Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-03

try's good. Whether she captured
him or not 1 cannot say; but GER
tain it is that after q career of near
ly two years, in which she had rare
ly made a mistake, she Quilted Wall
street at least 800, 900 richer than
she entered it. She was as wary as
one of the Indians that Howard
purSues (by telegraph), and as well
posted in the ordinary business of
the stock market as the general run
Of brokers.
"How do you find that.a life of
speculation, so to speak, affects
women?"
We'll, they are not as case-har-
dened as men. They can't drop
the shop when they 60 home. A
man has a hundred different ways
Of amusing himself in the evening.
The woman goes to her home, and,
if she has nobody to gallant her to
the theater or to a concert, must
sit there until bedtime brooding
over the operations of the day or
concocting new schemes. Of the
few women who were active in
Wall street as spectators Il speak,
of course, only of the women |
have known) there was only one
that went out Of the market as
fresh and as young as when she
came in. That was the young lady
l Just spoke of. She combined
philosophy with shrowdness and
business knowledge"
"Don't women become rather
litigious in speculation?"
81 am glad you reminded me Of
that. In the palmy days, before
Jay Cook q Co. buried themselves
under the ruin of Northern Pacific,
and when Henry Clews & Co. were
rapidly looming into favor with the
navy department, which subse-
quently displaced the Barings ol
London to give them chance,
a woman appeared in Wall street
with the evident intention of max
ing money fast. She was not par
ticularly young nor dazzlingly beau
tiful, but she was shrewd and long,
headed. Unfortunately, she was a
strong bull, and could not swervc
from her opinions. She was tn,
wife of a furniture dealer in Brook
lyn. She made her headquarters a
Clew's for a while, and seemed t,
succeed pretty well; but befor,
long her nature demonstrated it
, self. When she made money sh
was an angel; when she lost sh
r was a-well, she lost her temper a
+ well as her money. A dollar wa
as big to her as the driving-wheel 0
4 a locomotive. But she was pluck
, all the same. If she had the ghos
ola chance, she would buy heavily
' and generally she would come GU
, ahead. One of her peculiarities-
, and it was this that ruined her
was that she sometimes forgot wha
a her orders were. On more thar
t one occasion, when she had ordere
/ o broker to close out q line of stock
: for her, she forgot that she ha,
: given the order, and brought sui
0 for the differences. The result wa
t that in few months she had ru
t the gamut of Wall and Broat
+ streets, and found nobody willin
e to deal with her or TO keep her az
O counts. No broker wants Gus
toner that is always going to Law
r 1t interferes with business and cost
I money. The little woman-sh
t was very small, and used to dres
;. in gray-Gnally disappeared fror
=. the street, leaving behind her
/ sulphurous odor Of law"
v "Woodhull 4 Clalin drew aroun
J. them large female clientage, di
t they not%
+ "No, not as far as | know. The
took the Offices vacated by Grey
: the iorger, who is now in prisol
and began a business that was dis
r tinctively masculine. | believe ol
: Commodore Vanderbilt gave ther
It some orders, and Uncle Danit
y Drew, then magnate, was kind
+ them. AS to their female clienhg
u ! know very little. They did hay
/, q few orders from women, but thel
Is were light in amount, and did nc
IS go far toward paying expense,
Is Miss Tennie Olahin was one of til
d boldeSt female speculators l eve
q saw, but she always wanted
II point to work on. She kne'
most Of the big men Of the stree
Ie and / believe she was posted on I'll
movements Of the market oftenc
RS than any woman that ever can
. into the street. She was as shal
Or as a steel trap and never needed
IS second hint. Justintimate a thin
ID TO her, and she was wide awake.
ct she had had money she would ha'
80 made O fortune"
", "Haye you found that wome
y. like men, generally lose in u
II. streets?"
y eyes. Little fish can't swi
IS. with big ones down here. | +
% member a nice old lady that 6
"a bitten with the stock mania ju
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