Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-05-16
WOMEN IN THE WHlRL
Spend Their Time In Wall Street
Buying, Buying, Buying.
SOME HANDSOME PROFITS MADE

View of the Arena In an once of
Communication House That Caters Il
| This Trade-The Customers Havs
Exchanged street Cars For Auto
mobiles.
When the profits and losses of Wal
street are under consideration. IL is the
habit TO associate only the men with
the speculation. This is considering
the Wall street equation with one OF
the two important known quantities
left out. Let it be known, therefore
that if the men are making thousands
in the street. very considerable mum
Der of women are counting their profits
by the hundreds. Women who specu-
late are not by any means new to the
Wall street district. and there are some
commission houses which cultivate
their trade. In the wild speculation of
the past few weeks, however, the con-
ventionally gentIer operators have been
lost sight of. and nobody has given a
thought. apparently, as TO how they
have been faring.
The New York Sun is able to state
that the women have been doing fairly
well. thank you. For the average wo-
man a bull market is a great institu-
ton. It's easy to sell. Her ma jesty
doesn't have to corrugate her brows in
ciphering out the problems that con-
front the traders in a bear market.
All she has to do Is to buy. and the
average woman who Specu1ateS in
stocks can do that with as much eclat
as she displays in dancing a cotillon
or buying Il spring bonnet. And
when the fever is on. how she ear
buy. She never believes that the time
to sell is coming. She insists that her
stocks are going higher. and you don't
catch her selling out and losing a pos
sible profit. No. stree. The women
bet on stocks very much as they bet
on horse races. Never did the man
live who will play '-sure thing on
the race track with as much confidence
as woman. So 1t is in Wall street.
They get their own notions or listen to
rumors or get sure tips from some of
their male friends. and that settles it.
They go right in and play the limit
and only regret that they haven't more
money to play with.
A reporter happened into brokers'
office on Wednesday. May |. whose
women clients are sufficiently many to
give the firm a fairly profitable bust
ness all the year round. The reporter
went in at the Invitation of one of the
members of the firm. who said:
"You go down to the Stock Exchange
and you think that there is a good deal
of activity. A stranger might be par
dOned for thinking that hell had bro
ken loose. If you'll come up into my
Office for a short time and take in what
Is going on. you may be pardoned for
concluding that considera BILE number
of the furies have gone on picnic"
The reporter accepted the invitation
and went into the private office where
a view could be obtained of the trading
room. There were probably 80 or 10
women there without enough space per
woman TO prevent the humping of ell
bows. There were four or five tickers
in the room and group Of women
around each. J:Ist after the reporter
entered he heard one of the women call
nut:
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1T. MIR So-and so told ue ut the Wal
= lest night that ii would go to rs