Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 1022) (1925 05 01)
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BOYS, READ THE RADIO ARTICLES IN THIS NUMBER No. 1022 MAY. 1, 1925 Price 8 Cents ME STORIES OF if OYS WiiO MAKE MOREY. A BROKER AT LIGHTEN; | oR , ROY GILBERT'S WALL GREET [; Ly A SELF- MADE MAN. Bei Tears tied 15%. a Crash! A heavy missile struck the office window, raskine the. pane. Th startled Roy sprang ~£ anlintnead ploee Wilk Ghyesh and hin ofptas otareod a
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Read Page 24 for Radio News and Hints. = FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ‘Issued ee ee pfice, "$4.00 per re Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.00. Harry ©. Wolff. Publisher, ine., 164 23d Street, New York, the Post-Office at New York, N. “No. 1022 Entered as Second-Class Matter, October 4, 1911, Y¥., under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, MAY 1, 1925 Hav 26 19% Price 8 Cents. A. BROKER AT EIGHTEEN OR, ROY GILBERT’S WALL STREET CAREER 3 By A SELF-MADE MAN CHAPTER I.—Roy Gilbert and Rosie Wood. = “Look here, Jim Crawford, can’t you leave that girl alone?” cried Gilbert, a bright-faced, ener- getic-looking lad, laying his hand on the arm of a stout, pock-marked A. D. T. messenger. The latter was teasing, in a rough way, a sweet- faced little flower girl of fifteen in front of the Sub-Treasury Building, at the corner of Wall and _ Nassau streets, one sunshiny morning. “What are you buttin’ in for?” snarled Graw- ford. “This gal ain’t nothin’ to you.” “Tt makes no. difference whether she’s anything ‘to me or not,” retorted Roy, in a resolute tone, _ “you haven’t any right to interfere with her. This - isn’t the first, nor the second time you've’ an- noyed her, so I want you to quit it.” ; “Who gave you the right to hand out orders to me?” snorted Crawford. “Yot’re puttin’ on° altogether too many lugs for a Wall Street mes- _ senger. First thing you know you'll run ag’in my, fist, and then maybe you'll haul in your horns.” — “T'm not worried about running against your - fist. I don’t believe you’ve got sand enough to use them. Fellows of your stamp don’t generally ve.” “What do you mean by that?” said Crawford with an ugly look. “Just what I said.” “Are you lookin’ for a run-in with me?” - “Not unless you persist’in bothering this girl.” “Who’s botherin’ her? I was only lookin’ at her flowers!” - “You know that’s a lie, Jim Crawford. I saw what you were doing.” “J don’t care what you saw. I wish you’d mind four own business.” “That's what I’m doing. I consider it’s my uty to protect Rosie from such chaps as you. f the officer on the beat had been around he’d ve made short work of you, I can tell you that. advise you to look out for him, for he won’t pies .for anyone getting funny with Rosie.” aes ‘Aw, you make me sick!” growled Crawford, turning on his heel and walking off. The cause of. this altercation had drawn off and stood look- e two = ae ae an uneasy expression, : Lut kT ait f disengaged d. her account. When Jim Crawford departed she looked much relieved, and smiled gratefully at Roy as he walked over to her. “You are very kind, Roy Gilbert,” she said in a sweet voice, “but I don’t want you to get into any trouble over me,” “You needn’t worry about me, Rosie.- I> can take care of myself. I know Crawford like a book. He’s a bluff and a bully. He hasn’t courage enough to tackle a fellow his own size unless it was to hit him when his back is turned. He likes to bulldoze persons who are no match for him—yourself, for instance. That’s the kind OL acsh chap he is.” E “Tm afraid of him.” “T don’t think he’ll annoy you any more. If te does, tell me or the officer on the beat. The policeman would fan his legs with his club.” The girl smiled, and picking out one of her, nicest boutonnieres pinned ae on the lapel -of Roy’s . jacket. “Thanks, Rosie. Here’ s your nickel.” “No. I won’t take any money for it.” ““Oh, but you must. You can’t afford to give your flowers away in that reckless fashion. You’ve got an old father to support.” “And haven’t you somebody to support, too?” “Yes. I’ve a mother and a little sister who is is going to school,” “Then you need the money as much as me.” “That’s true. I need monéy.as much as you, but I can afford to be extravagant to the extent of a nickel once in a while, so take it.” She ac- -cepted the coin reluctantly. “You’re a nice boy, and I like you very much.” “Thanks, Rosie.. I like you very much too,. L~ wish I could afford to buy a boutonniere for you every day. If I was a broker, I would.” “Do you expect to be a broker some time? ee “I do, if luck runs my way.” “Then you shall be lucky.” “How?” replied Roy, regarding her with new interest. The girl put her hand in her pocket and .drew out a little wallet. “You haven’t a rabbit's foot there, have you?” ed Roy. } ‘Oh, no. I've Ee schy ” charm that Tm going : to ) give you.” 3 : ; She opened if with her Fm
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5 noo - ._ “Hadn’t you beiter ee that Yourself, Rosie? I think you need it.” : “This charm-I ean Spare, because I wear the other half of it around my neck. The old woman - who-gave me both told me to wear one and give ‘the other one to some one I could trust. She said ‘it would bring wonderful. good fortune to that person, and in the end would—but I cannot tell ~ you that. It is my secret,” she said, looking down _ with a heightened color. She took out the half » of a golden circlet, on which some strange char- acters were engraved, and put in his hand. “Wear this around your neck day and night. Promise me ‘you will, and it will bring you _- — prosperity.” ‘s “All right, Rosie. rl do it to oblige you,” he ‘Jaughed. “It’s about time that my luck changed for the better, for I’ve had a pretty rocky time of it since my father died, three years ago.” “Your luck will change if you wear that broken _ ring, and mine will change, too.” The girl spoke with great seriousness. It was evident that she had a superstitious confidence in the lucky prop- erties of the charm, as she called it. “Tf by wearing this broken ring I can change _your luck for the better, too,” said Roy, “count on me for giving it a trial anyhow.” He put the broken circlet carefully away in his pocket, in- tending to follow her request just for the fun of the thing, not that he was superstitious’ enough * to believe that there was anything in it. He liked the sweet-faced little flower girl, who was - _ the daughter of a poor old violin-maker, whose _ sight had given out and thrown him upon his only - child for support. For the past three months she had been coming nearly every day to Wall Street, where she took her stand om:the eurb in front of the Sub-Treas- reply: with a board full of boutonnieres, which she ~ . offered to the public at five cents each. She also earried a box with an additional supply, and, as a rule,:she sold out inside of three or four hours, for many brokers had got into the habit of patronizing her daily, usually giving her double price, and often a quarter for a bunch which. she pinned on their coats for them in a dainty, child 4sh way that flattered them. Roy had got ac- -- quainted with her one day by rescuing her box ea from the pilfering hands of a couple of boot- blacks, and after that she always smiled. when he noticed her in passing. Their actual friend- ship began, when he interfered to protect her from the first aggression of Jim Crawford, who ee a pleasure in trying to frighten her. it was just like Roy to do such a thing, for he was a boy who could not stand by and see the _ strong oppress the weak, particularly when the eweaker party happened. to be an inoffensive girl. He had a sister and a mother who looked to him for protection as well as support, and he had - trained himself to meet the responsibility. His home was a modest little flat of four rooms’ in Harlem and his mother had a struggle My main- tain the little household on his wages 0 f $9. He ‘managed to pick up enough extra money in the course of the week to pay his carfare and lunches but he seldom had any funds to spend on amuse- ents. He. always looked neat and ‘lean in his - attire, and was particularly careful of his clothes "it was no easy patie See ae ‘Taken altogether, he wa a Man an see a new "suit. 7 ‘A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN nee _the market?” snk NS ae gee $5, bill from | our landlord. last week for gi ¥ boy, well liked by his employer, George How-. --Jand, a stock broker, of No. — Wall Street, and - by all who knew him, with probably the single — exception of Jim Crawford, .whose opinion wasn’t worth considering in the matter. After accept- ing the ring from Rosie Wood, Roy bade her good-by and started for his office, whither he was returning after executing an errand to the Astor Building. The office was on the second floor of a big building that had* several hundred tenants. People were continually coming in and going out at the main entrance during business’ hours, and the elevators were always shooting’. up and down at a rate that made nervous people dizzy. Roy had been on the run ever since half- past nine that morning, and when he reached the reception-room on this occasion he was glad 4 take his seat and rest his bones. CHAPTER Il. —Was It A Canleldenoss or Did the - Charm Work? Roy. took up a copy of the Wall Street Argus to pass the time till his services were called for. He had read one or two paragraphs of — financial intelligence when the door opened and in walked his chum, Will Church, who worked for a broker. in the Vanderpool Building in Ex- change Place. yz _ "Hello, Will!” he exclaimed. Tae “Hello, Roy! Is Mr. Howland in?” oem “No, Over at tlie Exchange.” , : “T stopped in there before I came here, and he wasn’t onithe floor.” ~ “Then I ean’t tell you where he ‘is. specially important?” “T couldn’t tell you. specially important.” . $You'll have to leave——” The entrance of Mr. Howland at that moment cut him short. Will handed him the note. The broker tore it open and read. it. é “All right. No. answer. Here, Roy, I want # you to take this package of bonds down to the oe National Trust Company. Give it to Mr. Brow the treasurer, and get his receipt.” “Yes, sir,” replied Roy, talking’ the package and starting off. Will was waiting for him at the entrance, ang they started up Wall Street at. a rapid pae ATiak had *$50 I think I could make a stake, said Will. “How ?” asked Roy. ‘Is your note All messages are usually ” was a ineceas conclusion that the..stock was. going to rise within a few days.” ee “T wouldn’t be surprised if ‘prices improved a its usual - figure. ” “Every stock; eh? Do you keep ie ae of “T do.” “ i .. - ss - £What for?” : é “To keep abreast of the times in Wall ‘Str ‘ I like to know just what is going on. -I Le :
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A BROKER certain stock inside of the next fifteen eS That pill came in mighty handy, for mother needed money badly that. day, not but what we always need money badly. Its a chronic complaint with S. bad “Do you read all the financial news?” “Yes. I read,everything connected with- “the business that I can get hold of.” “Pretty dry reading, isn’t it?” “Not to me. I’m interested in everything that -concerns Wall Street. 4 » . “YT guess you’re thinking of becoming a broker one of these days.” “That is the height. of my ambition.” “It takes experience and—money.” “Ym trying to get the experience as fast as I can; as to the money, that ‘is a horse of a . different color. There’s loads of money down _ here, but it isn’t circulating very fast among us messengers.” “Phat’s right. Come down New Street. It’s _., just as near for you.” The boys turned into that narrow thoroughfare. As they passed the mes- sengers’ entrance to the Exchange several boys - game dashing Sat. One of them was Jim Craw- ; See and he scowled-.at. Roy as soon as he saw im. * 3 “Crawfard gave you an awful black look,” xre- marked Will, “He must have a grouch te nae , _ “He has.” : “What about?” Ve “He’s sore on me aenttee T stopped him from ‘Vs annoying Rosie Wood, the flower girl, who stands jn front of the Treasury Building.” : “Oh, that’s it! He was trying to mash _ her, I suppose. She’s a pretty gitl.” ; “She’s all right. She supports her poor old blind father.” : J - “You’ve been talking to her, then ? ‘gd . “Yes. We're kind of friendly.”* Will grinned. “I leave you here,” he said, when they reached “See you™at the station- at four “AN right,” answered Roy, starting up, Ex- change Place toward Broadway, Reaching that “main artery, he turned down in the direction of ‘the Battery. In the middle of the second block “Was the National Trust Company. Roy entered through the arched brown-stone entrance and ‘made his way to the treasurer’s office. Here he delivered his package, for which, after it was lly examined, he received a receipt and started ck for Wall Street. The thoroughfare. was crowded at that hour, th men mostly, going in both directions. Roy s hurrying along near the curb. Suddenly Oo messenger boys dashed out of a ddorway~ id cuttine: through the mob butted into Roy and . ocked him into the street. His hat went rolling der an express wagon drawn up alongside the The beys laughed and darted across the , narrowly missing being run down by an ¢ car. For a moment Roy was pretty mad picked himself up and looked for his hat,_ -wasn’t any use of kicking, however, ‘as 5s had vanished, so. he crawled paiiee the on and reached for his hat. : fe reached for that, too, grabbed it, and made his eee escape from his awkward position. . A: “By George! It is a pocketbook!” he exclaimed. “T wonder if there’s anything of value in it?” He removed the rubber band and opened it. Six — brand-new $100 bills were folded in it. . “Gracious!” he ejaculated. “Here’s a find for — fair!” There was nothing else in the wallet, not. + — even a scrap of paper. Not the slightest clue to - thé owner of the money: . Roy put‘it in his pocket and hurried on. pay “Somebody is out $600,” he said to himself. “Well, probably it will be advertised for, and I can return it.” Never for a moment, as hard up © as the. boy was, and @s useful as he knew that windfall wapld prove to his mother, did he think: of appropriating it to his own use. without an effort to find out the owner of the money. That was the way he had been brought up. He was as’ - honest and as honorable as the day is long. To, — keep what didn’t rightfully belong to him, if there was a chance of restoring it, was not his'way of —— __ conducting himself. When he got back to the ~ office he made another examination of the wallet, but the result was the same. Finally he sealed it up in an envelope, put his name on the outside, and asked the cashier to put it in the safe. Then he sat down and began to think how long he ought to leave the money untouched in case he wasn’t able to discover the owner, S “Mother and Jessie need clothes badly, and a . new suit would.look pretty well on—me,” he : mused. “In fact, there are a whole lot of things ~ we want in the worst way.- We could make a-~ $100 bill look as if it had tae struck by light- ning. Some people in this world have more than — Aye they want, while others—well, what’s the use worrying over things? It won’t mend them. any sooner, That money may represent a small for- | tune to the loser, or it may only count as so, | much pocket money. Who can tell? Well, if the © person can’t afford to lose it I hope he advertises for it, and that I see the advertisement; but if a- rich man lost it, I hope he'll forget_all about it, - and then mother, Jennie and 1, for once in our - lives, will be on Easy Street.” _At that moment the cashier called him over to. his desk,’ handed him the bank book with the day’s’ deposits, and Roy made a bee line for the corridor outside. He didn’t say anything to Will - Church about his find when he met him at the station, but Will had a whole lot more to say about V. & S. stock. He had heard his employer advise a big customer that afternoon to buy the stock, and the customer gave him an order for — AT EIGHTEEN 4 Oo 1,000 shares at the market, 47. Be: “There isn’t any doubt in my mind but it will oe go up maybe ten points. If I could buy even eee five shares on a margin,” he. Said, “I'd stand to’ * double my money. Roy thought of the money ~ in the wallet in the office safe, and figured that %, = h€ could buy 100 shares of V. & S. on a margin =~ if the money were only his -to do. with as. he | pleased. Then if the stock went up ten points he would be in line to make $1,000. dollars looked as big as the capital of some o the banks at that moment. The temptation to use the money for that purpose would have been almost irresistible wi eee boys, 'and we do t say that mye Aue age ut his cha:
