The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-04
NEW RULER OF KING COTTON
Millions Won by Men Who Followed Her
Lead

pin their faith and put their dollars
on Miss Giles Judgment.
Miss Giles took her report personally
to the offices of her clients Thursday
morning. Her estimate was 10000, 900
bales, or nearly a million bales less than
Mr.. Buston. Her clients did not falter.
They had set out to back a woman's
judgment against the world.
Big Houses Backing Her.
One of these clients has telegraph
connections throughout the United
States, and as soon as Miss Giles pre-
scented her report it was wired to these
connections. About the same time mes
sages began to flash over the country
that the cotton market had turned in
recognition of the estimate made by
Giles" 1t was not the signature, but
the fact that at least six of the
most conservative houses in New York
were backing the writer's estimate in
preference to that of Mr.. Buston, which
carried weight with brokers. 1t soon
became known on the floor that one of
the most prominent houses in New Or
leans had wired the now famous query,
Who is Giles?" and after being in
Toned that she was woman, replied:
I'VE believe Miss Giles is about cor
rect. We cabled Liverpool Monday that
our estimate was 10, 900 bales
Miss Giles is a bright, energetic New
York girl. She shrinks from publicity.
1t is necessary for the success of her
chosen life work that her business and
her home address be kept secret.
Il entered the Office of the late E. M
Thoman in the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington In 1897" she said.
MY first duty was to rule paper.
Next 1 was intrusted with the less i'm
portant figures, and step by step l ad-
vanced until l became head clerk for
Mr.. Thoman. He was the authority on
wheat in the Bureau of Statistics for
many years. He left the government
service and opened an office as a statis-
tician, and 1 was placed at the head of
the. cotton bureau. On the death of
Mr.. Thoman l was thrown on my own
resources and obtained employment in
a Wall street house. This spring I de-
termined to start out for myself and
opened an Office as a statistician.
believe l am the only woman statis-
tician in the world. +s..
81 never base my estimates on any
thing I may read in the papers, or hear
in Wall street. The cotton planters
themselves are the only reliable source,
and the information 1 receive from
them, in connection with calculations
based on my own judgment, form the
basis of my estimates. l send out
monthly more than 1000 return postal
cards to my correspondents throughout
the cotton belt. feel that l know each
planter personally and can rely on him.
1.-The past week has been trying or
deal 1t meant success or failure to
me. The preliminary estimate which
1 compiled differed so greatly from that
of Mr.. Buston that it required all my
courage to send it out. 1 was convinced
that l was right, however, and went
ahead, and the confidence which has
been placed in me cannot but be high
ly gratifying. But l fear that the feel
ing of responsibility" Miss Giles said,
with a sigh, 'outweighs the gratifica-
ton"
Miss Giles lives with her parents in
this city, and of the few brokers who
know her office address not one knows
where she lives. Her postals bear the
address, TX. NJ. Giles, Statistician,
Lock Box, 299, New York, N. Y" Of
all her thousand correspondents none
knows that tx. M. Giles" is woman.