Arizona republican., 1907-11-07
FRENZIfD FINANCE
 IN TIE EARLY DAYS
The Way a Lot of Young Prescott Men
 Beat the Chinese Laundry Trust.

There are many people who believe that high finance is an accomplishment of the most modern times and that in the good old days" nobody thought of acquiring wealth by manipulation or any other way than by honest toll, the invention or use of some economical new process or the lawful interest that has been accorded as the right of cap ital, from the beginning. This with the single exception of the actual robber who never undertook to parade in a mask or play the part of wolf in sheep's clothing.
 This is a very erroneous belief for there have been people in every day and generation who by their shrewd- ness have been able to manipulate their fellow mortals. though it is true that in later years operations have been conducted on a larger scale than for merly George E. Brown, now superin- tcndent of irrigation on the Pima and Maricopa Indian reservation, is an old timer in Arizona and he relates an in- cident very much in point.
 It happened some twenty-five or thirty years ago in Prescott. when the laundry business was entirely in the hands of the Chinese. There was a strong and rapidly growing prejudice against them, reflection of the senti- ment then existing on the coast. At the same time there was widow wo- man in Prescott with a family of chill dren and she seemed to be having d hard time in supporting them. Mir Brown conceived the idea of organiz- ,l, 1rf. and throwing the patronage of himself and all the friends he could enlist. to the widow woman who was known to do a little washing now and then for private families. In this way he could strighalt the prosperity of the chinks and do a good turn to deserving wo- man.
 In his mission of charity he secured the cooperation of Wiley Standford. Marion DeBord Frank Meador. F.. J. Bennitt, George Waddell and various others whose names he cannot now re- call. but all of whom mentioned above. will be recalled by the older residents of Central Arizona. These men all gave their laundry regularly each week to the poor widow and on Saturday nights little Johnny, bright-e eyed lad. who belonged to the widows brood. would deliver the clean apparel at the respective abodes of the members of the laundry club.
 One Saturday night the clean clothes failed to appear and it was late Sun day morning before the young gentle men were properly provided with their Sunday linen. About 10 o'clock Sun day morning little Johnny made his laundry route and there was anxious inquiry to know what had caused the delay-not that any of the young men were regretting their late appearace at Sabbath school but because they feared the woman in whose interest they had clubbed together might have been over taken by misfortune
 This won't do.' said MT Brown to little Johnny. and then asked him why he was so late with the laundry.
 Why" replied Johnny. the China man never brought it back to us until tlis morning and I couldn't bring it to you any sooner
 A little further inquiry developed the fact that the widow had been sending the clothes to the Chinaman right along and charging each patron n dol lar a week more than he would iI2ve had to pay the Chinaman himself. a bit of frenzied finance that would nave been no discredit to John D. Van As torbilt