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operator may be looked upon with some
suspicion. He simply gives his clients ad
vice what stocks to buy out of his inside
information.
The following are some of the offers:
One who is on the inside of big deal in a
certain stock. that will positively advance 50
points in the next two months will give The tip
10 anyone who Will send so TO the address be-
low.
4 pool IS forming in certain prominent in
dustrial stock. The people behind it are among
the richest in Wall Street, and il i certain
that they will not fail to advance it many
points in the next few days Communicate with
the address below for particulars.
A friend of prominent officer of the Sugar
Trust is IN 4 position to give absolute infoIm1-
tion 10 the moves of Sugar.
Those who followed my advice to bay Federal
Steel have made fortunes | ROW have another
equally good thing. 1t will positively advance
from IL 10 80 points this spring. send me $40,
and by return mail | will give you the tip
Wealthy banker is one of pool that viii
put up a certain stock. On pledge of absolute
secrecy he will acquaint You with the facts con
| eerning the deal. fortune is within youE
| grasp.
| Certain of the New York Sunday papers
contain columns of notices similar to these.
| They are, OF course, swindles. A man with
| a knowledge such as this of inside opera
| tions would not have to advertise it.. There
| would be people in New York with all the
| money he could possibly desire TO buy it
| from him. His millions would soon be
| beyond count. But there are new victims
| for these gentlemen every week in Wash
ington, as there are in every other city
and all over the country. Several cases
| have come Immediately under the personal
notice of the writer Of this.
The big firm of brokers that swindle
intending spectators under the guise OF
regular and recognized methods are even
more dangerous than the smaller fry OF
| touts and professional operators. The in
| dictment last week in New York of the
| notorious "E. s. Dean Company recalls
| in a vivid manner to many victims the
career OF this firm two years ago. Wash
| ington had a branch Office of this concern
and a large number of Washington men
| lost money through its operations. Hun
I dreds of thousands of dollars were in
| trusted to the e. S. Dean Company for in
! vestment in Sugar and Wheat. II is said
! that little if any of it ever returned to the
| investors
/ The local branch of this firm had fine
I Offices on Street and had begun tre-
mendous campaign here. There was a
| quiet, seclusive elegance in these offices
| and no cheap garishness OF gold paint and
| free cigars. Happily for this city the par
| ent office in New York was driven out OF
| business by the police within few days
I after the opening here. me nealS OF the
| firm were very shrewd men and had con-
. Quoted their operations with so much care
that although they were arrested then,
| they were able TO obtain their freedom and
were never indicted until last Thursday
| Nobody will ever know how much
money the great Wall Street confidence
| gang feeces from the public. There can
/ be little doubt. however, that the various
games, from the bucket shop down TO the
so tout, are worth many millions yearly
10 their operators The variety OF the vic
tins from almost every grade of society
makes this certain. There are in this city
people who have been specializing in stocks
for years and would ordinarily be sup
posed to understand something OF Wall
Street ins and outs, who answer the ad-
vertisements of the tipsters with good $40
bills.
There are business men known TO be
! shrewd in real estate deals and successful
in local stocks who receive information
! daily as TO the probable course OF the mar
| ket at SO much a week, from sure-thing
! bureaus" And there is an army of Gov
| ernment clerks, mostly young men and old
women, who contribute TO the livelihood CT
| relatives of insiders and clergymen with
| valuable information. separate story
might be written OF the women who have
! saved small sums cut of their Government
| salaries and who Confide them TO brokers.
| legitimate and otherwise, TO be turned into
] fortunes.