Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 1050) (1925 11 13)
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FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY Iseued Week ecu etion price, $4.00 per RA Bag $4.50; Foreign, $5.00. Barry W. ae Publisher, «ne., 164 ea r it 23d Street, New York, N, ¥. No. 1050 ntered as Second-Class Matter, October 4, the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 18, 1925 ie 911, “hi pst Price 8 Cents. . = A GAME FOR GOLD | oe | OR, THE YOUNG KING OF WALL STREET By A SELF-MADE MAN oe CHAPTER I.—Who Was the Easy Mark? “Say, Newcomb,” said Broker Kipp, with a broad grin on his countenance, as the two traders met in front of the Stock Exchange one morning about eleven o’clock, “I heard the richest thing ‘out a while ago.” “Well, let’s hear about it.” “You know Wiseman’s messenger boy, Phil Forester?” ; - “Oh, yes, and I don’t know anything bad about him, either. He has the reputation of being the smartest and brightest boy in the Street, as well ' as the most gentlemanly. Wiseman claims that he is a jewel of a messenger.” “He’s all of that, V’ll admit, though I’m not so certain about his smartness. Well, he’s quit Wise- ” “Ts that a fact?”, replied Newcomb, in sur- prise. “I thought he was a fixture there. I eard Wiseman say that he wouldn’t lose him for a farm.” : “Well, he’s lost him, all right. What do you suppose Forester left him for?” “Give it up.” “To go into business for himself.” ; “He has? Come, now, you’re codding me, aren’t you?” said Newcomb, in surprise. ; - “No. It’s a fact. I’ve been in his office. He’s “got it fitted up in fine shape, considering the size of it. Has a ticker, a telephone, a safe, and I ‘don’t know what not, with a railing to keep cus- tomers from getting too close to his stenographer.” “Do you mean to say he’s got a stenographer, “He has, and she’s a Lulu from Luluville.” _ Z “For Heaven’s sake, what has she got to do in _ order to earn her wages?” 2 “She had a table stacked full of work when [ was up-there, and she was hustling at her ma- ~ chine to beat the band.” _. “She must be a public stenographer, then, that he’s got with him to pay the office rent.” _ “T guess she is. It was a clever move of Fores- er to get her, then, for it makes the’office look - full of business. Now, wouldn’t that, jar you to me of a messenger boy branching’ out as. a cc) a ae © s -_ “He couldn’t start unless He must have got_hold he had some coin. of a good-sized legacy, * ) . for an age. . and the possessionof a lot of money has given him a swollen head,” “As soon as the news circulates around the Street the boys will be sharpening up their shears. They’d just as soon shear him as the most inno- cent lamb that comes bleating into their offices after easy money.” ~ “It seems. almost a shame to play for his money,” replied Broker Newcomb. F “I don’t agree with you, Newcomb. When we first got into the Street we had to look mighty sharp to prevent our own fleece getting away from us, and, for that matter, we have to keep our weather gye lifting: all the time or there’s no say- ing what shoals we might fetch up on. You know yourself that the bunch of us are always trying to devise some plan to &o up his neighbor when the supply of raw material, that is, the general public, runs short, We've got to live, and among us brokers it is simply the survival of the fittest. If that boy will butt into a dangerous game it’s” his own funeral. He’s been a_messenger long enough to know what he’s up, against.” “T think I’ll run up and take a look at his den this afternoon,” said Newcomb. “I’m bound to say I always liked the boy, atid I’d like to see ° him get on.” ‘ “You'd better take your shears with you and make hay while the sun shines. It isn’t often such a good thing gets loose in the Street,” chuckled Broker Kipp. : 2 “How about yourself? Have you been work- ‘ing him to any extent on short notice?” “Well,” drawled Kipp, with an expansive wink, “I succeeded-in unloading on him 10,000 shares of Hurricane Island Copper I’ve had in my safe I let him have it for 25 cents a ri share, though it cost me 40 months ago. But since the price of copper went down, and the long strike - on the island put the Hurricane mine out of busi- ness, it’s been a drug on the market, and I could ~ scarcely give it away.” ; Newcomb looked at Kipp and whistled. _ “I suppose you’ve been hugging yourself ever Since you saddled the’stock on thi he nae beh a Us ines look. ; cou resist such a fine chance to get rid es) Wg agree ee - eee = aoe ee e took your offer as innocently as @ lamb, I suppose?” SBE altat ey. e new broker?” —
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2 “He seemed to think he was getting a good thing,” laughed the broker. Newcomb laughed, too, but not from the same cause. + = ‘If Forester finds many brokers as easy as “you he won’t have any trouble-getting on in Wall Street,” said Newcomb. Be La do you mean by that, Newcomb?” asked ipp. “Where have you been for the last half hour?” “In Forester’s office.” “That accounts for it.” “Accounts for what?” - “You dumping 10,000 shares of Hurricane Is- land Copper on that boy for a quarter a share and thinking you had done a smart thing. Talk about rich things, I think that’s the richest I’ve heard yet,” and Newcomb laughed heartily. “What the deuce are you getting at, New- comb?” “Why, the idea of you putting up a job on that ’ boy and getting it in the neck yourself.” “T don’t understand what you mean.” “Look down the street at the Curb traders.” “I’m looking. They seem to be busy over some- thing.” i “What do you suppose that something is?” “T haven’t the least idea.” “It’s your business to keep posted, especially when you go around dumping blocks of stock on » Innocent marks. The commotion among the Curb- jes is caused by Hurricane Island Copper.” Broker Kipp stared at his brother trader. “The news is all over the Street that the strike --at the mine has been settled and operations re- sumed at full blast. That, cotipled with the ad- vance just made in the price of copper, has brought Hurricane Island stock to the fore again, and sent the-price booming. I doubt if you could get a share in the market now for 50 cents. So, ‘instead of buncoing Forester, you simply threw a good thing in his way which he, being wide “awake to the situation, gobbled up as any shrewd broker would have done under the circumstances, - Kipp, did you ever get left?” With a prolonged chuckle, Broker Newcomb turned away and en- tered the Exchange, leaving Broker Kipp feeling as flat as a pancake. ! ‘~ CHAPTER II.—Phil Shows He Is a Boy of Courage. : ‘ In the last few days a new name had appeared in gilt letters on the frosted glass of an office door -.on the sixth floor rear corridor of the Catton Building, Wall Street, and many of the persons who had offices on that floor and saw the name wondered who the new tenant was. The name and additional matter on the door » ran thus: ; PHILIP FORESTER, 2 Stocks Bought and Sold on Commission. 7 Phil Forester, as he was known among the brokers and messenger boys, was a stalwart, good- looking boy of eighteen, who until recently had been working for Andrew Wiseman as his mes- — senger. This position he had held for four years and had givén great satisfaction. Now he had., ddenly thrown up his job and, without any A GAME FOR GOLD . the morning that Brokers Kipp and Newcomb — ‘met in front of the Stock Exchange as detailed ’ that Broker. Kipp was ignorant of the unexpected ~ liams that he would be away a short: more experience than he had picked up as a mes- senger, had opened up as a broker himself. It seemed the height of folly for'a boy to do. such a thing. It takes not only experience but money to carry on a brokerage business, and a round sum of money at ‘that. Where would a mere messenger boy get the necessary capital which the business required? Had he, as Broker New- comb surmised, come into a fat legacy unexpected- ly? No, he had not. How, then, had he managed to get his funds? That was one of Phil’s business secrets, and he had succeeded in keeping the mat- _ ter a profound secret from everybody. who knew him but his little widowed mother, with whom he lived in Harlem and was the sole support. There is no reason, however, for the reader being kept in ignorance, and so we will say that Phil accu- mulated a matter of $60,000 through lucky specu- lations in the stock market while he was attend- ing to his duties as messenger for Broker Wise- man. He had started in with $50, and good for- tune followed all his operations, E While luck figured as.a most important factor in his various deals, it was not the sole cause of bringing him in $60.000 in the course of a little over two years. Phil, having come to the con- clusion that his time and abilities were too. valu- able to be devoted to the interests of other people, gave Mr. Wiseman notice of his intention to leave © the office, much to that gentleman’s regret. As soon as the time was up he started in and hired an office in the Catton Building, fitted it up in proper shape, and induced Miss Mabel Williams, a young lady friend just starting out for herself as a public stenographer, to share_his quarters with him for a quarter of the rent, and then opened up for business. : He had only been in business four days up to in our opening chapter. When Broker Kipp.came into his office on curiosity bent Phil had just heard of the sudden flurry and rise in Hurricane Island Copper. He was figuring on going out and buy- ing some, just to keep his hand in. When, after a short conversation with the broker, that gentle- man offered to sell him a block of 10,000 shares of the stock for 25 cents a share; Phil naturally — thought he was joking. He soon saw, however, rise in Herricane Island Copper.. As the stock — had heretofore been a drug on the pide Ci to the eireumstances handicapping the mine, Phil — saw through the broker’s object in wishing to get — rid of it, and he grabbed the opportunity to teach the trader that he was no such an easy thing as_ the gentleman supposed, : ee: Accordingly he lost no time in talng Mr. Kipp up. He paid the broker the cash in full, and re-_ ceived an order on Kipp’s cashier for the certi-~ ficates which were in the safe at his office. He when he got down on the street and discovered that he had done himself up instead of his in- tended victim, and Phil chuckled gleefully as he ~ looked at the order after Kipp had departed. — “I guess I’ll go over-and get that stock now,’ he said to himself. “I might want to get rid of it in a Hurry if the price suits me.” So, putting on his hat, and telling Miss hort. time, he
