The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-11
WOMAN A BAD LOSER
Wall Street Brokers Draw the
Sex Line.
New York Consolidated Exchange
Firm Likely to Be Disciplined by
Board for Its VIolatIon-Un-
written Rule Exists.

New fork.-A Wall street brokerage
firm has got itself into trouble and
may be suspended by the Consolidated
stock exchange because 1t recently
opened a women's department. fitted
up with few rocking chairs. had a
woman in White sweater stationed at
the ticker to read the quotations and
allowed woman spectators to come
down and bring their young ones with
them II they cared to-which they did.
In some cases. This is a punishable
offense in the street Not the children.
but their mothers are the ones object
ed to. There are no cries OF Place
aux danes! in the stock market zone.
The establishment with the nursery
attachment to its women's department
is on New street, just a block away
from the exchange of which the firm
is member. 1t had really only just
begun to build up the new branch of
Its business when the exchange heard
OF 1t and signaled the call to arms OF
the board of governors. This had the
effect of clearing the womens room of
all children and of all but two wo-
men, while the person in the white
sweater who had been lingering many
yards of ticker tape was supplapted by
a man.
You may search the rule book Of
the Consolidated from cover to cover
for an article or bylaw forbidding
women to come down and trade in
stocks like the men. and to bring
their youngsters along with them, as
now and then proud father has done
on a half-holiday, but you will not find
what you are looking for The rule
exists, none the less 1t simply isn't
printed. The nearest thing to It In
print is rule prohibiting "acts detri-
mental to the exchange" on the part
of its members, which, as one OF the
board Of governors pointed out, might
be made to cover any number of
things Among them is the catering
to feminine spectators, he said. The
fact that a sort of kindergarten an
mex went with the women's depart
ment had nothing to do with the case.
Wall street half expects to see the
proprietors Of the New street rocking
chair trading club and day nursery.
punished in seme way-by suspension
from the exchange, possibly. 1t is
pretty certain that the club and the
nursery will go out of existence. 1t
will have to. Women who want to
dabble in stocks are as unwelcome as
a crook below the dead line" All
this in spite of the fact that only q
few weeks ago Mrs. Emmeline Pank-
hurst told Wall street any. number OF
stories about women who had gone in
to business and made a success of it.
ITS the experience of hundreds Of
stock brokers that the woman who
comes down here to speculate is a
bad loser" said one officer of the Cor
solidated recently. Say what you
please about this being the day of
equality, but deep down in our hearts
we feel that there is a difference.
Stock gambling is a mans game. We
don't want women breaking in"
This man was inclined to excuse the
New street brokers on the ground that
the firm had been member Of the
exchange less than two years, and
perhaps did not know better. If that
were the case the alarms sounded by
the board of governors when they
heard of the women's department and
its nursery annex had evidently taught
the young firm lesson. A visitor
dropped in to see the feminine spec
ulators in action With their young
ones romping in the shadow Of the
quotation board and the ticker basket,
but there was none Of that to be
seen.
When a woman makes something
on the market" said one broker of
thirty years experience in the street.
''she takes the credit OF 1t all to her.
self. 1t was she who did it. When
she loses, it was her brokers' fault.
He deceived her. And peculiar trait
is that in losing she cannot quite clear
her mind of the suspicion that what
she lost the broker gained"