The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1910-03-04


City, there to await telegraphtc orders a. to
what to do next you take 1t out In waiting.
The orders never come and when you go back
to the company's office you find that the COM
pany has foated away on the magic carpet.
nobody knows where.
But 1t was soon found by the swindlers
that these devices, like the green goods game.
were rather crude and almost equally unsafe.
So to the education Of the man who ran the
half interest or employment scheme was add
ed a POSTGRADUATE course in high finance. 1t
came to be recognized by the swindling gentry
that there was nothing like corporation
when one wanted to do a really safe and pros
porous business Then. too, the corporation
must have something somewhere. II 1t 10 a
mining company 1t must have hole In the
ground II rubber or coffee company 1t
must have some sort OF concession from the
Mexican or South American government.
which is always very easy to get. II 1t 10
cotton concern 1t must have fence corner
somewhere down south. These things are ac'
tually necessary in order to show In court
when the time comes that the men who have
taken your money have endeavored to carry
out their part of the contract and that they
have failed is merely their misfortune. For
to fail In business is not necessarily crime
There Is a firm in New York that collects
and sells addresses of people who buy things
through the mails or who have at some time
q
are sold at So a thousand They are assorted
under various headings. II. for example. $4,000
men have sent In applications for wives to 4
New York matrimonial bureau. that list Is
worth $96 to a 50 diamond ring concern that
is setting up circular mill.
Speaking of the matrimonial game. New
York man sent out 10000 circulars advertising
that a young widow with $4,000 wished to
marry an Industrious. frugal gentleman; no
objection to the country. The replies were to
be sent to Bayonne, N. j.. where the advertiser
had a big mail box that was soon stuffed with
letters from manageable men all over the
country. The strange part OF 1t all was that
the greater number of these men were actually
willing to pay half the travelling expenses Of
the widow, who Invariably located such dis
tance from the would-be husband as would
make said half expenses nbout SIS.
When the postal authorities stopped his
mail the agent was indignant He declared
his business was perfectly legitimate. but
when an Official demand was made for the pro-
duction of the widow and her 100000 he wilt
ed A big stack of letters containing checks
and money orders was stamped Fraudulent"
and returned to the senders.
The brokerage plan of Frances NJ. Mclean
of &c Broadway, New York, looked as straight
as 4 string to J. B. NJ. Miller. = Cincinnati
grocer. There couldn't be any fraud about IT.
because the circular referred to five eminent
and reliable business firms in New York. Still
the shrewd Mr.. Miller thought 1t was just as
we'll that the references be looked up. par
ticularly as the broker was a woman
Frances NJ. Mclean. Of 26 Broadway said
in her conndentially worded circular that she
had for years been studying the street" and
insidiously limited that she had such relations
with big dnanciers to he able to extract
from them information Of tremendous value to
her clients, one Of whom, . Baltimore man,
had made 5000 900 through Der advice and an