Morning journal and courier., 1882-09-30

for speculation, is the following A Chicago
 lady, whose husband is grain speculator,
 was in New York month two ago, and
 put her pin money in the market. just at
 this time came the recent famous corner in
 the Chicago Board of Trade, and the husband
 was badly caught, and over the wires to his
 wife came the news of his financial embarrass
 ment. He was in big hole and feared he
 couldn't get out. Up bounced the stock
 upon which she had placed her money, and
 profits to the extent of several thousand dol
 lars were subject to her call. It didn't-so
 the story goes-take her long to call it, and
 even less time to place it by telegraph as
 ready cash to the account of the embarrassed
 husband who was thereby saved.
 It is rather difficult for the average mem
 Der of the Stock Exchange to refuse advice
 to pretty woman, and everything being
 even. the information so put forth is quite up
 to the standard of Wall street reliability and
 accuracy. Secrets are sometimes obtained by
 women which the ordinary man could not
 discover in life time, and for some inscruta-
 ble reason they flourish occasionally where men
 fall. When Sarah Bernhardt was in this city
 she took chances in the market, and realized
 handsomely on more than one venture. Sarah
 was unusually successful, and her brokers
 were not mean enough to haggle over com
 missions. She visited Wall street in person
 only once during her stay. In her case Mo-
 hammed did not have to go to the mountain the mountain was glad enough to come to Mohammed. Some of Sarah's sex on specu- lation bent find it rather different There is more than one near the shadows of old Trinl- ty who had rather lie to escape than face woman seeking ''points." Russell Sage is
 never Gin" to such callers, Gould is always
 reported mot in, " Keene slams the door and says he is busy, and Woerishoffer always de- camps at the rustic of @ dress through Ex- change Place.
 The demand for opportunities to speculate {1,o, fNfx hoe fha tion of many tickers in the fashionable parts of the city. Some of them are connected with establishments of somewhat unsavory repute,- but there are others where all the proprieties observed, and are really only what they purport to be-stock gambling
 houses for women. As rule these places are not we'll known to the public. They have profitable clientage and seek no noto- riety. Ultra respectable ladies have the en- tree. and intoxicated with the Wall street at mosphere they remain the day through hov- ering over the tickers reading the tape, dis cussing the crops, the prospects of foreign wars, grasshoppers, Gould's plans and inten- tions, and so forth, on to the end of the chapter, just as their pantalooned prototypes do down town. There other establish ments where the ladys margin is accepted which are conducted on far less arlstocratlc principles. One much advertising firm has located in the center of the shopping dis
 trict and in big, bold letters informs the public that it boasts Ian office exclusively for ladies'"
 Within the past twelve months many of the best firms in Wall street have opened branches up town. An idea has prevailed that this movement was brought about by the demands of lady patrons who were anx- ious to speculate but were unwilling to ven- ture down town. This is mistaken opinion, however. There has lately sprung up among
 some of the biggest operators disposition to remain out of the street and send down l their orders from the uptown clubs and ho- 1 tels. George Osgood, William R. Travers, l Addison Cammack, and even Jay Gould are
 prominent among men of this class. Gould l has private wires from his Fifth avenue home ! to his brokerage office. The special wires l from Wall street to up town branch offices place the latter establishments, with their tapes and ticlers, upon an almost equal footing with the offices clese beside the Stock Exchange doors