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A GAME FOR GOLD _ his office and the building. Mr. Kipp’s office was on Broad Street, and Phil directed his steps in that direction. The Curb Exchange seemed full of excitement and the young broker soon dis- eovered that it was all due to Hurricane Island Copper, which was going at 55. Phil went on till he came to the Hercules Building, where Kipp’s office was, on the third floor. Hé took the ele- vator and in a few minutes presented his order ‘for the stock to:Mr. Kipp’s cashier. He got it without any trouble, for the cashier knew Phil by sight. After leaving Kipp’s office long enough he stopped at the Curb to learn: that 60 was the prevailing price now for Hurricane Island Cop- per. Which meant that he had grown $500 richer in the last twenty minutes. He spent an hour in ‘the spectators’ gallery of the Stock Exchange, then he went to lunch and after that returned to his office. By that time Hurricane Island Copper was going a 65. - “I'll bet Mr. Kipp feels pretty sore by this time. He simply made me a present of $4,000 at the rul- ing price at this moment. I suppose I ought to feel grateful to him, but somehow it doesn’t strike me that I’m under any real obligations to him. His intention was to saddle me with a bum , stock, but things didn’t work out the way he an- ticipated.” f : At that moment the attention of Phil and Miss Williams was attracted by a commotion in the corridor outside. A woman’s scream aroused the echoes of the building. The door was thrown open and a lovely girl staggered terror-stricken into the office. A vicious-looking bulldog was clinging to her jacket. The young broker seized a book from his desk and flung it at tle animal’s head. ” Then he sprang forward and grasped the dog by the throat and tore him away from the fright- ened girl just as the owner of the animal appear- ed in the doorway. Phil found that he had his hands full trying to subdue the vicious beast. The animal struggled violently, and tried to get its head around so as to fix his fangs in the young broker’s arm. Phil retaliated by banging his head _ against the edge of the door. “Fold on there!” remonstrated the owner of tHe brute. “That’s a, valuable dog.” ‘ Phil wouldn’t let go his grip on the animal’s - -windpipe until he was sure that the young man ‘who claimed him had a firm grip on the dog’s _ collar. Pie “That brute should be chained and muzzled,” he said. “You ought to know better than jeopar- _ dize the lives of innocent persons taking him around at large.” : : : “J did have him at the end of a chain,” ex- plained the young fellow: “but when he made a Pik a ae to get away from me at the upper end of ' the corridor the chain snapped close off near ~the collar. You can see where: it parted. Be \ quiet, Tige!” he added, boxing -the animal’s ear, yi eae ana me brute subsided into a state of sulky de- - fiance. “Well, take him away with you,” said Phil. “That girl will have a fit if you don’t get the beast out of her sight.” — _ The young man led the dog into the corridor and Phil closed the door after them. Then he stened to assure the trembling girl that all ager waS over, ~ ee CHAPTER III.—Phil’s First Customer. Phil now had leisure to observe that the young lady was uncommonly pretty. She was also at- tired like a person of some means. ~ : “Shall I get you a glass of water?” he asked her. “It will make you feel better, perhaps.” “Tf you please,” she answered, faintly. g He rushed into the little washroom where he kept a bottle of spring water on tap and brought back a tumblerful. She drank a little of it and seemed to feel revived. “You are very kind,” she murmured, flashing a look of gratitude in his face. . “You are quite welcome, miss. have been of service to you.” _ “Tt don’t think I was ever so frightened in my life before,” she said. “How brave you were to seize that animal with your hands! I am sure that it is impossible for me to thank you sufii- ciently. The dog would probably have bitten me severely but for your interposition. May I ask your name?” “My name is Phil Forester. Here is my busi- ness card,” said the young broker, handing her one. She glanced at it. , _ “You are a stock broker, then, Mr. Forester?” a I have just started in business for my- self. “My name is Nanny Lee.” Phil bowed. “I was on my way to the office of Fox & Co., where J expected to leave some shares of Hurri- eane Island Copper stock for sale, when that dog attacked me.” Phil bowed again. “ “Since you are a broker, and have been so kind to me, perhaps you would accept the com- mission from me yourself,” she said. “Trshould be delighted to do so, Miss Lee. Hurricane Island has gone up from,25 cents to 65 cents or over since morning.” “T have a certificate for 1,000 shares. It was a present from my uncle on my last birthday. Do you think you can sell it for 65 cents a share ?” “TY think I shall have no difficulty in doing so. In fact, I think I can do better than that.” ‘ “Then I shall be very glad to leave the stock with you,” she replied, starting to open her bag.” “Please take the chair beside my desk,” said Phil, politely, and she did sb. “Do you wish me to sell this stock at the pres- ent market price, which is about 65, or do: you wish to leave it to my judement?” he asked her after she had handed him the stock. : “Do you think it may go higher?” “I have an idea that it is likely to do so. I haye 10,000 shares in my safe which I expect to hold for 80, at least.” Have you? Well, I will leave the disposal of my shares to your judgment, then. Sell them when you think. best.” “Will you, kindly’ give me your address~so I I am happy to ' can communicate with you?” y “Certainly.” oa She wrote her name and address on the pad he handed her. ' €Now, Miss Lee, I promise to look after your X 4 Ve BS Efe
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4 interests as if they were my-own.. I have only been in business-about four days and you are my first customer, therefore I naturally take an in- terest in you, especially as our acquaintance has been made in a rather unusual manner.” “It was rather unusual,” she laughed, having entirely recovered from her scare. “J hope it may not end quite as abruptly as it began,” he said, with a smile, for he was greatly atiracted by her good looks and winning person- ality. ~She favored him with a demure look that was more expressive than words. “You have a very nice office,” she said. “I have no doubt you will soon have plenty of cus- tomers.” : “It takes a little time to build up a business, bese I hope to get there by and by.” ~“T am sure you will, for you look yery smart.” At that moment the door opened and Broker Newcomb appeared. “T beg your pardon, Forester, I see you are en- gaged. J will call again.” ~ “Oh, come in, Mr. Newcomb.. I will be at liberty in a few minutes.” Miss Lee rose to go, aS there was nothing fur- ther to detain her. “Tf you are down this way in a day or two I ‘should be pleased to have vou drop in,” said Phil, holding her gloved hand just a moment longer than it might have seemed necessary. “Otherwise, you will hear from me aS soon as I have sold your stock.” - “T may call,” she replied, and then he saw her to the door and took leave of ‘her. ' “Well, Forester, I see you have opened up as a broker,” said Newcomb, taking the chair vacated by the young lady. “Yes, sir. I thought I’d make a break and get in with the push.” “Do you think you will be able to make it pay?” “T’ve done pretty well so far, and have no rea- ~ gon to kiek.” > “Yes, I think you have. Lawrence Kipp was telling me how he dropped in on you and gave you a little lift with Hurricane Island Copper.” “Did he tell you about that?” asked Phil, in ‘surprise for he did not think that the trader would Jet sueh 2 matter get out if he could help ites “Ye told me, and I thought it was the best joke of the season,” laughed Newcomb. “And does Mr. Kipp think it such a joke, too?” “No, I don’t imagine he does.” - Broker Newcomb laughed heartily at the re- sollection of Kipp’s discomfiture.. At that point the door opened and two brokers’ who knew Phil as Wiseman’s late messenger walked into the office. “How do you “do, gentlemen?” said the young broker, jumping up. “Don’t be bashful, but make yourselves at home. You are acquainted with Mr. _ Newcomb, I believe.” Yes, thev knew Newcomb and he knew them. ~ One was Broker Crossley, of the Astor Building, oe and the other was Broker Wilcox, of the Vander- pool Building. i “So you've. given Wiseman the shake and ‘gone inte business: on your own hook,” said. ‘Crossley. ou’ jretty good nerve, Forester.” | Es A GAME FOR GOLD “Yes, sir! I was born that way and can’t age Hee replied Phil. “T hear you’ve been doing a little business with - Larry Kipp,” said Wilcox. “Yes, he was kind enough to unload a few shares of Hurricane Island Copper on me this morning at bed-rock. He didn’t seem to want the stock, so I took it off his hands just to keep my hand in.” Then the three traders laughed heartily. “It is certainly one on Kipp, and is the best ue the Street has heard this year,” said Cross- ey “T suppose you gentlemen haven’t brought up | any little trifles that you’d like to work off on a new member of the fraternity,” asked Phil, without a