The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-09


eign lands was not such a certain money
maker, and resolved TO return 10 a nearer
/ focus again. With about $50 30 ! returned
to New York, and changed from an invet-
crate optimist, like all amateurs, 10 the
! rankest pesimist on the fringe Of t..Avr-
dom.
I made the change too late and very in
| OPPORTUNITY Ten thousand oiars wort
up in a week on a rising ma 'l.J. Tha
street went mad on the bull side cl.d
| again I veered to optimism Won $500 in
tw0 days with three bucke5 imp keepers,
! who Immediately and collectively failed
| before could get to the window and rea.-
! ize.
I now began to receive letters from anoa-
ymous advisory brokers'" ''tipstecs -
system gentry and o,hers of that IL
and like a drowning man grasping at a
straw, I clutched at them. I made money
on the first tip from one Of these. whose
bid for my business was followed with
telegram advising me to buy a certain
stock. did 50, and came in for four nun
dred dollars. Or course the advisory
iroker," who rrDf, sseG to be on intimate
terms with the private secretary of IA
nous man Of millions IN the street, hound
ed me for the share Of the profits and
Piled me for enw business.
His second deal wiped out the profits f
the first and $500 besides, and then dis
covered the method of these towards
They know nothing about the market, but,
selecting a fuctuating stock, Will advise
one man to sell and another to buy the
same stock He pays no more attention
to the man who loses, who in turn cannot
find the broker because Of his anonymity,
but he dogs the steps of the winner, get
ting his share of the spoils on every deal
till there is a reverse Of fortunes, then
dropping him.
HAD now come very near the end Of my
tether I had tried every game known 10
the lambs" and mad failed. had run the
gamut from the palatial bucketshop Off
ces to Broadway, through the more modest
ones Of Broad and Wall, and naturally
drifted down into the bucket shops Of New
street I was by this time almost a ply
steal wreck through insomnia and worry,
but my persistent optimism acquired on
American soil kept me ever hopeful even
to my last dollar. Moreover, quite SHABBY
Of attire, I was not a little ashamed TO 90
into offices where once 1 had staggered
ike a princeling. and old faces repulsed
me. buried myself among strangers,
mos. contented so.
one day l entered a sad and gloomy
bucketshop in New street, where a miser-
able mass Of financial and physical wrecks
like myself were half ri0rng over a rising
market. 1t was a terrible place. With
my last s. I staked my very life on Read
ing" and sat down, with temples bound
ing. staring at the dirty blackboard where
a man in a red undershirt scroIled quota
tions with a face as impeTturbaole as
stone. Reading" was a favorite that day,
and there were probably two hundred men
in the place who had from 8 to 50 each
on Reading" An upward point meant a
thousand dollars loss for the buchetsn0pi
a falling point meant THOUSAND dollars
winnings. Consequently into the market
they dashed through their inside brokers,
sold enough stock TO dapress the market
onepolnt, which they al once bought,
/ bringing Reading" back u is former
! quotation. This wiped ou; all the margins
of The two hundred, my last dollar with
them. and walked forth into the light o1
day anutter,y beaten man.
The cravings Of hunger and the fever
and de.i-ium Of d-sapp prominent made me
stag-er. I felr IN NY clothes for stray
dime with which 70 refresh myself VIII
coffee and Q sandwich, 5ut the corners n
I every pocket were pr351d in vain / pass
/ ID I'D Pine street toward Broadway NeaT
the corner stood banana cart I would
+ have sighed relief il I now found even
cent. but. failing in that. discovered thar
/ a letter from ny pocket bore an uncan-
ceUeI stamp. I tore il or and 5assz- 'ae
ve75ar 10 g5ve me q banana f3r i. Ee
eek the stamp re.uct.nt.y. then picked
out the most 6ecaye5 hfnana IN tae penny
+ 5unca. seized i eagerly, and vas pre-
+ rar-nz IL Tor an im1romru banquet Taea I
I turned and -aze5 ;hr5lsa tie a-ats glass
/ o. -he cafe Sava-.n az my SIDE
( There. q The very same table whe- I'VE
/ yss-s before the bo-ss-sn3p great 'ar7-
r=r- Ea1 had re-alel IL w-c1 that
: sSe1ty-51-la- luncheon. which was ne
cause " my losing $500 % hin, ard
Were Was l4aacleI az ms career as
. Wan street Speculate, shsre 81 t. Fry
81. l--- jules and opposite ~ va 80
! q her Lamp p pairing .9r &c s1H1ss