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eS "A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN tas 2 he tried to forget it by bringing up quathes sub- ject for conversation. When he got home he told his mother about his find, and she agreed that. he had no right to touch it until he had exhausted every reasonable effort to find the owner. c At the supper table he remembered the broken .~ eirclet. Rosie had given him: with the statement that it would surely bring him good. luck if he . wore it continuously. -.“Whew!” he ejaculated,’ pausing with his tea- ~ -eup half way to his mouth. “Did that have: any- _ thing toedo with my finding that wallet?” The * very suggestion fairly thrilled him. -. “What are you talking about, Roy?” asked his - mother. Then he told her about Rosie Wood, and exhibited the broken circlet she had-given him as a talisman of good fortune. _ r “It’s a singwler coincidence, isn’t it, mother, _ that I should find that wallet with so much . money in it, and no clue to the owner, after - getting this charm, if such it is? I don’t know ee what to think of it. I’ve been nearly three years in Wall Street, and never found anything of value larger than a fifty-cent piece before. What do you think of ait?” “J. think it is merely a coincidence, Roy,” she _ replied. “There is really no such thing as lucky _ charms.” -__ “J suppose not, mother, but thousands of people be ‘believe i in them just the same. The colored boot- black at the corner earries a rabbit’s foot for luck, but I-don’t seé that he is specially fortunate. The first coin he takes-in in the morning he spits on: I-asked him what he did it for, and he said $f he didn’t he would do scarcely any business - gall day. I could mention a whole lot of similar still superstitious. in spite of the advanced f ~ times.” * * 3 “Well, my son, so many coincidences happen s to strengthen their views that it is little wonder such notions exist. Now Mrs. Peters, next door, asserts that the reason her son lost his position, and las not had any steady work since, is because he broke a looking-glass. . She says he won’t have any luck for seven years.” “As far as I ean see, Ben Peters hasn’t made any great effort to get a situation. If he got “out and did a little hustling he might break ‘his = ill luck.” “What are you going to do with this charm?” ‘smiled his mother, handing it back to him. “Don’t laugh at me, mother, but I promised ‘Rosie I’d wear it, and I’m going to keep my “word.” - “There is no great harm in your doing so.” she replied. “But as the girl. you say, wears the ther half herself, and does not seem to. be very Pockthate,. ‘you can hardly expect it to do you any 2 better, too, if I wore it.” . Gilbert smile evening Roy persuaded his sister to part with a “small piece of baby blue ribbon, and he used it to secure his talisman around his neck. Wher he _ went to bed his sleep- was visisted by a singular dream. He thought that he was afloat on a luminous sea in half: a golden boat shaped relet, with: the same strange it. Present] of things, which only goes to show that people are . good. ; “She told me that her Haag tlie turn for the incredulously, atid the ote ep dropped. That’ hazy distance floated its counterpart bearing a lovely girl, whose face he recognized as Rosie’s. As the half-boats approached each other Rosie held out her arms to him. Some attraction brought the two floating objects together until they joined in one perfect ring like a large life- preserver, and Rosie, throwing her arms around - him, kissed him and seemed: to be perfectly hap- py. Together they ce ever the cloudy sea, and. gradually he noticed that bags of money gathered around their feet, each bearing some familiar initials, only one of which stood out clear ~ and distinct, and that was V. & S. Rosie pointed to that and then to the distant horizon where for a moment he saw outlined the entire frontage of the New York Stock Exchange. Then he awoke to find that it was morning and time to get-up. CHAPTER T.—In Which V. & S. Proves A Real Winner. Roy was so silent and thoughtful at the break- © fast table that his mother asked him what he was thinking about. fies7 “mm thinking about a vémarkable dream I had — last night,” he answered. : “Oh, do tell us, Roy!” said his sister coaxingly. eo “All right, but don’t laugh at it, please.” s a “Oh, we won’t laugh,” Jessie assured him. So f oy told his dream. “Isn’t that singular!” exclaimed his sister. “What do you suppose V. & S. means? “That’s the name of a railroad stock that Will Church told me he expected to see rise in price.” ~ “And it got mixe up.in your dream.” “It looked as if Rosie was trying to tell me that there was money in it for me. Do you know, if that-$600 was mine I’d be strongly tempted to use $500 of it in buying 100.shares of V. & S. on margin,” ‘said Roy. “You mustn’t place too much dependence in a dream, my son,” said his mother. “Dreams are really nothing but reflections of our waking - thoughts.” “Dreams usually go by conthariea: anywayes interjected Jessie. “That’s right, I guess. Ben Peters told me thai the race he was in. He went to a pool-room next © day and put up all his funds on the animal, (eX pecting to make a wad.” tpt “Did the horse win?” asked his sister. “He did—not. He came in last, and Ben w: was out his dough.” When Roy was returning from an errand at eleven o’clock Rosie was selling he flowers as usual in front of the Sub-Treasury. Somehow or other she looked different to Roy than she ever had befote. He began to regandy, her with a new interest. ee: “T always thought her pretty,” he said to him: self, “but I never felt_so attracted to her before It seems as if——”° He paused and regarded h intently. “As if she had suddenly become very dear to me. Last night in my dream she ki: sed me, and I can feel the tingle yet on my lips. felt as if I could float with her forever in golden boat. Het then it was onl ‘a, dream, m
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. : AG A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN. $ + then Rosie glanced his way and saw him. Her face lighted up with that same blissful-smile he had seen in his dream, and her eyes drew ae quickly to her side. “Well, how are things coming this morning, Rosie?” he asked lightly, looking into the liquid depths of her eyes. Instead of answering him as usual, a curious shyness seemed to’ have ‘come over her in his presence. A deep flush mantled her Spicer and she dropped her eyes to. the side- al i “Why, what’s the matter with vou, Rosie?” he ‘asked in some surprise. “You aren’t going back on me, are you? Why, I dreamed about you last night.” She raised her eyes in a startled, wistful way. “And I dreamed shout: you, too,” softly. “The dickens you did! round boat together——” “That was my dream, too,” “In the clouds.” “YThat’s right,” replied the astonished young messenger. boat.” She nodded. “With letters on them. You pointed to one jnarked V. & S: and you said- Biff! A good-sized, over-ripe apple struck Roy’s hat and sent it spinning against the granite steps of the, Sub-Treasury. Gilbert turned an- grily. around “and caught sight of Jim Crawford’s grinning face peering at him from around the eorner of the Morgan Bank steps. Roy started said she I thought we weré in a she said eagerly. hat, and Crawford flew down Broad Street like the wind. Gilbert couldn’t catch him, and had to give up the pursuit. When he returned to Rosie’ she had his hat in her hand and.was wait- ing on two brokers. “Thanks, Rosie, for picking it up. The fellow I called down yesterday for bothering vou threw that rotten apple at me. ri polish him off some _ day in"a way he won't like.” Rosie picked up a poutonniere and started to pin it on his jacket.. ~~ “Not -this morning, Rosie. I can’t afford the nickel.” “You must accept this. one from me—please do!” He yielded. “By the way,” he said, “that charm of yours s worked already. I found » wallet yesterday afternoon with $600 in it.” She stared at him. _ “That’s right. But, of course, I can’t touch the money. It belongs to somebody. In case the wner doesn’t turn up, then it will be mine; but hat will take time.” Six hundred dollars,” she said. “That is a rtune. “Not in Wall Street. gold stored in the vaults of this building,” he added, nodding’ at the Sub-Treasury. “You™ could wim in it.” “Some day you'll have a real fortune,” she said. “J hope so. But it seems too good to be true,” Ss “Tf T was sure the charm would help* the food ‘k along ’d——” t you will wear ‘it, won't you?” Bite asked “And there were bags of gold in the, after him at once, without waiting to recover his: thing I did. Think of the millioris in. took his memorandum: - when V. & S..dropped to 48 shortly after 1 » marked ee thrilled: him aL pugs aa through, and then a customer stopping before her, Roy walked ‘off: to his office. “T wonder if I'm falling 3 in love with that girl?” he asked himself as he went along. *“I never felt so funny about a girl before. There’s Will’s sis- ter Grace. She’s as nice as they come. I thought — she was just the kind of girl that would suit me ;_ from the ground floor up, but ever since yester- day she’s taken a back seat. with me, while’ Rosie Pshaw! Wake up, Roy Gilbert, and_ don’t get to mooning over a flower girl, even as she has the facé and the disposition of an angel.” All day long Roy hustled as messenger boys have to hustle, but if he thought of Rosie once he thought -of her fifty times, and he also thought a Boo bit about V.-& S., which had advanced — to He had looked at the lost and found notices _ of two big. dailies, but-saw nothing referring to, — the wallet. Perhaps he was glad that: he didn’t. Do you blame him? Next morning Roy looked ~ over the papers again, with no better result. That ~ day V. & S. went up another point, and the boy — noted that fact with great interest.. If he hadn’t — Will Church would have called it to his attention — anyway. The third morning still showed no ad- .. vertisement about the wallet, but one of the pass pers talled attention to V. S. in a way that told Roy there would surely be something doing in the stock before long. ‘I've a great mind to borrow $500 of that — money ‘and. put it into V. & S.,” he said to him-— self. “I feel it in my bones that the stock is-a winter, and I hate to let such a good chance to. make | ‘some money, that I need so badly, slip — away.” He looked at the ticker frequently, pete = saw that the stock was mounting a fraction atia time, and he grew so restless over the matter that he could hardly Sit quiet in the office. Then he recalled what Rosie said about her dream. — “Funny she should happen to dream the same And she saw V. & S., too, on one of the bags. What could have put "those letters into her head? _ She knows nothing about: Wall Street stocks. Perhaps two brokers spoke. about the stock buying boutonnieres of her. Inno other — way could she get those initials so pat. The whole — thing is very mysterious to me. Something is - certainly urging me to buy V. & SsSaks*at e- ; cause I know I can put my hands on the price— — or what?” That day V. & S. closed at 49%. Roy — saw the figures on the tape. —Closing his jaws with a snap, he went straight to the cashier abe asked him for the envelope. Seems Half an hour -later he entered a little bank in Nassau Street that accepted small commisssions to buy current- stocks, and asked the margin clerk to buy for his account, on the usual ten per cent. margin, 100 shares of V. & S. at the market next morning when the Exchange opened. He handed over five of the six new $100 bills. and etin + ot i“ oH “ve crossed the Rubicon and burned my -pridges behind me. It is now up to’Rosie’s charm to land — me a winner. I believe I'll come out ahead. ‘His ‘belief had an unexpected shock next da pets it “recovered to to
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s- and this little attention on” his part seiaane to ‘make her very happy. Next day was Saturday, -and Roy didn’t look for much in his stock, as “there was only a two-hour session at the Ex- change. ® Contrary to his expectations, the whole market took a boom, and V. & S. went up to 52. At eleven o’clock on Monday an announcement was made in the Exchange that set-the brokers tumbl- ing over one another in an effort to buy V. & S. ; After a few thousand shares*came to the surface _ the ‘supply seemed to dry up, and then, under spirited bidding, the stock went up to 58. The ‘rising market brought a crowd of lambs into the - Street, as usual. Their money was welcomed with open arms. The hum of business could be heard, as it were, all over the district. Roy ~watched V. & S. with the eyes of a hawk, and iA “into the 60’s finally closing at 67. On Wednes- day it rushed to 7b. ' “Pm not going to take any more Shantis on ~ it,” he muttered, all a tremble with the knowledge that he stood to win $2,500 at the present point. - Although he scaréely had a moment he could call his own between ten and after three, he managed to take the time necessary to run to the bank and -.order his 100 shares sold.. They were disposed of inside of ten minutes at 75. As soon as he felt confident that he was out of it, and saw that V. & S. still held its own, he felt like a boy walk- ing in the clouds. During all this time he had in duty bound watched the papers for an. ad- vertisement about the lost wallet, but nothing appeared. - That night he decided to take the “remaining hundred bill home to his mother and tell her to use it. When he offered it to her she seemed reluctant to take it. “The owner may yet turn up, my son,” she said. } “Well, let him. I’ve just made $2, 500 out of _. his money in V. & S. stock, so we can safely use any part of the $600 we want.” Mrs. Gilbert Yooked at her son in surprise and incredulity. “You have made $2,500?” _ “Yes, mother, I’ve actually made it. I reckon that charm has worked to the queen’s taste. I’m beginning to believe that there is something in those things after all, for this is more than a "mere coincidence. ” He sat down and_ told her * about the rise in the stock—how he ie gone into . $t at 50 and sold out between 75 and 76. . “Now you and Jennie can have a Ae outfit, from shoes to hats, and you shall have $500 more EtG. put in the bank.for yourself against a rainy day.” Pérhaps the three Gilberts were not very happy indeed that night. : a ae Saipan way CHAPTER IV.—Roy’s Tek Continues and He Makes More Money. Be ‘Next morning Roy made it a point to stop and - tell Rosie about his good luck in the market. She gave him her usual bright smile when he walked up to her. hs * “lm glad,” she replied, looking at- him eagerly. u remember that I ge fe a rae days ago ree ~ _he grew intensely excited as on Tuesday it rose | ~ “Tye pot good news to tell you, Rosie,” he said. - A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN “After watching the papers for several days ¢ for the owner to advertise for it, and not seeing any such advertisement, I used $500 of the money to buy 100 Shares of a certain stock that was going up. Yesterday I sold the stock out at 4 : profit: of $25 a share, and I made altogether » $2,500. I don’t know whether your charm, as - you wall it, had anything to do with that. It really seems ridiculous to believe in such things. People would laugh at you if you were to suggest such a thing. But it’s a fact I can’t deny that I’ve had extraordinary good fortune since you - gave me the broken half of that ring. I wonder s if it will ‘keep up.” ; “You will have luck as long as you wear it, aia? she’ replied positively. ; “Then Uli wear it, you may be sure of that, superstition or no, superstition.” She smiled. : “As I corisider you are in some way responsible for my good fortune, I am going to make you a present of $100 as soon as I pet my money.” “No! no!” she said. “I couldn’t take so much from you.” “You’ve got to take it, Rosie, or I ~won’t like » You don’t want to offend me, do yout” “Oh, no! no!” she cried earnestly. “Very good. I shouldn’t be satisfied unless rz shared some of my good luck with you. I know — what it is to want money badly. I am gure that $100 will do you and your father a great deal of good, so I'll give it to you to-morrow. I hope you won’t stop selling flowers right off, for: I~ don’t want to lose you. By the way, where do you live,’ Rosie'?”.. She mentioned a poor section — of the lower Hast Side. Roy wrote the address down in his memorandum book. “Tt want to keep track of you in any case,” he said. “I may have the chance to hel you into some better employment. Good-by.~ I’ve got to run along,” and he was off. On his way back he aa met Will Church. “What did I tell you-about V. & $.?” said Will. “It’s .78. this. morning, a rise of nearly thirty points since I first called your attention to i See what you and I missed by not having. a measly $50 or $100 bill! It is only the rich who get all the good things of life.” “It seems to me that the rich get it-in the nee sometitnes themselves. Very often, from some cause or anothey, a great shrinkage in the values’ “ # of securities takes place. People worth a’ milli on the first of the month find themselves reduce several hundred thousand dollars before the _ en of it. Then suppose there should be'a panic | ae the Street, such as has been the case more than once, who are hit the hardest? Why, the. people who are wealthy on paper—who are long supposedly good securities. Whether you rich or poor you are always liable to reverses. “That’s right, but those with little or no mo ~haye a continuous performance of hard w while the rich only get it once in a while. me ‘a bunch: of money and I'll take my chan of hard luck.” .. “You'll get: your bunch one: of: these da ‘leughed Roy. “Shakespeare wrote that there a time in all men’s lives when. the chance gat them to get on their feet if they. to be down.” : “And. to mek oa) it ‘they. have som it.