smile. “Not by a jugful,” returned Wilcox. “We don’t want to get into the same boat with Kipp.” “Do you want to sell that Hurricane Island stock?” asked Crossley. “l’m not particularly anxious to do so, but Vii sel] anything if I can get my price.” “What’s your price?” “Ninety, at present.” “Well, your modesty won’t hurt you. It closed: at 73 a while ago. I'll give you 75, as I am in a liberal mood myself,” said Crossley. Phil shook his head. and 90 is my price. row.” ie “Where did you get such an idea?” __ “That’s one of my business secrets.” The brokers laughed-and the subiect of Harel =e cane Island was dropped. “t-suppose your debut. aS a broker will pre- cipitate a general branching out among the mes-— senger boys,” laughed Wilcox. “First thing we know there’ll be a dearth of good messengers. ins sap Street, and then what wil we poor traders te] ” “J don’t think there’s any danger of guchise. catastrophe happening,” said Phil. “There wouldn’t be offices enough to go around. J had considerable trouble myself in connecting with this den.” “There’d be more offices than capital, I’m thse ing,” chuckled Broker Wilcox. “I know my mes- senger is never overburdened with cash, although J. pay him liberal wages. I can’t see how you managed to save up enough to get your start.” This was evidently a feeler thrown out by the | trader to see if he could get a line on Phil’s financial status. The other brokers looked in terested, and the three waited for the boy ‘to an- swer. “Well, gentlemen, you abate remember how you got your own start,” replied Phil. set the ball rolling one way or another.” His answer was non-committal and not “very” satisfying to his listeners. They saw that they Were not likely to get much out of jsbbt Pieter The three brokers soon after took their Tear Several days later Phil got hold of a tip tha’ “lve got 11,000 ‘shares, ey It’s liable to be $1 tomor-_ ‘2 & & ‘A. & C. was due for an advance on account of the H. & O. R. R. taking over the control of ho A. & CG. Phil ‘secured at se shares of the st and waited for somethin to happen pe he s ? “We all” i
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A GAME FOR GOLD He got a second 1,000 at 47, and a third at 49. CHAPTER IV.—In Which Phil Takes Profits For Himself and His Two Customers. For the next week things were quiet with Phil. There was absolutely nothing doing in his office except what the stenographer accomplished, and she had work enough to keep her busy all day long. Phil, however, didn’t sit back in his chair and wait for a third customer to turn up. He studied ‘the financial papers closely, haunted the visitors’ gallery at the Exchange, talked to brokers he knew on the street, and otherwise put in his time to more or less advantage. As far as appearances went he was a very busy boy, but it is certain that he did not add another dollar to his capital. However, he wasn’t worrying about that. He had made enough on Hurricane Island Copper to satisfy him for the time being, and he was looking forward to make a big winning on A. & C. as soon as the news of the consolidation came out. He had a visit from Nanny Lee soon after she got his letter, and she left $500 of the $900 with him to invest in some good stock that he thought might bring her a profit. He put most of jt up on margin on 100 shares of A. & C. with Broker Newcomb, and even this small amount the trader had some difficulty in getting hold of. He bought the shares on the Exchange at 41. Both Phil and Larry Kipp were watching A. & G. closely. Kipp had made no attempt as yet to buy in the 10,000 shares he had pledged himself- to deliver ten days from the date of his options, as the stock showed no great tendency to advance, and he did not believe it would go higher than 42 at the outside. If he bought the stock he would ~ have to raise $400,000 to pay for it, and then he _ would have to hypothecate it to get a portion of _ the money back to cover other deals. He doubted very. much that A. & C. would advance high enough to make it worth while for Forester to call for it on the expiration of the options, in ‘which case he would be in the $20,000 deposit the ‘boy had put up. If the stock did show an ineli- “nation to rise before the options expired, he did not apprehend any difficulty in buying the shares - involved in the deal. None of the brokers, and least of all Kipp, had any idea that A. & C. was searce. It had been two years since the stock had excited any particular interest, and only those traders who had orders to buy some of it discov- ered that it was hard to get hold of. When the sec- ond Monday arrived Phil’s options had but twenty- ~~. four hours more to run, and A. & C. had only gone up one point. Kipp was now rubbing his hands togethér in anticipation of gobbling up that $20,- 000 deposit without further trouble. Something happened about noon that gave him a shock. It was the announcement by the chairman of the - —xchange that the H. & O. road had gobbled up the A. & C., and guayanteed not only the inter- est of the first mortgage bonds but a two per ‘cent. semi-annual interest on the stock, The whole thing had been managed so secretly that hardly a hint of what had been going on reached the news- papers.. The brokers were taken by surprise and jere was a rush to buy A. & C. shares. The most eager of all was Larry Kipp. He wanted to sover his two option sales before the price reached .. To his dismay he.found there was none to be id under 45, and only got 1,000 shares at that. The price went to 52 before he got 2,000 shares more. Already he was out $15,000 on the 5,000 shares, but what the second 5,000 would cost him he had not the least idea. Just before the Ex- change closed down for the day he succeeded in getting hold of the other 5,000 at an average price of 58, which meant a loss of $70,000, or a-loss of $85,000 altogether on his deal with Phil. He was a wild man when he returned to his office at the close of the afternoon’s excitement, for he knew he would have to deliver the stock to Phil next day for 44, and it probably would then be worth 60, thus giving the boy broker a profit on the transaction of over $150,000. A. & C. reached 60 1-8 at eleven next morning, and Phil decided to cash in. He told Mabel Will- iams that he had invested heavily on the strength of her tip, and that if nothing happened to queer him her profit in the transaction would be a tidy one. “Mabel,” he said to her that morning, “I can see at least $8,000 coming your way today.” i “Eight thousand dollars!” she cried. “You do not mean to say that I’m going to make‘all of - that?” ~ “Well, as I expect to clear over $160,000 myself at the present market price, you can figure it out . yourself.. There’s going to be war when I present those options to Mr. Kipp:today. This will be the second time I’ve got the bulge on him and I’ll bet he’s mad enough now to chew a marlin spike, or some other hard substance.” “How much has he lost?” : : “T don’t know that he’s really lost anything, for it is possible that he may have bought in the stock while it was down to 41. I doubt it, however. Brokers, as a rule, take chances on options. That is where their profit comes in. If A. & C. had not gone up by threé o’clock toda$, Mr. Kipp would have had the satisfaction of winning $20,000 of my money, and it would have been balm to his soul after that Hurricane Island Copper deal he made with me. -It’s my opinion that he could not have bought 10,000 shares of A. & C, at any figure below 44 when I made the dicker with him. I wouldn’t have made the deal with him at 44 if I could have secured as much as I wanted when the price was ruling at about 40. Outside the 1,000 shares which Mr. Kipp had in his safe and sold me at 40 1-2 I couldn’t find any more floating around. Therefore, I was satisfied the price would make a big jump before the ten days had quite expired. Well, as you know, the rise came yester- day afternoon on the heels of the announcement of the consolidation, and if Mr. Kipp didn’t secure his stock before then he’s out a big wad of money, in which case he and I are likely to have a stormy interview when I demand the 10,000 of stock worth above 60 for 44, the price he has engaged to deliver the shares for today. As Phil concluded a messenger boy walked in and handed him a telegram. Tearing it open he found it came from -Mr, Quigley, of Babylon, L. I., his second cus- tomer. Mr. Quigley had seen by the papers that his S. & O. stock had gone up four points, and he wanted his deal closed out. 5 ‘ ihe “My second customer’s transaction through me — will turn him in a profit of $2,000, less commis-: sion and interest charges,” Phil remarked to the _Stenographer. “That ought to bring me more
