The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-17

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beautiful bfoeur, HIT who oyuId TEN me
tsst NJ Spanish with s,1h fAein-AmsFican
legation at,arhAs ~ he happened 10 NEST,
took the handsomest fat IA 0Bs Of the beat
apartments In town. furnished " splendidly,
and proceeded 10 get acquainted with
folks In very much tho ems manner a.
tho man with the rubber stock. When
they visited him at his Fat. he had q way
Of dazzling Thorn, on their second or third
visit, by suddenly c~onduottnR them 10 n
room wherp he had his emerald and TOUR
mallne specimens spread out In artIstic
disarray on a table having o coverlet OF white
velvet.
The sight Of the emerald and t~ourrnaline
specimens, banked around on the white
velvet was beautiful In its berbaric lavish
meas, and Il Of course evoked instant In
quiries az TO where the specimens came
from. The host told tn, iuquirers with
q clever reluctance. He'd picked up
the emeralds-he told them that the whole
pile was composed Of emeralds, and got
away with It every time-on that emerald
bed he'd staked out for himself down in
Brazil, and az the price OF emeralds was
about four times that Of diamonds, he had
billions in sight, and so on.
He was organizing a little company,
not too heavily capitalized-only 800 900
TO start work at the emerald beds. He
didn't want many people in on the thing.
II was going to be q pretty close corpora
ton, but-well, the capital stock was pretty
nigh all paid in, but he had q few shares
left for IS a share.
He sold many thousands Of dollars worth
OF stock in those imaginary emerald beds
without the least bother. When some
body questioned whether the green stones
wore sure enough emeralds, he handed
his visitors specimens from the riot OF
green gems on the white velvet coverlet,
and asked them to take the specimens to
their jewellers and obtain the jewellers
opinions as to whether the stones were
uncut emeralds or not. He was careful,
OF course, to pick up the genuine emeralds
from amid the heap Of tourmalines when
he performed this stunt. When the people
sent on this quest to their jewellers with
the emeralds were told by the gem men
that the specimens were fine and rare
specimens Of the green gem, the emerald
man had to put in overtime in receiving
the folks who'd heard Of the great thing
In emeralds and who wanted stock.
This cheerful worker got away with the
loot. too, before his game was tumbled to,
leaving behind him scores of u~nfortunates
who had already begun to live beyond their
means on the strength Of their big expecta-
tions in connection with the Brazilian en-
erald beds
A few years ago a large, bluff. loud voiced,
hearty seeming Western worker Kicked up
something handsome in the way OF booty
in Washington by rafting of an imaginary
ranch, comprising 5000 acres" which
he owned" in southern California. In San
Luis obispo county. This CRATER got into
the swim Of men about town by mingling
with a lot OF poker clubs. He always
had plenty Of money and spent It. was a
good gambler, a great drinker, a Gargan-
tuan eater, a sonorous swearer and a typical
sloper somewhat after the stage type, but
filling to the eye and imagination.
After he'd got acquainted with some
hundreds Of FOUNDERS, he let out the plausi-
BILE enough yarn that as the East and little
old Washington were going to be good
enough for him in the future, and as he was
OF ranch life anyhow, he was going
TO rattle his ranch of, at 500 a shot, and 500
He had some fine pictures of the
ranch and the rich old Mission buildings
on the ranch, and some newspaper clip
pings that seemed to show that he really
owned the San Luis Obispo ranch.
1t became a sort Of bug with the WOODY
pals Of the woolly Westerner to fall for a
,hance or two in that ranch every time the
came up and it is said that the man
with the ranch rafting game had more than
1 full book of 800 chances and the money for
he same in his nankeens when he dis
one day, leaving behind him a
1ne bunch Of brazen ha-ha notes for his
victimlzed friends, N which he quoted the
maxim that new ones were born every
minute and that they never died, and rub !
ping 1t in in other less cleanly phrases.
1t nearly always happens, however, that
when these lodges are 30 thoroughly ex-
posed down here that all hands nave got
nto a sceptioal mood about the good thing
Investments something happens to help
he manipulators Of the phony investment
enterprises. Just a year ago. for example,
dull sort Of a policeman attached to the
Washington force and patrolling a beat in
fell for a batch of gold mine
that cost him $500. He was offered
900 for 1t two months ago, and it has
'een found by legitimate investigators to
worth q great deal more money than
hat. A sure enough big strike had been
made after the cop had got hold Of the
This ought to make it pretty easy
or the gold mine salesmen down here, OF