Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 1016) (1925 03 20)

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BOYS, READ THE RADIO ARTICLES IN THIS NUMBER MARCH 20, 1925 ho oe F AME piaetan ot Ff INE WEEKLY a MONEY. | smn my : ALL STREET aROERS ater The bearded man ¢ RANE suddenly, caught Charlie around the neck with a strangle hold aod held him. Phil, precipitating himself upon the other rascal, seized him, football fasnion, around one leg. Man, satchel and boy went down in a heap.

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Read Page. 2A -& Radio Nov: and_ Hints. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY , Issued weekly—Suhscription price, $4.00 per Years West 23d Street, New York, N. Y. the Post-Office at New York. No. 1016 NEW N. YORK, MARCH 20, » Sey under the Act of March 3, 1879. 1925 Price ! Cents. ON THE CURB OR, BEATING THE WALL STREET BROKERS By A “SELF- MADE MAN CHAPTER I.—A Bold Robbery. “Good morning, Daisy.” “Good morning, Phil.” -This salutation passed between a good-looking, well-dressed boy of nineteen and a pretty young ‘Yady of eighteen, who met one morning at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets a few minutes before nine. Phil Bascom, who was messenger and .a kind of general clerk for Roger White- head, a Curb broker, with an office in the Her- cules Building, Broad Street, had come down Wall Street ig Se the subway station; while Daisy Maitland, who was stenographer for the » same trader, had come by way of Nassau street from the Bridge, as she lived in Brooklyn. “Fine morning, isn’t it?” remarked the steno- -grapher. “Fine as silk. Don’t you wish it was a holi- 9” ss «So is Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas,” she replied, laughingly. i “And Labor Day. ‘Don’t leave that out. Well, - joking aside, I am delighted to have the honor - of being seen in your company.” “You don’t mean that, do you?” she asked, 4 naively. | “Sure I do. Isn’t it an honor to be observed in ~ the society of one of the prettiest girls in Wall . Street 2” “Please let us talk about something else.” . “We haven’t time, for here we are at our office building. We'll be up in our office in about two "shakes of a lamb’s tail.” He piloted her to an elevator, which carried tien to the sixth floor in less than a minute. ; = Then ‘they had only a few steps to go. Phil opened a door, the frosted glass upper half of which bore the legend: “Roger Whitehead. Stocks. ‘a Specialty.” “nter, Miss Maitland,” le said, stepping aside, with a bow. ~ “Aren't you just too polite for anything this -morning!” she said, as she swept by him. _ He chuckled, followed her inside and ane as e ha Mining Securities oor. Phil Bascom was a smart boy. ‘ “Well, cheer up—your summer vacation is com- \ _and while he was thus employed, Mr. Whitehead ' had reached the floor and =a “Follow me into the office,” said Mr. Green, and Se worked for Mr. Whitehead about four years, and stood high in that gentleman’s good opinion. He was a good boy, too. for he was the main support of his widowed mother, and his young twin sis- ters, still at school. The little family lived in a Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.00. Harry E. vee ye anc., 166 Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 4 5 Xz 2 W925 modest flat in Harlem, on the middle east side.» He had graduated at.the public school himself, and passed one year in the high school, but the death of his father, four years since, sent him out into the world to hustle. and he had hustled a He ever since. Phil and Daisy thought a whole lot of her, and, were excellent friends. if actions tell the truth, she thought a good bit of him. Being. employed in the same office,.they were thrown > much together, and found considerable pleasure’ in each other’s society. The bookkeeper and cashier had already arrived, also another junior clerk. Phil had a desk just inside of the railing, and it was part of his duty to attend to visitors when he was not out carrying messages to and ' from his employer, after the Curb market had opened, or to other brokers at their offices and elsewhere. * His first duty that morning was to make out a number of statements for customers, came in. Ten minutes later the trader came out into his small reception-room, which was simply ‘ a part of the main office railed off from the space occupied by his clerks. “I want you; Phil,” hé said; “but first tell Miss Maitland to come in with her notebook.” “The boss wants you, Daisy,” said Phil, going over to her table in a corner near one of the windows overlooking Broad Street. Then he preceded her into the private office. “Take this note over to-Mr. Green,” said the broker, handing him an envelope. _ “Any answer?” “Ves.” Pa Nathaniel Green’s office was in the Vanderpool _ Building, in Exchange Place, and Phil, getting his, Phil found » Mr. Green in the elevator, going up to his office, hat, started to deliver his message. and he handed him the envelope. The trader tore it open and read it. oth got out. ox By that time the cage _ | Phil did $0.

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2 ON THE CURB. 4 e The broker went into his counting-room. When he returned, he dashed off a few words on a pad, tore the sheet off, enclosed it in an envelope, “which he addressed to Mr. Whitehead and handed it to the boy. Phil then left. In the corridor he met a particular friend of his named Charley . Dean, who worked for:a Wall Street broker, known-as Richard Dorsey. Charley lived within _ -half’a block of him, and they chummed together. ' They usually came downtown on the same ex- press, but Charley not being at the station this morning, Phil, after missing one express on his account, came down without him. “Hello, Charley!” he exclaimed. “Where were you this morning? Oversleep yourself?” --*No. Thad to go on an errand after a wash- _ erwoman for my mother.” ; “Oh, that was it, eh? Well, don’t let -it occur ’ again. I lost one train waiting for you.” “Maybe I'll. lose a train some morning waiting - for you, so then we'll be square.” “Well, what do you know this morning?” “T know I’m busy, for one thing. This is my third errand since I came to the office.” “And this is my first.” “You have an easy time of it alongside of me.” > “How do you know I have?” “Because you haven’t that worried look that ‘comes from overwork.” i “J don’t see any signs on your face of intense “mental strain.” Charley grinned, and then an elevator. came along and took them on board. When they reached the sidewalk a man came out of an office ahead of them, with a valise in his hand, and started down the street. They would have paid no attention to him but for a startling circum- «stance that happened so quick that for a moment -it took their breath away. It was the very au- dacity of the thing that staggered them. A bearded man crossed the narrow thoroughfare and suddenly grabbed the man with the valise _about the neck, forcing his head back- and chok- ing off his exclamation of surprise. Then a smooth-faced man sprang from behind one of the abutments of a -big bbuilding close at hand, wrenched the valise out of the man’s hand and ryan down the street with it as hard as he could put. The bearded man then whirled his prey into the gutter and started after his companion im iniquity. | "The two chaps were evidently adepts*at their game, for the whole thing was done and over in a few seconds. j ; “Great Caesar!” exclaimed Phil, “Did you ever see anything like that? We must chase those - chaps, Charley. Come on.” - Ags the two men dashed for the corner, the boys - swooped down on them like a Western eyclone. The rascals soon discovered that troublé was in store for them. Their plan of action was evi- dently for one to cover the other’s escape. The ‘bearded man stopped suddenly, caught-Charley around the neck, with a strangle hold, and held him. Phil, precipitating himself upon the other rascal seized him, football fashion, around. one leg. Man, satchel and boy went down in a hes 2 et ax ' for instance, will go up the river for his smart- CHAPTER TI—Phil Gets a Stake and How It Grew. Phil held on to his prisoner like grim death. He was determined that the thief shouldn’t get away. The satchel had opened when it struck the walk, and a stream of gold coin, as well as a bunch of bills, had poured out on the sidewalk. _ Several passersby now ran up, one of whom stooped down. gathered up the money, and, re- ~— turning: it to the satchel, snapped the catch. ~ “Get an officer, some one,” said Phil. “This: chap stole that satchel from a man up street, but allethe good it will do him will be to land in the Tombs.” - The bearded man, realizing that the game was ~ “up, had released Charley and fled back up the street, finally escaping up New Street. The man who had been robbed now came rushing into the _ gathered crowd. He was a’ well-known broker, _ named William Travers. icin “Ha! You’ve got him, eh?” he exclaimed, snatching up his satchel. ‘ “Yes, sir. I put a spoke in his wheel all right.” _ “Good boy. Here comes a policeman.” : 3 An office? arrived, and, at Mr. Travers’s re- quest, collared the thief. The broker explained what had happened. “Pll take him to the Old Slip station, and you must come along to make the charge.” “T’ll do it. Come on, my lad.” ie it necessary for me to go along?” asked li. “Yes,” answered the officer, “as you made the ~ capture.” seine Phil said no more, but fell in beside the broker, with Charley on the outside. REA “How did you manage to catch this chap?” asked Mr. Travers, as they walked along, with a growing crowd at their heels. Phil told him. ae “The other rascal took me so by surprise that — I was practically helpless before I knew what had. — happened to me. You’re a smart boy. What is — your name?” a‘ te “Phil Bascom.” “Work in the Street, don’t you?” “Yes, sir. I’m employed by Roger Whitehead, of the Hercules Building.” ee: “Well, I’m much obliged to you for saving*my _ property. There is $5,000 in this satchel. Idare | say that only for you the villains would have got _ safely away with it. It would have been a rich ~ haul for them. I shall take care to reward you.” “T don’t ask for any reward, sir.” ee “Well, we won’t call it a reward, then. Tl - make you a little present. A good action should always meet with its just deserts, just the same as a bad one should get the reverse. This rascal, Kas ae = er ness. He has turned his energies into a bad chan- nel, and must pay the penalty.” When they ~— reached the station the principal personages in the drama lined up before the sergeant’s desk. The formalities were soon over. The crook was taken to a cell, while the broker and the two boys left the building. Z Pug Fah “You will hear from me before the day is over, young man,” said Broker Travers, when he parted from Phil at Broad Street. “I mean to write a Sap. .

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ON THE CURB Leg “few words to your empioyer also, commending your conduct.” Thus speaking, the broker walked ay and the boys separated, each for his own office. “What kept you so long, Phil?” asked Mr. ‘Whitehead, who had been impatiently awaiting - his return. His messenger explained the cause of his delay. The broker nodded, read the note sent by Mr. Green, then put-on his hat and went out. Phil went over to Miss Maitland’s table and told her about his stirring experience. She opened her eyes very’ wide. “What a brave and spunky boy you are,” she said, when he had finished. i“Thanks, Daisy. Bouquets from you are al- ways thankfully received.” Then he returned to his desk and got busy. That afternoon a mes- senger boy brought two notes to the office from Mr. Travers. Qae was addressed to Mr. White- head, and: Phil laid it on his desk.» The other be- ing inscribed to himself, he opened the envelope. A sheet of paper and a check fell out. The first contained a few words as follows: ; “Phil Bascom—Kindly accept the enclosed check as a testimonial of my appreciation for your valuable services of this morning. “Yours truly, “WILLIAM TRAVERS.” The check entitled Phil to draw the sum of $500 from the Manhattan National Bank. He gazed.at it with all his eyes. Was luck coming his way at last? It looked like it. When Mr. Whitehead came in he read the note. Then he ’ showed it to Phil.- It was very complimentary . toward the young messenger. _ ~ “fe’ sent me a check for $500, Mr. Whitehead,” said Phil. : ~ “Did he? Well, I guess you deserve it, all - vight.. Want me to cash it for you?” | “Tf you will, sir.” Certainly,” and Phil went home with the money in his pocket. There was a paragraph in _ the afternoon paper about the affair, the partic- ulars of which the reporter had picked off the ore blotter. Phil’s name was printed as large life. It made him blush, but then that was _ because he had never been in the limelight be- fore. He showed the article to his mother and sisters, and added many points that the reporter hadn’t been able to get. Then he showed his mother the $500. : — “Pil givé you $100, mother. I might want to use the balance some day soon if I see:a good - chance to double it in Wall Street.” : - Some mothers would have insisted on taking ' the whole boodle. But that wasn’t Mrs. Bascom’s way. She had the utmost confidence in Phil, for ‘was not he the man of the house? He had cer- tainly occupied that position, with credit to him- ‘self, for the last four years, and he was deter- mined to do better in the future. Next day, Mr. _ Whitehead sent Phil with a note to a broker in = _ the Astor Building in Wall Street. He found the ‘reception-room crowded with customers, and among them were several brokers. Three of these raders were talking, not far from Phil.. They ad called to ask the Astor Building broker to go or ‘head in business. into a pool to boom’ a certain stock. Phil heard them, canvassing the subjéct. He learned the names of the men who had already agreed to go into the combination, the names of several who were expected to round out the list, and finally, . at the last moment, he discovered that the name of the stock to be boosted was H. & D. When he. left the office after delivering his message he was satisfied that he had acquired a good tip. He looked up H. & D. when he got back to the office. It was going”at 39, a very low price, for the com- pany had been in the dumps for more than a year, — . for one reason or another. : “T’m going to get right in on the ground floor with this,” Phil said to himself. “Nothing like making hay while the sun shines.” He knew a little bank in Nassau Street where small orders were received from persons whose capital only permitted them, to speculate on a limited scale. - He went’ et there at the first chance he got ~ and bought 100 shares of H. & D. at 39, on a ten per cent. margin. With the memorandum of the transaction in his pocket he awaited results. He | didn’t have. very long to ‘wait before there was something doing in H. & D. In about three days it went up two points. That looked encouraging. = On the following day it went up two more, and on the third, another two. That put Phil $600 to the good. But he ‘was in no hurry to sell out, for he believed the stock would go higher. we “There are a dozen big moneyed men behind that stock, and they’re going to make a good thing of it, I'll bet,” he said to himself. He was right in his surmise. The real boom began on the following. day, when Phil heard from Charley that the New York Stock Exchange was in an uproar, owing to developments in H. & D. Charley didn’t know that Phil had any interest in. the stock, and Phil didn’t volunteer the information. He believed that a still tongue indicates a wise So he said nothing about the matter and sawed wood, as the saying is. That day H. & D. went from 45 to 58. Next day it went to 65. | . “I guess I’d better get out from under while I’m on the safe side,” Phil advised himself; “It’s — too risky for me to hold on any longer. If I was» able to stand by a ticker all the time I might take more of a chance, though I might be a fool just the same. A bird in the hand is worth a dozen in the bush. I’m going to sell out right away and collect my profits.” So he ordered his 100 shares sold at the market. They went at 65 3-8. When he received his statement and check from the bank he found that he had made« $2,600. Thus Dame Fortune had: played him a favorite, and inside of two weeks he became the possessor of a capital of $3,000. “ CHAPTER II.-A Pointer That Netted Phil Ten’ Thousand Dollars. With a capital of $3,000 at his bank, Phil felt like a different boy. He was assured that he had mounted the first rung of the ladder of success.) “Tve got.a start at last,” he told himself. “Now it’s up to me to go on doing better. That was my — gate etre

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- lucky day when I caught the thief who tried to get away with Mr. Travers’s satchel. Lucky day Number Two was when I picked up the tip on H. & D. Now I’m on the lookout for Number Three.” > Several weeks went by and still nothing hap- pened worthy of his attention. One night he and Charley came down to West Forty-second street to see a popular play at one of the theatres in that neighborhood. The seats they bought were in the front row of the second balcony at the top of the house. The entrance to, as well as exit from, this part of the house was on Forty-first street. When the show was over they started for the Times Square underground station. About half a block from the theatre they saw a well- dfessed man trying to cover the whole sidewalk at one time, with rather indifferent success, _“He’s got a dandy jag on,” remarked Dean. -. Apparently he had. As the boys drew near he lost his footing near the curb and went down, all in a heap. Phil rushed forward to assist him, ~ while Charley chased his silk tile, which was skat- - ing along the stones. : “Shay, boy, whazzer matter with the sidewalk?” asked +the gentleman, with an idiotic smile, as - Phil labored to hold him upright. “Nothing, sir; sidewalk is ali right,” replied the - young’ messenger. “All right, you shay? Why, it seems to move -. up and down as though it was,on (hic) rollers.” A pee I better call a cab for you?” asked 7 ee The gentleman swayed back and forth, with his hands on the boy’s shoulders. “Where am I, anyway?” he asked, thickly. “Forty-first street and Seventh avenue.” “Did you shay call a cab?” “Yes, sir. I think you’d better go home in one.’ : “All right, boy. Call cab, Sidewalk too slip- _. pery to-night. Must get home somehow.” ~ “Charley,” said Phil. “Go around on Forty- second street and get a cab.” : Dean hurried off to execute the commission. - “What’s your name, sir, and where do you live?” asked Phil, supporting the intoxicated man with some difficulty, as his feet seemed troubled with a tendency to fold up under him. » “Name Barrows. Live at No. — Madison ave- nue. Pay cab and keep change,” said the gentle- -' man, pulling out a wad of bills and forcing it into ~--Phil’s hand. - Phil decided to kéep the money and return it ' to the gentleman on the following evening, as he - journey.. As Charley was away some time the -- gentleman began to grow impatient. He wanted to walk on again. ee ; “Tet’s go to corner and have drink, boy,” he in- ‘sisted. f ~ “J never drink, and I think you’ve had enough already,” replied Phil, holding on to him. _ “Shay, what right have you to (hic) dictate to e, boy? If I shay want a drink, my business. derstand?” ‘\ , “but you want to get home, don’t you?” * tone, “bi t yo “Lots time to get home. All night before us. = ‘ . reaches his residence, and he’d be an easy mark ~— - LOWS. had an idea that if he gave’it back to the inebriat- __ ‘ed man the cabman might get it at the end of the “That's all right,” replied Phil, in a conciliatory ae ON THE CURB I’m just whooping things up a bit. Made raft = of (hic) money to-day. More in sight. L.& G. — going up out of sight. Make a million before ~ (hic) week is out.” ; “You’re a stock broker, then?” said Phil. “Nothing else.” : 74. -“What makes you think L. & G. is going out _ of sight?” : ; “Shay, boy, question impertinent. Understand ?“ _ Phil understood and said no more on the sub- ject. The man then made another attempt to go on to the corner, but fortunately at that point the cab rolled up and Phil and Charley got him into it. Phil gave the driver Mr. Barrows’s ad- dress and paid his fare to his home, then the ve- hicle dashed off and disappeared around the cor- ner. : “Full as a tick, wasn’t he?” chuckled Dean. “Yes, and he wanted more.” “More?” : “Yes; I had-all I could do keeping him away from the saloon on the corner. He’s a stockbro- — ker named Barrows. Has been making money. in the Street to-day, and is celebrating the fact. See the roll he gave me to pay his fare with, and’ told me to keep the change.” 2 “Whew! There must be all of a hundred ~ there.” : : Phil counted to $675. “Going to keep it, Phil?” “No, sir. I’m going- to return it to him to- — morrow, when he’ll probably be sober.” : “If some other fellow got his hooks on that wad Barrows would never see it again.” ~ te “That might be, but I’m not built that way. I kept it because I thought it would be safer with | me than with him in the condition he is in.” “You are right about that. The cabby might — go through him. I have heard of such tings being done. He’ll probably be asleep when the cab — to rob.” The boys walked to the subway station and took .: a train for Harlem. Next morning Phil asked Mr. Whitehead if he knew a broker named Bar- — “Tt know Jack Barrows, of Ingoldsby, Barrows & Co. Their office is in the Mills Building. Wh do you ask?” (ieee Phil told him of his, meeting with a broke: named Barrows the night before, near the New Amsterdam Theatre, and that the man had given — him $675 in his: intoxicated condition which he thought proper to retain until he could return it. “Tf you’ve no objection, sir, I’d_like to go down to Mr. Barrows’s office. If it’s the same gentle-- man, I want to give him back his money.” “Very well. you may go. He ought to be greatly obliged. to you, for taking charge of his roll. I no doubt but he ‘stood a good chance of losing it~ but for your thoughtfulness.” f ot aaa Accordingly, Phil called at the office of Ingolds- by, Barrows & Co., and asked to see Jack Bar- — rows. ; Oo) eet “Name and business?” asked the clerk, — came to meet him. : “Phil Bascom. Business strictly private.” _ He was told to walk into a private room, where he immediately recognized the gentleman : t 7

