and there are no more eager and
Tenturesome spectators in stocks than
women,
LADIES on CHANGE.
On almost any bright day, when stocks
Ierising, q dozen or more snowy car
rsges may be seen drawn up in front Of
The offices Ofthe most prominent broker.
s,e houses, waiting for the gorgeous
lanes who ride in them to come out
Ehen they have transacted their business
with the brokers. Most Of the specula'
i've ladies' are dowagers with bank &C.
cunts, for which they, perhaps, thank
their departed husbands, or fathers, or
aocICs, and which they arc now using as
Margins in stock speculation, almost al
Ways for rise, for it seems 10 them an
IHcomprehensible thing that any money
can be made by TALL in stocks. Like SO
many Nlagdalcns, they roll their fine eyes
aotrpentantly; but avariciously upwards
nTaFds the towering heights oil Rock Is'
lad, or New York Central, where they
hope 10 make their profits.
MISSES IN THEIR TEENS,
Besides these middle-aged matrons,
here are moi few misses in their teens,
whose faces are turned Wall street-ward.
luagnO these sylpli-likc creatures og.
Ing the elephGnliue bulk Of Erie as Il
PAGES up with u dignifCd stride, or casting
'aeeps eyes al Pittsburgh as it dances on
Clique
0ne lair young creature, with wealth
oI6Ionde hail, Jeans pensively on her hanC
M y INDUCES IN pleasant thoughts Of
heading, or in her sleep has sweet dreams
o. va Southern, Another quick brunette
Tf1swllh a pAlpitating bosom q billet
tsaG from her broker, informing her Of
'he Closing prices, and enclosing bal
4lCe OF profits which she devourl
WIN her eyes; or perhaps it is a more
unpleasant missiye, by which she learns
!aAt Erie, her first !ove, has proved
Eeac9eroEs, or gold has ceased to re,
'pORd 10 her VOWS.
POOL IN HARLEM,
Al Saratoga, in July, 1868, three youn,
AlIss, possessed Of will and several thou
" Aal dollars Of their own, made up
poor in Harlem on their own individual
s'SCGunt, and bought two thousand share
u Tue neighbOrhOOd Of 100. Within fou
HteSs The rise Of 1871 showed them to b
FInneIs to the amount OF $4,000. Thu
seemed Ss TO justify them in going into tn
W. SaIuFo0e line. Consequently they nigh
, %sSen every day sitting on cushioned
t w. ~ Stewards and Arnold's, Consta
w wy, Y Co.'S palaces, making heavy in
,ISeneGIS IN MORE antique, MechliI
,@e anu India shawlS, But alas for thu
D VA Of human expectation, they die
a a.0 sell their Harlem, and six or eigh
s S;iIs, from that time they received, not
AcALL FOR MORE MARGIN,
~, ~ Harlem had sold down to seventy
w. s"5, ind y; instead of making SIS 900, they
T ruLIu, II they sold, now lose $4,000
iSoUs'l01alely all these young ladies DO
" ,o, 10 a heroic mould, and instead O
SSu . into Mysteries or sitting down ant
, r"S'us good cry they went manfully, O
,"uvt womanIully, to work and raiseC
Nun, s'oaey' furnished The necessary margin /,
, %eE broker, and vowed by Nemesis tina
c Svy would hold their Harlem till the,
T TSa! make their $4,000 once more
ii sI',t aerOlsm in six months was reward
TSn 'os lle latter part of April, 1864
lsm r'e !, tae Commodore was hoisting Har
I EUi, faey drew $4,000 out of their bro
ANoTAHLE FEMALE spECuLAToR,
n V 20 Of the notable female Spectator
S a. wan street is maiden lady VIII
|, NUS Nas. aet property by the million. Sh
Tb ae'et seen there, however, exccp
i spsa s ~ are falling, and properly be
Gc.Ss s 70 The class OF panic.birds 6eEor
,esr oeu' IN these seasons she may b.
bIScL ~ her customary suit Of soiem
of'cS ' tripping down to her broker
Cas- prepared to buy at the lowest pr
,S s1I a1u when stocks go up she AWAY
pto fI % s to her broker to sell out. He
;jm"s 1 ~ rom theseinvCslments have somC
num- o' risen to more than 100000 per al
Of , , emo most remarkable case Of all Is the
Sbss S ssay whom we will call Miss III
niSS Sel,ongs TO the class of the stronG
sT. Ne s ones Her face Is that of u Vosl
s,%s, anu the white dove which she Sesl
con.,au l,ss upon her jockey hat seen
inc ISi on.y IN the act OF playlully swoor
prs, S'"I upon the less amiable bird b
0pss,io, IN her views on tho flnanci
norSi 'ns shG has always taken bic
temr, s y ground, dlscountCnancing all q