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A a AT EIGHTEEN “J suppose so.” P “Tf oes lived-in these times he’d write. differently.” ; “T believe he hit the mark just the same. _ When Fortune comes knocking at your door you » want to be ready to let her in. If you’re asleep, she’s not likely to wait for you to wake up. The times are too strenuous.” . “It’s the early bird that-gets the worm, eh?” grinned Will. “Well, so long. I’m going in here.” That afternoomt Roy got the bank’s check rep- resenting his first Wall Street winnings. He got six new $100 bills, replaced them in the wallet, put the wallet back in the envelope with his name ‘on \it, and asked the cashier to return it to the safe. He put five more $100 bills in an envelope to take home to his mother, and then put twenty $5 bills in another envelope on which he wrote Rosie Wood’s name. That left him $1,800 to dispose of in any way he chdse. “He handed this amount back to the bank and took a certificate of deposit for thé sum, as being safer for him to hold than the cash. One morning a well-known and wealthy broker by the name of White came into the office and asked for Mr. -~Howland. Roy knew that his employer was in his private room, so he took Mr. White’s name in to him. “Tell him to walk in,” said the broker, and Roy -showed the visitor in. White was engaged with -»Mr. Howland for about ten minutes and then went away. Soon afterward the latter departed for the Exchange. Business was somewhat slack ~ about this time, and only a few customers came _ in and hung around the ticker. One of them put - in an order to buy some shares of a certain stock,» and the eashier handed Roy a memorandum to _ take over to Mr. Howland. He executed the mis- sion with his customary dispatch, and was on his way back when a broker whom he knew by sight, put not by name, caught him by the arm. -. “Was George White, of the Johnston Building, im your office this morning?” he asked, taking a dollar bill from “his vest pocket and ele it into the boy’s hand. -. “What is this for?” asked Roy, lope at the ye pill. wo “To pay yourfor the trouble of answering my question,” replied the broker. ;_ “Then you'd better take it back, for I have a “poor memory about what, happens in our office, ~ and I couldn’t really tell you whether Mr. White -ealled there or not.” The broker seemed dis- appointed with his reply, and looked at him rather hard. “So you don’t know whether ‘White was in your lace or not this morning?” he said, making no move to take back the money. “T ¢an’t give you any information on the sub- ject, sir,” replied Roy, pushing the oe into his d. “All right,” said the broker, pocketing the bill nd walking off. “He had some object in asking me that ques- ion,” mused Roy. “Well, he didn’t aan waka te tackling me. A messenger boy has no right “to tell: what happens in his own office. His ques- emed innocent enough, and I. might have if he hadn’t brought out that bill. ea bribe. Had I taken it he might oth I hat question was a bluff, anyway. I would be willing to bet that he knows Mr. White was in our office to-day. He thought maybe he could get a line on — Mr. White’s object in calling. I couldn’t have told him anyway, as I don’t know myself, and it) isn’t my business to know.” 5 Roy walked into the office building, and two formed a pool to boom some stock,” said Roy to himself. “I must find out what stock Mr, _ Howland is going to buy fer them, and then ‘get in on the deal myself. The few shares that I can buy won’t be noticed in the scramble, and I ought to make a couple of thotsand out of ee Bie Ree” share of D: & G. that he could get hold of at the mes 5 market price. 2 Roy soon aacevtairiad that D. & G. was going at 58, and he had money enough to buy 300 shares ona margin. So he went to the little bank on Nassau Street and handed i in his order and his certificate of deposit, receiving back $30 in — change. Roy had évidently got in on time to gather the cream, for the price started to rise ot the next day. Three days later D. & G. was — eagerly sought after at 68. It seemed’ as if- every broker in town had orders to fill in the fe é stock, or wanted it himself as a private specula- tion. “T’ve struck another winner all right,” said Roy to himself. “I’m already $3,000 to the good on paper, and from the present outlook I ought to * clear from five to six thousand. I never felt so good in all my life. Mother and Jess will live on Easy Strtet after this, provided a- sere doesn’t work loose in my anticipations. An thing that Mr. White backs is a pretty good risk. oo5 - He and his friends will make,a few millions of this ‘deal, and Mr. Howland’s commissions be heavy enough for him to treat himself family to a ay to Europé next summer.” - ? ce, 2
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8. excitement in the Exchange over it. Almost _ every broker was now satisfied a syndicate was booming the shares, and they .watcched its prog- ress like so many hawks above a chicken yard. They wanted to make as much hay as they ‘eould out of the rise themselves, but at the same” time they kept their attention to the, windward _for the first indication of a break in the price. Roy had figured it out that he had better sell at 78, but Mr. Howland’s business didn’t give him Be a chance to reach the bank at all that day. . Next rhorning it opened at 83, but soon afterward it ‘began to go down, and when Roy returned from one of his errands and got a look at the tape he found it going at 77, with a donward tendency. He tried to get a few minutes off in order to sell out quick, but couldn’t, and for the next two hours he was in a fever of anxiety as to the ul- timate fate of his deal. R. & G. went to 75, and _ then recovered and advanced more rapidly than it had gone down, for the syndicate had not as yet commenced to unload, the price not having reached the figure aimed at. The result was that the stock closed that sd at. 85. Roy was. pleased to death that he had been frightened by a false ’ alarm, and also that circumstances had prevented him from selling. He decided, however, that he ’ eouldn’t afford to hang on any longer, as busi- ness was too strenuous, so he managed to get his _* selling order in to the bank before their broker- age department closed. His shares were disposed of next morning at the opening figure, 86 and a fraction, and when he got his statement his pro- fits amounted to $8,250. At the first chance he got he told Rosie of his latest stroke of luck. “’m worth $10,000,” he said to her. “What do you think of that?” She expressed her delight at the news. . “Now, little girl, I’m going to do something for you. You want to give up selling flowers, take lessons in stenography and typewriting, and then T’ll get you a position down here where you can make good wages. I’ll pay all expenses, and give you $10 a week for you arid your father to live on. I'll also give you $100 to get some nice clothes for yourself.” Rosie was overwhelmed by his generosity, and seemed loth to accept so much from him, but he insisted, and she finally yielded to his persuasions. For many days after that the brokers missed the pretty little flower girl, from her post, and wondered if she was sick. As she never came back, they soon forgot her; but Roy knew where he could see her any time he wanted to, and he didn’t fail to visit her pretty regularly. | . After his big dealin D. & G. Roy succeeded in inducing his mother to move into a better neigh- porhood. A few weeks later Roy came across a tip quite by accident. It was L. & M., and Roy urchased 2,000 tark & Co., and waited for developments. CHAPTER V.—The Night Attack. That evening Will Church persuaded Roy to go -to a cheap East Side theater with him. | - “It won’t cost much, and there’s a good show there,” he said. - < but T’ll go to oblige you.’ i- A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN _ shares through Washington,’ _ much for Roy, who would have been serious} battered but for the arrival of a police rh don’t care for cheap melodrama,” replied immediately broke away from Roy and | “All right. Vl be around to your house at. seven. o’clock.” At the appointed time Will called for Roy, and they started off for the show to- gether. As they were going into the theater Jim Crawford and several of his cronies came up with the price of gallery seats in their hands. _ Jim saw Roy and Will, and pointed them out to his associates. They noted the fact that the tw boys entered the house. gui “’d like to get square with that big stuff,” he said, indicating Roy. ooo “Why don’t yer?” asked one of his friends. “Cause I hain’t had a chance,” growled Jim. “What's the matter with the whole of us layin’ for him after the show, and kickin’ the stuffin’ out of him?” : “That’s a good idea,” said Crawford. “Wilt _ you fellers stick by me?” “Sure we will,” replied his companions. © “We'll foller him then up a side street and jump him,” said Jim. “Three of you kin put it over the other chap while me, Burns and Tedd slugs Gilbert.”. Then entered the theater, an before the curtain went up they arranged their scheme. The show was over a few minutes after eleven, and Roy and Will came out with the crowd. They walked up a nearby side street to — get a Madison Avenue car, which would take — them-near their homes. = They took no notice of half a dozen boys who came on after them, until the young rascals, after getting close to them, made a sudden rush. They were taken entirely by.surprise, and were <i ot 4 ei ape bowled over like a pair of tenpins before they knew where they were. As Crawford and two ‘K= of his gang piled on top of Roy, and the other three attended to Will, Gilbert, alive to the situa- tion, grabbed one of the boys in such a -way that he couldn’t use his arms and held him as a_ buffer against the other two. The young rascal received a couple of heavy punches and a kick” before his predicament was discovered by the = others, who then found that it was necessary to release their companion before’ they could get’ € in their work on the chief victim. x . Their efforts to do this enabled Roy to suddenly. slip out frém under the fellow he had hold of and before they were ready to pile on to him again he had scrambled tq,his feet.y 6 = ~, “Go for him, fellers!” yelled Jim, takin& care not to be the first .to come within reach of Roy’s fists. : There was a rush, and one of the lads received a straight blow from Gilbert that sent him stag- gering away. Then Gilbert had all he could do to defend himself against Crawford and the other. By this time Will Church had been knoe ed out by the three that had set upon him, and he lay dazed and helpless on the sidewalk, with one of the young toughs seated astride of — chest. The other two. went to Crawford’s — sistance, and that made the odds altogether to man the scene. ; eee. ‘The boy seated on Church caught sight of the approaching officer, jumped off his prisoner, } the alarm, and fled down the street. The time in following their companion. | BES tet ete eta, SANE, Gilbert ma
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A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN “a grab for Crawford, but missed him. Determin- ed not to lose him, ‘he rushed after him. Roy ‘was fleet of foot, but so was his enemy, from long practice in the financial district. — The police- man stopped to pick up. Will and inquire into the trouble. aan F : - Roy, however, never thought of stopping until he could catch Crawford, who he was determined should spend the night in a cell. The rest of the toughs were scattered way in advance along --109th Street, with the young messenger close on. the heels of Crawford. In that order they cross- ed Lexington Avenue, the whole bunch making ‘down toward the river. Although the policeman was now out of sight, the boys kept on running until they had passed Third Avenue, at which point Roy’s superior endurance enabled him to overtake Crawford. Jim now had to defend him- self, and was soon being vigorously pummeled py the young messenger, whose blood was boil- ing over the outrage that had been perpetrated ‘on Will and himself. Finally Crawford broke away and started to run again, but only succeeded in. getting half way down the block before a well-directed blow from Roy strétched him out on the stones of the street. At this point three of the toughs, having recovered from their’ scare, came back to Jim’s -assistance, and Gilbert found himself in a hor- - net’s nest again. He was a thoroughly game -- “poy, however, and trained in the use of his fists, and he made warm work for the crowd. One of them brought matters to a conelusion by firing a stone at Roy which knocked him unconscious. Then the gang gathered about the fallen boy and looked at him. “He’s a scrapper, all right,” remarked one of them, wiping the blood from his nose that was swollen from a punch he had “received. “He’s down and out now, and taken de count,” grinned another. : “Whatll we do with him? Leave him in the ‘street ?” ; arses! “Carry him to the sidewalk. He might git run ) milk waggin. f Re. wort be our funeral,” replied one of his companions. 3 ? oy t this juncture Crawford came up, and seeing x Rew helpless, was about to kick him in the ribs _ “when he was stopped. ; “Wot’s de use of kickin’ a feller when he’s , Le Pots od an’ out of his nut?” said the youth whe : aoe averted him from executing the cowardly act. : : ; &Pve got to get square with him,” snarled a Ors sas alee in’t yer?” : “Yer eer Ppa ain’t yer? oo “No, I ain’t. 3 : “Wot kin yer do? We'll leave him on de.side- ‘walk and mosey.” : “ell have me pulled in to-morrer. I'd like to finish him for good.” . “Wot kin he do ter yer? Yer kin swear dat yer wasn’t ter blame for nothin’.” “Pll get ten days, or maybe a month on the sland, and lose my job,” said Jim sourty. é “Yer'll git worse, dan dat if yer try to do him suld keep him away from Wall Street h ie sige ieee “ a is “How could it? time.” — : “T tell yer wot yer kin do,” crowd. “There’s an old canalboat on the water. front. We kin carry him down and put him . in the hold. “Then yer kin bulldose “him into — agreein’ to let ver off'if he’s let go.” ies This plan was decided 6n, so the gang got hold : of the insensible messenger and carried him to * the river and aboard the abandoned craft. in question. They placed him in one of the wooden bunks. which held the remains of an old straw mattress, after taking the precaution to tie the prisoner’s hands, and then they went on deck to wait for him to recover his senses. A policeman coming along at that moment, spied them, and chased them ashore end up an adjacent street. While they were away two hard-looking men with bundles slouched aboard the boat and de- seended into the cabin. They did not notice the presence of Roy, becausé he was hidden by the side of the bunk and the: tattered remains of a green baize curtain hanging in front. He Was. just coming to a realization of his surroundings: © when one of the men lighted a piece of candle, stuck it with melted tallow on the top of a small - box, and then the villainous-looking pair started to sort over the contents of their bundles. : Roy was naturally surprised to find himself — with his hands tied in such a place, for he had no recollection of having been brought there. — His last remembrance was receiving a stunning | blow on the side of the head, afte which all — was a blank to him. Hearing men’s voices, and — seeing the’dull glimmer of 4 light near at hand, © he peered over the side of the bunk and saw © what was going on. » ans ; “Those chaps are evidently thieves,” he said to himself, “and they seem to be examining their plunder. It doesn’t look as if they knew I _ was here.” 5 eee In spite of his aching head, and the peculiar _ situation he was in, the boy watched the two rascals with some interest. ; He kin have yer pulled any — said one of the. CHAPTER VI.—Roy’s Smartness Wins Him A Thousand Dollars. \ “We ain’t done so bad, considerin’ we had ~ to skip in a hurry,” said one of the chaps. “I’ye _ got some jooelry here that ought’ to fetch a couple hundred plunks. I'll bet it’s worth a thousand cases, but you know what old Moe is? He won't give any more than a fifth of the — value, the old shark.” s: “T’ve got a diamond necklace that’s probably worth a small fortin.. We'll have to break it - -up and sell the brilliants separate, and the settin’ for what it’ll bring. These silver ornaments — kin go to Moe if he’s willin’ to cough up fair value; but it’s like ‘drawin’ a tooth to get him to part with the dough.” At that moment a movement on Roy’s part — caused one of his hands to slip out of the noose ~ - that held them, and he found his arms unex- pectedly freed. That was a great relief and satisfaction to him, for he would now be able to defend himself if discovered and attacked _ the two thieves. The rascals retied their bun: id gett: ix pipes began to sm
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They had hardly. taken moré than-a couple of whiffs when Jini Crawford and his gang returned ‘to the boat: The sound of their footsteps on the -- deck caused the thieves to jump up and grab _ their bundles. Down the half-dozen steps came the boys, helter skelter, only to stop in surprise ‘on seeing that the cabin was in possession of a their: intrusion. ~*~ “Get out of here!” roared one of the crooks, ~ making a threatening motion. ~ - The boys fell back, but did not leave the cabin. The men dropped their bundles and made a dash - at them. The boys scurried up the steps, but hung around the opening above. Their per- _ sistence enraged the thieves. “We'll have to chase ’em ashore, Bill,” said the man who had spoken before. - Thev immediately started up the ladder, . breathing threats against the intruders, who at ace took to their heels as far as the shore line. The crooks, believing that the boys were bent nm @nnoying them, jumped ashore and chased them across the street. ‘While this was going on, Roy, with an eye to his, escape, got out of the bunk, and seeing an opening into the hold, started to get through it. Then it occurred to him to take charge’ of the ‘two bundles of plunder. He grabbed them up and retired into the hold, the hatch of which was off, and through which he could see the sky- raft he was aboard of. Looking around for place to hide, he discovered a small gaping hole “tn the side of the canalboat, just above what ould have been the water-line if the craft was float. Looking out, he saw the river, dark and ilent, under the night: sky. The old boat was stranded on a line of black rocks now uncovered 7 the low tide. Above him the cross street came an abrupt termination. Beyond were a succession of good-sized. brick buildings, rising several stories above the street- level, with many windows overlooking the water, and farther on the opening of another street, ex- ‘tended by a small wharf, and other buildings further on. He saw that a precarious pathway ould be had over the rocks toward the wharf, nd he determined to trust himself to it. Mak- ing his way through the hole he was soon on he rocks, in the shadow cast by the first tall uilding. Then he commenced his dangerous alk, conscious that a ‘misstep would probably recipitate him into the river. He looked back fter he had proceeded a hundred yards, and the two thieves stepping back on the canal- “They'll ‘miss their bundles as soon as. they urn to the cabin,” he breathed. the be able to see me walking along here? - Yd hurry if I dared, but it’s too slippery. If ‘they get on to me they'll be able to run along The ‘possibility of such a.thing was not en- raging to Roy, but he did not see how he ld make any change in his route. Looking -he saw that the thieves had disap- _ pair of rough strangers who clearly resented Then he began to understand what kind of a — _a top till his sister called him to. breakfast. The “TJ wonder - street above and cut me off when I reach the ~ se saw that the Crawford gang th f th Ss A-BROKER AT FIGHTERN == his cautious retreat with the valuable bundles. . tichtly grasped in his hands. The next time he — east a backward look the boys appeared to be throwing stones at the entrance to the cabin. ~ Having accomplished more than half the distance to the wharf, Roy began to feel that the chances © were now in his favor. No one could have de- tected him from the deck of the canalboat on account of the dark background along which he was traveling. He imagined that he could be: seen because he could see the canalboat so clearly ~~ himself. However, he kept stnadily onward and soon reached the wharf, which was deserted at that hour. Throwing the bundles on to it, he shinned up a spile, and after looking cautidusly about, took charge of them again. “Tf I could only meet a policeman now, I would eS turn this stuff over to him and put him on to the thieves,” he said to himself. ¥ ‘So Roy crossed the street facing the river, and started uv the cross street. Not a soul crossed his path till he reached Third Avenue, and then he met several going north along that thor- oughfare. He kept on, wondering whether Will Church was searching for him. He felt sure that Will wouldn’t go home and ‘leave him in the lurch. ~ If he had had any idea where the nearest police station was situated he would have di- rected his steps there without the loss of a mo- ment. He didn’t know, however, and after leav- ing Third Avenue he didn’t meet anybody on the street, nor could he see an open saloon in sight. When he came to Lexington Avenue he turned up that street for several blocks with no better success. Finally he went on to Madison Avenue, and reached that ‘street just as a northbound car came along, whichshe boarded for héme. When he got home he found his mother waiting up in a state of great anxiety. He found that she would not be satisfied until he told his story, and so he told her all that had happened to him a ee and what had occurred afterward to imse Naturally it was not pleasant news for her G hear. Then he astonished her with the content: of the bundles, which contained a glittering col- lection of rich jewelry and a number of valuable silver and gold trinkets. = “T’ve done somebody a good service to-night, at any rate,” he said. “There must be several thousand dollars’ worth of plunder here. TG A388 turn it over to the police in the morning.” “As it was nearly two o’clock by that time mother ahd son went to bed, and Roy slept like morning paper had come. Eager to see if ther was anything in it about the robbery in- ques tion, he opened it out and scanned the ne On the first page was a story @f the robbery of a private house on Madison Avenue. It contained | x a description of the chief articles stolen, Roy had: no difficulty in connecting tlie articles in his possession with the stolen property. “Mother, here’s the story of the robbery in t morning paper. sot it for yourself while my_ breakfast.” Pa Their Suet i &