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) - night before, seated at his desk. He wheeled : around his chair and asked Phil what he could do for him. : : “Have you any recollection of having seen me ._ before, Mr. Barrows?” the boy asked. : a The broker looked at him a moment and then -- ~ shook his head. ; “Then you don’t remember that I put you ina -¢ab, last- night and sent you home to No. — Madison avenue?” : {fi ~—s You put me in a cab?” he repeated. i “Yes, sir,” replied Phil, who then went on to “warrate the circumstances of the case. “You pushed a roll of money into my hand, told me to - pay your fare and keep the change. I thought _ I'd follow your directions under the circumstances. Now I’ve brought the money back to you. There it is. There is $675 in that wad, and I think I . did the right thing in keeping it over night.” Barrows looked at the roll of money and then ‘at Phil. Eor a moment he was undecided - whether to acknowledge his weakness and take the’bills, or resent the boy’s statement with indig- ~ mation. Phil had a suspicion of the state of his feelings, and endeavored to put him at his ease by making as light as possible of the incident. The trader listened to him in silence. -- “Have you mentioned this matter to anybody else, young man?” he asked. “To no one but my employer, sir.” ~ “Who do you work. for?” a EFS fs “Roger Whitehead, of the Hercules Building.” * “J am much obliged to you for what you did ~ for me, but you had better keep the money and - forget the circumstances. I don’t care to have the story get out.” Ee “ee a ae = ao body, you may depend on that. As for keeping the money, I couldn’t think of doing such a thing.” j = . ~ “But I should like to make you a present. Take half of the money.” Eas : : “No, sit. Not a.dollar.” ; “But you have placed me under a great obliga- on to you, and I want to square myself.” “Very well. Perhaps you can do that by an- wering me one question. But you are not bound to do it.” “What is the question you want me to answer?” more in sight.” , “Well?” ‘The question I wish to ask is this: Would you advise me to buy a few shares of that stock on \argin,-with the view of making a stake?” - “How much money have you got to speculate sl Migaiar } “Three thousand dollars.” “Tf I give you an answer to your question, will you promise me on your word of honor to say . nothing about what happened last night, and to ep mum what I tell you here?” e “T have already promised to say nothing about light’s affair, and I shall keep my word, you answer my question or not.” ON THE CURB “You put me in a cab?” flushed the broker. 3 4 shall say nothing about the affair to any- “You said last night to me that you had made - a raft of money yesterday, and that there was — “You said that L. & G. was going out of sight. t . 5 It’s going this morning around 58. Hold it till it reaches 80, and then get out, quick.” - “Thank you, sir. I will follow your directions.” Phil bade him good morning and returned to the office. When he carried a message to Mr. White-- head on the street, fifteen minutes later, he went — into a brokerage house nearby and bought 500 shares of L. & G. at 58, putting up a margin of © $2,900. The stock rose to 61 that day; went to 69 on the following day; to 75'on the day after, and was still going up when Phil ran into the broker’s office where he had made the deal and ordered a sale at 0. : : : It reached that figure on'the morning of the | fourth day, and all Phil had to do was to figure up. his profits, which he found amounted to $10,-_~ 500. When he went home that afternoon he carried $500 with him, which he handed to his | — mother, with the remark that he had made a ~ lucky strike in the market the day before, and ~ he wanted to make her a little present on the strength of it. ' = sien CHAPTER IV.—‘Lawyer Dillingham.” — ‘ se ; | It was about this time that Phil was summors4 before the grand jury to testify against Pete Glick, the rascal who had tried to get away with William Travers’s satchel in Exchange Place that morning. Mr. Travers was also present as a witness. An indictment was found against the — fellow, who was identified as a Chicago crook, and the papers sent to the district attorney’s office. Detectives. had tried to discover the iden- tity of his companion, the bearded or disguised man, but failed to do so, Glick refusing to squeal on_his associate. ee eet This man, however, was watching Phil Bascom, — off and on, for he was determined to get back at — the young messenger for queering the job. The — beard he had worn that day was a false one, and he had, of course, discarded it. With another suit of clothes, and a short mustache, he looked ‘the shoulder.° This‘man was Joseph A _ “I beg your pardon,” he said to Phil, “but your name Bascom?3

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a5" ON THE CURB “That’s my name all right,” replied White- nead’s messenger. : “My name is Dillingham. T’m a lawyer. Could you spare the time to accompany me to my office? I have a matter of some importance to talk to you about.” Phil was astonished. “What’s the matter? You are a stranger to me, and I am sure I don’t know of anything that { could be interested in from a_legal point of view.” ; ~ “T cannot go into particulars on the street. You will find it worth your while to go with me. It will probably be a matter of financial benefit to you.” “Where is your office?” “On Nassau Street.” ; : “Have you any objection to my friend going along?” 4 “Tt would prefer that he did not. It is a matter that is for your ears alone.” , $a 2 At that moment Charley gave Phil a dig ‘in the ribs, the import of which he could not under- stand, but he knew it meant something. - “Well, I don’t care to go to-day, at any rat@® Give me the number of your office and I may eo ‘up there to-morrow afternoon at this hour,” said Phil. : “T ean make it to-morrow, if you say you'll be there,” said the man, with a disappointed look; “put as Tl have to put aside other business to "meet vou, I want to know if’I can rely‘on your keeping the engagement.” Pi} keep it unless I notify you by a postal card to the contrary.” Z ‘ “All right,” replied the supposed lawyer, “I'll look for you at four o’clock,” } With that he said “Good day” and started up — Nassau Street. “What did you punch me in the ribs for just now, Charley?” asked Phil. “Did you notice the ring that lawyer wore “No.” “It was a coiled, enameled snake, with a large - ruby for an eye.” ‘ “What about it?” “T’ve seen that ring, or its counterpart, before.” “J wish you’d make the matter a little clearer.” “lm going to. That ring, or its mate, was on the finger, the same one, too, of the bearded \ on” rascal who nearly strangled me that morning — that you captured the valise thief.” you and.noticed that.he is about “Ts the ring.the only evidence on which you base your suspicion?” 3 “T was sizing him up while he was talking to the same height ‘and build as the bearded man. Now, you don’t - know this lawyer, and you haven’t the slightest ‘idea what he wants with you. Adding those facts to the ring, I advise you to be on your guard. “I punched you in the ribs because I was afraid : you intended going with him. You can’t tell but what this is a job to get you some place where he and others can do you up.” _. “There’s one point against your theory that this lawyer is the same man, and that is a smart crook would hardly be such a fool as to come down here with that ring on his finger still. How Goes Fe coe But you noticed, the ring, as you Iw did. ‘ saw the name of “Horace Dillingham, . Lawyer,” _ indicating all manner of small businesses, the — and renorted ¢he fact to the’police, ed the door and ushered Phil into a iY eken The s Sate rate > : : Ete See gL ey cae xs ei as it seems you did not? Why-didn’t you de-) scribe. the ring-to the police at the time?” “T forgot all about it until I saw the ring on that lawyer’s finger.” c During the next morning, as Phil was carrying a message to the Vanderpool Building, he sud- denly thought of the lawyer, and on his way back to the office he stopped in at Mr. Travers’s office - and. asked to see him. Mr. Travers, however, was at the Exchange, so he didn’t see him. He thought the matter of sufficient importance to speak to Mr. Whitehead about it as soon as he got the chance. The broker advised him to go slow about keeping an engagement with a strange man unless he was satisfied he really — was a reputable lawyer. “ll let you off half an hour. Run up to the - address he gave you and see if this Dillingham ~— is really what he represents himself to be.” Phil ‘found the building without any trouble. It was an old four-story structure. There was a weather-stained board. near the street entrance, with the name of the tenants painted on it. In a small space under the fourth floor section he painted. put there. “He’s got an office here; all right,” muttered Phil; “but it is an odd building for a lawyer te be in if he’s any good at all. I’d give some- thing to learn what business he has with me.” — He had hardly expressed the thought when a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a voice said: “J see you’ve come up here ahead of time, Bas- — com; but I guess I can accommodate you now as well as later on.” a) 5 Phil turned around and confronted the pre- tended Lawyer Dillingham. gi ; ies ad ds It appeared to have been very. recently’ Per Se ee ae OO eee ae CHAPTER V.—Phil Walks Into A Trap And Is — Saved By Charley Dean. - = “Well, Mr. Dillingham, what is the business you. wish to see me about?” asked Phil. once “Come upstairs to my office and you shall — know all about it,” replied the man, taking him by the arm. “Why can’t you tell me here? around, and it will save time.” pte “T have a document upstairs I wish you to see.” “What is it about?” .. At te “It would take me too long to explain what it js. When you have read it you will understand — better than any explanation I could give you.” * Phil didn’t want to go up to the fourth story, — as he knew he had no time to spare, but the man finally presuaded him to come up for five — minutes, and he accompanied him, though it was against his will. As they mounted from one floor — to the next, passing doors lettered with the signs There’s no one =a shabby aspect. and interior gloom of the ancient building was more and more apparent to the young messenger, and the less he liked the errand on which he was bound. aie When they reached the top floor the assumed lay. er paused before a door on which a tin — sign, with his name painted thereon, was at- tached to the panel. Producing a key, he gue

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ON +H CURB the sole furniture of which consisted of a small, cheap desk, three chairs, and a very ordinary tug. The walls were decorated with common chromos that was not very appropriate to a law office, while there were a few law books on a bracket itself. “Sit down,” said Dillingham, suavely, waving his hand toward a chair in front of the desk. Phil sat down. “Now. my young friend,” said the lawyer, opening the desk, and taking therefrom a sheet of paper, “please read that.” Phil took the paper and started to read it. While he was thus engaged the man went .to a closet near at hand and busied himself there for a moment or two. “F ean’t understand what this paper means,” said Phil, after reading half way down the page. “There doesn’t seem to be any sense ¥ That is as far as he got. The man had come - up behind him in a noiseless way, and throwing one arm around his neck pulled him back, and with the lother applied to his face a cloth satu- rated with some kind of an aromatic drug. In a moment Phél recognized that he was in some _ ‘kind of a trap, and struggled lustily to free him- self. Although the boy made a desperatereffort in his own behalf, he was powerless to overcome ' the odds against him, and in a few minutes he - became unconscious. As soon as Achison was »- sure his victim was dead to his surroundings, he ‘released him and put the rag away. "The fumes of the drug had not been without ~ "some effect on himself, and he staggered as he ‘walked to the window and threw it up. He lean- ed over the sill for some minutes until the effect had worn off, then he returned to the boy and - looked at him. . €¥ou’re good for several hours, » friend,” he said, with a sardonic smile, “and now I must see if I can get you away from this place by daylight. I did not caleulate on having to deal with you till late in the afternoon, then I could have kept you here till after dark, when a ‘pight-hawk cab would have taken you to the water front: Now I must either remove you in the light of day, or give you another dose later on to keep you in, the land of forgetfulness until darkness sets in.” 4% Placing Phil so that he rested on the desk, -— Achison left, the roof, locking the door after him, and took his way downstairs to the street. He \had hardly been gone fifteen minutes before Charley Dean paused in front of the building. _. Going into the vestibule, he saw the name “Dillingham” on the directory. “[ see he has got’ an office here, after all,” mused Charley, as he looked at the sign, “but m’t think much of a lawyer who has an office “such a building as this. J guess Pl go un- stairs and see what his place looks like through he keyhole.” Charley mounted the stairs “and found them ore and more disreputable as he got up. He a ied the- fourth floor dnd looked around for er ae: “He found the door with the ¥ tin: sign. - . vb ae “George Dillingham, Lawyer,” it ead J _ seemed to be more ,vacant ‘than “occu- ; =e Charley. Fico his, ear_ my young ‘trance and show them the way: -about the interview on the previous afternoon” 7 “T guess there’s nobody in just. now,” he said. — to himself. Then he crouched down and applied his eye to the keyhole. He had a clear view of the interior within a limited space, but it happened | that the desk and the unconscious form of Phil — , Bascom came within his line of vision. Phil’s * face, with his closed eyes, lay on the edge of the desk and faced the door.“ The moment Char- ley’s eyes grasped the interior of the room they’ rested on Phil’s face. He started back as though he had been shot. » “My gracious!” he quivered. that is really Phil!” He looked again, long and earnestly, and when | he took Wis eve away from the keyhole ee was no longer any doubt in his mind. “It is Phil! Can he be dead? He looks: as white as death. Great Scott! What has happen- © ed to him? Has the lawyer chap murdered him? What shall I do?” He placed his ear to the keyhole, but not a sound: indicated that anybody other than: the | motionless boy was in the room. “This is a case for the police. I hayen’t a mo- ment to lose.” i He rushed down to the street, and not wasting | time to look up an officer, he went back to the stationery store he had just been to, which was — on the other side of the way, and asked os, mission, to use their telephone. ° Looking up’ the telephone number of the near- os est police station, he got the place on the wire o and Briefly detailing the circumstances, asked ~ that a couple of officers should be sent to No. — Nassau Street, prepared break into. an office, i and that he would meet them at the’street en-- Inside of ten minutes he saw two policemen approaching at a rapid walk. He crossed over and met them. _ “Follow me,” he said, laconically, and they fol- — lowed him up to the top floor of the building, = where Phil was an unconscious prisoner. Ta “Look through that keyhole,” he said to one of the officers A The policeman looked. One glance satisfied him that something was wrong insidé, and he knocked- loudly on the door. There was no response. After a second knock he forced the door back on its . hinges. Then his companion put his weight against the panels and.the door flew open. There was nobody in the room but the senseless messen- ger boy, and Charley rushed over to him. “Run downstairs and telephone for an aniudy: lance,” said the officer to Charley, and the ‘boy lost no time in doing so. When he returned he told tiie policeman — all “Tt can’t be that on Wall Street, between his friend Phil and the reap who represented himself as Lawyer Dilling- ham. “It’s my opinion es the man is “the fello the detectives have been looking for in connec tion with the Exchange Place robbery. His com- panion, Peter Glick, is about to be tried in a few days for the crime,” asserted Charley... -He told them about the peculiar ring that lawyer wore on his little finger. : The: ae aes drove up to the A 00 ecte:

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8 soe i Oe ently put in an appearance there. He examined Phil and confirmed the policeman’s statement that the boy had been drugged. : : “T}] have to take him to the hospital,” he said. One of the policemen helped him to carry the » “messenger downstairs and put him into the am- _pbulance, before a curious crowd which had been drawn to the spot. When the ambulance drove off the policemen returned to. the fourth floor again. The two officers decided to lie in wait for “Lawyer Dillingham.” Z “T ought to return to my office,” said Charley. “Well, we don’t need you. Give me your name and business address, and we'll send for you to identify our prisoner if we get him,” said one of the officers. . Charley did so and left the building. After explaining to the cashier why he was away_so ‘long, he telephoned all the particulars about Phil to Mr. Whitehead’s office. Two hours later Joseph Achison returned to the office to see how his pris- - oner was, and the officers on watch collared him. He put up a stiff resistance, but was subdued, handcuffed and marched -off to the station, where he was locked up, pending Phil’s recovery. “CHAPTER VI.—A Salted Mine. When Broker Whitehead returned to his office and heard from his cashier what had happened -to Phil, he sent the junior clerk* over to the hospital to see how. his messenger was getting on. The clerk found that Phil had been brought out of his trance, but he was still somewhat dazed and weak. The clerk returned to the office and reported. Daisy” Maitland, having learned what had happened to Phil, was very much con- * cerned about him, and her work for the rest of ‘the day suffered in consequence. Past Charley Dean, after going to the station/and identifying “Lawyer Dillingham,” telephoned the hospital for information about Phil. .He was sat- isfied that his friend would soon’ be-all right again. Phil felt rather shabby when he was per- mitted to leave the hospital, but instead of going home he went direct to the office, where he found Mr. Whitehead in his private room, and related his experiences of the morning to him. He had ' no idea how he had been rescued from his pre- ~ dicament until the broker told him that he owed his escape’ to his friend Charley. though Mr. » Whitehead could not tell how Dean had hap- pened to be on hand to save him. -. “We have just had. word over the phone from ' your friend that the rascal who trapped you has been caught, and is now in a cell at the police station. You had better go over there --and make a charge against the fellow. He’s no -. more a lawver than I am. It’s up to the authori- - ties to find out what his object was in decoying you to that room and drugging you.” _ Phil went to the station, identified the “law- yer,” and made the charge against him that his crime ealled for. * Shortly afterward he was _ transferred to the Tombs. Then Phil called at - Broker. Do.sey’s, office on Wall Street to’ see Charley. ; / “You're a brick, Charley,” he said, grasping his nd’s hand. “How did you happen to come to assistance 2” ApS OBR STEN CURB Charley relatéd all the particulars of the mat-_ Yr. “It is lucky that your bump of curiosity is in such fine working order,” replied Phil. “It saved my bacon all right.” “You haven’t any idea what the fellow intended doing to you, have you?” asked Charley. “Not the slightest. I wasn’t in the room five minutes before he grabbed me and smothered me with that drug. After that I knew nothing more till I came to m-- senses at the hospital. I am sure now that you are right about that ras- cal being the Exchange Place crook who was disguised with a board and managed to make his escape’ that morning.” SBet your life I am,” nodded Charlie. “That ring and his attack on you clinches his identity in my mind.” ; Phil’s mother and sisters were greatly worked up over the boy’s adventure when he related the ~ particulars to them that afternoon, on his ar- rival at home. : : “You had a very narrow escape, my son,” said the little mother, lovingly stroking his head, while his twin sisters, one on either side, hugged him as hard as they could in their joy ‘that he had escaped uninjured. ~* : “Well, mother, I don’t suppose that the villain really meant to kill me, but he certainly had some scheme in view which Charley Dean put a spoke in.” “I shall always be grateful to your friend for saving you, Phil.” F : : “Charley is all right, mother. He’ll be over to see me to-night, so you’ll have the opportunity te ‘thank him.” ; _ Next morning he and Charley went to the po- lice- court and appeared against the pretended lawyer, who persisted in the assertion that his name was Dillingham, and that he really was — a member of the legal fraternity. The magis- trate, however, didn’t believe him, and remanded — him until the police could look up his record. A few days later Peter Glick was tried, con- ” victed and sent to Sing’ Sing prison. Subse- quently, Achison, duly identified, shared the same. fate, only he got a longer sentence. ; _ It might have been a month after the incident just narrated that Phil was sent one morning with a note to the manager of the “Paradise Min. ing Syndicate,” of Goldfield, Nev. The New York office of the company was located on the second floor of a Maiden Lane building, and there Phil went. The main office was handsomely furnished _ and a general air of prosperity was reflected by the up-to-date appointments of the place. - A ticker stood in one corner, ticking out its — merry tune, framed maps of Western mining — properties hung around on thé walls, and on a handsome mahogany table between two windows stood a showcase filled with “specimens” of gold quartz that looked to be very rich in the precious’ metal. Through the brass-wired partition form- ing the counting-room, Phil counted half a dozen clerks who appeared to be very busy over ledgers and papers. i “They seem to be doing ‘Phil remarked to himself. _ He inquired for Solon Spiro, the manager, an was directed to walk into a private room at on side. No one was there. however. so, Phil sat ~ e abt a swell business here,” _

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ON THE CURB down to wait for the manager to appear. He noticed that there was a door opening into an- other room further on. This door stood a little ajar, and Phil soon heard two men talking in there. “So you think you can sell him the mine, do you. Spiro?” asked one of the speakers. “I’m sure of it,” replied the manager of the Paradise Mining Syndicate, with a satisfied .® laugh, the ring of which Phil rather .distrusted. ‘ “Good,” replied the other. “His representa- tives have examined the mine then, and sent him a favorable report?” “They have. It fully bears out all the state- ments I made to him as to the value of the prop- erty. You must have salted it in fine shape, Groome,” chuckled Spiro. ; “Trust me for that, Spiro. I know my busi- ness. How much is Bachelor going to cough up? ” i “A hundred thousand. I have proved to him that the Hespa Mine is dirt cheap at that figure.” “T’ll warrant you have, Spiro. You’re a jim dandy, you are. . You’ve got the gift of gab down ‘to perfection. I believe vou could persuade half the people of this city that black is white, if vou gindertook to argue’ the matter. Now, after Bachelor has paid the money and started to work the mine, how are you going to square yourself with him when he discovers that there is really nothing in the mine?” “Rasy enough, Groome, easy enough. I have taken care not to make myself responsible for the showing of the Hespa. He understands that J am merely the agent of the owners.” “Merely the agent of the owners Spiro,” and Groome laughed heartily. “I have showed him samples of the ore taken / from the mine, certificates of the assay office, the prospectus as given to the public, and such other documents as I have in hand. I am not supposed to know that the mine is salted.” “Of course not. Why should you? You’re not on the ground. You are merely—ha, ha, ha!— the agent.” “Exactly. examined and passed upon by competent ex- nerts, as I would assume-no liability in the mat- ter.” ** “And then you furnished him with the names of several good experts—excellent.” sta. we “Quite true, butat the same time I advised ~~» jim that there were others. I was willing ‘to take chances on the mine after you had attended to’ vour business.” : Z es," Phat?s. right. When, are you going to settle the matter?” - “To-night, at the Hotel Manhattan. an engagement with him at eight.” _ “Ts that where he is stopping?” ; “It is. He is to hand me a certified check for §25.000 to-night, when the papers are signed.” “Very good. I'll call around to-morrow for my mo share,” 4 “Do so. Vl have it ready for you, you out by this private door.” Phil heard them cross the reom, then it o¢- curred to him that after what he had heard it _ was better that the manager should not suspect : sce had been in the private non ee the time C€ is good, I have Tll show nev were talking. so he ium a oe f ei ist I cautioned him to have the mine’ _scheme with the proceeds of their thievery. For . Sixth avenue elevated train, taking a seat in th ‘ont of the eee chair and went to the door, where he stood with his hand on the knob, as if he had just entered... A. moment afterward Spiro came into the room ~ and he started when he saw the young messen- ger. e “What do you want here?” he asked, sharply, “with a suspicious look. “T’ve brought you a note from Mr. Roger . Whitehead, of the Hercules Building.” Sie “Let m> have it.”*>- ¢ Phil handed it to him. * After weading it, he wrote an answer and gave it to Phil, who left at once. j “Tt_seems to fhe that the manager of the Para- dise Mining Syndicate is a great rascal.” mused Phil, as he walked back toward Wall Street. “He’s tryine to”sell a salted mine to a Mr. Bachelor, of the Manhattan Hotel, for $100,000. That’s a ° swindle. He ought to be arrested and put in jail = for attempting such a thing. I think it’s up. to me to put this Mr. Bachelor on his ‘guard. “At : any rate. I ought to put him wise to what I‘yhave leaned about the scheme.. It may prevent him from being robbed.” : When Phil got back to his office he telephoned the Manhattan Hotel and asked if a Mr. Bache- lor was stopping there. Receiving an affirma- Be. tive answer, he told the clerk to tell the gen- tleman that a messenger from Wall Street would ces at the hotel to see him at about five that. ay. 2 CHAPTER VII—A Rescue On the L. There was a bie bunch of mining literathin the office, and Phil examined it to see if he could | find out anything that referred to the Hespa Mine. He discovered a late prospectus whicly set forth the advantages of the property in great shape. The Héspa was claimed to be a producer, — and a statement was given of the monthly vield. A fac-simile reproduction of the assayer’s re- — cept of the value of specimen ore taken from ~* different parts of the mine indicated phenomenal richness. An estimate was also given of the~> — approximate yield of the miné for the next year, and the next five years, which seemed to guar- — antee returns of fifty per. cent. on all money invested in the shares at ten cents a share— par value one dollar. The Paradise Mining Syn- dicate, fiscal agents for the property, reserved the right to advance the price of shares at any — time without notice. NS “Tt looks fine on paper,” said Phil to himself. “And one’ judging from the statements of the prospectus would say the Hespa is a sure win- ner. But I guess I know better than that. It’s easy to build up fortunes on paper. Half the literature in this heap represents soap-bubble— speculative schemes which inflate themselves on other people’s money, and then burst.when they - reach their limit, ruining the investors, but en- riching the promoters, who start some fresh "a every real good mine out West there are a dozen wildeats. A person wants to be wide awake when he thinks about investing in mining: stocks.” At about four o’clock, Phil started uptown in forward car, The Manhattan Hotel was on

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Broadway, not far from Forty-second street. The ~~ ear was well filled when it reached Fourteenth street, and Phil, with his customary politeness, gave up his seat to an elegantly dressed lady, who entered at that station. When the train » pulled in at Forty-second street station Phil got out and the lady in question followed him. She was the last to step off, and somehow or another _the conductor, in shutting the gate, caught her _ dress. He pulled the signal strap without notic- -ing that the lady was caught, and as the train _ Started up the woman gave a scream, which at- tracted Phil’s attention as well as others. He turned in time to see her being.dragged off her feet. Her position was one of extreme peril, and there was little doubt. but that the moment the car passed beyond the platform she would be oe to the street, a distance of twenty feet. or Phil, with admirable presence of mind, and at considerable risk to himself, sprang for the mov- ing car-platform, seizing the gate with one arm _ and the lady with the other. In another moment both were swinging in the air above the street as the train darted beyond the station. Great ex- citement ensued in the two forward cars, and “among the passersby in the thoroughfare below. The conductor seemed rattled, and for a mo- - ment did not make a move to help the unfortunate » lady, whose safety entirely depended on the young - messenger’s strong arm. ~“Open the gate!” cried Phil, coolly, “and help this lady on the car.” _» .- Then the conductor woke up and did as directed. - Phil assisting the fair passenger to safety. By time the train was half way to Fiftieth ~ street, and what had threatened to be a fatal accident was averted. Passengers on the two cars had crowded out on the platforms, and were loud ‘in their praises of the boy’s nervy conduct. Phil, however, paid no attention to them, but supported the lady, who seemed to be almost hysterical from fright. When the train ran into the Fiftieth street station, he helped her on to the platform, and then into the ladies’ waiting-room, where he ve =pet her a glass of water. ; After she had recovered her ‘composure some- fag what, she began to thank Phil for the great serv- ice he had rendered her. “That's all right, madam,” he replied. “T am : glad I was able to save you from injury. You’re all right now. Can I be of any further assistance 3 ie “You mav assist me down to the street and put -- me aboard a downtown surface car. I wish to go to Forty-third street, which is the nearest point to the Manhattan Hotel, where‘I am stopping.” “J will see you to the hotel, for I am going there ; myself. 4s “Are you. indeed? Then I shall be glad of your company. I hope you will let me introduce you to -my husband. He will want to thank you for what vou have done for me. What is your name?” _ “Phil Bascom, madam.” “Thank you. My name is Bachelor.” , “Bachelor!” exclaimed Phil. “Iam going to the hotel to see-a Mr. Bachelor. Perhaps he is your husband.” T think it very likely,” she said, in some sur- - between Mr. Spiro and Mr. Groome. ON THE CURB “Is he interested in Western mining matters?” “Very much so. He is about to buy a mine in the Goldfield District.” “The Hespa Mine?” “Yes, that is the name of the property. How strange that you should be the one to render me so signal a service. Are you acquainted with my husband?” “No, Iam not. I want to see him about a mat- ter that I think will greatly interest him.” It struck Phil as a remarkable coincidence that he should have been placed in a situation to render a valuable service to the wife of the stran- ger he was going to meet. That very fact placed him and Mrs. Bachelor on a more friendly foot- ing, and, paved the way to the interview with her husband. On reaching the hotel the lady invited Phil to accompany her to their apartments on the sixth floor. Mr. Bachelor was found in their pri- vate parlor, reading an afternoon paper. “Henry,” said-his wife, “I want to introduce ~to you a young gentleman who has just rendered me a very great service—in fact, I may say that I am sure he saved my life.” The capitalist was much surprised at his wife’s words, and rose to his feet as his wife proceeded to present Phil to him.’ She then narrated the circumstances of the accident that had happened to her on the elevated road. Mr. Bachelor im- mediately acknowledged his indebtedness to the young messenger in a way that left no doubt but that he’ was. thoroughly grateful for what Phil had done for his wife. ~ “A singular part of the affair ‘is that this young man was on his way to see you on a matter. - connected with the Hespa mine,” said Mrs. bear lor. =) “Indeed!” replied . the gentleman, “Are you - from Mr. Spiro, or.from the person who téle- phoned the hotel this afternoon that a messenger would call to see me at five o’clock?” “IT am not from Mr. Spiro, but am the person who telephoned the hotel clerk,” replied Phil. ~ ~ , “Then I will hear what you have to: tell me. Am I to understand it a reference to the Hespa — mine of Goldfield?” 33 “Yes, sir; and I am sure you will be “greatly. surprised to learn what I have to communicate to you about that mine.” “IT was not aware that my negotiations with Mr. Spiro for the purchase of the mine was known | outside his office,” ac} ~“T guess I am the only outside one acquainted Be with the fact, and it was only by accident that I~ learned anything about it. To begin with, I am ~ a clerk and messenger.for Roger Whitehead, a curb market broker, whose office is in the Her- cules Building, Broad street. I was sent to the — ofice of the Paradise Mining Syndicate, of which Spiro is the manager, to-day on an errand. wi ile waiting to see him I accidentally overheard — him talking to a friend of his in an adjoining — room, and the facts were of such a nature that, though you were a perfect stranger to me, I. be- lieved it to be my duty to make you acquainted with them.” This introduction clearly surprised Mr. Bache- — lor, and he waited for Phil to go on. The boy then told him about the conversation he had heard Ne

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“Now you can decide for yourself, sir, whether J have done the right thing in warning you of the swindle which I believe you are about to be made the victim of.” ; ; The capitalist was thunderstruck by Phil’s rev- elation, and for some moments he made no answer, then he said: ; “Phil Bascom, it looks as if you have this day placed me under a double obligation—the rescue of my wife from a terrible death, and the rescue ‘of my fortune from the clutches of a mining shark. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the interest you have taken in my affairs, and assure you that I shall not forget. the debt I am under to you.” , “You are quite welcome, sir. I hate to see any man swindled out of his good money. It is bad enough to lose it in the ordinary ways of specula- tion, but then you have a show to win, though the chances are generally against you. As I have now transacted the business that brought me here, I will not intrude further on your time. .It is nearly six o’clock, and my mother will be wondering what has detained me.” : : g - Mr. Bachelor pressed him to stay to dinner with them, but Phil begged to be excused on the ground that his mother would be sure to worry over his “unexplained absence. . : “But you will call and see us soon, won’t you? asked Mrs. Bachelor. who had re-entered the room, after changing her street dress. “We don’t want to lose sight of you after the unusual man- ner in which we have become acquainted.” Phil said he would he glad to call, and it was arranged that he should take dinner with them on the following Sunday. The young messenger then took his leave, and Mr. Bachelor hastened to tell his wife the ohiect of Phil’s errand. It is needless to sav that the interview that Mr. Solon Spiro had that evening with the capitalist was -. not at all satisfactory to him. | ~ On the following day Phil, while on an\errand. overhead three brokers talking about a reported | consolidation of two roads. Jt was the opinion of the traders that if the deal went through it would be greatly to the advantage of the B. & M. line to control«the destiny of the other road.’ On the strength of the rumor B. & M.. had already .jadvanced from 68 to 71, and was strong at the Yatter figure. Phil did not consider this as a tip, ‘hut was inclined to risk ‘some of his money in M - 2 During the day he learned from Daisy Mait- Jand that she had heard two brokers talking about B. & M. on the train while coming to work. “This convinced Phil that he had better invest jn the stock. So the first errand he was sent on resulted in the boy buying 1,000 shares at 69. The next day the-shares went up to 70. On Sunday he visited the Bachelors, and. in con- versation with Mr. Bachelor brooched the. subject of his buying the B. & M. stock. : _ -Mr. Bachelor informed him it was a risk but wished him all the luck in the world. Before he left Mrs. Bachelor presented Phil with a fine watch and chain. Phil was surprised, '_ but accepted the present with many thanks. The - Baehelors treated him finely and he had a lot to tell his mother when he arrived home. -_ Monday morning B. & M. opened at 71 and ad- ¥ ON THE CURB _ to come in with me, put your name on the door as “was not such a bad idea. He said he would give 5 ‘vanced’ to 72 before closing time. Thrée days ~ later. the news about B. & M. leaked out and the € stock went up in leaps and bounds. until it reach- ~~ ed 86, at which figure Phil ordered his shares sold. Half an hour later he ran in and told Daisy he had made a profit of $16.000. beicas “ “I’m se glad,” she replied and. Phil believed er. : 3 CHAPTER VIII.—Out for Themselves. . “Hello, Phil!” said Charley, a few weeks later, “Ys it true that your boss is down and out?” “I’m afraid he is, Charley,” replied Phil, with a sober face. “He got caught in a pool that was ~ formed te corner Jumbo Consolidated, a Gold- : field mine that has lately made a strike. The ef- — fort was a failure for some reason, and the com- MS bine was hit pretty har@*\-At any rate, the old . _ man is home, sick, and we can’t tell whether he © will go on or not.” : ‘ “ “What are you going to do in case he gives up usiness?” © “Ym _ not. worrying ‘about what I'll do,” replied Phil, cheerfully, for being worth $29,000, tea fu- ture had no great terrors for him. “Maybe Pll buv the boss out.” “You've got a pretty good nerve for a.messen- ger, I must say.” : : “A fellow has got to have Street.’ “You've got your share, all right.” ; Ane Dh Phil laughed and walked off. Two days later Roger Whitehead announced to his employees that | ~ he ‘was going out of business, and that they must look for other positions. gan ie “You won’t have to look far, Daisy. T’ll hire you now,” said Phil to her. = Sekt You will, Phil?” she evried, in astonishment. athe “T don’t mean that, exactly, but I have an idea ~ that you and J can take an office together and make it pay.” > “ey don’t understand what you mean.” ea Pei “I’m going to hire an office and try todo some business on the curb myself.” ‘ “You are?” F fee ES: “That’s my idea. Nothing like making a start and I’ve $29,000 to begin with. Now I want you ~ nerve in Wall a public stenographer and be your.own boss, too. Pll hustle around and get enough work to keep you going, and I’!] bet you’ll soon be able to build a business that will pay you better than if you worked for somebody else. I promise to see you - Been Les =f aisy was greatly taken with the plan.~ She — knew Phil could afford to give hor stants and that was the main thing. Then she was delighted — with the idea of being with the boy, for she liked _ him more than she dared admit, and she knew — that he thought the world of her. So while the other clerks hunted for new jobs. Phil looked for a suitable ofjce. Phil told Mr. Whitehead that he and Daisy were going to take an office together _ and open - chery See: business. He was going o the canvassing and she the work. Mr. Whitehead laughed at the plan, but said i them a circular letter of recommendation 49 his friends. ; ; ae ie i:

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12° ON THE CURB 2 “Have you got an office yet?” he asked. : “No, sir. “'é “Then I think I can help you out. JI am re- sponsible for the rent of this office up to next May, and Iam trying to rent the suite. I know a man who will take the large room. Now suppose you take my private room here. I'll let you have the desk and other furnishings cheap, and your own . time to pay for«them.” “Tl pay you cash, sir.” “Can you afford it?” broker, in surprise. “Yes, sir. I’ve got a little wad stowed away.” “Tl! let you have the safe and all for $150, or without the safe I’ll charge you-——” “T'll take the safe.” “Very well, then.” -“Vll let vou have the money atte Junch, sir.” ' The office was closed for good on Sites morning, and the clerk$, when they came: around to get their wages at eleven o’clock, were amazed to see in place of the word “Private” on the corridor entranee to Mr. Whitehead’s’ private ae the following words, neatly painted on the glass: : é “Philip Bascom. Miss Daisy Maitland, Public ~ .- Stenographer.” _ _ “What kind of business have you started in, Phil?” asked the junior clerk, inquisitively, and ‘= with a grin. asked the retiring “The business of making money, Benson.” re- feed Phil, with a chuckle. “Got a job yet?” oO. b} “Well, I’d like to hire a chap_to carry a sign * up and down Broad Street——” The junior clerk turned his back on him and . walked away. Phil, having bought the table that Daisy had been accustomed to work at, as ~ ‘well as the typewriter, he moved both into his _ office, and then locked «the connecting door. He - had had 500 business cards printed for his fair companion, and taking a quantity of these in his ocket, he went through the building, circulating them wherever they would do the most good. He also canvassed the building next door, and inserted a standing ad in two of the financial dailies. In this way he succeeded in drawing attention to Daisy’s business, and presently work began to come in, and before long she had enough _to keep her fairly busy. Phil now made it his business to haunt the “curb market, where he was well known to the brokers and young men who worked and carried “messages for the traders. He was frequently . asked who he was working for now, and invari- - ‘ably replied that he was president of a public ~-stenographic bureau, for one thing, and on the curb to keep posted in the mining market for - another. + He got down at the office regularly at nine o'clock, and devoted ‘the hour before business -eommenced in earnest in the Street, to studying the market reports of the preceding day, week oe month. Daisy did not yet have buSiness enough -eompel her to show up before ten, and Phil a lways waited for her to appear before he put on his hat and went out. Thus two weeks passed away without the boy’s making a dollar. is to go around the Wall Street offices ked Phil id him ‘10, 000 sees oF Pookeile & uy: for Then one morning a friend of Mr. Whitehead Nashville. to be delivered at the Manhattan National Bank, C. O. D., promising to divide com- mission with him. Phil jumped at the chance, secured the stock inside of three hours, and next day received a $625 check for his services. This was the first independent business. outside of his _ individual operations, he had ever done in his life, and he was quite elated. He showed the check to Daisy.when he went back +o the office, and she congratulated him over his first receipts. Daisy’s business was also growing, and she frequently had to remain at the office until six o’clock to finish up rush work, and Phil invari- ably remained to keep her company and after- wards see her to the bridge cars. One. morning they were surprised by a visit from Mr: Whitehead: He was looking in fine health and spirits since his retirement from the market. He asked Phil if he might make his office his headquarters for a few days, and the boy said he might. with pleasure, offering him the use of his desk. “Thank you, Phil. I’ve received a good tip from a friend who wishes me well, and I’m going to try to get on my feet again. If you’ve got any money you have no immediate use for I’ll let you in on it and we’ll clean up a few dollars to- gether.” “‘T’ve got quite a little roll, sir, and I’ll be ee a chance to put it to work. What is the ip? Mr. Whitehead told him.~ It was not a curb stock, but one listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The initials were D. & C., and it was ; going just then at 81. A pool of big moneyed Wall Street men had been formed to boom it, and owing to their immense resources there was little __ doubt but they would force the stock to par and : clear several millions. Mr. Whitehead explained % all this to Phil, and then asked him how much — money he could put up, as he would do the buying for both. < “Enough to buy 38,000 shares, sir,” he an- swered. : “Do you mean to say you’ve money enough to — cover the margin on that many shares?” sacha the incredulous broker. rap. “T have, sir.” - “Why, you’yve more money than I have how, Phil,” replied Mr. Whitehead, regarding his late employee with considerable respect. “T have managed to raise $17,000 in one way or another, mostly through mv wife mortgaging her home, - and that will enable me to cover the margin on — 2,000 shares. You’ll make more out of this deal than I will. I had not the least suspicion you — were so well fixed. Well, I’m glad of it, my — lad. Get vour money and Ill see to it that wes make a good thing out, of this deal, for we’ve got. a regular copper-fastened cinch.” 4 Phil got about $25,000 and handed it 40) Mr. tae Whitehead, who then went out and bought 5, 900 Ns shares of D. & C. at 81 1-8, sae A week later the shares had’ advanced to 401 F 3-8, at which figure Mr. Whitehead sold out. Phil’s profit. amounted to $60,000, while Mr. Whitehead cleared $40,000. The old "broker, with Phil’s permission, bought a desk and had it put in on the opposite side of Phil's, He also had his name lettered in small characters. on the dod Then Phil ae the benefit ot his, former

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ON ‘THE CURB ployer’s advice, though each conducted his affairs to suit himself. CHAPTER IX.—H: & 0. Phil, ever since he cleared the $16,000 on the B. & M. deal, had been on the lookout for what he. called a suburban home for his mother and the twins. It was about this time that he finally decided on a nice home, somewhat better-than the one he started out to get. But he could afford that as he was now worth about $90,000. His mother bought the property in her own name, and he paid $9,000 cash for it. It was a short dis- tance out on Long Island, overlooking the Sound, and with first-class electric railway service with . Brooklyn and Manhattan. Before they moved from their New. York fiat _ the agent who sold them the property made Phil an offer of $11,000 for it in the interest of an- other client who had taken a fancy to it, but Phil wouldn’t sell. The first Sunday after they were settled in the house, Phil brought Daisy out ‘to see it and take dinner. This was her intro- duction to Phil’s mother and twin sisters, and she made a very. favorable impression on therm. On the following Sunday, Phil called at the Manhattan Hotel and induced Mrs. Bachelor, whose husband was now out in the Goldfield Dis- trict, to spend the day at the new house. The Baseoms entertained Mrs. Bachelor royally, and A “she expressed herself as much pleased with the yisit, and invited Mrs. Bascom and the twins to. call on her at the hotel, which they promised to do, Phil also extended an invitation to Mr. Whitehead to pay them a visit with his wife, and : they did so in due time. Soon after Phil’s lucky haul_in D. & C. shares, through Mr. Whitehead’s assistance, the news got around among the curb brokers, and after- : al extended to other traders, that young Bas- com, who was now generally well known on the market. The result was that this fact drew con- siderable attention to him, and there were brok- ers who began to look upon him as fair game for their shrewness. x Several of these gentlemen called on him and tried to unload stocks that they were anxious to get rid of and which nobody else seemed to want. Phil, however, wasn’t biting very gfeedily at these bargain-counter attractions. o=n idea of what he wanted, and wasn’t taking any chances with shares that he knew nothing about, though they were laid before him in the most enticing manner. One day a Wall Street broker named Greene met him on the street. “Say, Bascom,” he said, With a seductive smile, “TJ hear you’ve been doing pretty well in -the market * lately.” ~~ *T 'ean’t complain,” replied Phil. ; “Well, if you’ve got a little money lying around © Toose 1 Baa put you next to a first-class chance - to. double it eats that $0?” laughed Phil. enerous people.” “Come up to my office and Ill talk to you.” iil tga some curiosity to find out what apne: Was, so he accompanied ‘him “T like to meet He had his. ~ Street, had riade a small fortune out of the . Phil didn’t 5 on the lines s"pronosed, “Now.” said Greene, in a mysterious whisper, as soon as they were seated in his private room, ~ “ve just heard that certain parties are com- bined to boost H. & O. shares. The stock is now” going at 42, which is much below its real worth. I’ve got in on the ground floor with several thou- sand shares, and am going to make a raft of cake money out of it.” Bg “You’re fortunate,” replied Phil. ; “Unfortunately, I’ve got to raise a sum of ~ eo ready cash by three o’clock, and I'll have to part with a thousand shares of this stock.” ~ € “You ought to have no trouble in doing that.” — “That’s right; but I hate to throw a sure win-" ner into another man’s hands. I don’t mind, ore however, letting you in on this thing, as you’re just starting out in the world. I’d rather you’d take the profits than anv of the other chaps who” _ would squeeze me right off the reel, if they. got the chance to do it.” “Thanks,” answered Phil, who didn’t have any confidence in Greene’s statement about the al- leged boom in the shares. “T don’t suppose you can buy a thousand shares outright, Bascom, so I'll let you have them on a deposit of say a half or a third of their value. Of course, I'll have to hold the shares until the rise comes and you take your profits. All Vl charge you sis the interest on the unpaid i” of the investment.” “Well, Mr. Greene,” Phil said, “I’d like to take ” you up, but: the way I’m fixed just at present - prevents me.” “Ts that so?” replied the trader, very much dis-- appointed. “What have you got on hand?” — “Nothing, individually, but Mr. Whitehead is in on a deal, and when he wants the use of my surplus cash I let him have it.” Phil meant to give Greene the impression that . Whitehead was using his money then, though ee Was not actually the fact. “Don’t you think you could manage to get Hol: of your money in a-day or two? 1 will hold. this proposition open for you.” “T might,” replied Phil. “If. 1 can, ri eal around and see you.” “Do so. But don’t say a word about this H. fi & O. business, Bascom. I’ve given you the tip — on the strict Q. T.. Understand?” “Of course,” replied Phil, and then he. took eh leave. ~ s a matter of fact, Greene did not have an H: & O. shares for sale. He wanted to sell 10 shares to Phil, however, at 32, because from cer- tain indications he believed the stock hg BO bee Phil was rather too smart for him to play aes a game on. The boy was up to many of t tricks of the business, and what he didn’t kn at he suspected, which amounted to the same, thing, intend to do cit brane with G n

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14 the end of: the affair but that he met Charley ‘on his way back to the office. “Say, Phil, if I tell you something, I want you to keep quiet. Do you promise ?” “Certainly. What is it?” “It is something that would set the Street: off if it got out.” : * “How did you get hold of it?” . . “By accident. It’s about the H. & O. road.” - “The H. & O.!” exclaimed Phil, interested at -onee. “What about it?” . . “You’ve heard about the new coal fields in Virginia, haven’t you?” i have.” “Tt?s controlled by a company of big capitalists. Well, the vice-president of the company has called at our office several times during the Jast month. To-day I found out what his busi- ness was. He and Mr. Dorsey, my boss, have ‘been quietly buying up all the outstanding shares of H. & O. on the market. The road has been on the hog for a long time, and it’s way down below par.” “Then there really is a scheme on foot to boom H. & 0.2” said Phil, in some surprise, remem- bering what Greene had said about the matter, and which he presumed was a fake story. ' “Not in the usual way. This is a purely legi- timate enterprise that is under way. The coal field capitalists are going to rehabilitate the H. 0. and connect it with the mines by a branch line to be built to a place called Clayton Junc- ' tica. Before doing gs teas they started to ac- quire all the stock of the H. & O. before the news of their plans leaked out and caused a premature boorn in the shares, see?” “JT see,” replied Phil. d “Well, they’ve got every Share in sight.” _ 4“How do you_know they have?” ; “J heard Mr. Dorsey tell the vice- -president that he had just succeeded in buying the last block that was out.” “Why, Broker Greene told me not half an hour ‘ago that he was loaded up with H. , “He was fooling you. If he knew anything about what is really going on in H. & O. he - -wouldn’t talk that way, and if he had any of the shares he’d hang on to them with a steel grip. He was just trying to rope you_ into some scheme.” -“That’s what I suspected. it, that he should happen to pitch on H. & a stock that was going to be boomed?” “Tt is funny. Say, it would be a great scheme Ht you could get him to sell you a ten-day option ‘on a few thousand shares of H. & You could afford to offer him a couple of points above the market. When you called for the _ stock he wouldn’t be able to deliver it and you’d have him where the hair is short. You could - make your own terms, according to the rules of: the Exchange, and he'd. have to pay up or go out of business.” “That would be great, wouldn’t it? It would each him a valuable lesson not “to try and rope ae on’t believe I could get him to bite, though.” i rou. might.. Nobody on the outside has any ie, as. yet that H. & O. shares. have all been oe up. Mr. Dorsey’s transaction at 42 is on a sale to- a nn : ee But it’s funny, isn’t O. as pt ee innocent lads like me, eh?” chuckled Phil. ; that paxil siesey i) ON THE CURB is something doing in the stock still; but it’s the last sale that will be.made on the Exchange for some little time. When the new owners of H & O. let the news of their plans out to the. public there’ll be a rush-to buy the stock. None can be got except at the figures offered by those holding it, and you may be sure they will put it as high as they can in reason. I figure that it ought to go to 80, for under the new regime it is bound to become a gilt-edged security.” When Phil went back to the office he told Mr. Whitehead the particulars of his interview with Broker Greene, and asked him what he thought about it. “I know Greene well,” said the broker. “He helped put me out of business. He’s a shifty ‘ man, and I advise you-to steer clear of him.” “Pretty hard man to get the best of, I sup- pose, ” ventured Phil. “Yes. I never heard of him being caught nap- ping yet.” “He might get it in ‘the neck before he dies.” “I'd like to know of it if he does,” said the trader, putting on his hat and going out. u CHAPTER X.—Dealing In Options. Phil was fully satisfied that Broker Greene had intended to do him up in:some way, but’Since the converSation he had had with Charley he — could not see how Greene could have worked him through H. & O. “It must be that Greene picked that stock out. — at random from among thegtinsteady securities. ~ I see the price has been going down for the last fortnight, a little at a time, though not much in the-aggregate. Greene has probably figured on a further decline, so he thought he’d sell me — what he didn’t have, with a good chance of buy- | ing it in later, if necessary, at a profit. It’s done every day. Of course, he doesn’t krfow that he — -couldn’t get a share now for love or money. I | wonder if I could presuade him to sell me an op- | tion on a thousand or two shares. He might- not suspect anything from me,.as he takes me for an easy thing. If I can get him to agree to deliver me even 1,000 shares in ten days, at some figure around 42, I’ll have him in a hole.” Phil decided to call on Greene and test the matter, so the next morning, with a bunch ‘of money in his’ pocket, he appeared in Greene’s office. The trader welcomed him with open arms. ~ “T’ve raked up some spondulix, Mr. Greene, — ee I’ve come around to talk business,” said j i “Now voufte talking, broker, beaming on him. " “You told me vesterday that H. & 0. shares tris were a good thing to have.” Greene nodded. as “Are you sure there’s going to be a rise. in: = them? a? S “T’m positive there is.’ “if “You are certain a aprabinanian has been’ torm- = ed to corner it?” a “You can depend on ‘it.” 2 “T suppose you hold age a bunch ee the he shares, then?” 7 Greene nodded seein. Bascom,” replied the is