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business from him. “ v ee | - A GAME FOR GOLD _ { The man who wins is always eager to try again, and the broker who makes money for him is the one he sticks to. Well, I must go out now and get busy.” Phil went over to Mr. Newcomb’s office with Mr. Quigley’s stock. “Sell these shares at the market, Mr. New- comb,” he said. ‘Then sell the 1,000 shares of A. & G.I left with you as security for the $30,650 I owe you on these 500 shares of S, & O.” “All right, Forester,’ replied the broker. “Now, Mr. Newcomb, who held the ace in the option deals—Mr. Kipp or 1?” “By George, you held it’for fair!” ejaculated the broker. “Say, you must have had a tip on the situation.” : “No matter whether I did or did not, you must admit that I appeared to know what I was about when J made the dicker.” “You certainly did. Forester, you’re a wonder for a new hand at the. game,” said Newcomb, admiringly. “You're going to make a corking trader when you’ve had more experience. In fact, you’re something of a corker as it is. “Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Newcomb. By the way, while you’re about it, sell out Miss Lee’s 100 shares of A. & C. which I put through on rhargin.” es : ; “7y] do it,” said the broker, putting on his hat. ; - Phil accompanied him as far as the, Exchange and then went up into the gallery to see how, things were going on the floor. There was great excitement, of course, around the A. & C. stand- ard, and also at the H. & O. pole. A. & C. was marked up at 613-8, and that was the figure Newcomb got for Phil’s 1,000 shares and Miss * Yee’s 100. The boy only remained a short time in the gallery and then returned to Newcomb’s office, where he waited till the broker came in. “Your 1,000 shares brought $61,375, Forester. From this I must deduct the $30,650 you owe me on your customer’s stock, also $125 commission and $100 interest.. There is therefore $30,500 coming to you.” : “That makes my profit on those shares $21,- 000,” replied the boy. : “You're a fortunate chap. Now, these options -sband you in at present market price a profit of,” ~ here Newcomb made some figures on a pad, “about $175,000 more. You will clear nearly, if not actually, $200,000 on the rise in A. & C.”. “Correct,” replied Phil, coolly. “What pleases me as much as anything is that Miss Lee will make $1,900 on her 100-share investment in A&C” : : “You recommended her to buy that stock, of course?” said the broker, regarding Phil quizzi- cally. : “She left $500 with me to invest according to my own judgment, and I put it into. A. & C. be- cause I believed it to be a winner.” “She’s a fine looking girl. You remember I saw her the day .I first called on you at your’ office. You told me she was your first customer.” “That’s right.” “You're trying to make yourself solid with her, ‘aren’t .you?” | “Oh, come now, Mr. Newcomb, you mustn’t try to learn too much all at once,” said Phil, with a flash, ey Ses The broker saw howe wind ble u ie ed, then he turned to the boy and ears ae When are you going to present the options to Mr, ee : ; ’ e time limit doesn’t expire ti o'clock,” Phil answered. = é ae ee which time A. &.C. may be well up in the Or the price may take on a slump.” That’s true,” replied Newcomb. “Let me see,” and he walked over to his private ticker. “A. & C. is going now at 62. Do you want to sell the options at that price?” “Do you want to buy them?” : “Ym ready to take a chance of making. $10,000 or $20,000 against a slump before three. If you want to sell it will save you.a-disagreeable inter- view with Kipp, for by transferring the options to me, you will be out of it.” . “TH take you up,” replied Phil. All right. We'll figure the matter out. The options call for 44.. The difference between that and the present market price of 62 is 18. I must give you $180,000, plus your denosit of——” he looked at Phil. 7 ' “Twenty thousand.” “That makes an even $200,000. T’ll give you 2 check covering all that’s comine to you, that is $230,500 on your own transactions; Miss Lee’s- $2.400. and $33,000 coming to you on the 500 Shares you bought for Mr. Quigley. That’s a total of $265,900. That will knock my bank bal- ance Silly until I sell the 10,000 A. & G. which Kapp must turn over to me this afternoon.” __ Broker Newcomb drew the check and handed it to Phil. “Thank you,” said the young broker, “that lets me out on Easy Street.” fp f When Phil returned to his office with a wad of bills as large as a house, almost, he called Mabel. r% Williams over to his desk. “Doesn’t that make your mouth water, Mabel?” . he said, showing the money. “My, what a lot! How much have you there?” Something over a quarter of a million. Now let’s get down to business. I have made a profit of $201,000 on A. & C. You are entitled by our agreement to five per cent. of that, which is $10,050: Here is your money. Count it and see - that it is all right.” The stenographer fairly gasped at the amount. of her profit. . ne “Ten thousand dollars!” she cried. “Why, that is a small fortune to me.” sey “Tt is a nice little sum to make out Of the market with nothing at stake.” “Mother will havea fit when I show it to her,” taughed the girl, as she took up the bilis. “Then break your good luck gently to her,” grinned the young broker. “& good many people wouldn’t mind having vais fits every day of their lives at $10,000 a> fit.” ; ee When the overjoyed girl returned -to her desk Phil wrote a nee to Mr. Quigley and enclosed a statement showing that he had made a profit of $1,850 on S, & O., and asked for instructions. He also wrote a nice little letter to Nanny Lee and enclosed a statement showing that she was $1,900 _ better off through the rise of A. & C. eels He asked her what he should do with the
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A GAME FOR GOLD $2,400 now to her credit in his hands. Then he carried his bunch of money to the safe deposit vault, put it in his box and went to Delmonico’s for his lunch like any swell trader. CHAPTER V.—Phil Gets Hold of Another Tip. Phil was now worth a quarter of a million dol- Jars, and he naturally felt that he was a person of some importance. He could have bought a very fine house for his mother without missing the price had it been her wish to live in one; but as the family was so small, consisting besides himself and mother of a seventeen-year-old cousin, who helped Mrs. Forester keep house, the trouble and expense of running a private house, was not to be thought of. They lived ina nice, select five-room apartment in a refined neighborhood, and were perfectly satisfied with their condition. What Broker Kipp said to Bro- ker Newcomb when the latter presented the two options Phil never learned, nor did he care. He guessed, however, that Mr. Kipp would be. shy of Signing any more options for’a while to come. Two days after he sent the statement to John Quigley, of Babylon, L. I., he received a letter M4 from that individual requesting him to hold ? $1,000 of his money to his credit and forward the balance by draft. This request Phil immediately complied with. In the same mail the young broker got a new customer from Millville, N. Y. This man, who, from his letter heading, was a hotel keeper, sent him an order to buy 100 shares of a certain stock on margin, and enclosed a postal order to cover the same. Phil bought the stock through Newcomb and paid for it in full, hold- ing it subject to his customer’s order, same as any broker would. That afternoon Nanny Lee walked into his office after he had returned from -Junch, and he was delighted to see her again. “Your. presence is liké a ray of sunshine, Miss Lee,” he said gallantly. She smiled and blushed at the compliment. _ “T received your letter, Mr. Forester,” she said, “and was both surprised and delighted to find that you put me in the way so soon to make such a nice little sum as $1,900. You are very kind, indeed, to interest yourself in me to the extent of placing my little funds where they have returned So large a profit.” 3 ne “Don’t mention it, Miss Lee. Remember, you are my first customer, and I feel as if I can’t do too much for you.” ~ “Iam sure I am very grateful to you, and so is my mother. She is somethine of an invalid, or I should haye brought her downtown with me this afternoon. If you would care to call at the Brentwood, on Street, some evening, it will give me great pleasure to introduce you to my mother, who will be glad to know you.” z “J should be delighted to do so, Miss Lee,” re- plied Phil, pleased to death at receiving the in- 'yitation, which he thought would open the way to their better acquaintance. “What evening would be convenient to you?” : “Most any evening,” she replied. “You might drop me a line in advance so’ that we may ex- ‘ct you.” : . : se toe Sones Tag “How would next Sunday eyeni Ma ae : y evening answer?” he “That will do. that evening ?” “I will be there without fail. Now, tell me- what I am to do with your balance. Will you take it will you?” “No, I think you had better keen it and use it when you see another good chance to invest it.” “T will do that, Miss Lee, with pleasure. Should you wish to draw some of your money any time © just telephone me. I will give you my number. Then [ll send it up by a messenger.” “Thank you. You are very kind.” : ‘ Nanny Lee stayed about an hour talking with him and then went away. /{ No_one knew but Phil and Broker Newcomb that Kipp had got it in. the neck-over A. & C., and they were not saying anythine about it. Kipp. felt awfully sore over the matter and de- termined to get square with the bright young broker if he could. On Saturday morning, soon after Phil came to his office, a well-dressed man walked into the room and asked for Mr. Forester. That’s my name, sir,” said Phil. “Take a seat and let me know what I can do for you.” “T am looking for some J. & D. shares. Have you any for sale?” “No, sir, but I can get you some, I guess, if you care to give me an order.” “T want to get 1,000 shares right away, and probably some more to-morrow, but I am not sure if I ought to give you the order.” “Why not, sir?” : “You Jook unusually young for a broker, and this is a very important matter for me.” “Oh, you needn’t hesitate to intrust me with the commission. I’m pretty well known about the Street, and I never fail to meet my engagements.” “Are you a member of the Stock Exchange?” Then we may look for you on “No, sir, but I have business relations with a _ responsible trader who makes purchases for me when necessary at the Exchange.” ; “If I give you the order how much deposit shall you want?” - “Do you wish to buy the stock outright or on margin?” x : “J intend to buy it outright.” “Then I must have five ver cent. on its cur- rent value.” _ Phil took a look at the tape that was dropping into the tall wicker basket alongside of the ticker. “J..& D. is quoted now at 52. A thousand shares will therefore cost. you $52,000. Five per cent. of that is $2,600. If you give me the order, and return in an -hour with the balance of the money the stock will be waiting for you if it is to be got.” “And your commission will be?” “One hundred and twenty-five dollars, payable on delivery of the shares.” “Very well. Yll give you the order.” He pulled out a roll of bills, counted out $2,600 and handed it to Phil. The boy drew up the order ‘and asked him to sign it, which he did in bold — characters as William Bushnell. Phil then hand-. ed him a receipt for his deposit. : _ “Yl return in an hour for the stock,” he said, rising. = a series
