Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-27
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No! Most EN-
P-H-A-TI-C-A-L-L-Y mol" says James
B. Mabon, president.
Profound silence overspread the as
semblage of captains of finance in the
luxuriously appointed library of the
Exchange building in Wall street
when the question was put Grzzled
veterans of the financial arena pic
tured handsomely gowped, vivacious
woman pulling and Juggling in the
midst OF couple of hundred perspir-
ing species of male on hot summers
morning when panic holds the upper
hand. They didn't say it, but their i'm
mobile features seconded Mr.. Mabon's
resonant MOI"
Most of them have wives and daugh-
tiers and sweethearts, and perchance
they lacked the courage to blurt out
an equally emphatic "Yes!"
Women Considered United.
James B. Mabon, president of that
great organization, the financial pulse
of the United States, was not there to
challenge. William G. Van Antworth,
an active member of this monetary
court, volunteered TO plump the query
fairly to Mr.. Mabon. He did, and Mr.
Mabon without the suggestion of hest.
tation, ruled feminines from the run
ming"
Seemingly it was the consensus of
opinion that woman is temperamental-
ly untitled for the battle of dollars as
it is played in Wall street. The Ex-
I III,
officially upon the question. Men who
have weathered typhoons where the
financial flood was seeking to destroy
their fortunes, sweep away their
homes and plunge their loved ones in
to want. display little sentiment. Their
silent but none the less certain YER
dict could not be misread Woman
has no place in the sorry. bitter and
disappointing struggles OF Wall street.
She hasn't the physical fitness nor
the mental characteristics to navigate
daily that maelstrom of dollars and
J gain safe harhor without paying the
slgpenalty of mentality wrecked upon the
I shoals of mercilessness"
Yet there are Exchange members
and prominent men and women In al
most every walk of commercial life
who are championing her claim to fit
ness for seat on Change. They are
as outspoken in commentator of her
executive and financial ability as is
Mr. Mabon in his opposition.
Woman is represented in almost
every walk of commercial and profes.
sional life. She is at the head of gi.
gantic industries; she is the cOnfiden-
tlal adviser to men who risk millions
daily upon securities. She is the buffer
between men of immense fortunes and
great business cares and the general
, public. Financiers of unquestioned
Judgment have been known to ask her
advice before concentrating deals in
volving great sums. But she is barred
from the greatest money-changing in.
stitution in the United States-the
New York Stock Exchange.
Never Has Sought a Seat
The Exchange has never had an ap-
5 plicaton from a woman for member.
: ship. Seemingly, the pit has never APP
pealed TO those feminines who have
brains and the money with which to
purchase a seat Women have dealt
on Change. but they have been con
+ tent to let men fight their hattles-to
permit the broker to execute their
orders and collect his commissions
Further than that woman has never
: attempted to project herself into the
innermost circles of inside finance.
/, But of her most ardent champions
= who admit they believe her fitted fol-
the nerye-racking, health-wrecking bat
tie of the pit, are George W. Hurry oil
the firm of Henry Clews & Co., Mrs
| Alma Webster Powell, who says Two
men are more iit for Stock Exchange
work than mem" Nine. Alice de Ia
Z Ruelle government inspector of labor
? in France, who believes there should
be full equality of sexes, and Mrs
Jacques Futrelle, wife OF the author
who lost his life on the Titanic.
Mrs Futrelle's argument as to wo
! mans qualification is decidedly the
o most novel Nervousness is woman'i
natural state" she says. She woult
be quite at home on the floor of tn,
g Exchange. She can go into Mysteries
q one minute and be perfectly recovered
, and calm the next. Can man? No
If man gives himself up to hi
. nerves he is i'll for weeks.
). 81 do not see why woman should b.
Il barred from membership on Chang,
Just because of her sex. II women sue
coed in getting the ballot they will b.
e citizens with the same right as men
% II woman like Mrs. Hetty Green, TO
instance, should apply for a seat Of
the Exchange. it seems to me her ar
= plication should be acted upon favor
ably Even il she never appeared Of
the iloor, she should have the RICH
!, tr own seat.
81 do not like the idea of men hold
ing out against women Just becaus