The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-12-14
THREE BLIND POOL HOUSES.
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Three houses which are known to be carrying
on operations In this city like those which were
suppressed In Pittsburgh are: weinman & Co.,
Al Broadway; the Thompson b Derr Company,
80 Wall street, and Richardson q Co., 10 Wall
street.
Tho biggest OF these Is Weinman & Co., whose
offices occupy the rooms which the White Star
Steamship Company used to rent. The opera
tions of these shops and Of the Fisher Company
Gecently defunct) have been carried on princi-
pally during the past year. Money has rolled
into their Golfers In streams that must have
made even the green goods men Jealous.
women have formed q large proportion of
their cu~stomers-widows with families TO sup
port. struggling teachers. maiden ladies with
cherries years before them, all anxious TO turn
their scanty earnings into enough to provide
for . rainy day. Even servant girls, speculAt-
ing with IS at o time, have been caught by the
alluring prospectuses. 1t will. without ques-
ton. then, DO OF great interest TO all these to
know something about who the persons are with
whom they have been dealing.
Charles weinmAn and Frank b. Thompson
were among the earliest Of these people to at
tract attention among the legitimate dealers In
stocks and provisions In the Exchanges and on
the Street They opened a bucket shop, among
the many in New street. under the name and
style of Bailey. Thompson d Co. Bailey is
Thompson's middle name. They failed and
shut up shop about Oct. l, 1893. Charles
weinman then took ofices in the Con-
solidated Exchange building at $50 a month
with his cousin, Jacob Weinman. and did
business under the name of Weinman & Co.
as advertising stock brokers. Jacob Welnman
Is . resident OF Albuquerque, where he is in
business, and he seldom comes TO this city.
About this time he surrendered a paid-up pol
icy OF $4,000 in the Mutual Insurance Company.
getting $4,000 for IL, and put part or all OF this
money into the business To start the firm OF
Charles Weinman came 10 this city from Phil
sdelphia. He had been in the furniture bust
OF judgments against him when he came 10 this
city.
started AFsd' IN nni business sine int It W %as iain Sf'P BY c6 "a aS;
LAndsberg, who soon assumed the entire charge.
Landsberg had been in the fur business at 05
head OF the house OF Weinman 4 Co. and di-
reefs its operations. IL is an Incorporated con-
When Weinman began the business lac also took
In with him one OF his old 6gekeI.shop Gus
treasurer OF the corporation.
Prank b, Thompson, also came from Phila-
ago. lie also went into onices in the ecoSsSIis,
dated Exchange building and began business as
h hssss a Go; WIEN bs[ the nature 9t tEe 6usi,
two concerns was learned by the President OF
Tie Exchange he took measures b. get them out
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s9cialed himself witha man named Derr, and
thsy g9t incorporated under the title OF Thomp-
About this same time, too, came another Phil
Adelphlan, Charles Work. lie became a fire.
Quent visitor at Thompson's place, and then
started the concern OF Fisher * To-, which after
ward Was incorporated As the Fisher Company.
YORK LOOK as a partner Capt. Tuthill, who was
also customer of Thompson a 60. lie was a
creditor OF w elnman's and, IL Is said, was rec
ommended by WeinmAn. There was a Fisher
In the concern, too. lie was a member OF the
Consolidated Exchange, and MAS SUSPENDED for
six months IN March lAst. Yesterday he was
expelled. They began business in one room. BE
fore they ran away they occupied a whole floor
~ is Broadway, consisting OF ten or twelve
rooms.
The nrm Of Richardson a Co, Is an onshOot
Of the others. Customers OF theirs, who have
also been customers OF the Thompson a DerT
Company, noticed that richardson Co. began
their operations by sending out circulars 10 the
customers Of the older hrm. Evidently they
were Ia possession Of a list Of the customers u
the Thompson a DeTr Company. THIS Is easily
accounted for. richardson Was = clerk
for Abe other concern until be began
upOn hs own account The methods b. which
Sastonsns usrs secured seEe ingenious aud in