The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-08-20

well-knOwn broker recentlv.
Not often nowadays although in
the flush times many Of the fair sex
took flyer once in a while. They
didn't run much to stocks il those days.
Gold was their favorite. You re-
member how the premium used to HOP
up and down. don't you? Well the
women wanted quick and big profit,
and these they could get easier in gold
that in stock.
l believe one woman at least made a
fortune out of the bogus proclamation.
That sent gold up like rocket.
Whether she had point or not,
never could find out. know, though,
that she operated heavily, and was
shrewd enough to buy on the smallest
possible margin"
but there have been women who
came down to Wall street regularly to
speculate, have there not ~
''Oh. yes ? but not many. l. don't
recall more than FIVE or six. Our
orders come mostly by mail, or through
friends of the fair operators. Some
years ago there was young and pretty
woman who seemed to have plenty Oi
money, considerable shrewdness, any
amount of dash and energy. She used
to come down every morning and stay
to the close of business, making her
headquarters with a leading banking
house. At that time Pacific Mail
was a general favorite with specula-
tors. and she caught the fevor. She
was a persistent bull. and her inabil-
ity to change sides once in a while
brought about her financial ruin. /
don't know that she had any system of
operating. Indeed, / believe she
viewed stock specializing as a game
of chance. and PLAYED accordingly
She was successful as long as her
favorite stock was on the rise, but
when the tide turned she didn't have
sense enough to turn with it. In the
sex, and that she acted Just as ninety
nine out of every hundred women
would have doness Well, Pacific Mail
cleaned her out a.in about eight
and | never saw her again"
"Do you find among women custom
ers any decided biasy"
Yes. They mostly, operate for
the rise. They are always sanguine
and seem to think that they want will
come to pass. They don. study rail,
roads and other speculations as men do.
they do they do on impulse
Then. again, they are as superstitious,
as a rule, as the plantation negroes
befor the war. They have dreems
that guide their speculation, and
their dreams always shape
to suit their peculiar ideas.
There are exceptions to rlue, of
coursey"
Yes, now and then. Ten years
ago a lady of no particular age-she
may have been twenty eight or forty
lid a good deal of business through
Robinson, Chase 4 Co. and other.
She was as keen set after
1 point as a cat after a nous or a
hungry man after his dinner, and she
made heep of money. She used to
humor the market beautifully, and
vas always circulating around the
street to pick up news. Her only
ault was that she was too timid. |
once she had point on
Erica dead sure thing that a man.
her money, woalb have
urned 10000 shares OIL. But she
lidn't. She was slow but sure.
She took in 1000 shares. and was
to make, 1000 ON the
urn, although she was assured the
he stock was going up seven pc
,ent. 1t seems to me that she h d
IN object in coming into Wall street
ar beyond money-making. but she
lever gave herself away. / learned
ong after she disappeared that she was
IN heiress. and the story was she was
n love with a handsome young broker
Who has siuce left his country for his
good Whether she captured
lin or not can not say but certain
t is that after a career of nearly two
ears in which she had rarely made |
mistake. she quilted Wall street at
east 500, 900 richer than she entered
t. She was as wary as one of the !
indians that Howard pursues by
elegraphj, and as well posted in the |
business of the stock market
$ general run of brokers"
.'How do you find that a life of spec
,lation' SO to speak. affects women?
well, they are not as case-hard-
ned as men. They cant drop the
hop when they go home. A man has
l man has a hundred ditlerant WAYS
f amusing himself in the evening.
women goes to her home, and, if
he has nobody to gallant her to the
heater or to concert, must sit there
ntill bedtime bro,ding over the
perations of the day or concocting
ew schemes. Of few women who
1ere active in Wall street as specula-
ors Il speak of course, only of the
VOmen l have known) there was only
ne that went out of the market as
rec and as young as when she came
d. That was the young lady ] just |
poke of. She combined philosophy
nth shrewdness and business knOwl:
dge."
"Don': women become rather
itigious in speculation"
81 am glad you reminded me of
hat. In the palmy days. before jay
,ooke & Co buried themselves under
he ruin of Northern Pacific, and when
henry Clcws Go were rapidly loom
,g into favor with the Navy Depart
nent, which subsequently, displaced
he Earrings of London to give them
chance. a woman appeared in Wall
treet with the evident intention Of
,aking money fast. She was not