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& her with the statment that he had the stolen property in the house. Of course she wanted to know all the particulars of such an aston- ishing cireamstance. Roy had no time to tell her, as he said he was going to carry the stolen articles to their owners before he went down town to business. He wrapped them up in a pasteboard box, and started for the house where the robbery had been committed... On his way he stopped at Will’s flat and told the janitor to - tell his friend that he had got home all right the night before, but not to wait for him that morning at the subway station, as he had busi- ‘ness on hand which might detail him uptown for a while. : Then he took a car down Madison Avenue, and reaching the house, rane the bell, and asked to see Mr. Robert Caldwell, which was the name he had seen in the paper. Upon explaining that : his visit had connection with the robbery he was - Himmediately shown into the parlor, and the gen- ' “tleman, who happened to be at breakfast, came upsairs to see him right away. Mr. Caldwell, a lawyer by profession, was a fine-looking man of perhaps sixty. Roy introduced himself, stat- ine that he worked for George Howland, a Wall Street stock broker. He then told the story of his adventures the night before, and coneluded by saying that he believed the plunder he had taken possession - of was the property stolen from that house the night before by the two thieves he had encounter- ed on the canalboat, for it corresponded with the description of the stolen articles printed in that morning’s paper. Mr. Caldwell was very much astonished at Roy’s narrative, and glancing at the bundle the boy held on his knee, asked him - if he had brought the property with him. - “Yes, sir. Perhaps you had better describe the articles before I show them. Or perhaps if you describe one of theni, the most important, fof instance, accurately, it will answer the same purpose.” . “Very well,” replied the lawyer with a smile. “The most important article stolen was a dia- mond necklacé, worth $2,500, belonging to my * wife.” ; -—s- Fis description of it satisfied Roy that there was no mistaking the fact that it belonged to _ ‘him, so he displayed the entire contents of the box, and the gentleman identified them all as -_- property belonging to either himself or members : 4 - . ‘of his family. Mr. Caldwell expressed the grati- - fication he felt in getting his property back, the value of which in round _numbers was about $5,000. He complimented Roy on his cleverness jn securing the rascals’ plunder right under their - ‘foses, as it were, and said that as he had in- tended to offer $1,000 reward to stimulate the efforts of the detettives, it would give him great pleasure to pay the same amount to him. Roy said that he had not brought the property back with any expectation of getting a reward. “Nevertheless, it ‘will come in very useful for a.young man of- your age just starting out in life,” smiled the lawyer. ; He excused himself a moment, and presently eturned with his check for $1,000, made out to order. The young messenger accepted it thanks and. ther lis leave, well satis g — A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN ee as fied with the results of the previous night’s strenuous experience. : eee Will Church met Roy-after the afternoon pa- . ~ pers were out. He had read the account of Roy’s achievements. -Roy acquainted him with all the facts and ended by stating it was Jim Crawford’s* gang which had waylaid him. .Of course Will ~ was astounded by these. revelations, and asked Roy if he had been arrested. Roy replied that. . he had put the matter in the hands of a Wall Street detective. The boys parted then. The next day Roy noticed that L. & M. had got a spurt on and was mounting rapidly. Roy met — Rosie and took her to dinner that day. The fol- lowing Monday L. & M, had risen to 64. The ex-) citement continued to icrease and when the stock ~ reached 75 Roy ordered his shares sold; realizing ~ $60,000 bY the transaction. nearly $72,000. > He was now worth CHAPTER VII.—Roy Decides to Go in Business’ for Himself. Ne Jim Crawford didn’t come back to the A. D. T. messenger office, and his job was given to an- other boy. It was evident that he feared arrest for inciting and participating in the assault on Roy and Will, and he kept pretty shady for a week or two in his own favorite haunts uptown. ~ Roy made no special effort to have him ar- rested outside of Wall Street, so as long as he kept away from the district he was comparatively safe. The check that Roy got from Washington, Stark & Co. was on the Manhattan National ~” Bank, and called for $69,754. : Stat Se That was the bank where the carried the day’s deposits of the _ consequently he was well known to both the re-- ceiving teller and the cashier, and by sight to the — paying teller. He carried the check to the cashier _ and asked for the money. The cashier looked at ~ it and then at Roy. ? ese: “How do. you want it?” asked that gentleman. & ‘I want sixty-nine $1,000 bills, one $500, and , the rest in tens, except ‘the four dollars, of — course. cs The cashier did not for a moment suppose that ~ the money belonged to Roy. He judged that it was the result of some deal. between Mr. Howland and Washington, Stark & Co.. He did wonder, ' however, why it was not turned in by the broker — in his day’s deposits, with his and Roy’s in- _ rirae young messenger office eee days. Nise i CD Can * . ES ‘ could have a check from Co., with whom he had He advised the bank to
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‘could do was to rent a safe deposit box for a year and place the money in it, and he did. In the meantime Mr. Howland’s bookkeeper found out ‘all about Roy’s deal in L. & M. from Mr..Wash- ington, who.was much surprised to learn that the transaction had not after all come from Howland, ~ and on his return he told the broker all he had found out, which information surprised and mys- tified the trader, When: Roy returned to the of- fice, Mr. Howland called him into his room and asked him for an explanation of the matter. “Well, sir, that check is the result of a deal I made in L. & M.,” replied Roy. ~ “JT know all abcut that, but how came you to -speculate in ‘the market, and where did you get e $9,000 that you put up with Mr. Washing- - ton?” ; - “Pll answer your last question first, as being the more important of the two,” answered the - .~young messenger. ; So he told Mr. Howland about his finding the “wallet with $600 in it, and how, having got hold of a tip on V. & S., he had invested $500 of the _ money on the strength of it. . ~~ “T cleared $2,500 on that transaction, and with the greater part of that money I subsequently ‘made $8,250 out of another deal in D. & G. That gave me a capital of $10,000, and the original $600, is still in your office safe awaiting a claim- ny young man,” said the broker dryly. “So that is how you got your money to put on L. & M.?” EAs) sir.’ Pos ~ “I am informed that you bought 2,000 shares of that stock many days before the Street had haps you'll tell me how ‘you came to risk nearly every cent you had on such an uncertainty.” “Oh, I found out that the consolidation was ‘going trough, or rather had gone through.” ~ “You found that out!” exclaimed his employer} nm great astonishment. “Pray, how? -Scarcely . broker in the Street had any definite knowledge f the fact before the announcement was made in “the Exchange, nearly a week later.” “TJ would prefer not to answer that question, gir,” replied Roy, respectfully. ‘Mr. Howland regarded him fixedly. - “It appears that you have made over $60,000 m your deal,” he said. “ Ves, sir.” f “Why did you go to Mr. Washington to put rour transaction through? Why couldn’t you Have-come to me, stated the matter frankly, and asked me to do it for you? I should have done it n exchange for the advantage your tip would ave afforded me.’ “Well, sir, I might have done that, it is true, “making the speculation, Besides, I could not “have satisfied you.as to the absolute reliability £ my tip. I-knew what it was myself, but I could not expect to make ‘another like yourself see it in the same light.” : 3p Bou _ “Your explanation, I think, would haye thrown re decided the question.” “That’s just the trouble, Ea sir. “You seem to have had extraordinary. luck, any reliable information about the merger. Per-- ut I didn’t think you would have approved of em. -_ paificient light on the subject for my judgment to’ -) . have by : J ‘T wouldn’t have» to ‘|. & BROKER AT EIGHTEEN + felt able to offer you the explanation any more than I do now, after the whole thing is over.” Mr. Howland looked annoyed. . “What are you going to do with all that mon- ey?” he asked rather sharply. “Do you expect to keep on speculatirg?” “T suppose if I run across another good thing — I shall take advantage of it.” : “Tt’s my opinion, Roy, that your usefulness as a messenger is nearly over. | You. have been in- oculated with the Wall Street fever, and one of two things is likely to happen—either you will neglect your duties in your endeavors to make money on the outside, or by attending strictly to your duties you will speculate under a severe handicap. It is dangerous enough to engage in speculation when you are able to give your whole «time to it, but to do as I can see you contemplate doing it is simply a suicidal policy, financially considered. My advice to you is to quit the mar- ket now-that you are ahead of the game, invest your-money in good securities, and take a desk in my counting-room.” . 2 “I thank you for your good advice, sir, but I have already decided to resign and go into busi- ' ness for myself.” ; : Mr. Howland gasped. : “Go into business for yourself!” he eried. “What business? Not in Wall Street?” : “Yes, sir, in Wall Street.” ieee my word, your nerve is something colos- sal! ; ‘ “Well, sir, it takes good nerve to succeed down here,” replied Roy. : “And do you expect to succeed?” ri ~ “I ‘hope to, otherwise I wouldn’t think of — branching out.” : Pee! “You may have heard the expression, ‘That fools rush in where angels fear to tread.’. It seems to fit your case exactly. You will learn — through dear experience that you are merely an infant where you think yourself a man. «J shall give you anywhere from three to six months to lose your $60,000. In fact, I shall not be sur- prised to learn that you have been cleaned out in a fortnight.” epee ines ig : ne hope you may be mistaken in your opinion, sit.’ ~ ey s: “T hope I may, too, for your sake, but the result seems too certain for me to have any doubts as to the ultimate end of your ambitious views. When do you expect to resign?” Mee “At the end of the month, if that suits you.” © “Very well,” and that ended the interview. — Sixteen days later Roy severed his connection — with Mr. Howland. 3 ses “What!” exclaimed Will Church, when they met at one o’clock that Saturday. “You have left Mr. Howland?” i : “ Roy nodded. = - Sor) ere oa “What awas the trouble?” asked his amazed chum. “No trouble at all.” . ra “Then why did you leave?”, : Sees: BS going in business for myself.” “You’re going to do what?” Sie: “Going in business for myself. Didn’t I say i plain enough?” Aaa pena 5S “You never gave me a hint that you e3 eave “Wall Street.” 3h S25 ees
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i of the office chair?” “Don’t be funny, Will. as I "want you and your sister to give me a call, _ °° “You're a puzzle to me: So ie public stenographer.” BS business; but _-you-expect to A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN “J’m not going. to leave Wall Street.” “What kind of business are going in?” “Brokerage.” ‘ “Do you. mean to say you’re going a broker?” gasped Will incredulously. “That’s exactly what I mean to say.” “Well, I admire your gall.” _ "You’re the second person that’s made-a re- mark to the same effect.” : “Who was the other?” “Myr. Howland.” ; : “J don’t wonder. I’m only surprised he didn’t fall in a fit when you told him.” a “Tt isn’t the first surprise he’s had in his life.” “Where’s your capital coming from? Are you to become going to start on that thousand you got from Lawyer Caldwell?” ’ “No, That wouldn’t more than pay a month’s rent and furnish a small office.” “J believe you. Did you strike an angel, as they call them in the theatrical business?” 5 “No. I’m my own backer.” ’ -“ don’t see What you’ve got but your nerve.” _ “That’s because you don’t know anything about -my business.’%» Will stared. at him. “J didn’t know that we had ‘any important se- -erets from ea@h other.” : ; " “You'll grow wiser as:you get older.” you're going to be a broker? When do you start in?” - “Pm going to hire an office Monday, if I can find ‘one to suit me.” make “A single room or a suite?” chuckled Will. “A suite of two. One large one for myself, ‘and a small one adjoining for—guess who?” “[]] never guess who. ‘I’m not a good hand at - solving conundrums.” : “Rosie Wood.” > “Are you going to off the reel?” : y “No. She’s going in business for herself as a - “There’s some sense in that—she’s sure to get as for You’d “Oh, you have with a grip. Z “Nn 0. Tl be able to keep my own books at the rt. zy =F \ Going to be your n messenger?” aoe i, 3 “No. I’ve got one engaged. He’s small and in- erienced, but he’ll learn in time.” ‘What will he learn? How to warm the seat As soon as I get started for luck, you know.” : “Oh, we'll call, if only eep- yu to see what kind of a yo ” * ® Ps yet, I see,” said Roy. . have a stenographer right — to do for him. The h s ing t = : << CHAPTER VII—A Startling Occurrence. “Any offices in this building for rent?” asked Roy on Monday morning of the head janitor of the Atlas Building on Wall Street. 3 “Yes. There’s one on the fourth floor thats just been given up by a broker who came here from Chicago, and who is goihg back again. Who beeen Who do you represent?” Myself.” 2 x “Come, now, you’re joking.” ; “J never joke on business matters.” “We don’t rent offices to minors.” ats “Not if they furnish references?” Swiss “What~do you want the office for?” ee “Business.” | : “What kind of business?” iets “Stocks.” Nia ae are “This isn’t a kindergarten for boy brokers,’« laughed the janitor. : a “Will you show me the office that is for rent?” “It’s hardly worth while taking that trouble.” Roy, flashed a dollar bill under his nose. 7 ie “That will pay you, won’t it?” “T don’t want to rob you.” “Don’t you worry about that. only one I’ve got.” S . The janitor looked at the bill and then at Gil- — bert. He saw that the-boy looked as though he — might be worth money. As he didn’t usually let — a dollar, or any other sum of money get away from him, he took Roy up to the fourth floor and showed him the office. , ee “The tenant hasn’t moved his furniture out — This isn’t the “He. wants to sell it to can.” Sueprare o “What does he want for it?” The janitor mentioned a moderate sum. “T’ll take it if I. can have the office.” (ata As the qaiter had figured on a good commis- the next tenant, if h i as it stands.” . . ' “All right,” replied Gilbert, and they went . down to the ground floor. ~The agent was not at first disposed to rent the office to. Roy, but finally agreed to do so on furnishing satisfactory reference and a guarant that the rent would be paid promptly on the first of each month. . 1 de apa Roy gave Mr. Howland as reference and then - went to look up a guarantor for the rent. -ealled on Lawyer Caldwell, who appeared. g' to see him, told him how he was fixed fin what he expected to do, and what he w lawyer w cially,