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ON THE CURB “And you’re willing to let me have 2,000?” “J said 1,000, but I) make it 2,000, if you want it so,” replied Greene, rubbing his hands together, in a satisfied way. “If I take them it must be on my own terms,” Said Phil. “You can’t have the shares lower than 42, which was the price of the last sale made on the market yesterday.” - “Wilk you sell me a ten-day option on the opheres?” “Ten days! ‘ E I’m not in the habit of doing such = thing's.’ “Well, that’s the only way I ean afford to buy them.. I won’t be able to pay for them for sev- ‘eral days, at any rate. It might be even a week. so to make myself safe, I want a ten-day op- tion.” Brokey, Greene thought a moment. He was “me the chances of a rise in the stock at that time. Finally he said: : “Tf you’re willing to pay me three points above the market, that is 45,.for the shares any time within ten days from this date, $600 cash for the option and put up ten per cent. deposit of the : errant valuewof the stock, you can have the op- jon t Phil pretended to consider the terms, ’ finally agreed to them. “The current value of 2,000 shares at 42 is $85,000, and ten per cent. of that is $8,400,” ‘said Phil, proceeding to count out the money, while Greene wrote#the option. “Altogether you want $9,000. Here it is.” “That’s right,” replied Greene. “Now remem- ‘ber, if you fail to take the stock within ten days you lose your deposit.” , “TJ understand, and Be you fail to feliver ‘ abe stock when I ask for it? What then? ey “Don’t talk nonsense. I'll deliver it all right.” 2 AT may not call for it for ten days,” said: Phil. . “That’s your privilege,” grinned Greene. “But when I do eall for it I want it.’ as “Yow ll get it.” “All right, Mr. Greene. “Good morning, Bascom.” ; Broker Greene watched him depart, with a grin of satisfaction. “That boy is an easy mark,” he muttered. “I +ewish I could have sold him 5,000 shares at the same figure. I guess Till go around and put Bailey on to him.” and Good morning.” ‘and said he heard he was buying H. & O. shares. 25 “That's right,” replied the young speculator. “Got any for sale.” “How many do you want?” s “Pm only buying options on it at present. ae If, you want to sell me a ten-day option on 2,000 shares at 45, for $600, with a deposit, of ten per cent. on current value I’ll go you.’ Broker Bailey was not only willing but eager, ‘and the deal was made. He returned to the Ex- change and told Greene that he had sold Phil an option on 2,000 shares on the same terms as he had got. Greene at once rushed over to Phil’s — office. > = hs see you “powell 2,000 more shares of H. & from Bailey,” ”. he: said to the bs neacaapior: _ was nothing doing in it. of his position, left orders with a number of -— brokers for a small blocks of the shares, and / An: hour later Broker Bailey called on Phil. “and he had only $50,000 left. He “that Greene wouldn't be able to deliver ‘them for the stock, which the Be SEER IRee im “Why didn’t you buy 4,000 of me instead of the 2,000 if you wanted them?” “J. didn’t suppose you wanted to sell that ~~ much. Your original offer was 1,000.” “Vd have sold you 5,000 shares.” “Would you? now,” replied Phil, coolly. Greene was a bit staggered. Phil’s readiness to make the deal caused him to suspect that : there might: be something in the wind. “On second thought, I guess I won't sell any : more,” he said. “All right,” answered Phil. “You are the doe- tor. If you change your mind before four o’clock, come back.” Greene hastened away and began to. institute inquiries about H. & O.» He didn’t learn any- thing, except that no broker he spoke to had any of the stock for sale. Finally he decided that it would be safe to increase the option, so he — called on Phil again, and made a new option eall- ing for 5,000 shares. put up $12, 600 additional deposit. Greene depart- ed, feeling that he had done a good day’s work. Phil also thought he had done a clever stroke of work, too. The future only could tell. which was right. « CHAPTER XI.—Beating the Wall Street Brokers. Greene and Bailey naturally kept their eyes” on the ticker for developments in H. & O., Phil, to make sure 15 Then I’ll take the other 3,000 Phil paid $900 more, and _ but thers couldn’t get them. The efforts of the different. brokers to buy. the stock naturally -attracted at-— tention to the remarkable absence of the shares from the market.. Finally Phil went to Broker Travers and asked him to bid as high as 50 for the stock, He did so, and nothing came of it. This set the whole Exchange to talking, and gave Greene and Bailey a terrible shock. They. both hustled around to try and get the shares — below 45, for the ten days were dropping out, one by one. They failed to find a single share. Then they woke up to the fact that Phil must have been acting on inside information, and that. they. were likely to be caught badly, and’ that, ‘tooy by a comparatively inexperienced boy. They. held an indignation meeting one after. noon in Greene’s office, and tried to figure-how. they were to get out of their hole. take to call the option off. Finally — Greene called on Phil and asked him what he'd z “The option has five days yet to run,” paid: Phil, calmly. : “T know it,” replied. Greene, sharply; “but V like to cancel it. give you $5,000 if you'll let me out.” “No,” replied Phil, “I’ll have the money “veady in four days more to pay for the shares, then Vl] call on you for them.” That. was a pure bluff, for it -would cosh” over $200,000 cash to settle, for the 5,000 shares, knew, however in four day 8, and even were, it possible for him to do so, Phil could have ‘sold the option | a big profit, for there was now an gene & oy ae VIL return your deposit and:

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16 effectually cornered. All the brokers were watch- ing for developments, and wondering when the stock would be offered. ' Phil’s reply put Greene into a cold sweat. It was the first time he had been caught in such -& squeeze, and to think that a mere boy had got the better of him made him furious. “What will you take to let me off?” he de- manded, roughly. “T value H. & O. at 80,” he said. Greene uttered an imprecation. '. “There is a lady present, Mr. Greene,” said Phil, referring to Daisy, who sat a-few yards away, rattling her maghine. Her assistant hap- pened to be off that day. “You young pirate!” roared Greene, in a rage. ~ “Do you mean that you expect me to settle with you at 80?” “T didn’t say ethane about a settlement,” re- plied Phil; coolly. “You have four da¥ in which to deliver that stock.” ; “You villain! You knew [ couldn’t get that _ stock when you cajoled me into selling you the option.” “Excuse me. You told me that you had a raft of the shares in your possession.” “You knew I didn’t have any,” snarled Greene, “How could I know different from what you said? I took your word for it. Besides, I think it was; you yourself who suggested that I buy the stock from you. You told me there was a combination behind’ it that would force it up.” “Do you suppose I’d have sold you a single share if that had been the case, you young monkey ?” “Ym sure I can’t answer for what you might or might not do. You sold me the option, will- ingly, at your own terms. I didn’t hold a pistol to your head to induce you to do it. If you made a mistake, that is not my lookout. You assured me that you would deliver the shares when I called for them, and you warned me that if I didn’t call for them I would forfeit my deposit. Very well. This is Friday. I want those shares delivered here next Wednesday by three o'clock, and I will be ready to pay you 45 for them, De- ducting my deposit, I will hand you $204,000.” Greene jammed his hat on his head and rushed out of the room. He and Bailey went to every. broker in the Street in an effort to get the 7,000 a before Wednesday, but none was to be On Sunday the news came out in the papers that the Virginia Coal & iron Co. had acquired the H. & O. road. A*new”board of directors and new officers had just been elected. The ar- ticle then went on to outline. the improved con- ditions that were going to be introduced in the road at once. It also told how a branch line from the new: mines was to be constructed to Clayton Junction. and another branch mee from _peeville to the James River. Altogether, the H. & O. was about to enter eh a new and prosperous stage of existence, and it was a question whether the shares that. had ~been bought in on the quiet would be let out to the public much under 100. Greene and Bailey t both read the story, and they nearly had a fit. = a On Monday morning Phil told the whole story - of his option transactions with Greene and Teor to Mr. Whitehead, who, having read the avert ON THE CURB. of H. & O. in the paper, recognized the position the two brokers were in. He was simply wild - with delight. “I wish you’d sell me your option on Greene, sl he said. “What for?” ; “T want to get square with him for the squeeze — he gave me.’ “T expect to settle with him at 80.” “Let me settle with him, and I’ll guarantee you 80.. How much deposit did you put up? “Twenty-one thousand dollars.” “Yl give you that amount in cash and my “note for $175,000 for the option.” “All right,” agreed Phil, glad to get out 6f the necessity of pushing Greene to the wall, as he probably would. have to do in order to realize what the shares of the H. & O. road would soon be worth. As soon as the transfer had been cémpleted, Phil went out té call on Bailey. He found him in his office and he was a pretty sick-looking man, so to speak. “T have oe to_ask you to deliver those 2,000 — shares of H: at 45.” “T. can’t oar them anywhere, Bascom. You'll have to let me down easy.” “T’m entitled to the shares, ain’t I?” “You are, and I can’t deliver them. What will you let me settle for?” ; “The same price that I sold Greene’s option or.” “Did you sell that option?” “T did.” . “To whom?” “Roger Whitehead, my old employer.” “Has: he opened up again? I’ve seen him about, but I didn’t think he’d started another office.” “He hasn’t, but he is going to. He’s just got on his feet through a few lucky deals.” “So you sold him your option, eh? Greene won't like that. What did Whitehead give you fort?” me ne difference between 45 and 80,” replied i Bailey sprang up with a stron# ejaculation. “Do you expect me to pay you $35 a share?” \ he roared. “JT do. But Ill make this agreement with you ‘if the stock goes on the. market under 80 [ll refund to you the difference.” , Bailey groaned at the terrible ‘Squeeze. “That’s $70,000.” “Exactly, plus $8, 400 deposit.” “You're a- born Shylock!” .ctied Bailey, pas-’ sionately. “You know I’m at your merey and you are turning the screws on me.” “You ought not to have come into my office and sold me that option if you expected to squeal when things went against, you. You deliberately sold me that stock with the expectation that it would go down instead of up. I bought it be-: eause I had an idea it would *be worth more inside of- ten days than you were charging me We eacn took a chance, and it happens 4 , 4 for it. you lost. So ante up.” “Will you give me a written agiberient to re-— fund the’ difference if i stock goes on th market cant 802” ¢

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ON THE CURB . “No, sir. You have my word, ard that I intend to make as good as my bond.” “Driven into a corner, Bailey wrote out a ’ check for $78,400, payable to Phil’s order, and then demanded his option. The exchange was made, and then Phil left his office. : On the following Wednesday, Roger White- head walked into Greene’s office and presented the option and hissrequest for the 5,000 shares of H. & O. Of course, Greene didn’t have the stock, and couldn’t get it, and Whitehead made him settle at 90. Greene’s seat in the Exchange had to.go under the hammer, for Whitehead had no merey on: him. As soon as Whitehead got his money he settled with Pifil, making $50,000 by the transaction. ; Phil himself cleaned up $245,000 by the two _ option deals. That made him worth $325,000. -As he considered he owed his success almost wholly to Charley Dean, he handed Charley one- tenth of his winnings, or $25,000. “The tip you gave me was easily worth that, . old man,” he said. - “If I hadn’t felt sure that I had Greene and Bailey in a box I wouldn’t have bought those options of them. And now T have the satisfaction of beating two of the trickiest of the Wall Street brokers, as well as helping Roger Whitehead to get back at the man who was responsible for his retirement from the Street. CHAPTER XII.—The Hatching of a Scheme. ‘ Phil didn’t have to refund any money to Bailey, as the first batch of H. & O. sold at the - Exchange went at 85,‘and-next day it was ruling at 90. Roger Whitehead was now prepared to ~ open up again as a regular broker, and he offered . to take Phil as a partner—each to put $150,000 -. 4n the business. Phil accepted the offer and they hired a fine suite in the Hercules Building. Daisy > retained exclusive possession of the other office, and had work enough to employ her assistant regularly. : - The day that the painter lettered the main ~ entrance to the new firm’s offices with the in- . seription, “Whitehead & Bascom, Stock Brok- ~ ers,” Phil asked Daisy a very important ques- tion, to which she promptly answered “Yes.” ‘After that an expensive diamond ring set off the young lady’s engagement finger to, great ad- vantage, and Phil was a regular caller at her home three times a week. : : Mr. Whitehead got back a majority of his former clients, as well as an increasing number of new ones. His name went on the waiting list at the Exchange, to which he could not be elected until his turn came to secure a séat. It was about this tinfe that Mr. Bachelor, after everal months of varied experience in the Neva- a mining districts, finally secured control of a ew and promising mine. He then fulfilled his yromise to Phil by sending him a big block of e stock, advising him to hold on to it for ture results. : : sci Until. Mr. Whitehead could Secure admission o the Exchange, the firm continued to transact bulk of its business on the Curb, and through ~ connected with the Stock Exchange. fie ty Riksta He ea cec shits Sih a a, * ‘could talk into the combine. We'll both -start _ down,” remarked Bailey, looking over Greene’s a i eS Consequently, they dealt largely in mining stocks. ast Greene, after being obliged to get out of the Exchange, associated himself with the Curb brok- ers, but always gave Whitehead a wide berth. He hated both him and Phil as hard as any man can hate another, and he swore to get square with them if he-ever got a chance. Bailey also had no kindly feelings for either Phil or his partner, and was ready to help Greene out on any scheme that would get the best of Whitehead & Bascom. Months passed away and Phil reached his twentieth year before either Greene or Bailey found any opening to get at the firm they were sore on. They had both been prosperous in the meanwhile and accumulated a considerable capi- tal—Bailey at the Exchange, and Greene on the Curb. One afternoon, Greene and Bailey came together in the former's office. - “T have figured out a plan by whiclt I think we can do Whitehead and Bascom up brown,” — said Greene, when the two brokers were closeted ° in the private office. “That’s what I want to hear,” replied Bailey. “I’d give a good deal to drive that- boy out of Wall Street.” “T hate him as much as you do,” said Greene, “but I) hate Whitehead several shades more. Nothing will satisfy me but his complete ruin.” “Well, let’s hear what. your scheme is,” said ~~ Bailey, with an air of interest. “2 “Bascom did us both up in the option line.” “He did that. And [ll never get it out of my crop if I live to reach a hundred,” replied Bailey, scowling at the remembrance. “He col- lared $70,000 of my good*money.” “Yes, And I lost a quarter of a million, in- cluding my seat in the Exchange, through him.”~ “T’m waiting to learn what your plan is,” said | _ Bailey, impatiently. 5 bs, “My scheme is to fit the punishment to the crime—that is, to get Whitehead & Bascom to _ sell an option or two to us, then quietly get up a corner in the stock. we select, boost the price above the figure of the option, and then call . on them to deliver.” im “That’s very pretty in theorv, Greene, but will it work out in “practice? Whitehead & Bascom are not easy marks. The moment either you or me try to work such a game on them they’ll smeli a mouse right away and refuse to bite.” “You don’t suppose I’m such a fool as to put myself- prominently forward in this thing, or let you do it, either, do-you? No, no; we must hide in the background. We will simply heln furnish the sinews of war. Some one of whom Whitehead & Bascom, have no, suspicions musi work the game for us.” fey “We'll need a whole lot of money—millions in fact—if we are to corner any stock success-» fully so as to control the price even for a day — or two.” : “J understand that. I have drawn up a list of men I know, the majority of whom. I think I can count upon to go in with us. Here it is. Write down a list of men that you think you~ out to-morrow and call on them.” “I see you've got the Essex National B a 3 s \ oh

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18 list. “Do you expect to interest that institu- ‘vjon in a stock deal?” “My brother-in-law, Edward Selden, is presi- cent of the bank, and he has pledged me a certain umount of financial support,” replied Greene. 'Had-he been at the head of that institution,- or even in the moneyed position he is to-day, I _ would probably not have gone to the wall over a year ago.” “How much will ‘tthe bank stand for, do you think ?” . “A million or two,” replied, Greene. : “What stock have you thought of cornering ?” “T), & Gg Mi “Why D. & G.?” “Because-there are less shares of that stock out on the open market than any other low-priced stock I know of suitable for our purpose.” 3 “Well, that’s something, of course, .but a sud- _ den rise in the shares will probably bring out a arge part of those held for investment, and we’d have to take them in at the advanced figure vr go to the wall.” -“The controlling interest in this road is held rby the Jefferson Trust Company, the trustees -of which represent a majority on the board of directors. No advance would bring out any of vheir stock, as the road is fairly prosperous.” “Do you know how many shares we would have to look out for?” “Not yet, but I shall have all the particulars in a day or two.” _ “See that you get them. I must know about » where I’m going to, stand before I go into this thing. I’m not going to cut off my nose to spite - my face.” “Of course I don’t expect to run this thing - wlindfolded. “I expect to make a-sure thing of interested in the ruin of Whitehead & Bascom, “he others are out for the money that the corner , promises. I place our profits at half a million’ "or more apiece.” é “Phat sounds good,” nodded Bailey, in a satis- fied tone. —~ ~ “Yell those you are able to talk into the deal to call here next Friday at four p. m. for a conference. I'll have my people here at the same time. “Then we’ll go into the particulars.” “Tt is not to be a blind pool, then?” “Not at all. Everybody will know at the “first meeting exactly what is to be done. That will give confidence to all. But, of course, nobody must be taken into the thing on whom we cannot thoroughly depend. Explain that to the people you see on the subject, but do not mention any- thine definite. They must know nothing at all -. until they come together on Friday, when eyery . 4ne avill be sworn tovsecrecy before proceeding: ~ to business.” : The two schemers talked the matter over for a while longer and then left to go to their homes - vith pleasant visions of anticipated revenge and - financial protfis flitting through their heads. Next day they were very busy calling on the people they expected to interest. in the projected . pool to boom D. G. About a dozen brokers who. were eager to take a hand in the enterprise weet on the coming Friday at Mr. Greene’s office, when the whole scheme was gone over, and the You and IT are the only ones who will be - 1 st instalment: of the eka eh funds. required, ON THE CURB was paid over to Mr. Selden, of the Essex Na- tional Bank, which institution was to act as treasurer.. .Three of the brokers were selected ~_ to do the buying and subsequent booming, and re instructed to begin at once to get hold of all the shares they could on the quiet, it being arranged that Bailey and another should begin operations against the stock in order to weaken™” the present price of the shares in the market. No one in the combine, other than Greene es Bailey, knew that the pool was to be used as lever to accomplish the ruin of a Broad Street firm of stockbrokers. But such was. the fact, as the reader knows, and while these arrange- ments were being perfected, Whitehead & Bas- com continued on in the even tenor of their way, entirely unconscious of the plot which had been hatched by their two personal enemies for their - 6 undoing. att: CHAPTER XIII.—Laying the Trap. A few days later a broker named Hiawas who had had some dealings at odd times with White- head & Bascom, called at their office at 11 o’clock. Phil received the visitor in his sanctum. “What can I do for you to-day, Mr. Brown?” he inquired. Got any D. & G. shares on hand ‘that ‘you'd like to dispose of at the market?” “Not a share.” “Are you dealing in options?” “Not as a rule, Mr. Brown.” “Would you sell me an option on, D. & G. for- e say fifteen days?” Ss “T might, if you were willing to pay me enough ia for \it.” “What’s your figure on 10,000 shares?” “Ten thousand shares, - eh? That’s a good-. sized deal. Let me see,” said Phil, consulting the latest market report, “D. & G. is worth 65. Ten thousand shares represent a cash value of $650,000... I might give you the call at 72.” ~ “You don’t want much,” said Mr. Brown, with a grimace, “We want all we can get. I think that’s the. way business is done in the Street.” ‘ “Well, I have to consider the matter, Bascom. — I might give you 70, but I will have to consult ~ my partner first.” . “T don’t think we'll sell such a big option under seven. points advance, Mr. Brown. You have probably some inside information pointing to rise, or you wouldn’t be after the option.” rt: “Not at all,” the broker hastily answered, “But I'll admit that I’m figuring on a rise from gener indications. As to being certain of it, you ough to know that no man is certain of anything i Wall Street. If we can agree on the price for the stock, what will you charge us for the option, and how much deposit will you want?” Phil mentioned what he would charge,: and _added that the firm would require five per cen of the current value of the shares. - Brown t) took his departure and started at once f Greene’s office. Phil put on his hat and followed him out. He had business with a bie broker ‘Wall Street, and: this man. had his office ii same building with Greene. Brown had stop on the way to talk with a aren: and Dee Se ea cree £6 AT