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s\ “Very well, Mr. Bushnell. Tl have the stock ready for you.” : _ The customer then said godd-morning and took his departure. f “Pm beginning to get ’em by degrees,” he said to Miss Williams. : “I’m very glad to see that,” she replied. “You - certainly deserve to do business.” j Phil entered Mr. Bushnell’s order in his book, then. put his hat on and got up from his desk. As he did so he saw a folded sheet of paper lying on the floor. He picked it up looked at it and read the following: “Dear Bushnell—Here is the tiv I promised you, and it’s a winner from Winnersville; pin that fact in your hat. Buy J. & D., and buy it ick. A syndicate has been formed to corner the stock and boom the price to 70, at least. Some of the bie moneyed interests are back of the game. Our firm has just got orders to buy in all we can get on the quiet. Other brokers are at work on the same job. So get busy if you want to get in on the ground floor with the push. Be careful not to.lose this note, as. it wouldn’t do for other eyes than yours to get a peep at it. : “Yours sincerely, C. L.” “This has: all the ear-marks of a corking tip,” said Phil to himself. “I must study the situation up as soon as I get the 1,000 shares for Mr. Bushnell. It is evident that he lost it here. Prob- - ably pulled it out of his pocket with that money. ~ Now, I wonder why he is buying the stock out- right, when’ with such a tip in his-possession and $52,000 at his back, he’d be safe enough to oper- _ ate on a good margin. . His bump of caution is either highly developed, or he isn’t » to snuff. - He could/easily make five or six timés the profit ad \ broker. ee ran ! you have much trouble getting by buving on a fifteen per cent. margin; which ought to easily cover him under the exceptional circumstances. Well, that’s his business, not mine. I must retyrn this to him when he comes in. It isn’t. my’ fault that he dropped it.” - Phil put the paper in his pocket and went out ’ to buy the stock, stopping at his safe deposit vault to get the money. He visited several bro- kers before he found one who had any of it, and he only had 600 shares. Phil finally picked up the other 400 shares in Broad Street. Then he returned to his office to wait for Mr. Bushnell. The note he had found on the floor he laid before him ready to be re- istored to the owner. Mr. Bushnell came in on Ptime. and Phil handed him the stock. The man Jooked it over and then got out his money and jpaid for it, as well as settling the matter of the ‘|}eommission. He then rose to go. “Here is something you dropped on the floor, | Mr. Bushnell,” said Phil, tendering him the note. “I opened it, and seeing your name at the head 'T knew it must have fallen-from your pocket.” _ Mr. Bushnell glanced at the paper and then _ hastily Shoved it into-his pocket with a muttered “Thank you.” “Jf you want any more J. & D., Mr. Bushnell, ' have the order,” said the boy: drop in and let me “J will. Did 3?” he asked, looking hard at Phil. ae oe se 2 ‘ A GAME FOR GOLD “J had to visit about a dozen brokers before I got it.” “T called at more than a dozen before I came here and none of them had it, so I concluded to let you buy it for me if you could. Seems kind of scarce.” Mr, Bushnell nodded pleasantly and took his departure. Phil then turned to his desk and be- gan to think about the advisability of his trying to make something out of Mr. Bushnell’s pointer, CHAPTER VI.—The Scheme That Missed Fire. While Phil was still considering the J. & D. matter the door opened and a lady, stylishly attired in deep black, veiled and with a widow’s white frill in her natty looking bonnet, entered the office. The young broker sprang up and bowed to her. 5, : “Are you Mr. Forester?” she asked, sweetly. “IT am,” he replied, wondering who his fair caller could be. “Will you be seated please, and tell me how I ean serve you?” Sint She took the chair beside his desk and raising her veil revealed a face of unusual beauty. — “My name is Mrs. Grace Vivian,” she said, with an engaging smile. “I wish to dispose of some railroad stock left to me by my late husband. Mr. George Reynolds, who was an intimate friend of my husband’s, advised me to call on you. He told me that while you were the youngest broker in Wall Street you were one of the smartest.” “Mr. George Reynolds,” said Phil, to whom the name was unfamiliar. “I don’t recollect ever meeting the gentleman. However, that doesn’t matter. He has probably heard of me in some — way. I’m much obliged to him for recommend- ing me to your notice. What is the name of the — stock you want to sell?” Cease “Joline & Duluth. I understand that its mar- ket value is something above 50.” . ; “Have you the certificates with you?” Phil asked, much interested in the fact that it was J..& D., the very stock indicated in Mr, Bush- ‘nell’s tip. “T have,” she replied, laying an oblong pack- age on his) desk. He opened it and found five 200-share certi- ficates of J. & D., representing 1,000 ‘shares, the - market value of which was $52,000. He looked — them over, and as far as he could see they ap- peared to be all right. Pee eee “You wish me to sell these for you, Mrs — Vivian?” said Phil. We: “Yes. What commission will you charge me for doing so?” ‘Ore pe ae He mentioned the amount. oa “Will it take you long to dispose of them?” “T think not. Had: you come a little earlier i _ could have sold them right away. .. gentleman came in for just 1,000 shares, and I had to go out and hunt the stock up for him. I will give you a receipt for the stock, and if you will leave your address I will notify you as soon as I have made the sale.” pe rer “Would you advance any money on the stock?” “T suppose I coufd. How much money do y want?” Sofa sate Seer “T have urgent need for $25,000. That is wl Sot as ones
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A GAME FOR GOLD I am letting -the stock go. Mr. Reynolds told me he thought it would rise in value shortly, but could not positively say that it would.” “Tt is not customary to advance money on stock unless we know the person asking for the loan. This is a regular Wall Street rule. I might be willing to advance you $1,000 as a favor, but that would be the most I could undertake to do.” _“That would be of no use. to me,” replied the lady, looking disappointed. “I had an idea that you might buy the stock yourself and hold it fo a possible rise.” si “Could you return in an hour? By that time I might either have sold the stock or decided to buy it in myself.” ; ; . “T will do so,” she replied. “ I have to go to my lawyer’s, on Broadway. I will be back in about an hour.” “Very well,” replied Phil. : : | He wrote out an order instructing him to dis- -- pose of the shares and asked her to sign it. She did so, and then, bidding him good-by, went away. Phil put his hat on, and taking the J. & D. certificates, went across the street to see _ Broker Newcomb. ; ae The trader was not in his office, but’ Phil was told he could find him at the Exchange. At the en- - trance of the Exchange he met Broker Wilcox coming out. c Pe «Well, Forester, how are things coming on?” asked that gentleman, slapping the boy on the. back in a friendly way. | : ; * “fT have no kick coming,” replied the young broker. “I am making a living.” “Got many customers yet?” ‘ “Pye got a few, but I’m on the lookout for more. If you are overcrowded you might ‘steer any excess in my. direction,” grinned Phil. ~ «T ean handle all who come my way, and a few -- more besides,” laughed Wilcox. “Did you see Mr. Newcomb inside?” = -—-*J did, but he just went over to see Mr. Atkins $n the Hercules Building.” "Thanks. Perhaps T’ll catch him there.” “Very likely you will.” | : : “What floor is Mr. Atkins ong” j “Sixth. The firm is Pierce'& Atkins.” —, Sy Thank you. Good-by,” and Phil started - aeross the street for the Hercules Building. There was a crowd going in and coming out of the main entrance. As Phil\approached the ele- _ _vators ‘he was surprised to, see his latest cus- * a: tomer, Mrs. Grace Vivian, talking to Broker eo Ripp. : .. And what still more surprised him was that his other customer, Mr. Bushnell, was standing ‘beside them. This seemed to be rather a sus- -. picious circumstance, and he stopped within earshot of the trio, turning his back on them and _ pretending to be studying the directory of ten- _,. ants posted on the wall. He was not surprised _. to hear his name mentioned by Kipp, and he soon overheard enough of their conversation to under- uy, stand that there was some game in the wind es which he was connected. He soon found out that Kipp had a project under way to do him up on yt -& D., and that the paper he had picked up after i Bushnell left his office the first time had been ur se of putting a fake tip in his way. ’ ® ie purposely dropped by that gentleman for the 9 The purchase of the 1,000 of J. & D. was mere- ly a blind to give him the impression that Bush- nell was buying the stock to take advantage of the information presumed to have been con- veyed to him by the paper. The fascinating widow, if indeed she really was a widow, was a particular friend of Kipp’s and employed by him to further his scheme. It was expected that he would purchase the stock the lady brought into his office as soon as he found that it was J. & D., and Kipp had other plans under way to unload - more of the shares on him. Phil learned that Kipp was interested in a bear pool that was about to sell J. & D. short for the purpose of breaking the market price, and when they got the stock as low as they could they