The age-herald., 1899-05-26
STEP UP LIVELY!
 HERE'S MILLIONS!

itself. company has been projected with a million dollars stock. which, if it is as successful as predicted, will transfer all the money in the street to it's own coffers.
 The company has machine. You throw into it a bunch of figures and take out a command to buy or sell stock You buy or sell stock to win. You throw in figures as to another stock and get another com- mand, and again you win. The machine does it.
 Human calculations are set at naught. Great financiers may die and the market go to smash, but the machine is supposed to keep on making money for it's company. You throw in the past performances of any selling platter the stock list and pick out O stake.
 The machine is exploited under the own ership of a proposed company known as the American Commercial Corporation, with offices in No Al Broadway. It is so constructed that it will indicate under cer- tain conditions a course of action as to any stock in the market
 A prospectus has been issued in which it is said that this company can earn and pay upon it's stock more than 30 per cent. per annum, besides adding large sums yearly to its reserve fund.-
 It is proposed to incorporate the com pany with a capital stock of $1,OO0OOO at the outset, at the present time offering only $1OO,0O0 to one hundred "selected in vestors," enlisting many of those identi- fled with our greatest commercial, trans portation, financial or other successful un- dertakings."
 The machine itself is described as not un- like an adding machine in appearance, but on large scale. In practical operation it is simple. One man can operate it.
 For instance, if the company wanted to know what course to pursue as to any stock, a series of quotations of that stock taken from the regular quotations for a certain period are fed to the machine, feed- ing consisting of recording them by means of keys, much as with a cash register, and then turning them up with crank.
 After certain number of quotations have been fed the machine sends up a sign
 It may say. 'Sell short" or Buy" or "Cover up," or "Get out" according as the figures as to that particular stock indicate.
 In the morning the figures will be fed to it and out will come the indications for the day. and away they will fly across country, across oceans, and the agents of the, American Commercial Corporation in Chicago, London, Berln and Paris will "buy" or "sell' or "coVer up' with machine infalibility.
 Or, as the circular modestly puts it:
  can Commercial Corporation is the parent company and that the utilization of it's trading system on the various exchanges throughout the United States should al- most inestimaby enhance the value of it's shares. It can be arranged that deductions of our trading system can be supplied with required secrecy to this company's licenses for use on the markets in every trading centre in the United States a basis of participation in profits accruing from use of same"
 The inventor of this short road to wealth is Erastus E. Ford, Q trader on the Con solidated Exchange, who for years has given his attention to making charts of the fluctuations in prices He is now in Eng land with his machine.
 Maurice l.. Muhleman, who is president of the organization committee of the pro- posed corporation is deputy assistant United States treasurer. MT. Muhleman said yesterday that the matter had gone no further, as far as he was concerned than the experimental stage. He feels sure the machine will do what is claimed for it, and he thinks he can convince others of it.
 J. Burket Webb, professor of mathe- matics of the Stevens Institute of Technol- ogy of Hoboken, and President Henry Morton of the institute. have examined the machine, and say that it lis so constructed that of the whole number of movements rO1xV t,, are favorable to its action"