The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-17
FoR WOLFE GAMBLERs.
Brokerage Office Opened for Accom-
mediation Of Fair speculators.

st. Louis. April 17-"Isn't it just toe
sweet to have a place where one can
watch the board p" contentedly exclaim-
ed a fashionabiy dressed woman in a
blue skirt. white blouse and large hat,
from the depths of an easy chair in the
brokerage offices exclusively for women
just opened in one of the downtown
skyscra pers.
A chorus of assent from four other
women greeted her
The time was 1880 Tuesday morning.
Fourteen women sat or stood about the
offices, some with eyes upon the black
board. several crowding around the
ticker. the remainder resting in the
luxuriously furnished inner retiring
ROOM
Cluett has come from Chicago and op-
ened these Offices where we can come
and attend to our trades in person
cried another feminine trader, looking
up an instant from the ticker She was
robed becomingly in black,relieved with
jewels. Until now our husbands have
had all the best of US, and we have had
to send in our orders by telephone TO
the man brokerage companies Now
Wen be able to show what we can do
when we get a chance" and she fasten-
ed her eyes on the ticker again as
though afraid she might overlook some
thing.
ter business to be on the spot oneself,
said a blonde Of 20. scanning the grain
quotations y guess III margin a few
thousand bushels. she continued to a
friend near by. before we go over ana
look at those silk remnants.
After these two young people had
swished out a m.ddle-aged woman had
some rernarl-s to offer. She was doing
embroidery work. and appeared TO have
settled down for the entire day
1t IS all very -.ice TO buy stocks ano
grain between shopping trips" she said
severely, but that amt the way to
make money To win regular you ought
to do like me. ] lest set here and en-
broider on a dull marl-et. When she's
goin' up OF down pretty lively I'll jump
in on "a deal and out again with 3
profit. as often as two or three times d
day. Things IS comm slow when I
don't average S25 d day through the
week. But you've got to be Johnny-on.
the-sDot all the time and watch that
there board steady. There's New York
Central moyin' now. I'll have to do
some fgurin."
Sixty per cent. Of the women are reg
ular traders. and of these fully half re-
main in the Offices all day long. Be
tween trades, and while waiting fol
The offices are handsomely fitted up
and are supplied with easy chairs, toilet
requisites books and magazines All
the leading New York stocks are listed
and other such commodities are also
quoted.
Mrs. Therese Cluett. the manager.
says that she has a direct wire to New
York, and patrons are supplied with
the latest Wall street prices. Chicago
furnishes the quotations on grain and
pork.
This is just like any other store. -
remarked Mrs Cluett on Tuesday
Ladies come here to look for bargains
! in stocks a fhRW tn dTW goods
shop seeking a lace bargain. My ex-
perience with women as buyers OF
stock is that they are quite as acute
as men in taking advantage of a
I chance
They buy and sell in a business-l like
way. and have few mysteries over eth
er losses or gains The women spec
ulators Of St Louis. of whom there are
many are certainly glad of this oppor-
tunity offered by me enabling them to
trade directly in person instead of over
the telephone, the way the poor things
have been forced to do until now"