The Sunday globe., 1901-05-19
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT.
To Your Tents, OF Israel, for Here
is a Jew Firm of 10 per centerS.

/ II the McGill Building, OnG street be-
/ tween 9th and 10th streets, is located the
branch Jew mOney-loaning firm of Toi-
man d Co., which makes a speciality OF
loaning money to salaried clerks. The
Globe knows of instances where married
clerks have bypothecated their salaries
at this establishment to play the races,
and their dependant wives and children
go ragged and half fed because of the loss
OF the money and the usurious interest
exacted by the firm.
A speciality of this concern is the en-
ployment of lady collectors, who visit
the residences of delinquent borrowers
and give away to their wives the bubbles
who hypothecate their salaries and fail
to pay the $40 every two weeks (pay day
at the office on G street. The married
clerks know this trick of the firm, and to
keep their wives in ignorance of their
transactions with the firm they make
every effort to pay the semi-monthly in
terest. The thing works like a charm,
and the lady collectors are cup to their
Jobs" having been highly trained by
their Hebrew masters.
We know of an instance where an ac-
quaintance borrowed $50, receiving the
usual S45 and agreeing to pay $40 semi
monthly for three months. Thus he
signed the usual cast-lron agreement 70
pay $50 for the use OF s45 for three months.
Failing one payment through an over
sight or an inability to raise the money
he returned to the wife OF his bosom in
tn evening and found his trunk in the
hall and the door lOckedl
1t soon dawned on hislsemi- -paralyzed
faculties that his wife must have discov-
cred, in some manner, that he was de-
iaulting patron of Tolman Il Co. The
lady collector had called and, of course,
informed the wife that her husband
had neglected to make the semi-month-
ly payment. This was a revelation
to the wife, as hubby had stuffed her
with the usual cock and bull story
of being short on pay day, by reason of
contributions to a fund being raised for
political purposes, The ,enraged and
deceived wife first "fired" the lady col
lector, and next packed hubby's trunk
with his belongings and hied herself off
to her mothers house, where she had a
good cry and eased her little heart. Re-
concil iation was effected after time on
hubby's promise never to borrow any
more money at 100 per cent per annum to
play the races or bet on prize fights.
There is one admirable feature of Toll
man Il Co.'sloan Office, which The Globe
commends TO dead broke swindlers who
need stake. 1t is this The firm re-
quires a deposit of one dollar with each
application for a loan. The application
is printed blank form of numerous
questions, which the applicant must an
swer. These questions comprise mate
rial enough, when fully answered, for
not only a biography of the applicant,
but history of his ancestors for at least
two generations.
Posterity, If any, need not be speci-
fed, but ancestry must be minutely gone
into. Now, here is where a smart green
goods man, up in his business, could
reap h rvest, ,thequestlons, being so nu-
merous, the applicant is bound to tall
down in some of them. AT least the
scientific swindler could assume so aud
reject the application-but keep the
dollar.
Here is an opening for, somebody, with
thirty thousand, more or less, hypothe-
eating government employees TO draw
TO. Stock i'm such a concern would soon
be above par. No investment required
but an office on the fifth floor, away from
the noise of the street and unlimited
gall.