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ON THE CURB the building where Greene was located right ahead of Phil. The corridor was. full of brokers ‘s and others coming and going. Greene came out of his office as Brown approached... Neither noticed Phil as he passed close to them as they came together. . “Well,” said- Greene to Brown, “what luck did you have? Did he bite?” “He wants seven points above——” That’s all Phil heard, but it was enough to set him thinking pretty hard. | “It looks ‘to me as if Brown is an emissary of Greene’ s,” reflected the young broker. “If that is so, it’s clear that Greene is trying to put up - © Bi Some game to try and scoop Mr. Whitehead and - Yne. I have no doubt he’s been hungering for a > long. time fo get even with us for the roasting we gave him on that option business. Probably . he thinks to do us up on the option business him- self. Well, forewarned is forearmed. I have no doubt Mr. Brown will be back at the office after ' having a talk with his ‘partner.’ The partner in this instance appears to be Mr. Greene. Very _ clever, indeed; but I wasn’t born yesterday. I must have a talk with -Mr. Whitehead before _ doing any business with Mr. Brown.” On his return.down Broad Street, Phil met Mr. Whitehead coming away from the Curb exchange, and he told him about Mr. Brown’s visit, his desire to buy a fifteen-day option on D. & é. and - how he ‘had accidentally seen the meeting be- tween Brown and Greene in the Taylor Building on Wall Street, and overheard a few significant -' words that fell from their lips. Mr. Whitehead was satisfied that Greene was up to some trick _ in which they were to figure at a disadvantage if the.enemy succeeded in gaining his point. - When Phil got back to the office he found Brown _ already there waiting for him. an The broker said that he was prepared to offer 70 for D G., and accept the balance of the terms. Phil replied that Mr. Brown would have to come in later and see Mr. Whitehead, as he didn’t care to take the resnonsibility of selling such a large option. Brown looked disappointed. peeny. he offered Phil 71, but the boy shook his ead “Come in about one and Mr. probably be here.” _ Brown increased his bid to 72 in an effort to ‘close the matter, but Phil wouldn’t do it, and he hdd to go away without having effected his ob- ‘ As/ soon as he had gone, Phil put on as ; e found, as he expected, that D. & G. was uncom- monly ‘scarce. He picked up two lots of 1,000 _ shares each, at 655-8, but that was all he could: find. “Tt is evident that Green had iegide information ‘that the stock has been practically cornered by a ool, and knowing that we cannot get 10,000 shares at the market, or anywhere near it, he has tried to work us. through Brown for an option on that number. In a day or two he’d get Brown to demand the stock at 72, and then we’d be in the oup and have to settle at his figure. A, clever game, but I’m afraid he’ll be disappointed.” ” il:took a snack of lunch and then went back He whad hardly seated Lait a at Och eatin ate Coe Whitehead will = -“Next to nothing. The most I could get was 2,000 shares.” : “Well, you can sell that option to Brown if he comes back,” said Whitehead. “Do you mean that?” asked Phil, in’ surprise. “Yes, and you can make it 15,000 shares, if he'll take them. I’ve borrowed: that number from the secretary of the Jefferson Trust Com- pany, who’s a-personal friend of mine, and. we'll have plenty of time to return the stock after the alee that is. bound to follow the rise in pros- pec “All right, sir,” replied Phil, with a ails of satisfaction. Mr. Whitehead then went to lunch, and in half an hour Brown showed up again. “Sit down, Mr. Brown,” said Phil. “Mr, White- head was a and I had a talk with him about the matter. e have concluded to let you have the option on 15,000 shares.” ~*~ “T said ten——” began Brown, and then he stopped short. “All right,” he added, “write it out and V’ll draw you my check for—what was the amount'you asked?” S Phil told him. Ten minutes afterward Brown met Greene on Exchange Place, as per aTTaneer ment. - * “L’ve go’ it!” cried Brown, in triumph. “Good!” cried Greene, rubbing his hands- with pleasure. “Let’s see.” “What do you think? additional 5,000.” “What! You did?” “Yes. He made a mistake and thought I had asked for fifteen instead of ten, and I didn’t un- deceive him.” “This is almost too good to be true,” Green, said examining the paper with eyes that - I caught him for an pt (ie i glowed with anticipations of the revenge he saw in store. “You’re a dandy, Brown, and I’ll make it all right with you. We’ve got those chaps in a nice hole. They couldn’t buy 15,000 nor 5,000 shares of D. & G. for love on money, for the pool, has every floating share in its possession but 2,000, that slipped us somehow. Bailey will _ feel like a schoolboy- when I show him the paper. We'll: force that stock up to par or over before the week is out, and then call on Whitehead & Bascom to deliver. I fancy’ I see them when the — time comes. I tell you, Brown, revenge is sweet.” The two men ‘then parted, Greene rushing off to the messengers’ entrance of the. Exchange to call Bailey out and communicate to him the good | news. The conspirators were certainly having ” the laugh on Phil and his partner. But he laughs best who laughs last. Greene and Bailey rested content that they had their enemy whipped. So the pool started > —~ in to foree the stock up and succeeded in raising it to 96 by Saturday. Then on Monday Browne @illed at Whitehead & Bascom’s for the delivery of the 15,000 shares. When Phil told him the shares were ready to be delivered when the S Ss 4, \ money was handed over, Browne nearly had a fit. ~~ : He stated he had not brought the check with him, but would call with it later and left. Browne hastened to Greene’s office with the news. “Greene was frantic when he Bae Bi anen statement. ‘Then ne ine Oat

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20 chair and vlared at his emissary like a man “who had lost all interest in life. CHAPTER XIV—In. Which Both the Pool] and the Story Sees Its Fnish. “Well,” said Brown, “I think vou’d better see about. getting me that certified check so that you can have those 15.000 shares to put on the market _ at 100. If you have lost your revenge in the way ~ ‘vou had figured it you can have the stock at any _ vate, and you ought to make $400,000 out of it; that is, if you hold the price at. par while the pool is unloading.” These remarks aroused Greene to action. He Saw that the time had arrived when the stock would have to be released, and putting on his hat he rushed over ‘to the Exchange to confer ned Bailey. Bailey was madder than a hornet to learn that their scheme for revenge had slipped a cog. “T thought you =e where every sharé of the stock was?” : ~ “So I did, except the 2,000.” ; »-— “Well, the 2,000 is accounted for. Travers ~ sold it to Buehanan nearly an hour ago at par. - It seems to me that if we had all the shares ex- ea cept the 51,000 held by the Jefferson Trust Co. people, Whitehead & Bascom must have got that - ? stock from them. If thev’re willing to let 15,000 shares out to W. & B. we may expect to ™ have more of it shoved at us at the present high price. Suppose such a thing happens the pool will go to the wall and we'll be ruined. It behooves us to get in out of the wet just as soon as we can. I’m going to put the shares on the market right away in the easiest wav possible. - We've got to get that million to settle with - Whitehead & Bascom, but there’s time enough for * that. The option has six days to run yet. At any tate we’ve got one ‘satisfaction, they must have paid a pretty stiff figure for those shares, and we stand to profit heavily by them.” ~ Bailey, returned to the floor to arrange a ena s other brokers. Travers, however, acting under direction from Mr. Whitehead, was watch- ~~ ing for the moment when the shares of D. & G. were offered to bidders. Mr. Whitehead had had a consultation with the President of the Jeffer~ ‘son Trust’ Company, and an arrangement was made by which the broker thought he saw his way to down the combine that had cornered the stock. The moment the representatives of the “pool, got fairly started with the unloading pro- cess, Travers suddenly threw a block of 10,000 shares on the market. This was a million dol- Jars’ worth -at the par figure that the pool was trying. to sustain. Bailey was staggered by the offer. He ’phoned the news to Greene that. the arket was on the verge of a panic. '“Unless we can take the shares, everything will go to smash. Can you raise the cash. by se three ? Bal “Take ” em, anyway,” replied the frantic’ Greene: m™ going. to see my brother-in-law. The bank have to support us or stand to lose heavily.” ‘& G. had dropped to 95, and was getting on when Bailey took ‘the block of 10,000. ON THE CURB programme of operations for unloading with the, The stock immediately began to recover and was presently up to 99. The taking in of such a heavy block by the pool renewed confidence in the stock, and the unloading proceeded with caution, amid intense excitement. But it didn’t last long. Mr. Whitehead was rather surprised that the combine did not go to pieces under the attempt to slaughter it. He did not reckon that they: would be able to take a million dollars’ worth of shares. He was. compelled now to order Travers to hurl another 10,000 at them. Fifteen minutes later the third block of 10,000 was offered to Greene. Selden didn’t dare involve the bank further, for He had already exceeded his — authority and would probably be up against it hard when: he came to square himself with the — board of directors. That settled the matter, and the next moment the Exchange was the scene of a wild panic. : D. & G. dropped to 90 in no time at all, and ~ it kept on to 80, when the chairman’s gavel brought the confusion to a stop for the day. Be- fore noon next day it was down to 50, and the Greene syndicate was a bursted bubble. Greene, Bailey and one other:man went. to the wall, ~ financial wrecks, while the rest of the members — were badly hit, some of them barély pulling through. Brown failed to take up his option at the end of the fifteen days, and his deposit was — forfeited. The stock, together with the other batches loaned for the purpose of breaking the combine, was returned to the trust company people, and then Whitehead & Bascom figured _ up their profits, which amounted to about 4 $110,000. What was best of all was the fact that they had beaten the enemy to a standstill, and prac- tically driven both Greene and Bailey out “of the Street. ‘When the smoke of the combat had). cleared away, and normal conditions were again in force at the Exchange, Phil decided that Daisy Maitland would have to sell out her type. writing business and retire from the public gaze of Wall, or rather Broad Street. , “Tm makinug so much money now, Daisy,” ea he said to her, “that really I must have a wife to. keep track of my finances in a general way. So — what do you say to getting married next month?” — “This is so sudden,” laughed Daisy, as she put her hand in his; “but I suppose I’ll have to agree ~ to it. I’ll talk to mother to-night and we'll try to. ah select the date.” “All yvight,” replied Phil, “it’s up to you.” f In due course the wedding happened, and it was a fine one. Charley Dean was best man, and — Roger Whitehead one of the most honored guests. Quite a number of years have passet since that happy event took place, and in Phil’s re household there is a Phil, Jr., and a Daisy; Jr., to help make things -interesting. Mr. Whitehead. - has retired from the firm to spend the rest of his_ life at his ease, and Phil himself is now a mem- — ber of the big Exchange. Although he’s worth a — million or ‘two, and is a person of ‘some conse- quence in Wall Street, he still recalts, with con- siderable satisfaction, the time. when de: a Ob the Curb. Z Next. week’s issue wik contain “A ‘PREAK OF hp pa E; ‘or THE ROX WHO STRUC a w givine her a kiss,

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a attorney, and John-J. Fallon. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY a 21. CURRENT NEWS 1,868 MONKEYS ARRIVE » The menagerie of Hagenbeck Brothers Com- pany, Inc., in Hoboken, New Jersey, sheltered 1,868 monkeys which arrived recently from India, where they were collected after the British Gov- ernment had announced a temporary embargo on their-kind would go into effect soon. The em- bargo, Hagenbeck officials said, will be in etrect until an export tax on primates is passed. -The monkeys got out in time to escape the em- bargo and tax’ only to meet a worse fate. Nearly all of them, it was stated, will be sold to hos- pitals. CROKER LAND IN FLORIDA. SELLS A : $1,025 A FOOT Rees Océan-front property of the late Richard Croker, Tammany leader, brought $435,000 at auction recently. Three hundred and fifty feet of property along the coast was sold, bringing an _ ayerage price of $1,025 a front foot, which is said ~ to be a record. Among the buyers were John Magee, New York banker, who owns a residence adjoining the property; Frank L. Polk, New York The sale was at- tended by 7,000 persons. The sale was conducted by Arthur C. Sheridan, _ New York reakestate auctioneer, and’ will be fol- ~ lowed by the sale of other property of Mrs. Bula Croker, the politician’s widow, who owns 11,000 feet along the ocean. 3 Earlier in the week Harold. S. Vanderbilt ~ bought 1,500 feet along the ocean from Mrs. - Croker, through Mr. Sheridan, at a private sale for $700 a foot. Mr. Vanderbilt’s new holdings adjoin his estate. BEAVERS PLENTIFUL IN ADIRONDACKS Beavers are becoming so plentiful-in the Adi- rondacks that residents are urging the State Con- servation Commission to permit an open season for their killing. They are said to be not only in- juring handsome trees on private property, but be paraien the beauty of many lakes by rais- ing the water level and killing many trees along the water’s edge. Beaver dams also have in many eases flooded low sections of highways and low- lying deer yards that have been in use for many years. They are also spreading into the Catskill Mountains ,and re-esfablishing themselves after ae an absence of more than a hundred years. No - damage is reported yet from the Catskills but the rondacks is full of complaints about these in-- ~ dustrious and valuable animals. The increase of the beaver population increases the the wild life of the Adirondacks generally, woods- men say. They build the dams that set back the water, storing it for the dry midsummer sea- ‘son and help. control the spring foods; provide better pools for trout to lurk in and make inac- essible any pools that fishermen cannot reach and vere game fish are given a better chance to - aes ermit breeding grounds for wild fowl | dohts made by the dams, and in vari-’ add and conserve the water of the - other ways roe - spee ean destroy the precious bloom, — THUMBPRINTS BY TELEPHONE The possibilities in police and. detective work | of transmitting thumbprints by long distance tele-~ phone were demonstrated in Chicago before a group composed of Chief of Police Collins, Michael Hughes, Chief of Detectives; Capt. Evans of the ~ Identification Bureau and others. Thumbprints were received from New York, as New possibilities in thief catching and arrest” of fugitives were disclosed. Chief Collins was greatly impressed. “Wonderful,” he exclaimed.” “Combined with the radio, this invention will cer- tainly make hard going for the fugitive, and will — — up the work of justice. “For instance, if we could wire the thumb- prints of Grant, for whom we are looking-in con- nection with the Rondout mail robbery—if we — could wire them down to Texas, where he escaped . from the *penitentiary—why, the thing has tre-. _ mendous pessibilities.” So enthusiastic was the Chief that he invited some of the company’s engineers to demonstrate the invention before the International Congress ~ of. Police Chiefs. ee) “If we could have this system in operation — throughout the United States a:.d Canada,” he> ~~ added, “it would increase police efficiency a thou- sand fold. The thumbprints, much enlarged. — were projected on a screen. a Z 4s < ae fee Te PEARLS OF HISTORY The pear] is the only gem needing not the hand of man to bring to full perfection, and history ~ affords ample evidence of the intense fascination it has always exercised among the people of every. age. It is the oldest object: of personal aera ae ment. : ; Indian mythology often speaks of the pear, at-. tributing it sdiscovery to the Vishnu, who is é said to have caused it to be drawn from the ocean for his daughter, Pandala. The records of the — Romans, Babylonians, Persians and Egyptians al. ways make mention of it. There was the wife of __ the Emperor Caligula, who for an ordinary be- trothal feast decked herself with pearls to the value of $1,650,000, and Julius Caesar presented Servilla, the mother of Brutus, with a specimen valued at $250,000. tie OS Coming to more recent epochs, we find that Philip II, of Spain, paid $200,000 for a single pearl, known as “Peregrina.” ,Found in Panama ~~ it was pear-shaped, and weighed 134 carats. It was brought from India. bes: 2 France, also, owns some exquisite examples. — But the biggest pearl known is that which was once the property of the banker, Henry Philip Hope. Cylindrical in form, it is two inches long. four and a half inches in circumference at one end and three and a half inches at the other, It weighs 1,800 grains, and is valued at $60,000. — It is known that the beauty of the natural pea sometimes proves evanescent. To retain its: $2 shimmering splendor, it needs air and lig’ t. Acids a can affect them, and emanations from he ‘skin a fe e

