The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1886-10-15
The 1illnn Tibn,,e.
WOMEN AS GAMBLERS.

THEY ARE NOT At ALL GIVEN re
WALL STREET SPECULATION
They Operate as Typewriters and Teleg
raphers Only--A Iit of Experience in
Railroad Stocks--Trusty Workers of the
Fair Sex.
The managing clerk Of big Wall street
brokerage firm unbent his official dignity
after office hours the other day and chat
ted about the women who are more or
less concerned in Wall street life. lie was
having his boots BACKED, and after the
operation was over he solemnly matched
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 accu stoned to
conducting his business in that manner.
He had evidently grown ca.lons to the
vagaries of luck.
THAT" said the brokers' clerk tram
guilty, 'makes nine times that I've had
my boots polished for nothing He was
an easy recognizable Wall street type--a
@Lyear-oll face, and the talk manners,
and attire Of Il youth. His clothes fitted
with great snugness and he wore several
snowy rings. About the neck he looked a
bit rugged, scanned, and cracked. but his
eye was bright and he rattlel ahead in IL
high, metallic, and business like voice.
"Wolnen are indispensable to the
street" he said, "but only as employees.
All that stuff in the papers-and Wlrticu-
1arly 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 100000 oper-
ators of the other sex. The old happy 60
lucky days down here are gone. 1t is no
longer possible to win by playing the
market by instinct. The dashng specu-
lators of olden times have been succeeded
by studious and thoughtful men, who
look into the roots of matters, and learn
the causes Of every fiuctuation in stocks.
1t takes years and years OF hard study
and investigation Women can not for Il
moment hope to compete with such think
ers as these men, so they keep away, us Il
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 Oh play
ing railroad stocks She lost $4,000 in
five days, paid up with guilty little
grin, and went home again. She's never
been down here since.
ONLY ONE LITTLE PLACE.
had read good deal about uptown
bucket-shops and half-penny brokers' Of
f1ces which made speciality of trade
with women in the region of Union and
Madison squares, and when we opened
our second branch on upper Broadway l
spent 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 it hadn't even a
ticker. There were besides, two women's
banking firms-run by men behind female
hgureheads-who pretended to 10 a bank.
ing and brokerage business, but they were
very transparent, merely money lending
Arms, you know. So there you have the
whole extent Of the much-talketlof
women gamblers in New York The truth
ought to be told, If only to clear the fair
name OF our mothers, wives and sisters.
who are, according to some Of the out.of-
town papers, the most rabid and reckless
gamblers in New York"
Are there many women in Wall
street,"
Thousands and thousands Of them.
First, there is an Amazonian army of
typewriters, who receive from lawyers,
brokers and business men salaries rang
ing from Is to &l5 q week according to
their expertness. Many vi them are
good, brave girls, the daughters of for
merly well-to do families who have met
with misfortune They are very often Ia
dies of good breeding aud many accomp-
lishments. The number of them who
marry rich clerks, and occasionally the
younger members of established firms. is
surprisingly large. Then, too. there are
very many girl telegraph operators. They
are far preferable to men as far as nv
own experience goes. for they are neat.
trustworthy, take up little room, do not
smoke cigarettes or chaff with the other
clerks, and attend strictly to their duties.
There are innumerable female bookkecp-
ers, clerks, accountants and stenographers,
and their numbers increase constantly.
They have good effect in every office in
which they are employed. Men are less
boisterons. noisy, and profane in the pres
ence Of the innumera ladylike and in
telligent Young women employed in and
around Wall street."-New York Sun.
Hadn't Been ntro.luceGl.
A good naturel newspaper chap was ut
rustic picnic and rashly spoke to a
young lady without the tormality of an
Introduction. He happened to see great
fat caterpillar crawling on her lace collar
and jumping toward her said:
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