Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-04

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, over, that it looks Just as it did when il
was brand new. We not only make the old
| Ware new, but We also dissolve enough sill
| Yer on from 1t to pay for the process ten
| times over. Great scheme. isn't it? People
vii! go crazy over it. We will sell plant
| to the hotels and they can have new silver
! ware every week
! Now, we should like to have you accept
| the presidency CT the Renewing Association
| fer Treating Silver Ware"
| "Gnall right. gnlf you'll give be vive
| gnoGcand shares of the sdock'
Old Scaggs, the railroad magnate talk I'D
| through his nose. to save wear on his false
| teeth, they said in Wall street.
| well, we II assign a thousand shares TO
YOU now and carry the balance as treasury
stock for while TIL you call for it," as
| scented Buster.
Before the week was out Buster whose
rane might have been "Eurster' with
! grc2tar accuracy y etyr.oiogy, had organ
| izai = directorate of a dozen such men as
/ Ea.t. tie chairman Of the enormously prof
! ira-.e tE--..-go and Shs0l railway: Cilvsr-
! ing, iGa grain elevator mDnDpoilst; tyson,
! the scUhe~:. lana mariDrlatcr, and ey-
! Sore ary or the Treasury Hariprest, with
/ t.e balance less prominent bat stiIl we'll
! known Il-a Of M2N street
/ II there was 4 b-oVUish scheme 10 he
! . a'a2 IL Wan rect Buster was the man
I
| T. "a' th= I~et maj he never allowed his
| aIua - figure on the directorate OF any
| Comaa.- tL2l he promoted.
/ 'sJs.er went - Albany and got the Re
/ rcvilE Association fer Treating SILVER
! / ave isc5rp -I,eI at VeTy rc3= l2hie II tss
/ BY a.. friends III the SJate legislature. ana
/ bad ere a his NEST discreet clerks open
/ an gi.-n Ter Jha concern. lie atEcr, Is5l
! fer T-g9r.ais for the construction of a
/ Ir-Hign--eiiar works in New Jersey, ard
. ih,S &c. TIE newspaper reporter; running
~.
hai been carefully scnCclei, ami he told
} l'ta ragrrt-i5 thar ne was -ct at liberty
! t. saN much about the new association. 1t
I would J.. a Close corporation ne said. its
I steel. ~-crii le speculative and he
Thought i Jc,..a'l tA:t my shares would
T 81. into t. ,peu market. Stin, he
! VS. v-;-'.E@ a. -"h t.e names ct the Off
! C"rF cEi directors. an tie amount Of capt.
! :el Id 3d. ..va--li.. ~ course Busters name
J G.i raL :gre-~ II thu Ions articles in the
I next day r-Ier. IN week the stock GER
l.ea'as were Out and they we're beautiful
TIN Buster co-,vlissiored couple Of
/ brokers u buy : thc-sanl shares Of tie
g. p. ~ = OF Coarse they could not nni
7 g. aGi ~ 3or instructions ran their bids UP
7 q =. Tlen Buster had another broker
/ ofiar SOD saIre5 IT ~. AMI his buying b~Uk-
/ ois s;cPuet ta.EH up AZ once. After
. f,E more Of the transact Ms which
/ C.-l lin nothing DEt the IlarcirS he paid
! his D-. ,---@. 81. were IS much n tha dark
! a. anybody Buster hal the sto,- quoted
! q s. and all the newspapers printed in
I t-reStiG- paragraphs GbCGE its rapid rise.
/ T. .ii- hs- an 10 Iail: about The new stock.
! They ui,.-narlel . Pats" and once it
I lai nickname lis h1.i o. the attention
! &C the rr.Llc Was assured. Finally, out
/ siia~s began t. buy ana then the stock
! jumped The higher Al E5t the more aDX-
/ icus ~ so gGi!Ete-s SnarrsrS called lambs
! rera - g. kcli of 1t, and az the end of a
I month l-=tec hal UniCaie1 about half Of
! the SICK IT 4 clear prc.it OF $4,000 Then
! the stock waVeTcl.
| When viola Clayton married her fathers
I Crac,-.aaa. two wears after ncr mother died,
! oIi Clayton w.s in terrible rage. as WAS
/ Wy natural and proper. Bat Viola was
! twenty-five ana oil enough to marry. AMI
/ nre > enough. toe. for the matter OF that.
! Sal as L1r mother who was Wallet be-
: ire size married Clayton, the Chicago
! sock oDcrctar-that is live stock operator
. Who had come t. New York anu doubled
I lis pile in Wall street, left all her personal
fortune in the hands of a trust company
/ FIR Ninia til she married, cid Ciayton's
anger die not Cut as much Of figure with
! Tie -osns people as it otherwise might
! have done. So Viola took her fathers curse
/ AID his promised lisinhertance very well
AMI went to live in a hote! with her coach
| man.
/ Viola always had a head for business. and
! was quite familiar with the plans and bust
! ness methods Of her father. who WAS a
! reckless nut usually lucky piunser. After
she had twice written reasonably humble
! little notes as,-in- his forgiveness ana re-
! cei,el both OF chem back unopened. the
| iron entered Iiola's soul Then when her
| husband was M fer membership in the
! Fried TuTnip Club and old Clayton brought
! about ms dsie4t she decided on revenge.
| She knew that her father was plUngng
| il Rats and enleavoring to recoup some
| heavy losses in wheat. So when her school
| friend Bs Ssie Buster ;oli her that her faith
er had made enough money out of Rats
So that he was about TO indulge in a steam
| yacht. Viola began to think. She had read
| all that had been printed about the concern
! and hat ~ hn1
been mentioned in connection with it. She
remembered some of the things she had
hear! her father say about this worthy. and
came to the conclusion that Rats was a
| fraud. Her father would be fieeced with the
| rest of tine lambs" Very WELL then. she
| would have her share. Business and re-
vense would combine very nicely. She went
out and got the days Wall street paper.
Rats had stiifered a bit after the first
slump. This showed that her father and the
| other victims were bolstering it up at a
heavy risk, and also that Buster had either
| sold all his holdings or else was waiting for
| a better price She thought the chances
| Were that the latter supposltion was the
| correct one.
Viola went to old scaggs and had no diff
Guilty in buying his holding of Rats
shares at the market price. Scaggs thought
| it was time to get out anyway.
With Buster she had more trouble. He
had twenty thousand shares that he was
sure he could unload gradually to good ad-
vantage. But when Viola showed him her
assignment OF stock from old ScaggS and
| told him she was prepared to announce his
retirement from the directorate in the next
| days papers. Buster weakened. The out
come Of the interview was that Buster took
| the three $1,000 governments that Viola had
brought with her, and assigned the whole
| of his Rats shares over to Cecil Totting-
ham Featherstone Skivington. This was
Niola's husband. He was the youngest son
| of good English family. who had run
away from his gambling debts.
On her way home Viola picked out a
handsome suite of office rooms q stones
throw from the stock exchange, and had
| her husband so down and lease them the
! next morning. They were already hand
| somely furnished, and by night the letters
| "R. "A. t. 81 in gold shone from the Win
| dows, and fairly good picture Of Queen
| Victoria hung on the wall.
| Now said Viola, to her rather puzzled
| husband, you are the active member Of a
| syndicate recently formed in London, and
am your typewriter. Here Is list of d.
rectors of the company, a controlling in
terest In which is owned by the London
| syndicate you represent. Tomorrow morn
| ing you can call on each Of them and tell
| them that Mr.. Scaggs is forced by Ill health
| to withdraw. and that your friends in Lon
don wish you to succeed him. For the pres
| ent, however, your London friends think
/ hat 9th