The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-05-03

expense, to Milwaukee, Dubuque Kansas
City, there to await Geographic orders as to
what to do next, you take 1t out in waiting.
The orders never come and when you 60 back
to the company's Office you find that the
pany has floated away on the magic carpet,
nobody knows where
But 1t 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 postgraduate course in high finance. 1t
came to be recognized by the swindling gentry
that there was nothing like a corporation
when one wanted to do really safe and pros
porous business. Then, too, the corporation
must have something somewhere. II it is a
mining company it must have a hole in the
ground. II rubber coffee company it
must have some sort of concession from the
Mexican or a South American government.
which Is always very easy to get. If it is
cotton concern it must have fence corner
somewhere down south These things are &C.
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 firm in New York that collects
and sells addresses Of people who buy things
through the mails or who have at some time
ev1nced desire to do SO. These addresses
are sold at So thousand. They are assorted
under various headings IT, for example, IL. 900
men have sent in applications for wives to a
New York matrimonial bureau, that list is
worth $96 to SO diamond ring concern that
Is setting up a circular mill.
Speaking of the matrimonial game a New
York man sent out 10000 circulars advertising
that 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 q 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
lance from the would-be husband as would
make said half expenses about 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 nro
duction Of the widow and her $4,000 he wilt
ed big stack Of letters containing checks
and money orders was stamped "Fraudulentn
and returned to the senders
The brokerage plan of Frances M. Mclean
of 26 Broadway. New York, looked as straight
as string to J. B. M. Miller Cincinnati
grocer. There couldn't be any fraud about it
because the circular referred to Ave eminent
and reliable business firms in New York Still
the shrewd Mr.. Miller thought it was lust "a
well that the references be looked up. mar.
ticularly as the broker was woman.
Frances M. Mclean, Of 26 Broadway. said
In her confldentially worded circular that She
had for years been studying the street" and
insidiously limited that she had such relations
with big fnanciers as to be able to extract
from them information of tremendous value =,
her clients, one Of whom, Baltimore man
had made 5000. 900 through her advice and an