Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-06
FEMALE TIGERS,
H0tU They Buck The Bucket Shops in
Chicago,
Chicago Times Dec g
perfected.

HOtc They Buck The Bucket Shops in
Chicago,
Chicago Times, Dec. 3.
Two 'bucket-shops" for the exclusive &C.
commodation of women are in operation in
this city-one on Dearborn street, near
Randolph, and the other at no great distance
from the corner of La Sale and Randolph
streets. A Times reporter called around
on yesterday to take observations and sec
how the ladies were making it in their con-
test with the grain tiger. The beasts lair is
the rear room on the third floor of bust
ness block, and on the door is painted the
sign, "Blank Grain Exchange" Passing
through clOak-room the reporter entered
the bucket shop, a neatly carpeted apart
ment, furnished with thirty or forty chairs,
large blackboard, and table for the use
of telegraph operator. One corner of the
room is used by the proprietors and clerk
for Office purposes. About thirty women
were sitting or moving about, some of them
engaged in crochet work, or sewing or knit
ting, while others were doing nothing but
fit hither and thither, or sit in
chair for moment, only
to Jump up and run to another part
of the room at the faintest click of the tele-
graph instrument. Still a third set re-
NAMED fixed and immovable in their chairs
watching the upward or downward course of
the market with undisguised solictude, but
not caring to wear themselves out in undue
physical exertion. There was nothing giddy
or volatile in the appearance of that assem-
blage. On the contrary, it looked like q
congregation of women's Fighters. There
was not woman in the room day under
thirty, and several of them were on the
shady side of fifty, while one old mother in
Israel who sat near the door with a red ball
of yarn in her lap and her aged fingers
deftly manipulating two long bone needles,
must have been seventy. The reporter
looked in vain for the succulent maiden or
the luscious lass of tender years. She was
not there, but her mother and her grand
mother and her aunt were on the spot, and
they all had front seats and tabs. The
spectacle would have discouraged a lady
killer or q confidence man. Both would
have got 'stand off, the first play. The
vinegarish, leathery females who made up
majority of the convecation were not that
kind of girls. They came to do
little ''scalping," and their
speculative operations fully describe
their ruff1ing characteristics. They
were scalpers from the word go, and an un-
protected man would be in hard luck if they
should cut loose on him. No wonder poor
Bugbee was torn to pieces. He was lucky
to get away alive. The patrons of that
bucket-shop looked as though they were
abundantly able to take care of their own
interests, and there were among them a
number of women whose keen eyes and in
telligent features bespoke more than ordin-
airy shrewdness.
"Rather respectable appearing body of
women" observed the reporter, cautiously,
turning to youth, evidently the handy man
of the establishment.
The youth inspected the reporter critically
and then, concluding that the visitor was
waiting for one of the customers, he per-
mitted his face to be suffused with smile.
81, yes; none other are allowed here. It is
very select and exclusive"
The inquirer mentally grinned as he re-
called remark he overheard as he was COM
ing up the elevator. ga rummy mob that,
the female board, when they all get togeth-
er. If any fellow gets away with that gang
he is good 'un and don't you forget it.
They are ugly enough to stop clock" The
slanderer was still going on at the same rate
when the reporter disembarked, but the re-
mainder of his discourse was lost-and it is
probably just as we'll.
"How do the ladies set about the business
of speculating?" asked the reporter of the
handy man.
"Like real men, was the reply, ''though
there is one popularity about them; they are
all BULLS Funny, isn't it?" he continued,
noticing an involuntary smile on the inquis-
itorial face, "that women should be bulls;