Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-28
Excitement Over the Ladies'
Deposit SWindIe.
A BRILLIANT BUBBLE BURST
The Woodward DefsIcation---The
Inevitable " Woman in the
Case"---The Defaulter a
Delightful Waltzer---
lncendiarism.
AMERICAN WOMEN'S CONGRESS

something immense; supplements nave
been the order of every day, and the
reporters life has been burden to him
Politics are nowhere. Presidential candi-
dates, Colorado murders and rumors of
pending wars abroad, sink into utter it,
significance before our own.home matters,
which are all we eau manage lust now
To think of Boston, the calm, cultured
Hub of the intellectual world, being the
spot unhappily selected for the head
quarters of that biggest-and smsllest-of
all modern South Sea bubbles, the Woman
Bank Why couldn't that Mrs. Howe, Of
eventful history, have gone somewhere
else to locate her mean swindle on poor.
silly, hard working women How eboni-
nably cunning it was in her, to confue her
charity o to single women, so that there
should be no husbands to inquire into the
workings OF the concern, and bring ii to
grief! In fact, this answers my question; of
course it was on account of our ''superfu-
Gus" women, for which New England, and
especially Massachusetts, is so celebrated.
that our metropolis was chosen froIa
which to victimize the silly, trusting flies
Apropos of our feminine majority, by the
way, cannot forbear interpolatinR an ex-
preston of opinion which western girl who
has been spending couple of years here
gave of our masculine minority the other
day. She is very bright, Jolly young
lady, and receives attention" enough
TO make her eastern sisters wild with
jealousy.
'"rhe young men here are so terribly
vain" she said, "they act as if they think
they are doing you the greatest imagin.
able favor in speaking to you il they
ask you to go to the theatre they expect
you to fall down on your knees and thank
them for their condescension, and as for
entertaining one of them during an even
ing call, its harder work than scrubbine
floors, for they just keep psssively still
and want to be amused. You just ought
to see some of our western gentlemen
once on their own native heath"
Moral: Go west, young women, and
seek husbands, and don't stay east and
seek wealth in deposits" Nevertheless,
there must be some attraction here, for my
western friend still stays here and declares
she won't go home.
Eight per cent. per month interest in
advance, and principle retnrnable on de-
maid Tempting, wasn't it? And no
more risky after all than policy gambling
, and lottery tickets. Those that were Gin"
while the thing was running had a good
thing of it, and doubled their money most
delightfully."-. If only the bubble had
hoated long enough, they would have
gotten rich, as shown by the fnanoiering
of our depositor, who, with On actual OUT
lay of but S19S, by sinking interest as well
as principle, had at the end of year from
her first deposit of $500, the sum OF $500
at her credit.
But, it is the old story of the horse,
! who was trained by his enterpgisiug and
economical owner to live on sawdust.
just as the animal got used TO the food
and began to thrive on it, he up and died.
And SO it is with the Ladies Deposit. -"
1t is as dead as door nail, and everybody
is studying the lists of names of victims as
fast as they come out in the papers, to SEQ
whom they know among the number.
| The president and the secreta.y-both
women, of course-are in jail awaiting
bail, and the matter is on every tongue,
but the show" of the thing no pun
intended) is still as great a mystery HI
ever. Nobody can even guess how tho
concern was sustained so long, or what or
who its hackers have been.
Then our latest development, which
transpired yesterday, has set tongues and
type to wagging beautifully. Nearly q
hundred thousand dollars gone from our
|
door of a most trusted official, the cashier,
whom everybody has loved and respected.
A young man in his early tLirties, fine
looking, gentlemanly always, well edu-
Gated, not at all dissipated or given to
gambling or other vices. Then there is
the inevitable woman in the case" who
claims to have been his wife by a secret
marriage for two years past; an actress,
whose profession has been money ont
instead of in, whose antecedents" the
reporters are now actively at work on
having already given her no less than
three different sets of parents, with snec-
dotes and descriptions to match. Inter
views of two or three columns with this
lady have been published, aud at last they
have arrested her in lack of anybody else
to arrest, the cashier himself having dis
appeared utterly. Those who knew him
say he has committed suicide. Those who
don't know him, say he has gone to
Europe, or TO join Wiuslow in South
America.
Poor fellow don't pretend to know
him-lucky that | don't, too, if l would
avoid being interviewed within an inch OF
my life-for l have only met him at
parties, but thst hss been enough TO maks
me thoroughly like the man, aud to make
me very reluctant to believe these dread
full things of him. Such delightful
waltzer fear | may never dance with
again.
These matters, together with the ocea
sional bodeful items concerning the incen
diaries who are known to have been con
cerued in many fires of late, and for whom
Il large reward is offered, make thugs
lively. Every time the fire bells ring
! ~ ttn a.
With which We have been threatened, sn(
which there is really much reason tC
apprehend
The Womsn's Congress held its eight
annual session here last week, Meioneai
Hall in the new fremont Temple being
thronged three times day with many
women and few men. The lady dele
, gates came from all parts of the countr,
among them were some Of tue most intel
1 ligeni women in America. was uuabl,
TO give much time to the meetings, onll
running In for halt hour now and then
The morning meetings were sacred Il
! members only, the press being religiousl!
, excluded. The afternoon meetings wer,
I, free to the public and in the evening
20 cents admission was charged. Som
; of the ladies who read paper
spoke so low that it was impossible
, to hear them, but others reading fairl,
! aud some Of the papers were exceedingl,
! we'll written and interesting. One in par
!. ticular, that read by Mrs. Anna Garlil
: Spencer, of our own State, on "The Laga
J Position of Married Women" was yer,
j able and exhaustive exposition of the sub
ject, treated both historically and topically
The amount of reading and research
: which this pretty little lady must hav
, accomplished, to gain the material for he
paper, can have been no slight matter
Mrs. Spencer is one of the ablest womei
, Of Massachusetts. When she speaks il
public, whether on suffrage or whateve
topic, she carries conviction pretty gen
orally. By-the-way, one fact must men
tion dprop0s of Mrs. Spencer, who wa
very tastily and suitably sttired and th6
$ is that no one could complain OF tn
! women who spoke at this Congress, O.
: the score of appearance, for there was N
! one Of whom that offensive term "dowdy
: could be predicsted.
2 1t was only last week that Tremon
5 Temple was reopened TO the public, afte
Il its resurrection from the ashes of nearly
n year ago. 1t has now two of the fines
|, halls in the city. The principal one wi
n rival Music Hall-which is getting rsthe
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