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_ usual look. { GUS AND THE GUIDE — Or — Three Weeks Lost in the Rockies By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story.) CHAPTER IX. Buried In The Snow. He soon came down, reporting it at least twelve - feet deep. “We -must tunnel to the barn,” he declared. “Trouble is to know what to do with the blamed stuff when we dig it out.” “Tt isn’t drifted near so much against the back window,” said Gus. “Perhaps we could. clear away there first, and then we can take the buckets, — and while you do the digging through the window toward the barn I can bucket the snow through the room and dump it out of the other window. How will that work?” “Tt might work all right. We can try. It’s the only thing to do, anyhow. You won’t have to bucket all the snow, though. It will press to- gether a good bit, and I guess we shall be able to work our way through. They did succeed“ in making a tunnel to the barn at last, but it took them the best part of the day to do it. : It was the first time Gus had been in the barn, and while the guide was throwing down. the hay from the loft and feeding the horses he went prowling about, examining everything. This resulted in another discovery, and a most interesting one. < Up in the loft there were a number of packing cases, and every one was marked “Orlando Blake, Boise City. Idaho.” : af “Waal, I’ll be hanged!” exclaimed Silas, when Gus called his attention to, them. “Ef it hain’t the funniest thing. We seem to have: been lost just in the right place. It beats the band!” Gus could now understand about the laboratory. There could be no doubt that the mad chemist ‘had at some time or another carried on his opera- tions in the log tower, but Gus felt certain that it must have been many months since the laborator-” had been used. ‘¢ The second day dragged wearily by, and the third was worse still. ; On the morning of the fourth day Gus, was be- ginning to find it difficult to sleep—he felt so wor- ried over the probable outcome of his adventure+— was up first, and did the building of the fire. Wood was now beginning to get scarce, but there were still the old boxes in the barn to draw upon, and the night before Silas had declared that if they couldn’t do any better they would *.ave iE _to begin pulling their house down, log by log, _ to keep them from freezing. As soon as he got the fire lighted that morning Gus climbed to the top of the tower and had his Sepa ere: 6 Be ah ate ie ge ee FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ~ To his great joy he found that it had stopped snowing at last, and now for the first time he was able to get some idea of what sort of a place thev had fallen in upon the night of the storm. The valley was at least a mile wide. At some little distance away Gus could see a creek, which had not frozen entirely over; the water looked like a silver ribbon trailed through the sparkling carpet of snow. Such was the view frgm the first window which was toward the east. Looking out of the west window Cus could sée nothing but snow, trees, and mountains, but when he turned to the north window he saw at a great distance away the roof of a hut standing in the midst of four walls of snow. : “Hello! So we have neighbors. I thought as much!” Gus exclaimed. ; He could see that the hut had been shoveled out, and the snow banked up around it. Looking further, he caught sight of a second roof, and a third. Further on at some distance there was still another. F “By thunder, we are in a camp and never guessed it!” muttered Gus. “I wish some of our neighbors would show themselves. If I could only get up on top here I might get a view down be- tween those snow. banks. I can almost do it as it is. But I suppose there is a mountain of snow on top.” . : There was a ladder leading up to a trap-door which opened out upon the roof, but as yet Gus had not tackled it. ay He climbed the ladder now, however, and pushed — up the trap without the least difficulty. ‘ . The roof was flat, and without even a ing rail. As he stood there looking, the door of the first hut opened, and who should walk out but the girl he had seen at the pass. . pet i She threw up her hands and gave a scream, for she caught sight of Gus instantly. 3s Then, springing back ‘through the door, she disappeared. Fo “Thunder! There’s my mysterious little beauty again!” exclaimed Gus. “I thought we must be miles away from her. Hello, what now?” Again the door opened, and out came a large, © elderly man, followed by the girl. ia It was Colonel Tim Tolkins, but Gus had. got — over being surprised. SA ie The girl pointed to the tower, and Gus, pulling _ off his cap, waved it above his head. Sr ie “Hello!” bawled the colonel. It was all Gus — could do to catch the word. ® Pe “Hallo!” he shouted. “We are snowed in here! - What about you?” Sis Evidently the colonel did not hear, for he placed his hand to his ear and called back something which Gus could not make out. - ry. Then all at once the girl gave a scream an jumped one way, while the colonel went another. A tall man, also wearing a bearskin coat which + reached nearly to his: feet, came bouncing out of the hut. ' 7 “What is it? What’s the row?” Gus heard him shout. ays , EL The girl pointed to the top of the tower and put up her hands pleadingly. — Mie Then the man reached in through the door and protect- / f-%

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produced a rifle. Quick as lightning he threw it up to his shoulder, and banged away at Gus. CHAPTER X. Still Prisoners In The Storm. The rifle must have been a good one, for the shot carried all right, and the hut was over two hun- dred yards away. The ball went whizzing ovef Gus’s head—he barely had time to dodge down. A second shot followed the first and then bs who was crouching on the roof, not daring move, saw Colonel Tolkins snatch the rifle away from the man in the bearskin coat. The girl took a hand, too, and got knocked down. ; It was like watching shadow pictures. ae Golonel Tolkins then struck at the man with the butt of the rifle, but slipped and fell. _. Instantly the man grabbed the rifle and covered os sheveolonel. ~~ Gus watched it all with intense interest, of course. ; ae -. He thought he was going to be a witness to murder then, but it was not so, for once more -. the girl came to the rescue. ee : ie Springing to her feet, she caught the barrel of the rifle and turned it away. : ‘ ‘The “man who made Frisco” saw his opportuni- ty, and crawled inside the hut on his hands and knees, while the other man and the girl remained ‘struggling with the rifle. The man won, of course. : : i. As soon as he succeeded in wrenching the rifle away he pushed the girl down a second time, and sprang into the hut. She picked herself up and followed him, ing the door behind her. j Gus waited to hear the report of, the rifle, but it did not come. e 2 ‘For fully a quarter of an hour he lay there - watching, but none of his singular neigbors -- showed themselves again, so he retreated down the ladder, woke up Silas,Stump, and told him what he had seen... ; “Pine neighbors,” declared Silas. “All the same we've got to tackle ’em sooner or later, I sup- pose. If that skunk had done up Tim Tolkins (ll shoot him on sight. The k’nul may be a crook— some say he is—all the same he has been a good friend to.me,” f : It wes a most peculiar and unpleasant situa- on. clos- ‘these snow-drifts was a big proposition, and not a pleasant one to contemplate with the thought of meeting the man in the bearskin coat at the along were rapidly being consumed, and same- ing had to be done, so on the day following, see- nothing of their neighbors from the roof of .e tower, they started to dig toward the hut. zZ had formed his own theory about the mat- er side the hut, ale) FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY . ‘To dig a tunnel two hundred yards long through ; : But the provisions which the guide had brought | ao _and a good many of the logs. Z ‘ sure that the fight had been continued — Be felt Shut, and that Colonel Tolkins and the 28 girl had been killed, and the man either killed als ~ or so injured that he could not show himself: So the next morning they started at their labor- ious work, with two wooden shovels which: Silas made out of pieces of the old boxes found in th> . arn. As the hut was not in the direction of the bar~ . they could not. use the tunnel they had: alread: dug, but had to begin another from the door. which faced the hut. y To attempt to remove any considerable quantity of the snow was a hopeless task, so they con- tented themselves with slearing a broad spae* about the door, and then started in to tunnel h« pressing the snow together on each side, leavin~ a space barely wide enough to crawl through. They worked all that day and all the next, but. saw no sign of the end. Silas now gave up in despair. He was sure they had missed the clearing about . the hut altogether, and Gus was inclined to agree with him. : Of course, it seemed as if they had run the tun- _ nel straight, but it was almost impossible to tell. © ~ Just beftre dark Gus went to the roof of the tower once more, and tried to locate the line. is It had all clouded up again, and was remark- r ably warm. : 4 BLE A yainstorm ‘seemed close at hand, but unless it was long-continued Gus felt that it would only. make their situation worse. For a long time he stood there in the gathering ~~ twilight, watching for a light to appear in the hut, as he had done on both nights previous. No light showed itself, and when Gus went down the ladders he felt sure that there could be no living person still within. : a . That night the rain came. ‘ ai Up. on the pass it must haye been a fearful storm, for Gus and the guide from the tower — windows could see the trees swaying wildly. Ever parks there in the valley they got a good deal of => wind, : rs s “Pf this had been snow we: wouldn’t have get out in a million years,” declared Silas. “I reckon. it will be snow, too, up on the peaks before morn- — ing, but down hyar I guess it will hold to rain,” The guide was right. ‘ Ber A three days’ rain followed the three days’ snow, and there was not much left of the latte -when it was all over, at least so-far as the val- — ley was concerned; but up on the sides of the © mountains it almost all fell in snow, and Sila> declared that it, would be impossible to ascen’l» by the way they had come down into the valley. While the rain lasted no attempt was made t) — move outside the tower, although by the end of. the second day they caught sight of the huts out — of the lower windows. ; : : The creek had been steadily rising, and when ~ Gus looked out of the door on the third night he could distinguish a broad sea beyond the huts — and surrounding. the most distant ones. 3 “It was getting colder, and the clouds seemed more broken. : ¥ a eae They had used up the last of the wood two days before and had pulled away the roof of the towe > _ (To be continued.) Pe

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24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Interesting Radio News and Hints ; ONE STEP AMPLIFIER One stage of audio frequency amplification will make but little difference in'a set. It is the sec- ond stage where the big jump in amplification ‘takes place. Test it by cutting out the first step. YOUR GROUND WIRE : When making a ground connection be sure to serape the pipe clean before the wire is attached. The cold water pipe is the most direct to the earth and will offer the lowest resistance. Solder the wire to it. SIZES OF CONDENSERS The number of plates in a variable condenser means absolutely nothing. The rated capacity is what counts, as it is possible to build a-three- plate condenser which will have the same capacity as a 23-plate instrument. The size of the plates and their spacing is what counts, regardless of the number. When you buy a condenser find out its capacity, not the number of plates. RADIO TREES TALK Forest rangers in the Northwest have made living trees talk. By driving a copper nail into the base of the tree trunk, and connecting it to a radio sender, they have started every twig and leaf snapping off waves. Radio messages have been. sent by means of trees two or three miles. A ranger may be half a mile from'a phone in an emergency and by simply attaching his port- able radio set to a tall tree instantaneous com- munication ‘is certain. SQUEALS HAVE MEANING Every squealing noise in a radio receiver means something, and can be remedied. A good radio ~electrician knows by the sound of the unnatural noise just what is needed to overcome it. The only _»squeal which cannot be eliminated is that which * a regenerative receiver sends out into neighboring sets when the detector tube is burning so brightly . that the set oscillates and produces a whistle. The nuisance of squealing receivers is almost elimi- nated now, as listeners are learning how to tune ‘so that they will not be unfair to their neighbors. ¢ RADIO FOR THE BLIND “Dy. Gustav Gaertner, a German professor. has eonceived the idea that the early hours of the morning might well be devoted to radio brov- easting for the blind exclusively. A single speaker could thus reach the blind and those with defec- tive vision throughout a very large area. He sug- gests finding- out what such persons would like to hear through a round robin addressed to the blind themselves. He himself suggests a program of important political and current events, followed ‘pean hour of reading: from good literature, both - « fiction and more serious works, and possibly a third hour of simple scientific information. A SUPERDYNE JUNIOR There has been introduced a new superdyne re- ceiver in which only three tubes are used. This receiver is a well made and well-designed affair, in which tube economy is obtained by reflexing for one step of audio amplification. The result is practically equivalent to the results obtainable with a four-tube set, and the four-tube superdyne has won a good name for itself both as to dis- tanee and volume. ; y The superdyne makes effective use of radio- | frequency amplification and regeneration, the ten- dency of the circuit to spill over being controlled by means of what has*been called the “reversed feedback.” It*is claimed that this method, getting more work out of the radio-frequency tube, gives remarkable sensitivity to the cireuit. he FILAMENT CURRENT CONTROL , The efficiency of the filament in a vacuum tube is governed by the brillianey. The brilliancy or — heat is regulated by a rheostat, or variable resis- tance, which controls the amount of current reach- ing the filament. The rheostat is necessary be- cause most tubes differ in the amount of “A” battery current required to operate thém most efficiently. Few tubes work the same at equal brilliancy. It is not a sign of defect if one tube burns less brilliant than others. There is one point of brilliancy in each tube at which it works most efficiently. If too much current is applied to ‘the filament the efficiency of the tubé is re- duced just as if the current supply was too small. — Too much current reduces the life of the tube, causes distortion and howls. Tubes should not be | burned past the critical point. There is no one point of brilliancy at which a detector will work equally well on all stations. A slight adjustment of the rheostat is needed in each case, especially when receiving faint distant stations. A BATTERY RECHARGING SET : . A motor-generator set is by no means a brand new idea. In fact, many garages still use'a motor- generator set for recharging purposes. However, until now no attempt has been made to use a motor-generator set for recharging a single bat- tery at home—at least not on any extensive scale. | Radia amateurs and others have been using the _ vibrating type of recharger and the. restifying bulb type. However, there has now appeared on ~ the market a small motor-generator set for home — use, which has certain worth-while features to recommend it. The motor and the generator of this set are connected by flexible coupling. There — is an ammeter and a rheostat to regulate the — charging rate. The motor has a ten-foot cord ae with attachment’ plug, while the generator has six-foot leads with convenient spring clips. The — charging rate may be varied from one to 20 am- peres, which is a wide range in handling different sized batteries. Sf aes

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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 3B GOOD READING __ : THIS WATCH IS RUST PROOF The old saying, “lost time is never found again,” does not apply to timepieces, however. Six years ago Ernest Fulghun,; a tenant on. a _farm owned by Conrad, Brack, near Wilson, Kan., ' lost his gold watch in a wheat field on the farm. Last’ week Mr. Brack, while hunting: rabbits, found found the long lost watch. It started to run as soon as it was wound up. WARNING TO HUNTERS 2 Frank Krammer of Fremont, O., went hunting and mixed his cartridges with his tobacco. Re- turning home late in the evening he sat down to _ tell his experiences. He filled his pipe with to- bacco from his hunting coat and. began—Bang! The bullet went through the ceiling. The pipe bow! flew at another member of the family but mussed. Meanwhile Mr. Hammer-sat motionless - in his chair pulling on the pipe stem. : DEEPEST LAKE * A lake known as the “Great Sunken Lake” is _ reported to be the deepest lake in this country, ‘and perhaps the whole world. Located in the valley of the Cascade Mountains, about seventy miles north of Jacksonville, Ore., this lake, which is about fifteen miles long and four miles wide, is so deep that its depth connot be measured. It is situated so far below the crest of the moun- tains that winds cannot reach it, and its sur- face is like a sheet of glass. It is sometimes called the “Lake of Mystery.” : tr Bee ecabee tae TS SIMPLE RECEIVERS ARE BEST “The hook-up craze is passing,” according to Mr. E. Rauland, Chicago, manufacturer of trans- ‘formers, who is visiting New York. . “Tt ysed to be that radio fans tried to see how ‘complicated they could make their sets, but they are learning now that complication and elaborate design belong in the parts themselves, and in the equipment of the factory that builds them—not ; in the sets as the fans put them together. We have in the American factory probably the most ‘complicated coil winding machines ever built, but the radio parts we put out requide little compli- cated wiring. : “The complete ‘knocked down’ receivers. put out this year are thoroughly in line with this ten- ‘dency. People like to build their own sets, espe- cially when they can save a large part of the ost of a factory-built set and still get results t of ‘highest quality.” _ / : = Sa ee Ee ee ee _ ROMAN HOTEL MEN CUT TOURIST RATES In spite of the undeniable rise in the cost of living Roman hotel keepers have decided to cut their prices. In the stores, too, big announcements tell the public that great. reductions have been made in prices of the goods within. While in _ many other cities of Europe American tourists : ‘paying special rates, Rane has decided o} ikenmelity. ee ehoars seoaaes San faim > The fact is, hotels and shops have come to the conclusion that prices for the much talked of Holy Year were so high that the ordinary tourist took fright and ‘went elsewhere. Hotels remaincd empty and shop clerks had nothing to do; the small “artistic” industries that live entirely on visitors and are run by families and perhaps a. hired boy, found stock on their hands and an alarming lack of cash in the till. So when Amer- icans went there to seek rooms for themselves, they found rates were almost half what-the same hotels had given them by letter. In, this way it is hoped to make up for the empty and desolate month of January when the American tourist was conspicuovs by his ab sence. ALASKA SEALS ARE HERDED . Alaskan seal culture is on the boom. The herd number about 700,000, an increase of 50,000 over — the previous” year, according to the latest =nnual report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to Secretary of Commerce. The Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea are the center of thé industry. More than 90 per cent. of © the fur seals of the world gather there at the breeding season. most entirely to them and to the blue foxes that thrive there. .The natives of the islands of St. Paul and St. George have virtually become wards of the Government, which provides them with the necessities of life, educational facilities and medi- eal attention. In return, they tend the animals, j the - The islands. are turned over al- — under the direction of fifteen trained white em- pleyees. They are charged with protecting the fur seal herd and taking the skins, also wi car- — ing for the blue fox herd and taking fox pelts. ~ On St. Paul Island there is a plant for washing and blubbering sealskins before they are cured. Under the patrol of the United States Coast Guard vesséls, the seals disport t!.emselves about their favorite part of the Bering Sea. When they get ready to migrate, the ships move beside them. On the islands, provision is made to save the’ herd from dying out. The law requires the reserving” of not less than 5,000 three-year-old males a year. _Last year almost a thousand were marked by shearing patches of fur from their heads and were set aside for breeding purposes alone. According to the report, 15,920 sealskins were taken, 12,841 from St. Paul Island and 3,079 from FS St. George, in one year. é . “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and. Players : PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY Each number eet Three Stories of the Best Films on the Screen— —Interesting Articles About Prominent People in t Films—Doings of Actors and Actresses in the Studio and Lessons in Scenario Writing. / E HARRY E. WOLFF, _ 166 West 23d Street AC > legant Half-tone Scenes from the Fria ; fm