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Sealy ° “ - 4 matter of eight months’ rent. With Mr. Cald- well’s letter in his pocket he returned ‘to the Atlas Building. The apent read the letter and said he was satiSfied. He put it in his safe and then handed Roy a receipt for the first month’s rent. Gil- _-bert hunted up the janitor, paid him for the . furniture, and hurried away to find a painter to put his name and Rosie’s on the glass pane . of the door. Before he left Wall Street that + afternoon to notify Rosie to come to her new office in they morning the following legend took the place of the Chicago man’s sign: ROY GILBERT, Broker. MISS ROSIE WOOD, Stenographer and Typewriter. “That looks like business,” he said to himself, as he contemplated the neat gilt letters. “The next thing will be to scare up business. I guess I'm. the youngest broker in the Street. I’m just ». eighteen years and a half old. Well, it’s the young man who is coming to the front. these - days. There’s lots of us, and we’re going to let the world know that we're alive.”* ‘ ‘Thus: speaking, Roy turned his back on the sign and left the building, feeling as important as any tenant in the big structure. He went - straight to Rosie’s humble little home, where she «lived and tended house for her old and nearly - blind father. Old Wood was always glad to see - the bright boy who had done so much for his little girl, and it is. needless to say that Rosie “never failed to give’ Roy a warm welcome, for “he had become more to her than anything» else in the world except her helpless father, for whom ' she had the tenderest affection. “Well, Rosie,” said Roy, “I’ve got my office, with a small adjoining one for you that the ‘former tenant used for his private sanctum, and you can come down in the morning. I bought the furniture and fixings, just as they stood, and all I had to have done was to get a painter to put ‘our names—yours and mine—on ‘the door in gilt letters. Everything is now ready for business, and I want you to come and get es er with ‘your quarters right away.” j _ “What time shall I come down.” “Ten o’clock will be time. enoupi When you get plenty of work to do you will have to get down at nine. T’ll order some business cards ~ printed to- -morrow with your name, business, and “address on them.” - “Youre very good to me, Roy,” she said, look- ~ ing at him with shining eyes. “How can I ever repay you?” _ “That will be for you to say when I bring my bill in one of these days.” Pax 2 GE try, to pay you back, if I have to, uk . for years,” she said earnestly. » “You. will never pay me for sl wouldn’t take it that way “How else can I pay you?” she asked wonder- in money, ngily. ; You'll have to study that out for yourself, i Sy te mal Ce I’m Sat bright anes to be able ; ie -ance. ‘than to waste their time jollying him. ‘A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN She smiled archly at him. He caught hak f around. the waist and drew her toward him.: “Do you want to know how you can settle my bill when I present it?” She seemed instinctively to know what he was going to say, and she turned away with a rosy blush suffusing her face and cheek. “You don’t answer, Rosie,” he said. As’ he attempted to raise her face to his, she suddenly buried it on his shoulder. “Do you love me, Rosie?” He drew her quite close to him and she made no resistance. “Is it yes or no?” he asked, quite certain. what her answer would be. “Yes,” she breathed softly. Then he raised her lips to his and kissed her. ue At that moment both seemed to be supremely .- happy. Shortly after he gave her the number of their’ offices in the Atlas Building, telling her to get out of the elevator on the fourth floor. Then it was time for him to go home, and he left. Rosie was delighted with the offices when she came down next morning, and jwas particularly pleased with her. own little den. : Then her name on the door attracted her like anew top does a child. After remaining an hour she went home; there being nothing for her to do. In fact, she did not even have a machine yet, but Roy bought her one of the best’ that afternoon and arranged to have it delivered next day. The young broker put a standing ecard, in the more important financial journals stating that he was prepared to buy and sell stocks on commission, and deal in all kinds of investment securities. It wasn’t long before tt got to be talked about _ in ‘Wall Street that there was a boy broker in - the Atlas Building. This report excited a good deal of curiosity among the traders. They want- © ed to know who the boy was, what had brought him into the Street, and whether he had a wad of any size or not. The latter point interested a number of the brokers, who re not over particular how, they made money so long as it came their way, and they kept within the pale of the law. The Chicago man had been bleached — out of $40,000 by traders of this stamp, and they were looking around for a fresh punIRey: on which to operate. A boy with money tight be cogiiaure a regular cinch, and several of these foxy brokers — began to sharpen up their shears in anticipation of clippin&® a little of Roy’s wool, or, in other words, his money. operations, they proceeded to make his acquaint- They dropped in singly and in pairs, os- tensibly to inquire where the Chicago man had gone to, but really to establish a footing NS Gilbert and to satisfy their curiosity as to. whether the game was worth the candle. Roy, however, hadn’t been three years in Wall Street without learning a heap about brokers in general and certain ones in particular. He knew that reputable traders wouldn’t bother them- selves about him, or if they had any reason for calling they would have something better to d distrusted the advances of his callers, anc found they had unmarketable securiti to adesin able As/a preliminary to their ¥
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A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN x bite. Roy qontdn't even nibble at such bait, : and many of his visitors discontinued their calls in disgust. There were two or three, however, who were not discouraged, and they persisted, ‘hoping to “land him in the end. About noon on the first Saturday of Roy’s experience as a broker he got his first customer, a farmer named Parker, from Quoque, L. I, who had been attracted by his advertisement in the Wall Street Argus. Roy was dictating a letter to Rosie when he came in, and the undersized office boy took the visi- tor’s name over to the young broker’s desk. As soon as Gilbert was at liberty he asked his caller what he could do for him. Farmer Parker said he wanted to buy 100 shares of a certain stock then going un, and had brought the money to put up on margin, viz., $1,000. The transaction was soon put through, and the Long Island man departed with his “memorandum. . “Nothing like oF ie a beginning, even if it is about closing time on Saturday,” said Roy to puuelt as he contemplated the money on his des He got a satchel to take it to the safe de- - --posit vaults ever Sunday, and was about to stow the bills in it when the, door opened, and ein walked, Will and Grace Church. They advanced to greet the boy broker when, without the least - warning, they, as well as the occupants of the office, were treated to a sudden shock. Crash! A heavy missile struck the office window, wreck- “ing the fpane. The startled Roy sprang from his chai? amid a shower of splintered giass. Will Church and his sister started back in consternation, while the office boy looked thor- oughly frightened, Gilbert’s first impulse was to look through the broken pane, across the well which admitted light and air to the offices in® that part of the building, in order to ascertain the cause of the trouble. He was just in time to ¢atch a fl@eting glimpse of the grinning and malicious countenance of Jim Crawford as that - young rascal fied from an open window in a ‘corridor on the opposite side of the opening. . ee CHAPTER IX.—A Skin Game. i, ~ Roy, hardly noticing Will and his sister, dart- ed for the door leading out in the corridor, and yan around into the adjoining corridor which led “upon catching that young. rascal. When he -yeached the spot there was no sign anywhere of the former A. D. T. messenger. “Roy hunted around and found a rear stair- ‘way, down which he sprang as rapidly as pos- ible until he struck the entrance facing on the ther street. There were a dozen places along e block where Crawford might be hiding, and oy, after looking up and down the narrow oroughfare, decided that there was little chance of his catching his young enemy at present. Tll pickle. you yet, you little rascal!” the ung broker breathed, as he turned away to nd the janitor and notify him of the. damage Ah ’ When ‘as you become known,” said Grace, rather en to the place where he had seen Crawford, intent . Rirls won’t refuse, I’ll bet my hat.” patiently awaiting him, and conversing with | osie. “J never was so frightened in my life,” said” Grace, after he had greeted his visitors. “It came so suddenly, and the crash of the glass. made me think for a moment that something had happen-»_ ed to the building. Who could have fited that oe: stone? Bree “An enemy of mine, named Jim Crawford.” — “What!” cried Will. “Did Crawford do that?” . “He did,” replied Roy. “When I looked across the hall I saw his face as he started to make himself searce.” “That accounts for your sudden exit..from the i A I was in hopes of eatching him, but he was too spry for me.” “How did he get away?” “By a“stairway in the rear that took him out, on Pine Street.” “You'll have to’ notify the police and have him run down.” ‘ : . “That’s what I’m going to do.” if “This is a fine office you've got, old man. Must. rs cost you a good rent.” “Tt costs enough.” “How do they figure the rent of these offices 7 Do you know?” “By the square foot of floor space as a basis and then location.” “A suite of rooms overlooking Wall Street, on the second floor, must be pretty steep, then?”- “T should imagine the yearly rent would buy a small house and lot in a good locality.” “Doing any business yet?” “T got my first customer about an one ag He bought a hundred shares of a certain sto and put up his margin.’ = “I congratulate you,” said Grace. | customer is usually the hardest to get.” : - “T believe you. It’s taken me the whole the week to round him up,” laughed Gilbert. 5 He took Grace and her brother into Rosie en. f “What a snug little office you’ ve rok. M = Wood,” said Grace. “You must be very comfort able and independent here.” ; Rosie smiled and said she was. ; ae see you've got some work on hand,” said race. “Oh, yes. Roy gave me some right away. He’s been all over the building with my cards “You'll probably have all you-can do as soon Se) +x oo ie ing Rosie her position ‘and opportunity, ape tg: ever so much nicer to work for one’s self. Don’t you think so?” “T haven’t had any other kind of experien replied Rosie. “You ought to thank your stars, then. — isn’t such a pienic to be at the beck and of an employer. There are times when t S go wrong with him, then he’s bound to be ‘hs and hard to please. f “Well, folks,” said Roy, “you must all go to lunch with: me to-day.” ra “All right,” replied Will, taking -it on hi to answer for the others, “that’s ani ignore “You are putting one word f
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A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN x bite. Roy qontdn't even nibble at such bait, : and many of his visitors discontinued their calls in disgust. There were two or three, however, who were not discouraged, and they persisted, ‘hoping to “land him in the end. About noon on the first Saturday of Roy’s experience as a broker he got his first customer, a farmer named Parker, from Quoque, L. I, who had been attracted by his advertisement in the Wall Street Argus. Roy was dictating a letter to Rosie when he came in, and the undersized office boy took the visi- tor’s name over to the young broker’s desk. As soon as Gilbert was at liberty he asked his caller what he could do for him. Farmer Parker said he wanted to buy 100 shares of a certain stock then going un, and had brought the money to put up on margin, viz., $1,000. The transaction was soon put through, and the Long Island man departed with his “memorandum. . “Nothing like oF ie a beginning, even if it is about closing time on Saturday,” said Roy to puuelt as he contemplated the money on his des He got a satchel to take it to the safe de- - --posit vaults ever Sunday, and was about to stow the bills in it when the, door opened, and ein walked, Will and Grace Church. They advanced to greet the boy broker when, without the least - warning, they, as well as the occupants of the office, were treated to a sudden shock. Crash! A heavy missile struck the office window, wreck- “ing the fpane. The startled Roy sprang from his chai? amid a shower of splintered giass. Will Church and his sister started back in consternation, while the office boy looked thor- oughly frightened, Gilbert’s first impulse was to look through the broken pane, across the well which admitted light and air to the offices in® that part of the building, in order to ascertain the cause of the trouble. He was just in time to ¢atch a fl@eting glimpse of the grinning and malicious countenance of Jim Crawford as that - young rascal fied from an open window in a ‘corridor on the opposite side of the opening. . ee CHAPTER IX.—A Skin Game. i, ~ Roy, hardly noticing Will and his sister, dart- ed for the door leading out in the corridor, and yan around into the adjoining corridor which led “upon catching that young. rascal. When he -yeached the spot there was no sign anywhere of the former A. D. T. messenger. “Roy hunted around and found a rear stair- ‘way, down which he sprang as rapidly as pos- ible until he struck the entrance facing on the ther street. There were a dozen places along e block where Crawford might be hiding, and oy, after looking up and down the narrow oroughfare, decided that there was little chance of his catching his young enemy at present. Tll pickle. you yet, you little rascal!” the ung broker breathed, as he turned away to nd the janitor and notify him of the. damage Ah ’ When ‘as you become known,” said Grace, rather en to the place where he had seen Crawford, intent . Rirls won’t refuse, I’ll bet my hat.” patiently awaiting him, and conversing with | osie. “J never was so frightened in my life,” said” Grace, after he had greeted his visitors. “It came so suddenly, and the crash of the glass. made me think for a moment that something had happen-»_ ed to the building. Who could have fited that oe: stone? Bree “An enemy of mine, named Jim Crawford.” — “What!” cried Will. “Did Crawford do that?” . “He did,” replied Roy. “When I looked across the hall I saw his face as he started to make himself searce.” “That accounts for your sudden exit..from the i A I was in hopes of eatching him, but he was too spry for me.” “How did he get away?” “By a“stairway in the rear that took him out, on Pine Street.” “You'll have to’ notify the police and have him run down.” ‘ : . “That’s what I’m going to do.” if “This is a fine office you've got, old man. Must. rs cost you a good rent.” “Tt costs enough.” “How do they figure the rent of these offices 7 Do you know?” “By the square foot of floor space as a basis and then location.” “A suite of rooms overlooking Wall Street, on the second floor, must be pretty steep, then?”- “T should imagine the yearly rent would buy a small house and lot in a good locality.” “Doing any business yet?” “T got my first customer about an one ag He bought a hundred shares of a certain sto and put up his margin.’ = “I congratulate you,” said Grace. | customer is usually the hardest to get.” : - “T believe you. It’s taken me the whole the week to round him up,” laughed Gilbert. 5 He took Grace and her brother into Rosie en. f “What a snug little office you’ ve rok. M = Wood,” said Grace. “You must be very comfort able and independent here.” ; Rosie smiled and said she was. ; ae see you've got some work on hand,” said race. “Oh, yes. Roy gave me some right away. He’s been all over the building with my cards “You'll probably have all you-can do as soon Se) +x oo ie ing Rosie her position ‘and opportunity, ape tg: ever so much nicer to work for one’s self. Don’t you think so?” “T haven’t had any other kind of experien replied Rosie. “You ought to thank your stars, then. — isn’t such a pienic to be at the beck and of an employer. There are times when t S go wrong with him, then he’s bound to be ‘hs and hard to please. f “Well, folks,” said Roy, “you must all go to lunch with: me to-day.” ra “All right,” replied Will, taking -it on hi to answer for the others, “that’s ani ignore “You are putting one word f
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& 16)": x “You seem to-have a hard opinion of me, sis,”. ~~ yeplied Will. “Just’ think: of a fellow’s sister showing him up that way.” : : . “You ean: stand it, I guess,” said Roy. “Put on your hat, Rosie. It’s time to shut up shop.” ’ He went over to his desk, calléd his office boy and paid him off, and then they all left the ~ building together. Later on he swore out a warrant against Jim Crawford, and it was given ’ to an officer to serve. Crawford, anticipating “. such a move, got out of the city, and conse- ‘quently was not arrested. A broker who had an office on the same floor came in to see Roy. Mon- day morning. His name was John Hague. , This wasn’t his first nor his second visit to ‘the young, broker, and Gilbert had an opinion - that Mr. Hague had designs on his financial re- sources. At any rate, he. didn’t fancy the trader PJmuch. > j : “Good-morning, young man,” said Mr, Hague. “How are things coming?” ; “There’s no particular rush at present,” re- plied Roy. “I’m not looking for a monopoly in the business.” ; “Got any private deal on?” INO, ‘SIte _ “Then I can put you next to a pretty good hing. “Several of us are getting up a pool to boom a certain stock that’s low down in the market. It’s a dead open and shut winner. I’ve _-- spoken to the boys about you. I told them you were a promising young fellow, and that we ought to let you in on this thing. They haye agreed to let you share in the profits. If you’ve _ $50,000 that you can spare for a week or ten -. days I can guarantee that you'll make $100,000 clear money.” .~ : : pe: “What is the name of the stock you’re going to boom?” - &That’s. hardly a fair question, young man. _. You haven’t agreed to go in yet.” ci “Is it a blind pool?” . “Yes. It is necessary that absolute secrecy _ he maintained in order to prevent any hint of the scheme getting: out among the brokers. One man will do the buying and booming, and we have implicit confidence in him.” ease aa ; “I’m afraid I’ll have to decline your invitation. - { don’t fancy closed pools. I prefer to handle ‘my money myself, and keep track of where I Seam. at,” NS. “I assure you this venture is a perfectly safe one. If it wasn’t I wouldn’t go into it myself.” Roy, however, declined to go into the combine, ‘and Mr. Hague took his departure much dis- appointed. The boy broker dictated a letter to the farmer of Quoque, telling him that he had pought the 100 shares of M. & P. according to - directions and held them subject to his orders. Roy had made the deal through a young broker who was friendly with him. — “Soon after Mr. Hague left the postman brought in a couple of letters. One contained a money ~ order for a sum of money to cover the margin on fifty shares of C. & O. at the market price, together with directions as to its sale, and the oe atten was merely an inquiry. Both were from out-of-town people who had seen Roy’s advertise- ent in the pavers. Gilbext sent the order to js friend the stock broker, with the directions, dictated an answer to the other. ‘That was Tl stop in oniny. way A BROKER AT’ EIGHTEEN ae oh et ae all the business Roy did that day. -Next day at noon Will came in looking as if he*was. the bearer of news. ; ieee! “I’ve got a tip for you, Roy,” he said. » #2 “I hope it’s a good one, then. There'll be ten. per cent. in it for you if it pans out a profit.” i “Well, a broker friend of mine gave it'to me~ — as a sure thing. He said that I could go in with you on.it, as he didn’t suppose I had any money ~— myself. He knows we are friendly, and he said you ought to allow me a good rake off.” “Who is this broker?” “George Arnold.” ¢ “TI don’t know him by name, at any rate. Does - he know I’m in business for myself?” 4 “Yes, for he asked me how you hese tik! on?” 7 “What is the tip?” ; “A combination of capitalists has been formed to boom Kentucky Central. It is going now at 52. Mr. Arnold said. it would be up to 60 inside - ofa week, sure.” ~ * i Roy made a note of the matter on a pad, and ot such other information with respect to the pointer as Will could give him. It appeared that Broker Arnold had suggested to Will the . advisability of his going to Gilbert without de- — Yay and bringing the ne to his notice, because he said no time was to be lost if they expected to get in on the ground floor. . : “All right, Will. I'll look into it. It seems . like a good thing.” eee “You ought to besable to make enough out of it to pay all your expenses for a year,” said | Church. : , Ss “I should hope to do even better than that,” was the reply. Will said he’d have to go, as he had snatched the» time on the wing in order to rush the tip to — him. Roy thanked him and he went away. Fif- teen minutes afterward a man came in and asked | to see Mr. Gilbert. é “That’s my name,” said Roy. “T was told you was a young man and new in the business, that’s why I came to vou. I want to deal with a strictly honest broker. One who hasn’t learned all the tricks of the business. hee =f got a block of 5,000 shares of Kentucky Central I’d like to sell you. It’s worth 52, and is likely te go up, I guess; but I can’t afford to hold it any longer. What kind of a deal can you make with me?” “T couldn’t buy it out and out, just now,” re- plied Roy, thinking it a singular coincidence that _ he should be offered a chance to buy the very stock on which he had just got a tip. "ear ae “T’ll tell you what I can do, then,” said the man.. “I’ll sell it to you at 54 on a ten-day option. Vill deposit the shares in any trust com-— pany you mention, and you can let me have ten per cent. in cash on account. At the end of ten — days you can either pay the balance and take the certificates, or you can dispose of your option | at the market price.” ; ; ne “I don’t think I’d care to pay 54 for the stock Mr. Pratt.” ; Ee “I think it would pay you to do so on a ten- day option. Kk it” Vll give you an hour to think it’ wover. I’ve got some business on South Street. uplown.”= 6.
