The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-26
(New York WORLDLY

(NeW 1Ork WOrlQ)
' Whenever a get-rich-quick bubble
bursts a young woman Invariably
United States Marshal Ienkel says
so and with the p%ostoffice inspectors
on n side Of him and the United
States district attorney on the other
in the federal building he knows.
Sometimes innocently. other times
not. she is a part of the setting for
nearly every scheme from bunko to
bogus bonds and from fimflam to for
gerry. She sits at the elbow of the
master manipulator Of the bubble and
writes aphorisms of success which
are used for western bait; she presents
In alluring phrase. the picture of how
by turning over 800 according to the
new fortune for q farthing system,
prosperity can be made to order. She
supplies the sugared words that go
with the sailed mines. She lives in
an atmosphere of compound inter-
est. doubled dollars and money mag
nifed.
Prosperity in the easy money enter
prises always carries with it cores
ponding extravaganza. The girl at the
business elbow is seldom forgotten.
II she Is invited out to dinner and
sees rare vintage in a bottle before
her and gets an occasional bauble of
jewelry, she credits it to her pains
taking efforts for the welfare Of the
establishment.
For this eas posts of the sort are
made to appear desirable. When the
bubble is filling the con~spirators are
always generous. Spending other peo-
Pies money Is very easy.
Then. when the bubble bursts and
the detectives clap the steel bracelets
on the men around the place, she bows
her head on the private book in which
she kept a record OF the customers
and wceps into a lace handkerchief.
About this time she begins to
emerge from the spell of the magic
and see things as they are.
One Of the first things that u
women learn in the business world is
that office affairs are not to be dis.
cussed outside. This is a very sound
and proper business rule. So when n
girl is engaged for service in one OF
another of the scores Of companies
which are capitalized On cupidity, she
hesitates to tell anything about 1t.
She may wonder how 1t is that a on.
Germ without a rating can afford to
promise ten dollar gold pieces for in
vestments Of nickles hut she isn't en-.
ployed to ask questions and no one
tells her how the mystery is accom-.
plished.
She keeps to her task of expressing
the bubbles thanks for your remit.
lance Of this date" and quite without
knowing how, she becomes a part OF
the machinery of making millionaires
on paper.
From the Jared Flags case emery.
ed Madeline Russo. a girl Of ~ who
had had the telephone job at $40 a
week. The detail Of what she knew
about the affairs of the concern has not
yet been told. It was a paying con-
Germ, vas Flagg's-it paid Tlagg al
least.
When this attractive young woman
had been in the office a few weeks
she was promoted, according to the
management and kept all Wall street
we'll. At n hand was the telephone
and at the other the ticker. The rise
and fall Of thirty different stocks in.
tereated Flagg greatly.
Miss Russo had the Job of handling
these transactions. Some nights when
she was a little tired after a long day
of stock buying and selling she rode
home in an auto.
The girl knew no more at the start
about fantastic finance than a girl at
a ribbon counter does about the man.
ufacture of watered silk. Still she
played a part and shared some Of her
employers secrets.
When $50 per cent Miller became
the cunning Croesus of williamsburg
and made simple folk who were get
ting savings bank interest feel that
they were losing money, he had a girl
with wonderful eyes to sit at a desk
near the door Of his busy ONCE to say
I'm so sorry" when a widow drop
ped in to get her interest and receive
ed only conversation.
Connie Morgan's radium mine was
one Of greatest paper money makers.
With radium quoted ut $1,000 a tea
spoonful Comics mine couldn't posi-
bly, have been worth less than three
hundred and sixty billion trillion mil
lion. Still. being n good fellow he
was willing to let q few selected capt.
talists in on the ground floor for a
few thousand shares of stock each Mt
four cents u share. Connie opened Of
fees up town. but didn't use his WI
name on the door. for those who
knew Connie would never believe he
was worth even three hundred billion
trillion and there were other reasons
too. The young woman Mt the radium
shop was very much in the dark about
the business at first. hut she could
show the shares and they were as fine
az any in the market.
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