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26 rAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, MARCH 20, 1925 TERMS TO SusSUKis5iKS Hilighe Cépiess 5. ii ec. ee even Postage Free 5 Cents _ One copy Three Months........ reg “$1.00 une Copy Six Montits.......... fs pe 2.00 ve 4.00. ‘One Copy Que Year. 22. 666. cee ef ~~ * Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.00. HOW 40 sEND MONE) — At our risk send P. O. Money, Order, Check or-Kegistered Letter; remittances invany other way are at your risk. We aceept Postage Stamps the same as Cash. When sending sliver Wrap » ‘the Coin in a separate piece of paper to avoid cutuny . the envelope. Writé your pame and address plainly. Harry FE. Wolff, Pres. HARRY E. WOLFF, i Publisher, Inc. 1 Charles Wi; Nylauder, Sec. L. F. Wilzin, Treas, 66 W. 28d St., N. Y. FROM ALL POINTS MEXICAN BATS ATTACK CHILDREN _Reports from the State of Oaxaca say that a _plague of vampires is assaulting the natives. Bats with a wing spread of one meter are said to have attacked many persons, especially the- children, and in several] cases children have died from the loss of blood. _ Cattle have also been attacked and in many _ eases destroyed by the pests. The natives are panic stricken. ELEPHANTS ASLEEP - 2 ‘3 People who really know nothing about it-uscd to. - say that elephantsh never lie down to sleep. This for twelve months without once lying down to - ‘sleep; this is regarded as want of. confidence in _ their keepers, and of longing to regain their lib- erty. For when they are perfectly at ease, and ~. veconciled to their fate, they will lie down on their ' sides and sleep peacefully. ~ | MAILMAN STEALS $11,000 IN JEWELS FROM PARCEL ; After confessing that he had stolen $11,000. worth of rings, bracelets and uncut diamonds _. fr6m a package given him to deliver, Abraham _- Sscoenberger, a letter carrier attached to the City » Wall station, was held in $1,500 bail by - United - states Commissioner Boyle pending trial. _ Schoenberger had been employed as a substi- - tute carrier pending a permanent appointment. On ¥ebruary* 19 he got a parcel post package ad- _ dressed to Milton S. Greenbaum, jeweler, at 170 _ Broadway. He returned the package with the ex- planation that the Greenbaum‘ firm had refused to Secent the delivery. Investigation by postal in- spectors ¥ vealed that the package had never been --delivered, and through the carrier’s confession all ‘of the missing jewelry was recovered. Ae! ES ewe : "GR “ game?” is not true at all. They have been kriown to stand’ _ “Are you superstitious about stones?” _ “Which?” “Why, opals for instance.” “I am. ie FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Review, contending that the modern male is in- clined to become eifeminate. “The whiskerless young men of to-day are dom- inated by the girls, and willingly submit,” writes Mr. Ponsonby. Hesuggests that suitors would be much better off if they grew beards, but adds that if it eame to a showdown it is doubtful whether they would be able to do so.. ; “How the young men are dominated is most — noticeable in cafes and restaurants,” he writes. . “In the old days one would see a man enter fol-* lowed: by a girl, shy and demure. ; “To-day you will see the girl stride in with an _ air of mastery and assurance, her brimless hat < erushed dver her eyes, a Jong cigaret-holder sus- pended from her lips, and behind her trots the . little man. She orders the meal, and if there is ~ any swearing to be done at the waiter she will do it. F “None of the whiskered gentlemen of the old school would permit anything like that—would they?” —os LAUGHS “What did your husband think of the ball g “Oh, he doesn’t go there to think. He — Just hollers.” Sa “Would you be willing to die for your. coun- ee try?” “Not very willingly. .’'d much rather — make some of the enemy die for my country.” — “I hear Mr. and Mrs. Nagger has agreed to separate.” “Glad to hear it. That’s the first eae they’ve ever agreed on since they got mar- | — ried. é Fan he They are unluckv. I couldn’t get a cent on the — one I had.” 2 See E ites ~ “Anyhow, there’s one advantage in having a wooden leg,” said the happy soldier. “What's that?” said his friend. “You can hold your socks up with tin tacks.” : = . _ Young Lady—I ean always tell your work the instant I see it. Magazine Artist (delighted)— Can you, really? - Youngs Lady—Hasily. The - women all look alike. : oe “Oh!”exclaimed the suffragette fervently, “ the Lord had only made me a man!” “Perhaps he did, dear,” said the widow, soothingly, “b you just. haven’t found him yet.” See

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FAME AND FORTUNE. WEEKLY HERE AND THERE -—— SOLDER RUINS CRYSTALS Never solder the mineral of a crystal detector. Hot solder will ruin crystals. They should be held by a screw in a cup or holder. : THE DETECTOR VOLTAGE Varying the “B” battery voltage on the detector tube alone may make a big difference in the work- ing of your radio set. There is a correct voltage for each set. FIRST VETERINARY COLLEGE ‘ The first school of veterinary medicine in the world was opened in 1742 at Lyons, France, by Claude Bourgelat. Originally a lawyer, he abandoned that profession after having gained an unjust suit for a client, and devoted himself to the study of the diseases of animals. The school he established soon received the title of the “royal school,” and became famous throughout Europe. As a youth Bouregelat had served in a cavalry regiment, and this was the beginning of his love _ for horses. The London Veterinary College, the first of its kind in England, was founded at Cam- den town in 1791, and the New York Veterinary College in’ 1857. : : GIRL SMOKER EXPELLED Cigarettes claimed another victim at Goucher - College, Baltinfore, when a girl students was dis- missed for smoking*them on the school premises. Six others were dropped for failing to maintain the required scholarship standard. ~ “Tt is not a question of tobacco, but of the ill 7 effects ‘that tobacco seems to have on the stu- dents,” said Dr. William W. Guth, President of the college, when he confirmed the reported dismissal. He intimated that cigarette smoking was general- lydicative of a lack of seriousness in girl students. “We don’t want to appear in the role of ‘te- - formers,” said Dr. Guth. “We’re not trying to regulate the morals of the world at large. We are merely trying to regulate the morals of Goucher College.” - SOMETHING ABOUT BANK NOTES The Bank of England note is about five by eight inches in dimensions, and is printed in black ink, on Irish linen, water-lined paper, plain white, and with ragged edges. . ; ~ The notes of the Benque de France are made of white water-lined paper, printed in blue and b-ack, with numerous mythological and allegorical pic- fures, and running in denomination from the twenty-frane note to the one-thousand franc, __ South American currency, in most countries, is ‘about the size and general appearance of United States bills, except that. cinnamon, brown, and state blue are the prevailing colors, and the Span- ish and Portuguese are the prevailing languages engraved on the face. Sete e t e German currency is rather artistic. The bills are printed in green and black, and run in er bills are printed_on silk fibre paper. inations from five to one thousand marks. The Chinese paper currency is in red, and yel- low paper, with gilt lettering and gorgeous little hand-drawn devices. The bills, to the ordinary financier, might pass for washing bills, but they are worth good money in the “Flowery Kingdom.” - Italian notes are of all sizes, shapes and colors. © The smaller bills—five and ten-lire notes—are printed on white paper in pink, blue and carmine inks, and ornamented with a finely engraved vig- : nette of King Humbert.. The one-hundred-rouble note of Russia is barred from top to bottom with all the colors of the rain- bow blended, as when shown through a-prism.. In the center, in bold relief, stands a large, finely exe- cuted vignette of the Empress Catherine I. This is in black. The other éngraving is not at all in- tricate or ,elaborate, but it is well done in dark and light brown and black inks. © The Austrian note is printed on light-colored, thick paper, which shows none of the silk fibre marks or geometrical lines used in ordinary paper currency ag, a protection against counterfeiting. ~~ Each bears upon it a terrible warning to counter- feiters, threatening imprisonment “to any one who” shall make, sell, or have in possession any counter- feit or facsimile of this bill.” ; ; PLUCK AND LUCK — —— LATEST ISSUES —~ : fe 1374 The Gypsy’s Son; or, The Double Life. plese 1875 ae Transient Island; or, Cast Away in the South ea. 1376 The Boys of Black Bay: or, The? Youne Lumb King of the North Woods. ‘ se 1377 The Boy Nihilist; or, Young America in Russta. oT! ree Ri Golden; or, The Boy Miners of Placer ; reek, ‘ 1379 Young Patrick Henry; or, The Trinmphs of a Boy - 1380 1 Lawyer. . Pe King of the Diamond: x or, The Boy Captai he = Red Stockings DEAING OF Be . 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2B FAME AND FORTUNE. WEEKLY POINTS OF INTEREST PROMONTORY VANISHES A promontory projecting into Lake Pieleburg, Germany, and covering one and a quarter acres has suddenly disappeared. The cause is unknown. . The promontory was covered with trees from. ‘fifteen to twenty feet high. Measurements show it has dropped from thirty to forty feet. BEAVERS UNDO MAN’S WORK A colony of beavers near Vancouver, Wash- ington, recently has been staging a contest with ‘the State Highway Department... To protect the north bank highway a small lake was drained, but the beavers immediately constructed a dam that yesulted in the overflow of the road. The dam-was torn down, and in a single, night the beavers built a new one. This tilt went on for a week. Finally wire was used to keep the beavers “away from the outlet. cw » BZRA MEEKER, 95, HAS NO HOURS TO SPARE -* A ninety-five-year-old man has no time to _ waste, in the opinion of Ezra Meeker, trail blazer, ~ who inthe early days crossed the plains in a cov- ered wagon and recently went over the same route in an airplane, : ' Mr. Meeker visited a newspaper office in Taco- ma., Wash., recently and inquired for a friend. He was asked to wait for him half an hour. : “Good gracious,” answered Mr. Meeker, “I’m ninety-five years old, and I have ro half hours te “spare.” - FLESH FROM HER LEG USED TO MAKE peace : HAND _ Surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti- . more, by a very unusual operation, have made an - entirely new hand for Elizabeth Matthiesen, four- teen years old; which may enable her to realize her ambition to become a pianist. . The girl fell against a stove while learning - to walk and burned both hands. The left hand ' yesponded to treatment, but the right gave indi- -- eation of becoming a closed fist. ; ‘ Surgeons decided to try to return the hand to use by plastic surgery. Small bits of flesh were '. removed from the girl’s leg and grafted to the ” “hand, which was then fitted: with a plaster cast to remold it to normal shape. Surgeons to-day -said the cast is doing its work and that the girl will be able to leave the hospital shortly. } -. SENATORS VOTE SELVES MORE PAY The Senate, without a murmur of protest, re- ently voted to increase the pay, of its members. ‘It passed the legislative appropriation bill in ex- actly twelve minutes at a night session, but’ be- fore passing it, added an amendment which in- ereases the pay of members of the Senate and House from $7,500 to $10,000 a year and increases “the pay of the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House, and Cabinet members from $12,000 to _ $15,000. .No one demanded a roll call for the pur- - pose of having it appear in the*Record who stood x FO Pay increase and who did not: lative hill now ones h Rae ack to the House. . which has already passed if. It is expected the House will accept the amendment. President Cool- idge cannot single out items in an appropriation bill to veto them. It is assumed he will sign the legislative bill, salary increase and all, although | ' the added pay for Congress and Cabinet will cost the Treasury about $1,350,000 a year. LEAPS OFF BRIDE WITH CANOE George H. G. Smyth, a Canadian canoeist, bear- ing his canoe with him in his descent, jumped off | the Bridge of the Invalides into the River Seine, « - and although the craft shipped considerable water =~ he succeeded in bailing it out, righting it and paddling to shore, to the accompaniment of cheers _ from a throng. wee The Seine was high from continued rains, mak- ing the distance from the level of the bridge to ~ the water about thirty feet, but the swift cur- — vent added,to the difficulty of the fear. Smyth — was forced to swim alongside his canoe nearly 600 yards in freezing weather before he succeeded _ in emptying it. Z y oe ; Smyth is a former flight lieutenant of the Can- ~ adian Army. He canoed from Sydney, 'N. S., to — New York in 1924, and last November crossed the —_. English Channel in the same canoe. He now is on his way to Rome on an all-water route—the — canals, the River Rhone and the Mediterranean. x TO HUNT LIONS WITH BOW AND ARROW _ On his way to Africa, where he will hunt big game with the -bow and arrow, Stewart Edward White, the author, arrived in Chicago from Cali- fornia en route East. fc f : ‘With him was Mrs. White, who will go with her husand as far as New York, whence he sails, in company with Drs, Arthur Young and Sax- ton T. Pope of San Francisco, for .the -wildest jungleS of the Dark Continent. “T have shot thirty-seven lions and two ele phants,” said Mr. White, “but this will be first trial with the bow and arrow. I feel lik novice at this new method of hunting, compare with my colleague, Dr. Pope, who hag used it fo eight or nine years. , ~ eae: “Dr. Pope on a recent expedition in Alaska killed several common bears, eight grizzlies and seventeen black bears with the bow and arrow. He is an expert, as is Dr. Young, who with twenty-nine shots brought down seven brown squirrels. This is considered a record. — -aip) “Hunting with the bow and arrow is more spo than with the rifle, and it is also more humane, L believe. It is harder to hit true with an arroy than a bullet from a distance of 100 yards. An difficulties always arouse keener interest in th true sportsman. 5 ge uty “The country we will penetrate is as large the entire West of Africa. Owing to the densit; ‘of the jungles our baggage has to be packed ve light. We travel afoot, each man carrying abc sixty pounds on his back. We expect to be ‘ years ox nine months. This is my third ‘ica. but mv comnanions’ first,”

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: + FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY —— LATEST ISSUES — Boss of the Market; or, The Greatest Boy in Wall Street. The Chance of His Life; or, fhe Young Pilot of Crytal Lake. Striving for Fortune; or, From Bell-Boy to Million- alre. 965 166 067 { ry Business; or, The Smartest Boy in Town. ie f ranorite of Fortune; or, Striking It Rich in Wall Street. . 70 Through Thick and Thin; or, The Adventures of # Smart - eet 971 Doing His Level Best; or, Working His Way Up. N72 pays on Deck; or, The Boy Who Made His: Mark, 73 A Mint of Money; or, The Young Wal) Street Broker. 974 The Ladder of Fame; or, From Office Boy. to Senator. o75 On the Square; or, The Snecess of an Honest Boy. 976 After a Fortune; or, The Pluckiest Boy in the West. o77 Winning the dollars; or ,The Young Wonder of Wall Street. N78 Making His Mark; or, The Boy Who Became President. . Heir to a Million; or, The Boy Who Was Born Lucky. : Lost in the Andes; or, The Treasures of the Buried 979 980 City. 81 On His Mettle; or, A Plucky Boy in Wall Street. 82 A Lucky Chance; or, Taking Fortnne on the Wing. 983 The Road to Sueegss; or, The Career of a Yor- . tunate Boy. 984 Chasing Pointers; or, The Luckiest Boy in Wall Street. 985 Rising-in the World; or, From Factory Boy to Manager. ark to Dawn; or, A Poor Boy’s Chance. oe ya Himself: or, Paving His Wavy to Fortune. 988 Drimond Cut Diamond; or. The Boy Brokers of Wall Street. , 89” A Start in Life; or, A Bright Boy’s Ambition. e 99 Out for a Million; or, The Young Midas of Wall Street. j : Dy Inch a Boy; or. 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NAPOLEON’S ORACULUM AND DREAM BOOK.—Containing the great oracle of human destiny; also the true meaning of almost any kind of dreams, together with charms, ceremonies and curious games of cards. ty Ne. 2 HOW TO DO TRICKS.—The great book of magic and card tricks, containing full instructions on all leading card tricks of the day, also the most popular magical illusions as performed by our leading magt- cians; every boy should obtain a copy of this book. No. 3. HOW TO FLIRT. —The arts and wiles_of flirtation are fully explained by this little book. Be- sides the various methods of handkerchief, fan, glove, parasol, window and hat flirtation, it contains a full list of the language and sentiment of flowers. No. 4. HOW TO DANCE is the fitle of this little book. - It contains full instructions in the art of dancing, eti- auette In the ballroom and at narties, how to dress, and full directions for calling off in all popular square dances. ‘ No. 5. HOW TO MAKE LOVE—A complete guide ta. love, courtship. and marriage, giving sensible advice, — rules and etiquette ta be observed. with many curious and interesting things not generally known. No. 6 HOW TO BECOME AN ATHLETE.—Giving full instructions for the use of dumbells, Indian lub, parallel bars, horizontal bars and various other methods of developing a good, healthy musele; containing over sixty illustrations. : i No. 7. HOW TO KEEP BIRDS.—Handsomely illus- — ~ trated and containing full instructions for the manage- ment and training of the canary, mockingbird, bobolink blackbird, paroquet, parrot, ete. k No. 9. HOW TO BECOME A By Harry Kennedy. Every intelligent boy reading this book =a a ae aean Pl the art, and crest- any amount of fun for himself and friends. - f est book ever published. Seria. ol <2 . No 10. HOW TO BOX.—The easy. Containing over thirty blows and the different positions por, Selo shia one we these hooks. as it w teach you box - stenetor to X without an in o 11. HOW TO WRITE LOVE-LETTERS.— coriplete: lil tle geen ee. full directions as waits ng love-letters, and when to use them, gi s : letters for voung and old. siring SDerhne No. 12. HOW TO WRITE LETTERS T re brig tis Pe on for writing “infomeee re, adies on all subjects; also letters f and anders of introduction, notes 0.13. HOW TO DO IT; Or, BOOK OF ETIQUET - It is a great life secret, and one that ft toe Sane “Sy man desires to know about. There’s happiness in it. No, 14. HOW TO MAKE CANDY.—A complete hand- book for making all kinds of candy, ice-cream, syrups, 0 No. TR “tow TO BECO \ 0. - [COME BEAUTIFUL.— the brightest and most valuable little books Sreecslaens to the world. Everybody wishes to know how to be- come beautiful, both male and female. The secret ig a as and aimons costless, y o. 20. OW TO ENTERTAIN AN EVENING PARTY.—A most complete compendium of games. eee card diversions, comic recitations, ete., suitable for par- Jor or drawing-room entertainment. It contains more for the monev than any book published, aes» No. 23. HOW TO EXPLAIN DREAMS.—This little - ; book gives the explanation to all kinds of dreams, tos gether with Iucky and unlucky davs. uy No. 24. HOW TO WRITE LETTERS TO GENTLE. MEN.—Containing full directions for writing to gentle- men on all subjects. : 7 No, 25. HOW TO BECOME A GYMNAST,.—Contain. — ing full directions for all kinds of gymnastie sports and atheltic exercises. Embracing thirty-five iNustrations © By Professor W. Macdonald. : mk VENTRITOOUIST — art of self-defense made illustrations of guards, of a good boxer. Every useful and instructive 7 wi i For gale by all newsdealers, or will be sent to any address on receipt of price, 10c. per copy, tee ee in money or stamps, by = HARRY E. WOLFF. Publisher. Inc, 8 166 West 23d Street New York City