Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-08

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 reports by large percentage and in- creased cotton values by some S5,OOO.- 000-had the name of the Cotton Queen and was drawing more than SlO,OO0 year. And curiously enough when a reporter interviewed her some five years later on the reason for her phenomenal success she skipped all the usual platitudinous advice about industry, determination and so forth. and laid all her prowess to the fact that she never speculated.
 Began at S9 a Week. From SS week, ruling lines on tabulatiOn cards. Miss Giles rose to be one of the inside powers of Wall street. Her information, gathered from Geor- gia to Bombay, became the standard upon which men based the investment of millions. Her advice was sought by thousands, both straightforward and underhanded.
 Hundreds tried every ruse known to strategy to make her divulge even if only day in advance, the nature of her coming report on crop con ditions.
 But Miss Giles has always man. aged to outwit them. Lately she rarely answered the telephone herself during the day lest the convrsation should be >turned into dangerous directions, and lest she should by the slightest infiec- tion or break of voice, betray the price less information which lay on her desk before her.
 For on that desk, in neatly distribut- ed piles. would lie the return postcards from cotton growers of the south. tell ing her how each and every crop of the nation was faring. They would come in, some mornings, 300 at time.
 Exceedingly Feminine.
 Statistics grind all the humanity out of a persons veins, as a rule The mental picture of a woman who lives all day with figures. sums and reports is terrifying far from true, in this instance. For as a matter of fact Miss Giles is exceedingly feminine and youthful looking. golden haired. bright and pleasant of eye. The 25.000 post cards which she annually distributes among the twelve cotton growing states have not divorced her from a dislike of publicity and other traits womanly. One of them is a country home at Closter, x. J., to which she is retiring, now that her office will be closed.
 It was that December ,, 1902, of course. which brought Miss Giles her biggest reputation. The government report on the crops said one thing, Miss Giles report said another-and it was her report which won and turned the tide of the cotton market She was comparatively well known be- fore that but when this happened tele- grams began to pour into New York from all over the country, "Who is Giles?" they asked. And Giles" has never wanted for adherents the nation over since then.
 She Never SpecuIatos.
 q owe it all to the fact that l never speculate" she said. "The tempta- ton to do so is almost overpowering. but it has been the Waterloo of more than one statistician. If one specu- lates. it is only human nature to be biased in the direction in which you want the market to go. But you CIn see it is the utmost folly to do so. be- cause, win or lose. you would lose the confidence of your clients.
 Another important thing is to per init no one to influence you. You must rely solely on your own judgment. This is absolutely imperative"
 Between $25,OOO and $3O.OOO has been spent annually by the government in getting a line on the cotton crop from which to compile it's annual re port. But in this, says Miss Giles and evidently, to judge by her long list of clients. she is cOrrect-there are many mistakes which would be fatal to investors. Many small towns are never reported at all. Then. too. she learned to build much on the tenor of general remarks of the growers. which were a feature of her postcard system and from which she ! believes she came nearer getting at i the real conditions than the govern ment with an its special investigators.