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As he seemed to be in a hurry, Roy didn’t offer - te detain him. i : “Roy went over. and looked at the ticker. To his great surprise, there were several transac- - tions in Kentucky Central on the tape, viz.: 1,000 at 52 5-8, 2,000 at 53 3-8, 500 at 54, and 1,500 ‘at 54 5-8, ct "My gracious!” he exclaimed. “It’s started to ~~ go up already. If I’d taken up Mr. Pratt‘s offer of 54 I’d got the stock below the. market without either of us being the wiser. I thought it would chug 52 for several days yet. He won't sell at . 54 when’he comes back unless“he fails to look at the ticker.” : ; -. In a few minutes another quotation of K. C. - at 55 appeared on the tape, and now Roy felt like’ kicking himself for not taking up the visitor's offer.’ He looked up the past performances of Kentucky Central, and saw that it had not sold higher than 52 in six months, and had been down as low as 45. Roy put on his hat with the in- - tention of hunting up Broker Arnold and having a talk with him. When he reached the ground floor of the building he was surprised to See ‘Mr. Pratt talking to Broker Hague. As he pass- ed zlose behind them he heard Hague say: _.“¥ou’d bettex,go back ina few minutes. We've put several wash sales through and boosted, the price to 55. He'll be sure to see the figures by this time, then he’s bound to close with you at . - 54, as his friend Church has brought him the fake tip we got Arnold to give him, To-morrow "(the stock will be down to 50, for there is nothing; ~ to hold it up, and we'll have $25,000. of his good - money in our pockets.” : "Like a flash Roy saw through the game that “was being played-on him, and for the ‘moment he was mad enough to march up to Broker Hague and punch his head. He prudently restrained his inclination and walked out of the building. — ' gamer ay ~“ CHAPTER X.—How Roy Got the Best ofthe h Situation. In order to avoid meeting Mr. Pratt, Roy did ; ot return to his office for nearly two hours. ~ When he finally got back his boy told him that Mr. Pratt had come in soon after he went out, “had remained half an hour, and then left, saying oie he would return later. As Roy didn’t care to meet him he went out again, after looking at the ticker and noticing that there was another entucky Central quotation at 55 1-8. The sures, which he knew couldn’t be sustained, gave the boy broker an idea. © ; “Tf T can work it, I’ll make something out of this trick after all,” he said to himself. He went to the safe deposit company where he kept his money, and then called at Washing- ton, Shark & Co. He saw Mr. Stark this time, him that he was now in business for him- self, and said that he wanted to sell 10,000 shares of Kentucky Central short. —— - . “It’s quoted at_55 1-8, but if you can’t get a buyer at that sell it at 54 or even 53. I'll put iy $55,000 as a guarantee to deliver at the sale f e.” “y a . m4 . A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN at the size of the - rder, for Fi: there was a commission of $2,500 in it for his — firm, however the transaction turned out: So he — wrote a note to Mr. Washington at the Ex- ~ change, and sent it over by his messenger.» An. hour later this same messenger carried a note to Roy at his office. It stated that W.,.S..& Co, lrad sold for Gilbert’s account 2,000 shares of K. C. at 55y55,000 shares at 54, and 3,000 shares at 53 3-8. At a quarter to four that afternoon Will came bounding into Gilbert’s office. : a “Well, old man,” he said, “have you done any- thing yet about that tip?” : E “Don’t say anything more about that tip of — pee: It was a fake, pure and simple,” replied oy. : “A fake!” pasped Will, taken all aback. “Why, Mr. Arnold——” : J : “Mr. Arnold suggested in a rounddbout way that you’d better let me in on it, didn’t he?” . = “Yes, because he knows, .or supposes, that you have money, while I have none. He said you’d be able to work a deal on the’ strength-of it, and | > I could get a good ‘rake-off for putting you in — the way of making a few thousands.” tS ty aa “Very kind of him,” answered Roy sarcasti- cally. “Well, the whole thing was a put up job to do me out of as niuch money jas possible.” . Roy then explained to his friend how Hague, assisted by other brokers supposedly in the game, — 4 worked a series of wash sales on the Exchange __ for the purpose of securing higher quotations in” Kentucky Central than the regular market price,” and while this was going on that Hague had — sent a man in to him to sell him a block of the stock <2 figure that would have put about $26,- 000 cash into the pockets of the conspirators. ead “As soon as they had accomplished their pur- ~ pose they intended to let the stock fall back to ~~ its old figure, or maybe lower, and J would be caught in the shuffle,” said Roy. “It was simply a nasty little skin game that-no reputable broker : would countenance; but it’s going to put a few = — dollars in my pocket just the same.” re “How?” asked Will, in surprise. ~ Roy told him how he had taken advantage of” the fake rise to sell 10,000 shares of the stock short, and he had actually. got a higher figure than he expected to get. 4 ek “Ttis bound to go down to-morrow, and some- 5 body is bound to lose. It’s too bad that it won’t be Hague and his smart aleck associates. How- 3 ever, I may teach Mr. Hague yet. I’d like to. — show him that I’m not auite as easyia mark as he seems to consider me.” ; “Well, I hope your short deal proves a winner,”, said Will. “You will practically turn the tables on them in that case.” ‘ as “They won’t know it, though, Neither will they lose anything.” e ae er “You'll have the satisfaction at any rate of - ean that you’ve come.out ahead in the mat- - er. : 1 At that moment Rosie came out of her room — with her hat on, prepared to go home, so: Roy said he guessed he’d close up shop. Next morn- ing 1,000 shares of Kentucky Central were sold
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18 ree thats. he. said ‘to himself. “Then Pi make a handsome profit out of the transaction.” Three days later Roy sent word to Washington, Stark-& Co. to buy 10,000 of K. C. to cover his short ‘sales. The firm did so, getting it at an --ayerage price of 48 1-2. -Roy’s profits amounted ‘to the difference between what he asold for and ~what he’ paid for the stock in order to deliver it, or $52,000. He had now a capital all told of $123, 000. J “T have been in business two weeks, have six out-of-town customers, and have made something | over $50,000 on a short deal,” said Roy to Rosie, * on the afternoon that he got his check from : Washington, Stark & Co. “Not so bad for a be- - ginning, is it?” Of course Rosie thought it was just splendid. “My late’ boss, Mr. Howland, told me that I ~. wouldn’t last three months, or, at the least, six. i mean to do the best I can to show him that he-was away off in his calculations. “I’m in the business to stay, and if I am half way fortunate I guess my anchor will hold.” On the- following day Mr. late messenger a visit. -. “How are you pulling out, Roy?” he asked, - after he had taken in the office. “First-rate. T’ve made $50,000 inthe past six Be GAYS... . "The dickens you have!” exclaimed the broker. pe Then Gilbert told him how a clique of foxy brokers had tried to take him in by conveying to him a fake tip on Kentucky Central, and how, after they had temporarily forced the price -up, he had Sold the stock short in anticipation of an immediate decline, by which he had made the sum on question through Washington, Stark & Howland paid his 0. te “Upon my word, you are a great. deal smarter ‘than I supposed you to be,” chuckled the broker. -. “Who were the peony who failed-to get your 7 sealp?” _ “J only know one, the man who put the scheme through. “His name is John Hague. George Arnold however, was ‘the one through whom the pointer came.” The idea that a mere eighteen-year-old boy - was able to checkmate a sharp trader like Hague was too good to keep, and so when Mr. Howland went to ‘the Exchange next day he circulated the news. The result was that Hague and a couple - of his friends received. an unmerciful roasting from their associates. This was bad enough, but when they learned that the boy broker had not only foiled them but had made $50,000 out of the game, they were madder than hornets. After that Hague kept clear of Gilbert’s office, but none the less’ he yearned for a chance to get square with the boy. =" tS ig FAT eh - CHAPTER XI—Roy Gets A Big Commission 2 ; Front His Former Employer. ffice. ‘Tm going to give you a chance to make a éy, Roy,” he said. “I want you to go broker; d buy 3 A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN ‘for a customer of yours. “if necessary, but no higher until you haye com-— three-eighths.” One Sioditie Mr. Howland came into Gilbert’s” _He was given a leeway of one-half per - of 12,000. land The stock is to be delivered C.0.D: at the Man- hattan National. If anyone should ask you who ~ the stock ‘4s for you will simply say that it’s’ es I am not to be known in connection with the matter, you understand? i That’s why I’m déing ‘a portion of my buying ~ through you.. I guess you know when to keep your mouth shut and when to open it,” ts “Yes, sir. I learned that in your office. You never found me telling tales out of school, and — you never will.” “Yes, that’s right. It’s because I know I can ~ trust you that I am taking you into my con- fidence in-a very important matter. I want you — to get on the job at once and lost no time. R. & | H. is going at 85. I authorize you to give 85 1-2 — municated with me. Understand?” * ae “Yes, sir,” said Roy, taking up his hat. # Mr. Howland went away and Gilbert ‘started * out to buy the stock. The first half dozen brokers he swisited had none of it, and then he struck a te block of 5,000 shares, for which he had to pay 85 1-8. By one: o’clock, when he stopped long enough to get a hasty lunch, he had secured — 1§;000 shares. Then he heard that Broker Hague had some-of it. He made no bones about calli ae = on*that gentleman, who happened to be in = office. “Have you any R. & H. shares, Mr. baa he. asked as soon as he was admitted to- t trader’s private room. “T have.- How many do you want, and bbs are you paying for it?” “How many shares have you?” asked Roy. - “T’ve. 4,000 shares.” ; “It’s going at 85 1-8.” ; Hague, took a look at the tape.and came back, “Tl let you have the whole block for 85 1-2.” — “No, you won't,” replied Roy. “Ill give you — i “Are you buying this for yourself?” “No, sir. It’s for a customer.” “Do you want the block?” “P}l take it at 85 3-8.” i Hague considered a moment and then pee wanted 85 1-2. Roy declined to give it, and rose si to go, when Hague agreed to his terms: oe “—E shall want a certified check or the cash- : $342,000.” “When can you deliver the certificates 2” “At once.” ia “All right. Deliver them C.0.D. at the Mai n= = hattan National.” They exchanged memorandums and the was concluded. - “That makes 22,000 shares,” said Roy to him- self, as he started for his office, to look in for a moment. “At an eighth of one per cent. for buying, my commission so far amounts to Not a bad day’s work, and . I’ve a couple of yet to pick up'some more.” ' He finally sent word to Mr. Howland: th had secured 25 ,000 shares, most of it at Next. morning ‘the stock opened at 85 id speedily went to 85 5-8. Roy sent wo Howland, and asked for permission to b: the market. Under these conditions he more’ shai wo. es that d to
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Fink A o,) E ated: his’ statement to the broker and in due - time received a check for $4,625 to cover his - commission. Directly he got word to quit buying for the broker he considered himself free of any 4 further obligation to Mr. Howland, and he went : to the little bank on Nassau Street and ordered the clerk to buy for his account at the Exchange any part of 5, 000 shares of R. & H. at the market price on the usual margin. It took the bank’s de wrice ae days to get the stock at an average price of 8 Two days atentard the Exchange began to show! over the stock, for it commenced to rise ’ steadily until it struck 95, at which point Roy ordered a sale of his holdings, a thousand shares 3 ‘at a time. His winnings on the deal amounted te $38,400, : In the meantime Rosie had accumulated quite a lot of custom, and was doing very well indeed. - Among those who favored her with work was a _ young lawyer. who had been struck with her beauty, and he was getting into the habit of calling on her with considerable frequency, bringing work each time as an excuse. More than half of the typewriting he paid her for he had no use Se ae tore up as soon ag he re- - turned to his office on the floor above. One after- moon when he called he was slightly under the, “ ~ nature. He drew his chair up near her, and his at- entions became embarrassing to the girl. Gil- bert was out at the time, or she would haye -* told him that she wanted her visitor to go. Finally the lawyer, whose name was Gerald Ladelle, asked her if she wouldn’t honor him by going to dinner with, him, and afterward to the theatre, that evening! Rosie declined as politely as she could, and then hinted that as she was very busy his presence was a drawback to her work. The young lawyér wouldn’t take the hint, though, it was plain enough, and persisted on “re maining. Rosie finally became desperate, and Alled the. office boy inside and asked him to re main | Fa, At. this point the telephone bell rang, and Rosie ran out to,Roy’s desk to answer it. To ti er great relief and satisfaction she, found that ey was at the other end of the wire. After antwering his question$ she told him about the presence. ‘of Lawyer Ladelle, and how he per- isted in remaining» and annoying her with. his’ attentions. _. “Put on your hat and go out for thirty: min- tes,” he told her. “By that time I'll be back.” e followed his directions to the letter. The yer, however, accompanied her as far as the ridor, and there she got away from him. hen Roy returned to the office he learned all-the articulars from her. He immediately called on elle, carrying with him a quantity of work HI r had left with Rosie, and said a few =p Oa to him. The young legal luminary ed his interference in the matter, and told to. get out of his office gr he'd throw jim ont think. you will, Mr. Ladelin. ‘splied influence of mint juleps, or something else of that . N A BROKER. AT EIGHTEEN 19 Gilbert wasn't afraid of him in the least, and was prepared to look out for himself. “Are you going to get out?” asked Ladelle in an ugly tone. “Yes. I’m going, for I’ve said all 1 had to say; but I'll take no threats from you. As a lawyer you ought to know better than to use them. Hereafter, you need not bring any more work to Miss, Wood, for she will- not receive it from you.” Later on the lawyer sent his boy down to Rosie. with“a batch of work, but she sent it back with a verbal message that she was too busy to aécept any more. Ladelle, having learned from his boy that Gilbert was out, ventured to visit Miss Wood and try to square himself. Rosie refused to listen to any explanation and asked him to go, which he did, very reluctantly. She told Roy when he returned that the lawyer had “been in, and that she had refused to have anything more - to do with him. < “You did right, Rosie,” replied Roy. “A man who makes one bad break is liable to repeat it, and I don’t want my promised wife to be an- noyed by any man.” e put his arms around her protectingly and she nestled close to him. Then “their, lips met in a long, sweet kiss. She was very happy, for her dream when a flower girl was coming true. CHAPTER XUi—In “Which Mr. Hague Turns Over A New Leaf. Not very long afterward another effort was — made by the crafty brokers who were seeking some of Gilbert’s fleece to get him into a com- bination to boost a certain stock, the name of Which the man who tried to interest him in the pool wouldn’t: disclose until he agreed to join them and had put up $75,000. The gentleman, — who was working in the interests of the combine, — Hague had i was no more successful than Mr. been. Roy explained to him that he never in- vested money that He couldn’t at all times have direct control of himself. “The moment I went into a pooling arrange- ment, such aS you speak of, I’d have to be~ * governed by the will of the majority.” eee “That’s true enough,” admitted his visitor, “but you'd share in all the advantages of being on the inside in the game.. We have backing enougn to force the stock fifteen to twenty points above | the present market rate, and hold it there long enough to unload at a big profit. The risk you’d face is really a minimum one, in comparison to _the risks you’d face in bucking the market alone: Here we know just what we can do, and are go- =< We know at exactly what point it aie! » ing to do. be safe to unload on the public. When we’re- ou of it the public will have the stock at a high figure, while. we'll have the public’s money. The game is played eyery little _while, and brokers are constantly adding to their fortunes by a sure thing. By. going in with us you are really bet- ting on a certainty. There isn’t one chance, inva hundred of you losing.” ey “That may. be all ve i that ioe a 4 Solid men | is A, ae Fo ’ en
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20 to use my own judgment in any deal I go into,~ then if I lose I knuow I made a mistake, that’s se all” His-visitor continued to argue his point a while longer, but could make no headway with Gilbert, and finally retired, convinced that the boy broker A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN for what you did for me.” * “ET want to do something for you in return i “No, -sir, I'd rather you wouldn't.” =e “You've got a grudge against me, Gilbert, be- — cause——” He stopped and looked embarrassed. fee “Are you referring to Kentucky Central?” couldn’t be made to bite at the bait offered so temptingly. Roy put on his hat and followed his ‘caller at a distance till he saw him enter Broker George Arnold’s office. - >“ wonder what kind of a game was tried on me this time,” he said to himself. “I don’t know any broker outside Mr. Howland who has interest enough in me to offer to take me in a legitimate . pool and give me an even show for a slice of the profits. Why, $75,000 would cut very little ice “» in such a combine. It takes millions to operate ' with any chance of safety.” He hung around Arnold’s office for a while and finally saw Mr. Hague go in there. - Fifteen minutes later the three men came out together and headed for a Broad Street cafe.- Roy went to the swinging door and looked in. They were lined up at the bar.. After a while, they came out, and after standing a few minutes on the -eurb they separated, Hague going over to the Exchange. As he was crossing the street an - automobile dashed “down upon him. Roy saw the broker’s peril, hallooed to him, and dashed forward. The chauffeur put on his brakes and - -tooted his horn. Hague looked up in a startled - manner, saw what was coming, and sprang back.. In doing so he tripped and fell. Gilbert reached him just in time to grab him by the collar and yank him backward as the machine, which was 4 big touring car, slipped by. suis Hague sat up as white as a sheet, trembling ~~ all over. A crowd began to gather. Then he recognized his rescuer, and was dumfounded. Roy aaa him on his feet and began to brush him off. - “T guess you're all right, now, Mr. Hague,” he said, leading him over toward the Exchange. > ; : ea “I pelieve you saved my life, Gilbert,” fluttered You promise me that’ you'll not show. th “the broker, who was still shaking like an aspen @Nyone, and that you'll destroy it as soon as Yeaf. “I sha’n’t forget it.” deal is over? ; cert “Don’t let that worry you, sir. I am glad I Yee? i was on hand to help you out. Good-by,” and “Iam giving it to you as proof of my since ~~ Roy left him at the door of the Exchange and for if it became known that I gave you this. returned to his office. ; formation it would ruin me in the Street.” * ‘As he was preparing to close up,-about four Mr. Hague drew his chair up beside the d o'clock, Broker Hague walked“in and sat down © and wrote out a statement that certain broke near his desk. 23 ’ - whose names he mentioned, were combined “You'did a great favor forme to-day, Gil- boom A. & P. stock, and that they were bac pert,” he said in an embarrassed way. by a capital of $10,000,000. After signing w “J won't deny it, sir, but——” : he had written he said: ; ; ~ % “You saved my life,” interrupted the broker. “Arnold, myself, and another broker will be ~*~ “J am not sure of that,” replied Roy. buying to-morrow. You must buy as n 4“ gm sure of it,” answered the trader, nod- shares as vou ean handle at once, and hold them ' ding his head in a positive wavy. ; till I send you word to sell. I will give you ~ “AN right, we'll Jet it go at that.” the tip when we begin to unload, or probably “ want you to understand that I am grateful just before. I will send you the word ‘Unlo to you, young man. I don’t want to die yet. by special messenger, and you must then — I'm not fit to die.” ded at once, the only condition being that yo “Well, I guess there isn’t much danger of you order your broker to let it out in small lo dying very soon, sir.” ie tier ae Ce ih
