Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-23
After % Years in Same Of
flee Ruined Exchange Men
Find They Have No Init
mate knowledge of De-.
fauIter
By ROBERT II. SMALL
Especial Leased Wire to The Journal-Cop.
RIGHT. 1921

right 1924
NEW YORK, Sept. Pit long
has been the boast Of the average
New Yorker that he did not know
and did not care how his neighbor
lived. 1t has been said that you
might live in the next flat to a man
here in the metropolis for a decade,
and never know whether he was
married or single.
New York is proud that it is not
"nosey.' 1t is the big impersOnal
town, a sort of live and let live
affair.
No longer need there be any proof
of these sophisticated assertions.
Impersonality has been carried to
the last degree. A big brokera sc
house has gone to the wall. 1t has
traded on the New York Stock ex-
change for fifty-three years. 1t has
been q pillar Of business substan-
TALLY. 1t has been pointed to in
the street" AS the great example
of business ethics. To be permitted
to trade with such a house has been
considered a privilege almost equal
to that of entering the most eXclu-
sive club in the city.
But now the house has failed
failed for $1,000,000 or more-and
one of its six respected members is
missing. A general alarm has been
sent out for his arrest. He was a
member of the firm for twenty eight
years, having worked up from mes
senger.
Knew Nothing of Man
Now that he has gone his fellow
members of the firm have come to
the sudden realization that they did
not know anything about the man.
They didn't know whether he was
married whether he had family,
or where he lived 1t had never
occurred to any of them to call upon
him in the evening. If he had a
club no one knew anything about it..
OF course there were the down
town lunching clubs, but they are
little more than restricted restau.
rants.
Someone in the firm Thought"
the missing partner lived in Brook
Ign, but when the police were called
in at last to Investigate, the address
one member of the firm thought he
remembered turned out to be false.
Thus a man who had been the
daily associate of his partners for
nearly three decades turns out to he
a man of mystery" Nowhere rlss
in the world could that have hap
pened
Isn't that just like New York;"
You heard everywhere in the street,
today. And the comment was made
with still that boastful note in it,
The surviving members of the
firm Of Day & Meaton still are too
stunned to give a coherent account
of their relationship with the miss.
ing partner or even to guess at the
amount of his supposed defalcation.
Certainly it is over half a million
dollars-maybe it will reach the mil
lion mark
George r. Christian, w took adj
vantage of vacation time to flee to
parts unknown. is bald, forty-five,
rotund OF figure and about five feet
nine inches in height.
The police in their two days on
the scent have learned more about
the eX-broker than any Of his bust.
ness associates ever thought to in
quire. They have traced him to a
siXrOom flat in Bedford avenue,
Brooklyn, but found that he va
Gated the place some time in August.
Was Married
They also have found that Chris
tan had a wife and mother-in-law
They lived in a modest fashion. In
leaving the flat the Christians TOOK