Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-13
WOMEN As SPECUL ATORs.
Lady Brokers Doing II Large Dusins- -
without Publicity.


takes the risk of their being wiped out in
the tickle, iuctuating course of the mar
ket. Seized with the mania which has
made and unmade many men, women are
plunging into the vortex of speculation.
There are more places than one would
imagine in New York wheae women can
consult the "tape' and give their ''or-
der" places that were established for
their exclusive accommodation, and where
the sterner sex are not expected to in-
trldc. There are "bucket shops" MS
they are called for female dealers, too
places where no actual transactions are
made, but where money changes hands
on the quotations without making pur-
chases. The offices intended for the
patronage of ladies up town. There are
"bucket shops" in twenty-fourth street.
but "bucket shops only thrive among n
certain class. Ladies of refinement who
have money to invest prefer to place 1T
where they can venture without fear of
exciting adverse comment. Thus 1t is
that behind the walls of n staid and state
ly brown-stonc front in fashionable
ncighborhood the busy ticker iots down
the quotations, and ladies who like to
chance their advances can watch the
course Of the market without any one
being the wiser for it. Notwithstanding
the fact that the people who conduct the
better class of offices do not advertise,
they do a large and profitable business.
Their customers prefer absolute privacy,
and they trust to their patrons to increase
their operations.
Half n dozen wires run from the net
work strung ON the Western Union Tele
graph Companys poles in Sixth avenue,
over the roof and down into the back
parlor of the house No. Al West Thirty
seventh street. The house is like the
others in the row. 1t is a brown stone
front with modestly curtained windows.
There is an iron balcony in front Green
ivy climbs up the heavy balustrade lead
ing to the entrance and entwines itself i'll
the iron work of the balcony The pre-
sent occupants have been i'll the house
only n short time, and it is within the
past few weeks that the wires have been
put MP. Were 1t not for the wires, which
are discreetly trained like honeysuckles
up the back of the house, no one would
take it for anything but Il private resi-
dence, and as for that matter the casual
observer would even now take it for moth
ing else. But the wires have thrown the
ncighborhood into Il ferment. They have
wondered what their purpose was, and
time has not only increased their curiosi-
ty, bat excited their suspicious as well.
They have not made bold to go to the
house and find out and have consequent.
ly lived in state OF perplexity. The
people in the neighborhood even went so
lar as to seek the owners of the property,
but they, too, were ignorant ON the sub
ject and could throw no light ON the mys-
terry.
4 reporter called ut the house one day
lately to solve the mystery. A woman
answered the bell, and the caller WIS
shown into the front parlor. The door of
the back parlor was partly open and
Through it came the sound Of ticker,
such as are seen in the offices Of brokers
to register stock quotations. There was
n telephone and II messenger. There was
Il desk near the ticker, at which sat n
young woman, and there was something
of an air of business about the room.
The front phrlor was handsomely fur
nishcd fine engrayings hung on the wall,
and grand piano stood i'll the corner.
Near the front windows was n large desk
with rolling top, which was closed.
The woman who admitted the caller was II
middle-aged person with blonde hair.
She wore glassos and light well fitting
dress, and was brisk in her airs She ex-
planned that the ticker was put in for
her own use II have dealt in socks for
ten years, she said. ''If ladies want me
| to buy socks for them will do so. | re-
quire an advance of ten per cent, and |
will buy no less than loo shares. ]
charge to buy and to sell. defy you
to find any lady who has lost money i'll
deals with me; If anyone has ! have yet
to know it. You can see what kind of II
business do, and she exhibited receipts
for purchases through well known house
down town, which were made out to Mrs.
c. II. Morse "As I said, / will take no
orders for less than 100 shares. charge
10 per cent, so that if the stock goes
down IL point or two or three the margin
will not be wiped out. Here is an adver-
tisement of what is known as IL bucket
show, " she went on, pointing to notice
in a morning paper. "Do you suppose n
legitimate business is done on II margin
of to 3 per cent? No, indeed that is
simply gambling. No stock is bought
or sold. do no advertising, aud want
no puff in the newspapers. II the neigh
bors wanted to find ont about the wires,
why didn't they come in and ask about
them. have leased the house for three
years, and have right 10 put III ms many
wires as | like"
The woman sskcd the person ut the
ticker how certain stock stood, and the
reply in pronounced French accent
came back, "Gi. Madam.
Hasn't it reached 60 YETI
"No, Madam
4 decline i'll another stock brough forth
the remark, "Well, am glad | am ou'
of that"
A lady III black, evidently an investor
was in the parlor when the reporter
called.
Inquiry revealed the fact that the mum
ber of female investors was rapidly IN
creasing, and they rlsked their money
many of them, quite boldly as the men.
The American nose.
In Mrs. Kimbe's Records she says
"With lis coarse-featured English, ant
our heavy faced Teutonic kinsfolk, II thicl
outline and snlrb features are general,
supposed to be the vulgar attributes o
our lower classes; but the predominanc'
of spirit over matter yindicates itself strik
iugly across the Atlantic, where i'll TIN
lowest strata of society, the native Americ
an rOwdy. with "A face ns pure III outline
rs an ancient Creek coin, and hands an,
feet ms fine as those of II Norman noble
strikes one dumb with the aspect Of
; countenance whose vile ignoble hardnes
can triumph over such refinement of lin
and delicacy OF proportion.
r A human soul has wonderful suprelr
d. Al