Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-26
READY WITH THEIR TEARS
The Girls Who Are Deep in Get-Rioh-
Quick Schemes.
JUST AS NERvY AS MEN
shares the Secrets and Helps Pro-
moter spend Money Poured
I'm by the Easy
Marks.

Marks.
whenever a get-rich-quiok bubble bursts
a young woman Invariably pops out.
United states Marshal Henkel OF the
Ntw York district says so. and, with the
postoffce inspectors on one 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 bunco TO bogus bonds
and from flim-flam to forgery. She sits
ut the elbow OF the master manipulation
Of the bubble and sees the money roll in
She typewrites aphorlsms of success
which are used for western bait: she pre-
sents In alluring phrase the picture OF
how by turning over 800, according to the
new Observation-Disclosures system, PROS
perity can be made to order. She supplies
the sugared words that go with sailed
mines. She lives in an atmosphere Of
compound interest. doubled dollars and
money magnified.
Prosperity in the easy money enterprise
always carries with II corresponding ex-
travagance. The girl at the business ell
bow is seldom forgotten. II she is in
vited out to dinner and sees rare vintage
in a bottle before her, and gets an oc-
caslonal bauble of jewsiry, she credits It
10 her Dainstaklng efforts for the welfare
OF the establishment.
For this reason posts of the sort are
made to appear desirable. When the
bubble is filling the conspirators are
always generous Spending other peo-
pies money is very easy
How She weeps.
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
record OF the customers and weeps into
a lace handkerchief.
About this time she begins to emerge
from the spell OF the magic and sees
things as they are.
One OF the first things that young
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 a girl is
engaged for service in one or another of
the scores OF companies which are cap
ltaliEed on cupidity she hesltates to tell
anything about II, She may wonder how
II Is that a concern without a rating can
afford TO promise ten-dollar gold pieces
for investments OF nickels. but she isn't
employed TO ask questions and no one
tells her how the mystery is accom-
plished.
Sine keeps to her task Of expressing
the bubbles thanks for your remittance
of this date and quite without knowing
how she becomes part OF the machinery
OF making mlllionaires-on paper.
Kept Her Eyes on Wall street.
From the Jared Flagg case emerged
Madeline Russo, girl OF 10, who had
had the telephone job at $40 week.
The detail of what she knew about the
affairs Of the concern has not yet been
told 1t was a paying concern. was
Flagg's-it paid Flagg. at least.
When this active young woman had
been in the office for a few weeks she
was promoted. according to the manage
ment and kept all Wall street under
her eve and in her head as well. At
one hand was the telephone and at the
other the ticker. The rise and fall Of
thirty different stocks interested Flagg
greatly. Miss Russo had the Job Of hand
ling these transactions. Some nights
when she was little tired after a long
day Of stock buying and selling she rode
home in an auto
This girl knew no more at the start
about fantastic finance than a girl at a
ribbon counter does about the manufac-
ture OF watered silk. Still. she played
a part and shared some Of her employers
secrets,
When 52O-per cent Miller became the
cunning Croesus OF williamsburg and
made simple folk who were getting saw
inss banks interest feel that they were
losing money. he had a girl with wonder
eyes to sit at desk near the door of
his busy Office to say. I'm so sorry"
when widow dropped in to get her In
tsrest and received only conversation.
Connie Morgan's radium mine was one
of our greatest paper money makers. with
radium quoted at q thousand dollars a
teaspoonful Comics mine couldn't pos
sibly have been worth less than three
hundred and sixty billion trillon million.
stu. being a good fellow, he was will
Ing TO let a few selected capitalists In
on the ground floor for "A few thousa nd
shares OF stock each at four cents "A
share Connie opened offices uptown. but
he didn't use his own name on the door.
FOR those who knew Connie would never
believe he was worth even three hun
dred billion trillion, and there were other
reasons too. The young woman at the
radium shop was very much In the dark
about the business at first. but she
could show the shares, and they were
as fine as any In the market.
After she had taken In about eleven
hundred dollars from the earnest resi-
dents OF New England who wanted 20
help develop the marvellous property, Con-
ME was suddenly called 20 the mine, and
the girl was asked TO explain about the
property
rs there any Of the radium IN town.
she was asked
I've never seen any" she replied. AL
though Mr.. Morgan said that he had