The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-08-29
WOMEN WHO BORROW

| WUMEN WIN DUMMY
REVELATIONS 0FA MONEY.LEHDER-
NOT As A RAWNBROKER
The Business The Natural outcome OF
erase for Show and Glitter
An Inlatuation.
sit down, take cigar, and III Civ
you few points that will surprise grea
many readers. Women" said Ne,
York pawnbroker, "are a curious 10
Their ways are past finding out. Thei
ingenuity often surprises me, and sc
much to excite my pity and my cor
tempt in the course Of my business
Come this wav and I'll show you some
thing" The proprietor opened his larg
safe and pulling out a drawer spread it
contents before the reporter. Sapphires
rubies, diamonds, solitaries, watches
bracelets, and necklets glittered in hea]
with million scintillations. @Escl
could tell a strange story had it a tongue
4 record Of extravagance, folly, aye, an'
sometimes of crime, too. That drawe
you see in the right-hand corner contain
promissory notes, overdue drafts ant
stocks. This set of diamonds which coult
not be bought for less than $4,000 ar
hypothecated by a lady, whom societ,
knows well, to satisfy the extravaganza
of her darling but dissipated son, who ii
going to the dogs fast. Yes, it is pathetic
isn't it?"
"And how Is Ill this business arranged
There must be some system in an occn
patton like yours?"
$50 there is. There are three essen
tials in this peculiar business. Absolute
privacy, thorough confidence between
| the principals and moderate charges. My
| clients would never think for one mo-
ment Of going ian ordinary pawnbroker
The risk is too great. So she either sends
or comes to us, It's rather funny, isn't
it, that l am depository Of the secrets o.
wives whose husbands I meet nearly
every day in the week. Just fancy
although it is not a pleasant thought to
boast about, thatI and my kind could
wreck the happiness of dozens of fam
ilies?"
"Now for your system"
"You want = practical illustrations: A
lady is in pressing need for $500 or $500 to
pay of her modiste or milliner. Her
husband is not aware that the debt
exists. She knows that it would be per-
fectly useless to ask him for money The
creditor cannot be put of any longer.
She consults her maid. Her maid holds
counsel with the modiste, who thinks
she can point out a way how the affair
can be arranged. The modiste mentions
me. The maid calls, and with an air of
mystery feels her way, SO to speak, to
the transaction. see through the thing
at once and surprise her by naming her
mistress, but decliue to talk business
until the lady herself puts in an appear
ance. l make it an invariable rule never
to advance money except to the actual
owners of the security. 1t saves much
trouble. The lady comes, and it being
her first transaction Of the kind, she nat
urally feels nervous, and SO, after time
she begins to look uroq such matters
purely from business view"
"But supposing the husband should
miss the security offered, especially if it
should be jewelry?"
'That is provided for by an understand
ing that the jewels shall be loaned to the
owner from time to time in case recep-
ton or ball is held, when, of course, they
would be indispensable. Such a contin-
gency becomes special condition of the
arrangement, and they are promptly re-
turned every time. I willingly take all
such risks, because l do business with
only first-class clients. The moral nature
of the affair is almost as good security
with US as the possession of the article
itself"
"And you say this clandestine business
is growing"
1T is the natural outcome Of a craze
for show and glitter that is peculiar to all
society, whether it be high or low.
Women, when they make up their minds
to do a certain thing are like gamblers
the infatuation grows upon them. They
merely take leaf out of their husbands
books. The one CANDLES in stocks to
make himself rich; the other in jewels
and laces."
"By the way, speaking Of stock-gamb-
ling, is much of that kind of thing done
by ladies?"
"Not nearly so much as there used to
be five years ago. Ladies will OCCASION
ally borrow money on shares that they
own, but not for speculative purposes"
"Do you lend money to men?"
II haven't a single male customer on
my books. ! keep my own counsel, take
no clerk into my confidence, and, in brief
manage my own business. My profits? !
prefer to say nothing about that. Yes,
it is paying business and a safe one.
The contents of that safe represent $780,
600 of various kinds of securities, and l
will go so far as to say that if nv clients
were open and above board with their
husbands should have to seek some
other employment. The men, however,
are as much to blame as the women, for
what can you expect when half Of them
are nominslly strangers to their fam
ilies?"
NONfANA'S COMING MILLIONS.
4 Pencil Sketch OF Some Of the Many
Mines In Gallatin County, with
Their Inexhustible Store
Of Treasure.
81. Paul Pioneer Press.
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