Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1912-10-11

nOeror OF the llOol ~aat,,,od on
lt,n arts are always costumeo ap-
nue. 5,tolv to the times, but the
pr ."' themselves remain the same.
el a1omnIe, would you find again the
S s hanged so long ago at
S'D ,ord.arm, you have but to look
Of the financial literature that
ods the mails.
r Uu1 the man of average sense
Instantly put his finger on the
"a hidden under the glltter1ng
~ but now and then one comes
O On.s so.called financial PROPOSE
so fair, so set about with unques-
PuobIe safeguards, that the keenest
" nt cannot discover in it a pos
euItv r Of loss. These are the schemes
,bs great masters-disguised sloops
vidd Morgan and Bonnet.
t found such a scheme one day in
litter among my mail, and laid 1t
NV table under the ink-pot. It ran
this fashion:
h.. Rank holds the money. The safest
.nosition ever offered to investors. We
rIacing on the market blocks of stock
.So Union Consolidated Oil Company
,ar those unparalleled conditions: You
Sost the amount of your subscription
vonr own credit in the Driller's Bank
pittsburg a certificate of deposit is
mad IN Won in your name and held by
n You also get the stock certificate.
IN keen both exclusively in your own
r.,sssIon. We ask only that you turn
,sr IN this Company the certificate OF
snost issued you by the Bank when
|, OIL Company has paid to you, In
riends on your stock, a sum equal to
o amount of your investment. This is
q univ stock ever offered in any market
tcb is not subject to loss. You keep
mr money safely on deposit with one
he greatest banks in America and, at
be same time, make the sort OF, invest
fnt out of which John D. Rockefeller
pcame the richest man in the world.
Tde today for our detailed plan.
HE Union Consolidated Oil Company,
T5-Sl-1O3 Iron Bldg, Pittsburg, Pa.
| was held and puzzled by this strik-
4 proposition. 1t seemed to be
rated with an eye only to the pro-
CtiOn Of the investor. If it had fall
to name the bank in which the
lnis we're to be deposited, or had
amed one of a lower standard, l
hOuld instantly have doubted it's
bod faith; but the Driller's bank OF
fttsburg was well rated; 1t had a
apital of FIVE millions; it's stockhold-
rs were, for the most part, men who
ad made fortunes in the oil fields Of
eStern Pennsylvania. 1t was natural
\ the bank which such a company
Ould select. Where then was the
aV? What advantage did such
Ian offer to this company? The
honey was not paid to it, but to a
espcnsible bank on deposit to the in
9estoFS credit; the company could
Ot get it. The money would be re-
uFned by the bank, unless an equal
UNI We're paid by the company to the
tocEholders. 1t would, indeed, be diff
cult to devise safer scheme. AL
post any one would speculate under
uch conditions; it was removing the
Ament Of chance from the game, and
ct here evidently were large sums
APPENDED in exploitation. Surely
&eptiOn was hidden somewhere
mere so the circular fascinated me
IKE page of puzzles. 1t lay under
" eye for week; then I dropped it
NO pigeonhole of the desk.
Two Years later Captain Roger Shell
vi called to see Randolph Mason. /
pave rarely met a man so aptly cast
" his part as this Captain Shelton.
10 was tall, somewhat unevenly fat
tned, clothed in light worsted, with a
gle OF coat provincially called "cut-
Wy always kept buttoned, a top
y and very shiny patent feathers.
~ eyes We're alert and his speech
4p'u and persuasive. His mouth,
sV'eVer' was loose in the under lip
real Captain Shelton flying there
signal. His manner tended quick
70 establish relations of amiable
.uOSsnlp; he strove for that with a
~Sln breezy frankness.
SOele one on lower Broadway had
F 'a' aln to Randolph Mason. He re-
4e. little assistance, he explain
A.. VI business rather than of a
Il ~ nature. He had struck a hard
| w IN a trade. If he could get over
~ Nc lOF'une was established.
~a. Nc captain seemed an ideal pro-
k,s he strove, with no slight cum
N,s. 70 inform himself through me
rr.', ~ randolph Mason. He led to his
|c~. -sS always by two roads, like a
n, anuer OF infantry; when one
n "uAu guarded, he crossed quick
koov, ue other. I think, too, that his
h. Nv suse OF men was fairly accurate,
|R,oa.,rNeAn ne came, presently, before
kerca S,pn Mason himself, his manner
ksojshsa0iy changed, the hail fellow"
\ cs,,s, ne stated his business with
|s,s oaI approach to dignity, and it
koest WY when the murder" so to
|csma =, was out, that the real man
ss.sloiy to the surface.
Nspi,HS Mason gave the Pennsyl-
slnost clOse attention. He led him
|goear,h psrsuasively into detail. He
|purion su here and there a covered
hi tba =. MS story until the nature
|lht re quar- came wholly into day
|Ose n ne art Of subtle inquiry, in the
'shl NJ, Snlch Shelton had a certain
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