White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-11

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going business, while down ON the
Curb, the house is represented by its
own brokers. From the windows of
the order department to the brokers
on the Curb, orders and reports are
flashed by a private sign manual, and
1t is the firms boast that the average
time consumed in the execution of an
order does not exceed 80 seconds.
The advantages of this system may
be easily appreciated. The Curb may
know as it does, for nothing gets past
the Curb brokers, that Epps is execu-
ting orders; but as EDps hes nine
wires from Stock Exchange houses,
besides his own business centering in
the order department, nobody knows
for whom Epps is operating save the
five men who are employed in the
order department, and--thoy don't
tell. Many a big house, engaged in
a market campaign where it wishes
its identity temporarily cancelled, has
found this system to its advantage.
The man who has built up and de-
veloped this business, Edward E..
Epps, is a product Of the west, born
In Iowa, SO years ago; and he was
born with the instincts and DISPOSE
ton OF the salesman, and the brain
of financial bent. These talents
were well-developed in the breezy
atmosphere of the wes-, for, after
moving to Topeka, Kansas, and 60
ing through the public schools and
college there, he travelled for two
years as a salesman for a wholesale
notion house. Don't d~eprecafe the
value of that training--the man who
can take a line of notions out on the
road, and make a success as a sales
ability and he develops the qualities
of craftsmanship in high degr.s. else
he falls by the wayside, and trans
fers his endeavors to less intricate
lines of activity.
From notions, Mr.. Epps graduated
to dry goods and then to shoes, carry
ing sample trunks in these lines for
seven years making a total Of nine
years of the hardest practical ex-
perinece as a drummer. In his trav-
els he covered every State in the
Union, and possessing not only the
quality of craftsmanship but the
ability to make and keep friends, be
built up a circle of friends who have
followed him to the Curb, and proved
invaluable in his later day activities.
Discriminating to cast his lot with
I'll lie New York, Mr.. Epps came to
the metropolis, and was placed in
charge of the stock transfer depart
ment of the Corporation Trust Co..
going later to the same department
of the North American Trust Co.,
now the Trust Company of America.
1t was from this position, in which
he acquired a very thorough knowl-
edge of identity of stocks and bonds,
that he graduated to the open market
as a broker on his own account.
1t follows, therefore, that not only
Is the firm headed by n who had
the fundamental reir iuments for
success, but who had developed those
by that experience
makes the lchie yemen, of Sic
absolutely certain. IN the cir
little myctery attaches
TO the why's and w~hercforc5 CT the
success he firnl has attained in It's
own affairs. and as outside brokers
FOR inside houses. The business has
developed to such an extent that the
of stocks are very heavy;
and the nine houses which transact
their outside business through the
medium Of this firm deal almost ex-
clusively in the higher priced Curb
10 that the daily clearances
through the banks run into large
And at the head of the business is
the man of SO years of age, who
trained in craftsmanship for the sue
conduct of a business which
requires moi only the qualities of sue
craftsmanship, but ability in
organization, and equal adeptness in
the generally intricate business of
successful buying.