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- Roy nodded, and his visited put on his hat and went away, apparently satisfied in his conscience. es CHAPTER XIII.—Conclusion. Next morning Roy called at Mr. Howland’s office. The new office boy and messenger took his name in to the broker. He was: accorded an immediate audience. . “Good-morning, Roy. Glad to see you. ean Kdo for you?” ~~ 4Pve got a commission for you. I want you te attend to all mv business after this—that 1s, all my personal business. I have an arrange- ment with a friend on the Exchange to divide commissions on my customers’ business.” The broker smiled. : «7 take any cormmsision you may wish to a me.’ ‘What i «i F _ “AN right, sir. I want you to buy 20,000 shares ‘of A. & P.-on margin.” ; _. “My goodness, Roy, have you capital enough to risk such a deal as that?” =~. “} have.” : -. “Byidently you have a tip. Can you depend m it?” : “} think I can." If it fails me I’ll not. be the ly one ruined.” i ’ = “That is poor satisfaction,” laughed the broker. o you really want me to buy 20,000 shares of P&P, 2” aS “#Yes, sir. Here is the money to cover the margin at 80. I’ll allow you one point leeway.” The deal was made, and Roy returned to his e not a little excited, for he stood either broke or make probably at least a quarter ‘a million.. Mr. Howland had little difficulty Bens the 20,000 shares, as the buying by the dicate had only just commenced. He got it on the outside of the Exchange, as Roy had him to work it that way so as to keep the Inowledge from the ears of Mr. Hague’s. asso- iate brokers. He got it at 80 or 80 1-8. As nas he had completed the purchase he notified of the fact, telling him that he held it subject to his orders. : : il came into Gilbert’s office. that afternoon. had read in the morning papers the account i oy’s rescue of Broker Hague on Broad Street ‘the afternoon before, and he was curious to learn w the broker in question had acted toward “You've got yourself into the limelight again, man,” he said. “If you keep on, the papers rite up your obituary when you die.” hope they won’t be called on to do that for time yet,” replied the young broker. “I’m hankering after a buried yet.” row’d make a pretty healthy-looking corpse,” ed Will. “So you saved Broker Hagué from ttine run over? Hague is such a good friend f ve rs, too, I don’t think.” — 3 “Oh, there’s worse than he in the worlk” at did he have to say when he found that s under obligations to you?” , A BROKER AT EIGHTEEN _ 000 all told. “He came around and made it all right with . Next week’s issue LAR; or, FROM E 21 “Which means that it’s none of my business, A suppose?” — “Well, don’t get mad over it,” laughed Roy. “J suppose you heaped coals of fire, as the saving is, on ‘his head?” “A few.” “You’ve got him where the hair is short now. Tf he puts up any more jobs on you after this he’ll be a pretty small kind of man.” Roy thought it well-to change the subject, and he began talking about something else. When half-past four came around Rosie finished work for the day, and then Roy told Will that he was - going to lock up. The boys walked with the girl as far as Brooklyn Bridge and then took the sub- - way for Harlem. 2 ; - Roy now kept a sharp eye on the ticker for developments in A: & P. The stick, after hang- ing around 80 for two days, began-to advance slowly when the syndicate brokers commenced to bid for the stock in the Exchange. On the fifth day it was up to 83. The stock was gradu- ally cornered by the pool and became pretty. scarce. that ‘was in sight, their brokers started to bid the price up. All this helped to boost A. & P.- higher every day, and eight days after Roy had made his purchase it was selling at 92 gnd pointing upward. <* As soon as the syndicate got hold of all = On the following day, after an exciting ses-* — sion, it reached and passed par. Roy was now momentarily expecting to receive from Mr. Hague the magic word ‘Unload,” and he had no- tified Mr. Howland to be prepared to work the stock off in small lots as soon as ,he handed in his order to sell. When the price reached 105 he received the tip from Broker Hague, and passed it on to Mr. Howland. : The demand for the shares was so heavy that ~ the syndicate didn’t have to take a share of Roy’s — 20,000, Every one went to outsiders, who were. crazy to get it. Roy got an average of 105 1-2 for his holdings, and when ‘he settled with Mr. Howland he found that his profits amounted to just half a million. This made him worth $666,- “Rosie,” he said that afternoon, going into her den and closing the door, “I am worth over $666,-_ 000 now. According to our arrangement, you — were to enter into a life partnership with me as soon as I had made half a million. The time. has come, therefore, when we must carry out the _- terms of our bargain. Are you réady, little ‘sweetheart ?” : “Yes, she was ready to do whatever Roy thought best. So arrangements were got under way for-their wedding. : A few days. before they were married, Jim 4 Crawford, thinking himself secure, ventured to ~ return’ to New York. He was nabbed by a de= .— tective before he had been in the city twenty- — four hours. Ultimately he was sent to the Elmira Reformatory for two years, ; _. Roy Gilbert is now twenty-one, and his ecareer~ in Wall Street is hardly more than begun, but ~ we have said all we set out to say about him,- ‘for the most interesting part of his early life was. when he became A Broker at Kighteen. | Be ill contain “ONLY A DO} BOY TO OWNER.’ i‘ 2 i “4
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- GUS AND THE GUIDE = — Or, — Three Weeks Lost in the Rockies By GASTON GARNE (A Serial Story.) A CHAPTER XVIII.—(Continued) _ Gus realized his danger. : It seemed, to be a case of spare no lives. He saw three wounded Gophers shot where they had _ fallen, and while struggling to rise. * .' Gus’s head had been cut by the fall, and his face was covered Avith blood. Playing possum seemed to be the correct thing and the Bes boy shut his eyes and lay as still as a mouse while the sheriff and hi men went _ sweeping by. fe Whether any one suspected him or not he could not tell. He heard nothing said which seemed to fit his case. ? : In a moment all hands had tes him, and Gus ventured to open his eyes and look around. There was no one néar; the sheriff’s posse was retreating up the canyon as fast as their horses coul carry them. a, They had ~shown themselves good marksmen, - and had shot to kill, as the dead Gophers lying .around proved. And, strange as it may seem, Gus felt a bit sad as he looked about. — - ; - He managed to pull his legs free from the horse. , : oes. Feeling that it would be rather unsafe to stand “up and show himself, Gus crawled about on his - hands and knees from one body to the other. Gopher Jake was quite dead, so was Gopher Ike, and so were others, but when he came to Gopher George the supposed corpse opened his eyes and looked at him. j ‘Ts it you?” he gasped. 7, aN “Y’m all right, cap,” said Gus. “‘How is it with ‘ ou?” 7 “You dont’ look all right, then. You must hav -. ‘been shot in the head. Your face is all bleeding. “No. I cut my forehead when I fell. Your face is covered with blood, too. Where were you hit?” “Blamed if I know, Gus. The broncho was plugged, and I went down with him. Mebbe I wasn’t hit at all, but just cracked ‘my nut same as you. Where are them fellers now?’ t ‘~~ “Out of. sight,” replied Gus, raising up and looking: back. : “They are, hey? And Ike is dead?” . “Yes, and Jake, too.” E Bs _ ~ “Gee whiz! everything is going to pieces. Help me up till I see dif I’m all right.’ a ' Gus did so, and Gopher George, after examining into the case, came to the conclusion that he had ‘not been shot, but had just cut his head on the frozen ground, the same as Gus. : ; He stood silent for several moments, looking around. . eS ee ie was Sile Stump with the gang?” he asked Dts pb pate a f ; ; Fest the " ey ' where FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY “No, he wasn’t; or at least I didn’t see him,” — replied Gus. 5 : : “Then it was all the work of that gosh-blamed — traitor. You saw how I served him. That’s the way I always serve traitors. I reckon the Goph- ers have been put out of business, and I’m going to move off onto a new range. Want to come wi me, boy?” se “Sure,” replied Gus. “I don’t want to stay here alone. First thing’ I know the sheriff will be back, — and gobble me up. Where do you propose to go?” “You'll find out later,” replied Gopher George. _ “Say, I’m pretty well knocked out. That fall has shook me all to pieces, and my head’s all mud- © dled. I believe I’ve fractured my skull.” HA “Tf you had you wouldn’t be standing there,” “That’s so. All the same I want a doctor to ex- amine me, so come on. need some one to stand by me. If you do it may be the luckiest day of — your life.” es Gus began to wonder what all this meant. There — was an air of mystery about Gopher George which — he could not altogether fathom. poe Instead of returning to his dead companions, _ Brandt pushed ahead until they reached the spot — ed Rafter lay. The man was also dead. — “There lies a traitor,” growled Brandt. “Get — down and search him, Gus. There'll be a revolver, * anyhow, and we may need that.” ; ME: It was a grewsome task, but Gus had to do it. There were two revolvers, a long hunting-knife, — and several letters, besides quite a roll of pills, all of which Gus handed over to Brandt. a ee “You can keep the revolver and the knife,” said — the outlaw. “You may need them. I'll take the fs < cash. Let me see, how much have we here,” He counted it, and ‘to his surprise found threg thousand dollars in the roll. aE “The lying dog!” Brandt cried. Sl ae He thrust the money into his pocket and hastil ran through the letters. 7 ty he Gus stood where he could look over his shoulder, and saw open one which was written on Mr. Mar: ton’s business paper, and in the banker’s well known hand. AY Gus did not dare to try to read it, lest he shoul get into trouble, but he saw that the letter addressed to Colonel Tolkins. eae This made the case plain. Pei Urged by Brandt, Tolkins had written his black- mailing letter) and the banker had responded the, cash, while Ned Rafter, who was acting messenger for the gang, had concealed the f; that he had received the money, at'the same tim betraying the Gophers into the hands of { sheriff. ; Brandt crushed the letter in his hand and sw a blue streak as he thrust it into his pocket, “What’s the matter?” asked Gus, innocen “More proof of that man’s treachery, that’s replied Brandt, cooling down. “But it doesn’t | cern you, boy. He’s got his deserts. Follow m Brandt néw walked on at a more rapid pace. They were well around the turn of the canyo! which Continued almost in a half-circle, and | ~ soon saw that they were going back in the dir tion’ of the valley in which the Gophers’ c located. eee eat eae He ventured to,question Gépher George ‘it, and Ley outlaw assured him th was the camp was ji
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Thus when he turned in suddenly toward the mountain, and made his way among a thick clump - of trees to the base of.a lofty cliff, where there -was a low opening which appeared to be the mouth of a cave, Gus was prepared to return to the camp. “Come on!” cried Brandt, crawling in through the opening. : - Gus followed, and in a moment was able to stand upright, although the place was still very narrow and very dark _ “Does this manded Gus. lead through to our valley?” de- lied Brandt, “but we are not going ‘there now, so don’t ask questions. What we want is light. We shall break our necks so. Stand where you are.” ‘Brandt put his fingers in his mouth and whis- tled shrilly three times. : Ss Then a long wait in silence followed. Gus be- gan to talk about it, but was roughly told to shut up and it would be all right in a minute. ~ At last a voice was heard at a distance, calling to know who was there. : “Brandt!” yelféd the outlaw through his hands. “The password!” was shouted back. © “Good for all!” yelled Brandt. “Send a light.” This ended the calling, and in a moment after- ward a light appeared in the distance.. “The passwork!” was shouted back. “Gold for all!” yelled Brandt. “Send a light.” This ended the calling, and in a moment after- ards a light appeared in the distance. ‘As it drew nearer Gus saw that the light pro- eded from an ordinary stable lantern carried in the hands of a boy not older than himself. The boy soon came up to where they were. He ‘was a particularly dull-looking fellow’ with w-colored hair, pop eyesy.and projecting teeth. He was dressed in furs, bearship trousers, a arskin coat, and a bearskin cap covered his lead. ~ t Gus. had no trouble in recognizing him, for bea earefully examined a photograph of the “boy of whom he was in search before leaving New There could be no doubt that he had come up ith Banker Marston’s son at last. : / “CHAPTER XVII. Death In The Pot. | Well, Matt,” said George Brandt, “here I am knocked to pieces. Where’s doc?” as “He is in the laboratory,” replied the boy, dully. at’s the matter with you? There’s blood on face. I don’t like bloody men.” ell; you have got two of them in this case,” d Brandt, “so you will have to make the most “Take us to doc.” ’s the other?” demanded Matt, speaking FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ““There’s a way of getting through—yes,” re- . Ete know a magaphone, Gus thought, demanding _ be disturbed in my work here just at the moment of suce 2? = ; el .$ Ai 23 well, Mr. Brandt, that doc don’t Jike strangers. ~ What shall Ido?” : ’ “What shall you do? Why, show us up blamed:-*- sudden unless you want trouble,” snarled Brandt, snatching away the lantern. . “Here!” You follow me!” he cried. | “I'll lead the way myself.” s - They startel along the -narrow underground way then, Brandt striding om ahead, while the boy came up alongside of Gus. “Who are you?” he asked.. “I want to know.” “My name is Gus-Brandt,” replied our hero. . “Are you his son?” é “Oh, no.” “But your name is the same as his.” “That’s only an accident. Who are you?” “My name.is Matthew Marston. I am the son of Henry Marston. I live in New York,” replied dhe boy, as though he was speaking a piece. “Shut up, Matt!” snarled Brandt. ; “IT suppose you see he is off his hooks,” he — added. ‘“That’s his whim. He never saw York in his life. here.” ; “That isn’t true,” said the boy in the same stupid fashion. ‘My name of Matthew Marston. Iam the son of Henry Marston. When Dr. Blake gets through his work trying to make gold out of stones he is going to take me home to New York.” “Don’t pay any attention to him, Gus,” said — Brandt. “Listen to me, and J’ll tell you-a secret. The man we are going to meet in a moment is one New > _of the slickest propositions in the shape of achem- ~ ist this here country ever seen. He has been work- ing on a secret process to reduce low-grade ore here, and I’ve been helping him out. When he succeeds, as he is bound to do sooner or later, I am going to have an interest in the company, and ~ it will be just the biggest thing! Why, there are millions of tons “of low-grade ore scattered all “over this country lying on dumps and around — Every ounce ¢on-. abandoned. prospecting shafts. tains gold, only trouble is to separate it without an expense which will eat up the value. I tell you this man is bound to do it in the end; and looke:: hyar, Gus, now that the gang is about wiped out: I’m going to quit and turn my whole attention to this here business, which so far has been only a side issue with me. But more about that later, — for here we are.” Pea They -had come now to a point where the pas- sage narrowed considerably, and further advance was cut off by a door built of heavy planks. “Matt, open the door!” cried Brandt. fr “Can't,” said Matt. “I'll give the signal. Doe will open the door. But say, Mr. Brandt, bef: _ He was born and brought up - 9 I do it I want you to understand that I’m not Saag My name is Matthew Marston. I am the — son 0 _” i “Shut up, or I'll plug you!” roared the Gopher. © one as crazy as a bug, and ‘oc !”” thin man with long hair and the palest face Gus ~ had ever seen. ‘ oe mas ~“So it’s you, Brandt,” he said, sternly fixing his deep-sunken gray eyes upon the outlaw.. “Who is this young man? What-has happened? Am I to et s Héllo! Here’s — The door had optned and there stood a tall,» \
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troduced in the set. 24 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY ‘Interesting Radio News and Hints TURNIT PANEL CONTROL The Turnit variable gridleak is a glass and _ metal. container in which are two electrodes or contacts and a heavy oily liquid. By turning the leak a greater or smaller resistance can be in- troduced in the circuit. The device mounts in the conventional gridleak holder. The makers of the device have introduced an improvement in the form of the Turnit panel control. In the original form of the. device the Turnit was moved’ by, the tip of the finger, in- While for most purposes this is satisfactory, there was a need for a more con- venient method of control. Many operators ‘like® to consider the variable gridleak an active tun- ing control and adjust the leak frequently. As it _ is well to keep the body away from the grid the belongs. end of the. Turnit. wires, these operators found the fingertip method of control awkward. ? : The panel control device makes it easy to turn _ the gridleak and change the resistance, without bringing the body nearer the grid and without innivarbare of moving the leak away from the grid terminal of the detector tube, where it “The leak is mounted beside the tube at right angles to the panel. A small hole is drilled in the panel. Through this a rod of insulating material is introduced and fixed in place. One end ter- minates in a blade which engages the slot in the The other terminates in a small black knob. The control is fixed in position and can be turned, moving the Turnit, varying the resistance as desired. There is nothing about the control to get out of order and ‘a careful op- erator can usually install it in the set without temoving parts or changing the wiring to any appreciable extent. e PHONOGRAPH ATTACHMENTS The demand for inexpensive, loudspeaker re- sults has been answered in two ways, namely, the phonograph attachment and the table-talker. The ‘former is a special telephone unit capable of han- dling the output of a two-stage amplifier without overloading, and of producing a good quality of ‘musie or speech. This device is provided with a _ special collar which serves to couple it to the. tone arm of standard makes of phonographs. In this manner the radio programs are caused to issue from the phonograph horn, which has some advantages over the use of an unsightly horn. Furthermore, it must be noted that the usual cabinet phonograph has a horn some three feet long, usually designed and constructed with con- siderable care to eliminate distortion and exctra- neous noises. Excellent results may be had with ‘ the better makes of phonograph attachments. In fact, several manufacturers of loudspeakers sup- a 100 degrees when the plates are complete pone so that the capacity you are / \ generally do not balance acoustically. The horn is either too large or too small, and the repro- duction is more or less faulty. The other device intended’ to meet the popular demand for low- priced, loudspeaker results is ‘the table-talker. This is simply a slightly modified telephone re- - ceiver fitted with the, proper horn. Since table- talkers sell for anywhere from $5 to $15, they — should not be expected to take the place of loud- speakers; but given their proper réle these dea — vices will produce surprisingly good results. The table-talker is the logical step to make when the radio enthusiast has progressed as far as a re- ceiver with two stages of audio-frequency ampli-- fication, and desires to get away from the ear — phones. If the signals with his ear phones are such that hhe can lay the phones on a table and — hear the radio programs several feet. away, then — it is safe to assume that his set will operate a table-talker with pretty fair volume. ~ ee Ei ™ CIRCUIT VARIED BY CONDENSER | Tuning of a radio set can be accomplished by changing the inductance or the capacity, or both. — The capacity of a radio circuit can be varied by the use of a variable condenser. tS The condenser is formed of two conductors or — groups of conductors separated by some insulating _ medium, which is actually termed the “dialectric.” The condenser has the ability to store up electrical energy in an electrostatical form. The incoming currents are of radio frequency, which means that the current reverses a great many tim every second. While the current is flowing for ~ an instant in one direction a charge of equal value _ is building up in the opposite direction on the op- _ posite plates. “The condenser by this action mere- ly passes the impulse on to the rest of the cit ee cuit. A condenser will not function on dir : current for this reason as the current will build up in one direction yet fail to discharge, as th current is only flowing in one direction. Con- densers when used in the battery circuits of a8 radio set will prevent the A or B battery current — from flowing past them. a plates of aluminum or brass, and the insulating between the plates. — The plates are arranged in two } which is fixed, and the other is movable shaft. The moveable plates are arrang so that gat will swing into the spaces betwee the fixed plates. Both sets of plates are s circular,in’ form. -As the movable ¢ tated, a greater or lesses ‘area is the stationary plates. This has the same as increasing or decreasing the capacity o ‘condenser. You should set the dial on your vari able condenser so that the reading will be ze when the movable plates are cane telale ze)