in- tended to cover their sales and then bid the price up again. Kipp was taking advantage of the chance to try to get square with the young bro- ker who had hit him so hard on the A. & CG. op- tions. The trio finally separated, Mrs. Vivian saying that she was going back to Forester’s of- fice to get his answer about the sale or purchase of the stock. Phil, much enlightened by what he had overheard, took an elevator for the fourth floor and went to the office of Pierce & Atkins to inquire if Mr. Newcomb was there. He found that gentleman coming away. “I'd like to See you on a matter of business, Mr. Newcomb,” said the boy. “I called at your office where one of your clerks told me you were at the Exchange. I met Mr. Wilcox at the en- trance of the Exchange, and he said you-had gone to this building to see Mr. Atkins, so I concluded ‘to come over here and see if I could catch you.” “You Seem to have caught me, all right. [’m going right back to my office, so come along. What did you want to see me about! Anything special 2?” “Yve just learned that Mr. Kipp is trying to get back at me for that option. matter. I also know what his scheme is. .I’ll tell you about it.” So Phil told Newcomb about the visits he had received that morning from Mr. Bushnell and Mrs. Vivian, who were really working in the in- terest of Mr. Kipp. Newcomb laughed heartily when Phil described how Bushnell had rung in, the fake tip on him. \ “TJ came precious near biting at it, too,” said the boy, “for it looked good on its face, especially in the light of that order for the 1,000 shares that the gentleman gave me to buy.” —- : “How did you find out that the thing was a plant?” asked Newcomb, curiously. “I prefer not to give that point away, but in finding that out I also discovered that Kipp and a clique of traders are about to begin a bear © movement on J. & D. His plan was to get me to load up on the stock in expectation of a rise, as indicated by the tip, with the idea that I’d get caught in the slump which he and his friends hope to bring about. I wish there was some way of catching him at his own game.” Newcomb questioned Phil closely with regard to what he had overheard about the plans of Kipp’ and his associates to sell J. & D. short, and the’ i sold him all th@t he knew about the move- ent., x . “Kipp and his associates must have good back- ing to undertake to start a bear raid on J. & D.- Whether they will succeed im breaking the prica
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10 to any preat extent is problematical. We can watch the game and take a hand in it if we de- cide that the risk is not too great. Now, as to the J. & D. stock the lady left in your hands, buy it when you go back and give her the impression that you intend to hold it for a rise. Then bring it to me and I sell it at the Exchange. That will let you out of danger, and at the same time give Kipp the idea that you have fallen into his trap. You can refuse any further overtures made to you to buy the stock, giving the persons to understand that you’ have loaded up with it to the extent of your resources, then it is probable that Kipp won’t bother vou any more.” ~ “AN right,” replied Phil, “ Pll follow your ad- viee.?: On his way back to the office he stopped at the safe deposit vault and. got the cash to buy the stock which Mrs. Vivian alleged was hers.. He found her waiting for him. “Well,” he said to her, “I’ve decided to buy * your certificates mysebf and. have “brought the money to pay you for them.” “T’m very glad to hear it,’ she answered, with a look of satisfaction. “ I heard while I was out that the price was likely to go up in a few days, Sp that you will be the gainer by the transac- tion.” nae why not hold the stock ieuinelt Jedi asked il “J wish I could,” she replied. hastily, “put, un- fortunately, I must have the money to meet some pressing payments.” “How easily some women can tell untruths,” thought Phil, as he counted out the money for the certificates, She took the e¢ash, rolled it up in her handkerchief, and departed. Phil followed her out of the puilding and saw her go straight ra the Hercules Building, and he chuckled to him- se “This is where you're going to slip up in your scheme to catch me napping, Mr. Kipp,” said Phil to himself. “It was very well arranged, but, fortunately, I got on to it in time.” * -; Then he carried the J. & D. stock to Mr. New- eomb, and that gentleman got rid of it in a short . tie at the Exchange. ~ CHAPTER VII—Phil Makes sted a Quarter Of A Million On J. & D -An hour later, while Phil was reading: one of the financial journals a broker whom he had been introduced to a anor time before came into p the office. ' “How do you do, Mr. Davis? Take a seat.” “Thanks, I will. I just dropped in to see if I could interest you in a little matter that will put a wad of money in your pocket. By the way, have @ cigar?” A; _ = “No, thank you. Ledon't enioleas replied Phil, politely. . . “You're quite 4 model young man, aren’t you? - Well, as I was saying,” went,on his visitor, light- - ing a match on the sole of his shoe and igniting his cigar, “this is a chance that doesn’t ‘often happen. I have been forming a pool to take ad- vantage of a tip that came my way. I want one ‘more member; so I fictas I'd see if you wouldn't *him ten minutes later, and four of them con-— A GAME FOR GOLD join us. It will take $100,000 for you to come in, but we’ll divide enough inside of two weeks to net each of us more than that amount. It is cer- tainly an exceptionally fine opportunity to make = a big stake that I’m putting in your way.” . “You are very kind, Mr. Davis, to consider me in the matter,” said Phil. “May I ask what is this pointer that you propose to back ? as “You can hardly expect to ive’ that away until you agree to take a hand in the pool,” said Broker Davis, with a shrewd look. “T suppose so,” replied Phil, suspecting that Davis was there in the interest of Mr. Kipp, for it seemed absurd that a trader with whom he had So little acquaintance would call and offer to let him in on a good thing. “I’m afraid that it would be impossible for me to go in with you, as I am interested in backing a tip I got hold of myself this morning. I don’t mind telling. you the name of the stock. It is J. D.: but which way I expect the cat is going to jump of course I couldn’t think of letting out.” “Then J am to understand that you have gone in heavily on your own tip?” said Mr. mete 3 with some eagerness in his tone. “You’re at liberty to understand whatever you think my words imply,” replied Phil, with an enig- ~ C matical smile. “Just so,” said Mr. Davis. “ Allow me toch Sy gratulate you, then, Forester,” he added, frankly. — » “You seem to have got hold of the same tip we are. about to operate on. joker, and I see you are invit for a rise, like our- selves.” “How do you know I-am?” laughed Phil. oe may be counting on a slump for all you know.” “No.” replied the broker, shutting one eye and ~ regarding the boy in a knowing way, “you’re backing the stock for a rise, just as we are about to do. Sorry you’re not with us, but you'll: win, just the same. I’m putting up all I can scrape together to make the pool a rousing success. Be- tween you, I and the post, J. & D. is as certain to reach 65 as that the sun will rise tomorrow _ morning. Bank on that and you'll make no mis- take. Well, I mgs st be going. Hope to take you" in on something se later on.” © ‘J. & D. is’ our little a pe ig With those words Broker Davis took his de- parture. As the door closed upon him Phil chue- kled quietly to himself and resumed reading the The letter-carrier left five letters for tained orders from new customers, much to the young broker’s satisfaction. Things are beginning to look up,” he said to himself. “Tf matters keep progressing J’ll soo’ accumulate quite a decent mail order business.” He entered the orders in his book and then took them over to Mr. Newcomb to execute for him. Phil kept his engagement next evening with Nanny Lee, and called on her at the Brent wood, where he was introduced to her mother and spent a very pleasant evening. ~ When he left it was with a warm invitation to eall soon again. On Monday Kipp and his. as- sociates began their attack on J. & D. and in a few minutes the price declined five points, to 47. Phil was in the visitors’ gallery of the Ex- change at the time, and made a note of the fac of the brokers who were doing the selling. — woe was not Cte al erie to find
