Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-02
KEENE'S AGENT.
The Secret Of the Mysterious Woman
in Wall Street.
An Absolute Master OF the Intrlca.
cies and vaGarles or stock
SPcculatlons-TheS Secret
Out At Last.
New York Graphic. !

iNew YORK Graphlc
| For some time past q careful observer win
have seen in the offices of several prominent
brokers handsomely-dressed woman, about
40 years Of age, whose face is still handsome,
although it bears the marks of care and
anxiety. Frequently during the day she
| would sit down and hastily despatch . note,
which the messenger would invariably carry
| down Broad street below the exchange The
! remainder of the time she would spend over
the tape, watching the figures with earnest
solicitude marked on every feature.
Up to within a year she was ac-
custorned to giving heavy orders nearly
| every day, and am told that there were
several well established houses that used to
take puts and calls from her. While con-
slant intercourse with rough men and the ne
| cessity Of hearing much conversation that is
not fit for womans ears have made her man
ners abrupt. and deprived her bearing of q
certain feminine gentleness, you can never
thele S detect various indications of good
breeding and refinement both in her man.
ners and conversation. 1t is only necessary
to converse with her for the space Of five
minutes to become convinced that she is ex-
cessively clever and an absolute master of
the intricacies and vagaries of stock specula.
ton. As rule the few women who infest
Wall street for the purpose of gambling in
securities are short-haired, rough and
dowdy creatures who are q nuisance in any
Office they visit Not so with the woman /
am describing to you. Her wardrobe seems
to be unlimited in the number and variety Of
dresses; and her style is as faultless as that Of
any belle who reigns between here and the
park.
Hence you are not, Of course, surprised
when tell you that this woman has been an
unsolved enigma for some time past that has
attracted much attention and excited wild
curiosity. Those men whose have ventured
to be familiar with her have invariably been
rebuifed. She has stood enormous losses
with perfect composure and sangfroid, nor
has large winning from a successful ven
ture appeared to excite her any the more
Her accounts in the several Offices where she
dealt have invariably been paid, and she has
always been looked upon as a most desirable
and profitable customer.
1t is only very recently that the secret has
leaked out through the circumstances that
although she still frequents her old haunts she
seldom invests any more money in the mar
ket, while she watches the figures on the tape
with the same eager interest This woman
has for some Years been in the employ of
James r. Keene in the most intimate and
confidential capacity. Recognizing her great
self-poSsession and her wonderful intelligence,
he realized that in her he might find an in
valuable tool for furthering many Of his
schemes when he preferred that his connec-
with them might be concealed from other
operators Oh the street So he took her into
his employ giving her carte blanche in the
matter Of speculation and looking to her for
valuable information such as she could fish
up in other offices and around town where
no one would ever dream that she was tool
of his. In the matter of speculation she
often displayed rare sagacity, and these in
Vulnerable notes she was always sending
away all went directly to keene's office, and
many of them doubtless contained good
points and much valuable information upon
which he might mature judgment of the
plans of others and the possible course of the
market
When he fell she of course was involved in
his ruin, and that is why her ventures on the
market have suddenly ceased. But that you
may form an adequate idea Of the confidence
that keene felt in her ability to carry out his
plans, she it was that he recently sent over to
England TO close up his affairs there, and it
was through her negotiations that Foxhall
was sold at such advantageous terms