Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-08-31
WOMEN AS GAMBLERS.
THEY ARE NOT At ALL GIVEN TC
WALL STREET SPECULATION.

They Operate rs Typewriters and Teles
raphers OnIy-A Bit Of Experience ir
Railroad stocks-Trusty Workers Of the
Fair SEX.
The managing clerk of a big Wall street
brokerage firm unbent his official dignity
after Office hours the other day and cnat
ted about the women who are more OF
Less concerned in Wall street life. He was
having his boots blacked, and after the
operation was over he solemnly match ID
coins with the ragged boy to see whether
he should pay 10 cents or nothing for the
work. The man won, and the boy went
calmly away as though accustomed to
conducting his business In that manner.
He had evidently grown callous to the
vagaries of luck.
THAT" said the brokers clerk tran
GULLY, snakes nine times that I've had
my boots polished for nothing He was
an easy recognizable Wall street type-a
5Olyear-old face, and the talk manners,
and attire of youth His clothes fitted
with great snugness and he wore several
snowy rings. About the neck he looked q
bit rugged, scanned, and cracked, but hi,
eye was bright and he rattlei ahead in o
high, metallic, and business-like voice.
@Women are indispensable to the
street" he said, "but only as employees.
All that stuff in the papers-and particu-
larly those out of town-about women
brokers is rot. There are no women
brokers and as for the female spectators,
there are not two of them to 10000 oper-
ators of the other sex. The old happy 60
lucky days down here are gone. 1t Is nc
longer possible to win by playing the
market by instinct. The dashiug specu-
lators of olden times have been succeeded
by studious and thoughtful men, who
look into the roots of matters, aud learn
the causes OF every fiuctuation in stocks.
It takes years and years OF hard study
and investigation. Women can not for a
moment hope to compete with such think
ers as these men, so they keep away, as a
rule. At rare intervals, however, we
have an experience with one Of them.
The wife of one Of the best known sport
ing men in New York came down here
about two years ago and insisted on play
ing railroad stocks She lost $4,000 In
i've days, paid up with a guilty little
grin, and went home again. She's never
been down here since.
ONLY oNR LITTLE PLACE.
Ihad read q good deal about uptown
bucket-shops and half-penny brokers' Of
fees which made a specially Of trads
with women in the region of Union snc
Madison squares. and when We opened
our second branch on upper Broadway
spent q week uptown looking the ground
thoroughly over. succeeded In finding
one queer little place where women
played, but no more 1t was just below
Fourteenth street, and 1t hadn't even ,
ticker. There were besides, two women'I
banking firms-run by men behind fems.'
figureheads-who pretended to do bank
ing and brokerage business, but they wer'
very transparent, merely money-lendinl
firms, you know. So there you have thu
whole extent of the much-talked-o
women gamblers In New York. The trutl
ought to be told, IL only to clear the fai
name Of our mothers, wives and sisters
who are, according TO some Of the outof
town papers. the most rabid and reckless
gamblers in New York"
Are there many women In Wal
street,"
Thousands and thousands Of them
First, there Is an Amazonian army o
typewriters, who receive from lawyers
brokers and business men salaries rang
ing from % to els q week according u
their experiences. Many of them ar
good, brave girls, the daughters Of for
merly well-to-do families who have me
with misfortune. They are very often la
dies of good breeding and many accomp
lishments The number Of them VIII
marry rich clerks, and occasionally tn
younger members Of established firms,
surprisingly large. Then, too, there arr
very many girl telegraph operators. The!
are far preferable to men as far as m!
own experience goes, for they are neat
trustworthy, take up little room, do no
smoke cigarettes or chaff with the othe
clerks, and attend strictly to their duties
There are innumerable female bookkeep
ers, clerks, accountants and stenographers
and their numbers increase constantly
They have good effect in every Office il
which they are employed. Men are les
boisterous, noisy, and profane In the pres
ence OF the innumerable ladylike and In
telligent young women employed In an
around Wall street. York Sun.