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He _ have in that line. A GAME FOR GOLD , Davis was one of them, and he also made out that Crossley was another. After the first flurry the stock recovered and went back to 49. Phil decided to take a hand in the game, and he went up to the office of his old boss and asked him to sell 10,000 shares of J. & D. short for him at the market, in lots of 1,000 at a time. He handed Mr. Wiseman $50,000 to carry the deal for him. “You seem to be pretty flush,” he said, as he accepted the order and counted: the money. “This isn’t the extent of your pile, is it?” “T should hope not, sir. It take quite a wad. of money to make a showing in our: business,” replied the boy, coolly. : “Our business is good,” chuckled Wiseman, amused at the nerve of his late messenger. aE guess you must be doing pretty well since you started in. It’s a mystery to me where you got hold of your funds.” : “Most everybody down here likes to keep that fact a mystery from his friends. It doesn’t pay to tell people all you know. At any rate, I don’t mean to.” : : “You seem to have a pretty level head, Phil,” said the broker, writing something on a pad, in-. serting it in an envelope and ringing for his messenger. “Take that over to Smith, at the Exchange,” he said to the lad. “How are you making out in the way of business, Phil?” “Prospects look encouraging, sir.” 3 “Glad to hear it. Who is doing your buying at the Exchange?” Soe “Mr. Newcomb is attending to what little [I I thought as this was a good- sized. order I’d give you a chance at it.” “T appreciate the favor, Phil, and will make you a liberal deduction on the commission.” “Thank you, sir. Small favors are thankfully accepted always.” “Phil left shortly after and returned to the Exchange. He found that J. & D. was taking on another slump, which sent the price to 46. He had no idea at what price his offerings had gone for, but hoped that the stock had been disposed of somewhere near 49. J. & D. recovered a - ‘second time just before business shut down for the day, and finally closed at 47 3-8. He stopped in at Wiseman’s on his way back to the office and learned that the average price he was to deliver the stock for was 48. Next morning J. & D. opened at 47 58 and went to 48 1-8, when the bears got at it again and succeeded in beating it down to 45. The bulls, - however, came to the rescue and a pretty fight for the mastery ensued. The price see-sawed during the-day, sometimes getting back to 48 and at an average of 41 1-2, which gave h «on the deal of $55,000, less commissions. then receding as low as 41. Phil was on the job all day, taking up his quarters at Wiseman’s, . and when the price touched 41 he ordered the ys broker to cover his short sales at 42 or below. ‘He succeeded in getting all the stock he wanted him a no Uy however, was not through with J. & D. He watched the battle between the two factions on the floor of the Exchange, trying to determine which party would get the better of the scrim- mage. At length, when he saw the stock touch 40, he judged that it would be safe to buy for a rise. So he called on Newcomb and told him to buy 10,000 shates on margin for him. 11 “Where were you yesterday, Forester?” asked the broker. “I thought you were going to take advantage of your knowledge of Pipp’s plans. I’ve cleaned up nearly $100,000 myself on the strength of your information.” “I thought you’d be busy, so I went around and let Mr. Wiseman make $50,000 odd for me.” “Oh, you did, eh? I could have done it just as well for you while working my own deal.” “Well, you see I owed Mr. Wiseman a little recognition. He treated me white when I was his messenger, so I thought I’d throw a little, commission in his way.’ } “I see. So you made $50,000, and now you're trying to double it on the chance that Kipp has got the price down aS low as he thinks he can get it and is about to cover his short sales, if he hasn’t already’ done so?” “Yes, sir. I can stand a call for more margin than will ever be required, even if the bottom falls out of the stock. So I guess I’m safe enough. In fact, you can double my order if - you can get the shares anywhere near 40.” “AN right, Forester. I’m going to buy the same amount myself, too. That ought to turn the Sales in favor of an immediate rise.” He put on his hat and started forrthe Exchange. By buying cautiously he got 20,000 shares for - Phil at an average of 40 1-2. Then he collared his own 20,000 at one point higher. Soon after- ward the price began to go up steadily. More buyers came to the fore, and when operations closed for the day J. & D. was quoted: at 47. | Next day it went to 51, and Phil ordered his shares sold. His profits on the rise amounted to a clean $200,000, making him worth-over half a million. No one in the Street, however, outside of Newcomb, dreamed that the boy broker was worth anything like that sum, and even Broker Newcomb did not know how much he actually was worth, though he knew this much—that Phil had cleaned up over a quarter of a million on J. & D., and that Broker Kipp’s futile attempt to do the boy was the cause of his good luck. CHAPTER VIII—Phil Has A Visitor Who Tries To Pump Him, But Fails. The whole market was affected more or iess by the reaction in J. & D., and all stocks be- came very active. The Street was filled with smal} speculators eager to take advantage of the general rise in prices. Big operators took ad- vantage of the situation to start two or three booms, and for a week there was excitement to burn in Wall Street. Then, without warning the bottom suddenly dropped out of the market and hundreds were caught and badly squeezed in the slump. As a result, the week that followed was a dull one for business. j Phil, whose capital of a quarter of a million had been doubled by his operations in J. & D., took no part in the excitement that followed the fortunes of followers of that stock. He was con- tented to lie back on his oars and see other people scramble for easy moneye Mr. Newcomb, who had made something like $300,000 out of J. & D. was also satisfied to let well enough alone. Kipp and his associates were also feeling pretty good ~
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in ten days from date of the options, 3 - the current news of Wall Street when A GAME. about this time. They had made a good thing out of their deal in J. & D., and walked the street with the air-of men perfectly contented with themselves and the world at large. Not all of them, however, were satisfied and-loaded up on M. & N., which was rising to beat the band. - They expected to make another wad of casn when it reached a-certain figure. The sudden slump caught them unawares, and M. & N. went down" so quickly that it took their breath away. They were out a whole lot of money in conse- quence, but, being well fixed, were able to hola on to the stock for future developments. Broker Kipp wondered how badly the boy broker had been nipped in J. & D, . Thinking that Newcomb might know something about it, for he was aware that the big broker and Phil were on pretty good terms, he dropped into his office to see what he could learn. “Hello, Kipp,” said Newcomb, “you look as_if you were on the sunny side of the Street these days. Did you make a scoop in J. & D.?” “T didn’t lose anything,” grinned Kipp. “How about yourself?” __ “Oh, Forester and I made a round half-million between us off-the stock,” “Forester and you!” gasped Kipp, his face turning a sickly green. ‘You don’t mean to say that boy made money out of J. & D.?” “T can swear to the fact that he made a quarter of a million,” said the big broker. : _ “Why, I heard he was long on the stock at the . time of the slump.” _ “One can hear a lot of ‘eos in Wall Street “that isn’t true.” ero did he make the money you said he 1 ” . “You'll have he ask him, Kipp. I’m not, telling stories out of school. If you are curious to learn the facts why don’t you drop up and seé him in his office? He'll be glad to see you.” “Oh, you,go to grass!” growled Kipp. “You know I’m not feeling any to friendly with him since he got the best of me on those options.” “What's the use of holding that against him? “If things hadn’t turned his way just before the options expired you’d have been in $20,000 of his good money.” _ “Ts my opinion he knew what was going to happen when he bought those options.” “Well, you don’t expect a person to go blind- folded into such an expensive game, do you? When he agreed, to pay you a three and one-half noint advance on the then market price any time with- and put up a big sum of money as a forfeit in case he failed to carry out the deal, I should think you would have suspected that he hada joker up his sleeve.” Kipp grunted and looked as if he had eaten something which disagreed with him. He changed the subject and pretty soon took his departure wondering what had altered the boy broker’s . plans, as he understood them to be, at the last ' moment. Finally, having some doubts as to the truth of Newcomb’s statement, he asked his friend Crossley to drop in on Forester and see if 12. Phil was deeply. absorbed in Crossley broker’ 'S. assertion. - “walked into his a) hat afternoon, he could find out anything to confirm the big. e cores os ‘FOR GOLD wasn’t aware that Phil knew he was connected with Kipp in any way. After they had greeted — each other in a cheerful, off-hand manner, and Phil had requested his visitor to be seated and make himself at home, Crossley began making ig Pe remarks about the recent excitement in “{ heard that you were long on J. & D. when the slump set. in, Forester,” he said. “How did you come out?” “Who told you I was long on. the stock?” askéd. Phil, “Oh, I heard so,” replied the broker, evasively. - “You. don’t believe everything you hear on the Street, do you, Mr. Crossley?” “Well, hardly. Do- I understand, then, that you were not long on J. & D: at the time the bears made their attack on it?” “T prefer not to admit or deny the matter,” replied Phil. : “Why, now that the thing is over and done with, what objection can you have to disclosing which side of the fence you were on?” said Mr. Crossley, not relishing: the boy broker’s nion- committal attitude, “Because I don’t see any good in discussing _ the subject. It seems to me that it can’t interest you greatly whether I was long or short of the elit or both, for that matter, in the late urry. ” “You don’t look as if you had lost a great amount of your fleece,’ hazarded the visitor, thinking that might draw him out. “I make it a rule to try and imitate the noble red man of old who never let on how things were going with him,” Crossley was rather vexed because he couldn’t— make anything out of the young broker, expected him to bring back some definite infor- replied Phil, with a shrewd ~ smile. ed Kipp mation, but it didn’t look as if he was going to 2, find anything out. “You’ve heard of the sphinx, Forekted haven't. és, you?” he said, suddenly. “Are you referring to the Great Sphinx of ae Gizeh, in Egypt, a colossal form with a human face, hewn out of the natural rock?” ~ ; “‘T am referring to any kind of a sphinx. a “Well, what about it?” “You ‘pat me in mind of one, that’s all.” “How so ???+ tee “Because you're closer than wax.” “You mean J keep my business to myself.” — “T thought'I was a pretty fair talker,” ‘smiled Phil. “You are at times, but you never say any= “thing.” “Tt’s canaeinit | in Wall Street.” “It seems to me that caution can be carried too far.” “Possibly, but it’s well to be on the safe side.” Crossley bit his lips. He felt ‘that he wasn’t making much headway. tee “T came in to congratulate you under the in pyessidn that you had made a good thing o of J. leaves me in "doubt: whether I should coneratile : or condole. with you.” e : Phil laughed. “Have a ee, he said, palling a box a good plan to say as little as possible, : & D., but your non-committal manner a