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[FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY e Se _ GOOD READING | me > eS SOME REMARKABLE STATISTICS . _. A German newspaper with a love for statistics ~ has collected ‘the following data on the German - population: Ten out of every 1,000 men and ~ three out of every 1,000 women are idiots. On the other hand, out of 1,000 men, there are ten _ geniuses, whereas among 1,000 women there are none. When it comes to average intelliger.ce, the women are ahead, 595 out of 1,000 being in that ‘category, while only 380 out of 1,000 men thus qualify. a (a AN ALASKAN SPONGE FIELD? wo live sponges were attached to the anchor rope of the mine tender Lee when drawn from the - water off Chichagoff, Alaska. Capt. Cedrie Davis tested the temperature of the sea twenty fathoms - down and found it was 18 degrees warmer. than that of the siftface. News of the sponge dis- ~ covery aroused almost as much excitement ag did the old-time gold craze. Fishermen sought div- ing outfits to explore the submerged rocks for sponge beds. = Tis ie 5 : BIG BEAVER SEASON ENDS : rappers reported more beaver had been taken GA the Adirondacks this season than last, when - the one month open season ended, April 1, but it was too early to estimate the number trapped. ‘Trappers said the weather had been favorable put that they believed the number of beaver taken would make note even an appreciable decrease in - the vast numbers of beaver now in the country. Within two weeks, it is expected, trappers will have completed delivery of, the pelts. A RISKY JOB ‘ News photographers are accustomed to work- ing in fmatvoes places, but G. A. Shoemaker of the Army Air’Service is said to be the only one who risks his life regularly by falling in order “to take pictures, says Popular Science. With three small motion picture cameras strapped to his belt and a parachute on his back, his daring photographer, a senior instructor in arachute jumping, leaps from the wing of a Mare in bomber. ‘ . “As he falls, he looks about him calmly, taking hotographs of bits of scenery or other objects of terest. If the parachute opens properly and he nds safely, he then has for sale several pho- tographs that are of unusual value and interest. - WATCH PIN TRAVEL IN BODY The progress of a scarfpin through the body of a child two and one-half years old is being watched by Receiving Hospital physicians, who are using a fluoroscope, an ‘instrument that will ow foreign objects and substances in the body. he boy, Lawrence George, swallowed the pin on 25 * the stomach. Then it went through the upper intestine and now is in the lower intestine. The child is: out of danger and we are hoping that the pin will be eliminated naturally.” — . ‘AMAZING STORIES IN JAPANESE PAPERS A story appearing in a Japanese newspaper in Tokio under the headline, “Triplet Color Scheme Killed Mother,” is only one of the frequent -ex- amples of the credulity of the Japanese news- paper reporter. ; The item, purporting to be a dispatch from Kee- lung, states that a mother in the town of Denryo gave birth to triplets, “‘one of whom was jet black, one snow white and ong of color of the setting sun.” bP paper adds that the mother died of shock after taking one look at her vari-colored’ offspring. : Another astounding story appearing in the Osaka Asahi, one of the most reliable of Japanese . dailies, reports an interview gained by an enter- prising reporter from a foreigner stating that ~ the man interviewed was 140 years old, that his wife was 135 and that their two eldest children were, respectively, 105 and 107 years of age. 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WOLFF, Publisher, Inc. 166 West 23d Street New York City ““Moving Picture Stories” Re A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players 2 PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY Each number contains Three Stories of the Best Films» on the Screen—Elegant Half\tone Scenes from the Plays Interesting Articles About Prominent People in the — eh a TR ars of Actors an an Actresses in the Studio Lessons in Scenario Writing. HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc, West 23d Street” New’ York
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26 FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY NEW YORK, MAY 1, 1925 TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Shiglé Copies. yoy cc. hee Postage Free 8 Centa One copy Three Months 4 ats = 00 One Copy Six Months.... . x “2.00 wue Copy One Year...... # 4,00 Canada, $4.50; Foreign, $5.00. HOW TO SEND MONEY — At our risk send P. O. Money Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances in any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Stamps the same as cash. When sending Silver wrap ‘the Coin in a moper ate piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. ‘Write your name and address plainly. - Address. letters to ' Marry E, Wolif, Pres. ~ Charles E, Nylander, ve Kk, F. Wilzin, Treas. HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc., 166 W. 23d St., N. ¥, ITEMS OF INTEREST SOLOMON’S SPRINGS TO-DAY ~ Two of the leading hotels of Jerusalem, whose’ * proprietor recently came to New York on a visit, are supplied with water. from ~-King Solomon’s pools. These famous pools watered the gardens of the ancient Hebrew ruler 3,000 years ago. THE HALF-CENT STAMP _. This stamp will have a portrait of the martyr spy, Nathan Hale, and the Connecticut city has _ been chosen as one of the first cities for its sale, as that was Hale’s native State and he was a graduate of Yale, then a college, in New Haven. - fhey will be issued to be used on one-cent Stamped envelopes in mailing printed and adver- ' tising circular matter, the rate of which will be advanced to 1% cents on April 15. * WHY IS A BLOOD ORANGE? . The fruit commonly called blood orange is a cross between the ordinary orange and a pome- granate. The juice of the latter is dark red and when an orange tree branch is grafted into a pomegranate tree the resulting fruit takes the form of an orange, but shows traces of the juice ‘of the larger fruit. : ‘The orange was originally a pear-shaped fruit, about the size of a common cherry. Its evolution is due to 1,200 years of cultivation. WORLD’S DEEPEST WELL The deepest well in the world was near Lat- _ -yobe, Pa., when they struck natural gas at a depth of 7,428 feet, or nearly one and a half sed: Work on the well was begun in 1922 and - drilling continued for thirty months. The gas is now flowing at the rate of 500,000 cubic feet a day. It has a strong odor, like that of hydrogen = sulphide, according to the engineers who con- structed the well. The total cost of sinking the well was about $200,000. - : : TRY TO MODERNIZE INDIANS “FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY fo ae “he does that so the tion of Indian life through a campaign of edu- _ cation in the Indian schools. wo reservations, the Tongue River Reservation in Montana and — the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico, have been : chosen for the experiments. en Under the plan the Red Cross will undertake” to supplement the regular school work on the ~ two reservations by providing practical demon- strations in homemaking and hygienic living ap- plicable to Indian homes and by impressing upon — the Indian children the desire for good homes. A — public health nurse and a home economics worker will be assigned to each reservation to undertake the demonstrations. . ; , es fae LAUGHS “Can you keep a ‘sécret, uncle?” “Yes.” “Well, auntie has eloped with the chauffeur, and — they’ve borrowed your motor.” # ; “s Mrs. Gray—The window in my hall has stained glass in it. Mrs. Green—Too bad! ‘Can’t you find anything that’ll take the stains out? : Fi Knick—How did that doctor build up such a good practice? Knack—Had moving pictures in- stalled to amuse his patrons while they waited Willie—Do they play baseball in heaven, mam-— ma? Mother—Why, no, of course not. Willie— Then I guess I won’t bother about saying my prayers. « oe Stranger—Are you sure it was a marriage li- — cense you gave me last month? Clerk—Certain- ly, sir. Why? Stranger—Well, I’ve led a dog’s life ever since, Moser iy “And this,” said /the architect, showing the plans for the new house, “is the master’s be room.” . absently, “Yes, ‘yes,” said Mr. Henpeck “put where am I going to sleep?” “T understand that Mr. Pinchpenny has. be: operated on for appendicitis,” remarked Mis Cayenne. “Yes, it’s the first time any one w. . known to get anything out of him.” “And- ev. then they had to chloroform him to get that, A beautiful young lady approached the ticket window at the Penfisylvania station and in. voice like the rippling of a brook asked — agent: “What-is the fare to the Fair?” which the agent replied: “Same as to ‘th homely, madam.” , - “This is the best fishing place on the lake. said the guide. “I brought a feller here y day and he took out fifteen big ones.” — me somewhere else,” ordered the amateur erman. “I want a place where there are so fish left.” : te Mabl was explaining the baseball game Estelle. “What makes the man with the bat. _his hand keep waving it around like that?” quired Estelle. “Why, you silly goose,” of course.”
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY -HERE AND THERE NO. -AMERICAN. FIGURES SURVIVE WAXWORKS FIRE _. Not a single figure in the American group of _ waxworks, which included all the Presidents from ~ Washington to Coolidge, was saved from the fire - which. recently destroyed the famous Mme. Tus- _-saud’s Exhibition of Waxworks in London. y Likenesses of General Pershing and Admiral _ Sims, which were grouped with others of the _ leaders who directed the great war, also went up in smoke. Nothing was left of these figures - except a few bits of melted metal which once represented the officers’ foreign decorations. John Tussaud, great-grandson of the founder of the waxworks, and the stockholders of the con- eern say the exhibition likely will be rebuilt. The ~ celebrated “Chamber of Horrors,” however, will be eliminated from the next exhibition. The di- rectors have decided that the public no longe cares for this class of thrill. Z s 3 MISERIES OF THE GREAT ~ Dante passed most of his life as an exile from he only city in which he cared to live. Byron was club-footed, and the fact was a ' gource of misery to him all his life .Coky was quarrelsome, and passed his life in ~ almost continuel warfare with his friends and as- gociates. . Ce gohnson was near-sighted and his face much _ disfigured by scars resulting from s¢rofula. Charlemagne had an, ulcer in his lex which “troubled him for many years. ‘ Palestrina lived in poverty most of his days, and died in great want. ; Selden was once sent to prison for his attack n the divine right’of kings. dase _ Tasso was poor pee of his days: His miseries ly drove him mad. > = Ore Sone was poor all his life. In old age he s dependent on his son. Peter the Great was half rough “drink and rage. : ~ Queen Marty was unhappy after her marriage ith Philip of Spain. * Milton was blind in his old age, e comforts of life. - Gervantes was poor ; creditors. lak Cesar had a weak digestion and was ject to epileptic fits. “Cowper was all his days overshadowed by the loom of insanity. ; APT 2 ‘ BURIAL OF BABY ALIVE - Another death was charged to Indian vengeance ae Mormon Joe, medicine man of the Ute tribe, illed a re ying of an ried alive in Angered, the beat the pri e crazy most of his life and often lacked and constantly annoyed by Indian infant, alleged to have been accordance with sacred tribal rites. : Indian tore the leg from a table soner to death before jailers could mate who had chided him for the. “huge amounts of treasure in sunken ships. ” : “ Plat May, Mormon Joe’s son-in-law, “was buried ae by Plat May under the coercion of Mormon oe. 4 The jury also decided that the infant’s dead mother, with whom the living child Was buried, came to hér death from natural causes. Both Plat May and Mormon Joe are in jail awaiting the arrival of Federal officers from Den- ver. ; Evidence at the inquest showed that Mormon Joe instructed Plat May to wrap the baby in the same blanket with its dead mother and bury them together. The bodies were found at the reserva- tion near Cdrtez, Col., last week. Plat May’s own story of the deed led to the arrests. He went to Montesuma Creek, nearby, where he told his mother’ of the crime. Later it was related to the Indian agent, who conducted — the investigation and caused the arrests. DIVERS SAVE TREASURE Every boy and girl is fascinated by the stories of what divers do below the ocean’s surface, some- times in saving ships, more often in ane bis not too much to say that millions and millions of . dollars in gold, jewels and money have been re- - covered in this way. Of course, divers always — work under great danger, and it is one of the sad features of their useful lives that death may come at any moment, through accident or some -unforeseen happening. ~- ~ Probably the greatest amount of treasure ever — recovered from one ship was from the French.ship L’Orient, which was wrecked.many years ago. _ Fully $3,000,000 in gold bullion and coin is said to have been recovered from this ship by divers, « according to the Book of Wonders, and other — per be? was also saved, which brought the total — o nearly $4,000,000. This is especially inter- esting, because it is only a few years ago that we — read of a treasure ship which foundered in the Red Sea with an enormous amount of gold and — jewels from India, which has not been salvaged, but which may be, unless it dies in too deep water. Other important recoveries are the following, told by the Book of Wonders: ; ahs “A parallel case to L’Orient is that the the Lutine, a warship of thirty-two guns, wrecked off the coast of Holland. This vessel sailed from the
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--ence of the funeral party and the pallbearers. = HAD COIN IN THROAT FIVE YEARS Herbert Betz, 28 years old, a salesman, who lives at the Wittman Hotel, is breathin for the first time in five years. A penny that had ‘been stuék in his throat during. that time was. re- moved by Dr. Henry Orton, a throat specialist of Newark, without the use of an anesthetic. Until a few days ago Betz was entirely unaware of the presence of the coin in his throat, and it was not until an X-ray examination was made that the penny was detected: Some weeks ago he contracted stomach and lung trouble and when local remedies failed to relieve him he went to a private hospital. After the X-ray he recalled that five years ago he ac- cemaeid swallowed a penny, but had forgotten . about it. ADMIRAL DEWEY’S BODY PLACED IN CATHEDRAL The body of Admiral George Dewey was moved from Arlington’ Cemetery, where it had rested eight years, and was placed in the crypt of the Bethlehem Chapel of the Washington Cathedral. The ceremony was simple. Mrs. Dewey, George C. Dewey of Chicago, the Admiral’s son; Secre- tary Wilbur and a small group of naval officers and friends of the admiral made up the funeral party. Petty officers from the Washington Navy Yard yemoved the coffin from the tomb at Arlington and _ placed it on a caisson. It was then taken without a military escort or music to the cathedral, where the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, offered a prayer and the cathedral choir sang hymns. As the -cortage turned into the ~cathedral grounds the caisson was met by a company of marines and sailors, who walked beside the coffin to the chapel while the Navy Band played a funeral dirge. The body was placed in the crypt in the pres- - COMPETITION IN HEADS - Doctor Murphy confirmed previous reports from this part of the world that unfair competi- é tion and bootlegging in cured human heads was 4a i _ the government to some extent. seriously affecting the economic condition of the natives of the highlands of Peru head-hunting and Eeuador. p “Medical students at Quito have learned from head-hunters the art of removing the bones from heads and> reducing them with hot stones until they are about the size of a fist,” he said. “They are selling these in competition with the regular head-hunting traffickers, but the genuine work of the savages commands a higher figure. The tourist traffic in these works of art has aroused “There was a Swede who: went into the country ~- yecently with another white man whose nationali-. weeks 1 Ns ry FAME AND FORTUNE: WEEKLY. POINTS OF INTEREST - freely” We 2 ade < 3 ee | features perfectly preserved, being offered for — sale. But the prices they bring have been ex- — aggerated. Ordinary ones sell for $100 apiece. — As a matter of fact, you don’t have to tore Quito or Guayaquil to purchase them. I know’ - of at least one genuine head which is on sale in this city.” ES SAW A DESERT TURN INTO FERTILE ; PLAIN A warm current called El Nina, or The Child, ” becausé it usually comes before Christmas, swept southward along the west coast of South Amer- — ica in greater volume than ever known before, — bringing with it torrential rains to sections that — have not known rain since the days of Pizarro, ~ - according to Dr. Robert. Cushman Murphy, As- — sistant Director Natural History. Tis Doctor Mutphy, who just returned from South ~ America, told of studies of ocean currents off the 2 coasts of Ecuador and Peru. beaten Nina turned thousands of miles of deser into. paradises almost over night, according t Doctor -Murphy, as it caused millions of har seeds which had lain dormant in the ground — through decades of drought-to sprout and grow ~ with incredible vigor. In a week brown and red ~ landscapes had been painted green, and Doctor — Murphy and his companion, Van Campen Hellner, caught hundreds of fish in the streets of Talaro, a desert oil town, where rain had not fallen pr viously for thirty-four years. This town was in a parched plain as lifeless as the Sahara whi a _the scientists first saw it before Jan. 12, when El ~ Nina swept down the coast, but on March 7, when _ they reached the town, the horizon was sae eee lush grasses, flowers and foliage, and the pla was a Venice with myrids of minnows swarming down its canals. ig The rains; torrential and continuous, which for weeks after-the arrival of El Nina off th coast, had interlaced the whole desert with streams, connected them with distant rivers, and: carried billions of eggs from spawning places te cover the desert with minnows. That was the theory of the explorers, although the natives saic the fish came from the ocean. “There is ordinarily no rain at all along t South American coast from Southern Ecuador North Central Chili,” said Dr. Murphy. “Thi because of the cold Humboldt current which fl north. The wind carries water from’ the Hum= bolt current to the land, but the land is warmer — than the ocean and the air expands and gives up none of its watet as rain. But this warm curr this year flowed further south and apparently much greater volume, and charged the winds wit _moisture which was condensed in continuous ra falls, visiting some regions where rain has ne been reported, and, as far as wesknow, had nc fallen since before the visit of Pizarroin 1551. _ “The deluge fell on some spots which not of the American Museum of — \ Ss, on that ha € m. still
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