Evening star., 1924-05-23

:Nh" 1ohh, May 23.-There are
two short paths to riches in New
York. Those who take either are
never worried by fears of conse-
auences They just put foot on the
primrose path. toddle down it for a
time, annex a thick bundle of money
and fade. The losers yowl, of course,
but then losers are forever yowling in
New York. No one pays the least at
, tention. The official complaint win
dows were jammed with the purpling
faces of those who bought bucket
stocks at Rabiner's bucketshop.
Come back next week." the Off
ciais said, "or some time next year.
1t was not that they shared Rabin-
er er swindle. They were just. callous.
Iney had overworked themselves lis
Iening to the plants of suckers.
when Rabiner. who had robbed his
clents of 100000, was sentenced to
! lhree years and then released on pa
, role after a doubtful service of a few
, weeks In prison. no one bothered. If
, IL mad not been for newspaper Rabi-
! ner would be garnering easy money
i, today.
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One of the two easy ways is to be-
come a messenger for a bond house.
. One would think that bond bankers,
: would pay some slight attention to.
the character of the young men they
employ to tote packages of negoti-
ables. They have the name of being
almost unnaturally wise. Whenever
some reporters review list of bond
men. They lean over the edge OF
olympus and tell us down below what
1t all means. The reporter refers to
The internationally known bank
s The next day some white collar
{ walks in from the street and SAYS
: that he would like job as messen.
ger. The international bankers hand
. him s111,o0o worth of bonds and tell
j. him to take 'em somewhere And
! They never see him any more.
:. they say.
:. The chances are that they did not
. so much as call on his references be-
, fcre handing him a bundle of money.
or MS papers were forged. One might
mink that after this had happened a
: few times the International bankers
would wise up. They do not. 1t has
neen prosperous branch of the
. thieving industry for years.
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The second way to get rich pain
lessly is to be count. 1t seems safer
to be a count than to tag any Of
the other titles in the Almanach de
Iotha- We're so used to counts here
IN New York that they can be cashed
over any counter. AT that there is al
least one price, and pair of dukes
!. and whole deck of barons at large
. IN town, each of whom has been CO.
piously exposed, and each of whom con-
elnues to get the money.
tie > nobleman," we say.
Ia any other town which has had
the sad experience of New York with
: the nobility that would be the signal
Tor the dog-wagon. Here we continue
70 loan EN- money. After all, New
York reasons, sooner or later one of
them VIII prove to be real. Then
We II be ahead of the game. Think
OF the pleasure of asking our friends
10 meet the count. One genuine, ear
marked, brand-registered nobleman
would atone for all the false alarms
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Not long ago woman had a big
financial success in Manhattan. The
only reason why I'm not giving her
name is that I'm sorry for her. She
had been a girl of no education, who
came from a small town where they
cat with their knives. Father al
ways took off his coat when he came
to the dinner table. But she had
plenty of native ShrewdnesS and wit
and she made a bundle of money.