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A GAME FOR GOLD his desk. “I don’t smoke myself, but I keer -g box of perfectos on tap for those of my visitors who do.” : : ; . - “Thanks,” said Crossley, helping himself to a weed. “You keep a first-class brand. By the way, are you buying anything at present? ay could let you in on a good stock if you are. “No. I’m resting after the strenuous events of the past few days.” : “ “Wouldn’t you lke to load up with a few shares of M. & N.? I’ve got more than I can safely carry just now. I'll let you have a thou- sand or two at half a point under the market. “Thank you, but I don’t care for any. I have “no particular interest in M. & N.” “It?s slated for a rise.” - “How do you know it is?” ; “Oh, a little bird whispered the news in my ear,” : ae “You mean’ somebody passed you a tip on it? “Tm not saying anything;” grinned the broker. “Well, if I got a tip on it, and knew it was all ‘right, I probably would buy the stock; other- wise, not.” ; “Pq like you to join/me in the deal and help me carry the stock. There’s big money in it” “when 1 take hold of a deal I prefer to go it - alone.” a : 3 “You must have a wad of money behind you. “Jt doesn’t follow. Anybody can do business in Wall Street with a $100. bill.” “We can buy ten shares of most any stock, “put what does that amount to? “Very often it gives a person a start that may some day land him a millionaire. I got mine off > “You are very young to be a broker,” she said. half to herself: and ‘half to Phil, with a strong” x ee | Saas
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14 A GAME - “Yes, ma’am. I believe I’m the youngest broker in the Street.” “How long have you been in business?” she asked, sharply. “Not very long—a few weeks, ma’am.’ “Are you doing any business?” Phil thought she had considerable nerve to catchise him in this way, but remembering that she. was an old lady, and that old ladies are sometimes innocently curious, he answered politely and truthfully: “Not a great deal yet, ma Jam. But things are improving every day, and I hope to get my share of custom in tire “J have been told that you,are yery smart, and new that I’ve seen you I believe it.” Phil bowed. and smiled. “Will you oblige me with your name?” he said. .“My name is Sarah Cowell,” she replied. Phil nearly fell off his chair. He had often heard of Mrs. Sarah Cowell—the little old woman whom Wall Street respected and to some extent feared as a most important factor at intervals in the stock market. She had the reputation of being worth at least $50,000,000, and was so shrewd in her operations that she never was known to have been caught at a disadvantage. She was known to operate exclusively through Westlake, Page & Co., one of the largest and most influen- tial brokerage houses in Wall Street: It was said she never appeared in Wall Street except at times when stocks were down or just before a slump set in. Then she would load up on some stock, put the certificates in her safe deposit box and disappear “until the prices went to high-water mark, when she would come “down from her home somewhere on Fifth Avenue and order her holdings closed out at a large profit. hil was certainly astonished to have this won- derful little old woman as a visitor in his office, and he wondered why she had come unless it was through ‘curiosity to, see the “baby” of the Street, as many brokers facetiously called him. “T have heard of you, ma’am,” said Phil, evi- dently much*impressed by her presence. ? The ghost of a smile hovered about the little old lady’s mouth for a moment, and then it was gone. “How did you come to start out for yourself (asa broker?” she inguired, fixing him with her sharp eyese: Phil explained that it always was his ambition to become a Wall Street trader, “and he had grasped the first opportunity to realize his dream. u “You were sates os Samuel Wiseman, I believe?” “Yes, ma’am.’ “You Seer start without capital. How did you get it?” “ Well, ma’am, I’ve never told anybody but my mother how I got my capital. It is not a good ‘policy to let one’s private affairs become general- ly known.” “T eommend your prudence, young man, but it may.be to your interest to be frank with me. I’m an old woman, old enough to be your grand- ‘mother, and you may trust ‘Very well, ma’am. Then I will tell you in ~ confidence how I got my start, and how I stand Pee _ Whereupon he ave her a . history of his oper- FOR GOLD | ae ations from the day he invested ‘his first. $50, which he had saved up for that purpose, in a marginal transaction, up to his latest icslasia = in J. & D. ~ “Now, Mrs. Cowell, you know me as no one but my mother knows me. I am worth over 2 half a million in cash. on which I can place my hand at any moment, but not a trader in the Street, outside of Mr. Newcomb, who knows I made. $250,000 in J. & D. because he is my con- fidential broker, can say with any degree of cer- tainty whether I’m worth any considerable sunt or not.” The old lady listened to his story with great ae ; tention -and when he had finished she said: © ; “T appreciate your frankness and will respect your confidence. Now, would you like to accept ~ me as a client?” : Would he? It would be the greatest piece of fortune that could come to him. “J should be very glad to do so, Mrs. Cowell, but it seems almost too good to be true,” he re plied, with a beating heart. “I understand thai your business is always transacted’ through West- — lake, Page & Co. ; “That is true, but I have decided to make a change. I am going to try you. They call you the “Wall Street Baby,’ in jrglinge no doubt. Well, if it’s in you I’m roing to make you known as the ‘Young King of Wall Street,’ insteady y? Phil one hardly believe his ears. “Take down my name and address,” she ” ‘con= tinued, “then welll talk business.” 7 The young broker wrote her name and address in his book and then prepared to listen to her. “The deal I am about to put through,” she bes gan, “is a corner in M. & N.“’ fe “A corner.” almost gasped Phil, who under- stood the magnitude of such an operation. . s “That's what, I said, Mr. Forester,” she re- plied, sharply. “I control, in one Nee or another, the majority of the stock of the r I name the men I wish for directors and thee are elected. I say who shall be president, and the board elects him. The road is run according to the policy I laid down when I came into control. You under-. ee stand?” : “Yes, ma’am,” replied Phil, who had lasek something he had never dreamed of in his life : —that a woman ran a big railroad like M. & N. “Owing to certain developments which have happened in the affairs of the road and which it is not necessary for me to disclose, M. & N. is almost certain to go to par ten days from now. At present it is selling low, owing to the late slump in yalues. As you know, it has dropped — from 85 to 75. It is my wish that it shall go to 65 at least, if possible, within a week. going to see if you ean accomplish this by good generalship. -You say Mr. Newcomb is gd ‘ confidential broker?” es “Yes, ma’am.” “T know him.as a square man and have no ae jection to using him. What other broker ea you trust?” “My late employer, Mr. Wiseman.” “That question will require consideration. yo “Very well. The capital stock, all issued, o: the M. & N. road is 200,000 shares, of a pa : _value of $20,000,000. Of this 105,000 shares held between myself and others in my oe ae EG es ; a Ee
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A GAME FOR GOLD Twenty thousand shares are held by various banks and trust companies as an investment on a semi-annual dividend of one and a half per cent., which the road had never passed, and may be considered as out of the market. That leaves 75,000 shares to be accounted for. At least 5,000 of these shares will hardly come to the surface under 80. I propose to buy the remaining 70,000 — shares, if I can get them, at as low a figure as possible. You will first engineer a raid on the stock and pet it as low as possible. That means. you must sell, through your brokers, enough stock to break the market price. You must ar- “range a meeting with Newcomb, Wiseman and a third broker, if necessary, and lay your plans. Do that this afternoon after the Exchange closes, and eall to-night at my house and let me know the plans you expect to put in operation. If I approve of them you must begin business with- out delay. If Mr. Newcomb is to take charge of the bear movement, place Mr. Wiseman in charge of the buying. All stock purchased is to be de- ‘livered C. O. D. to the Bank of Finance. The question of money in this deal is not to be con- sidered. J. could raise funds enough inside of twenty-four hours to pay for every share of the road’s stock at par twice over. I think that is all. J shall expect to see you to-night.” . Thus speaking, the old lady rose and held out her hand to the boy broker. In a dazed kind of way he escorted her to the door, bade her pood- ‘by and then returned to the desk to “think it over” and assure himself that he really was awake and not dreaming. It seemed incredible that he, the youngest broker in the Street, had teen selected by Mrs. Cowell to put a deal through that would make many old brokers “sit wp and take notice.” a And yet he could not doubt it, for there was the lady’s name in his book, and her calm, busi- _. ness-like tones were still ringing in his ears. CHAPTER X—Phil Tries His Hand At Selling ae Options Himself. -. Phil wrote two notes, one addressed to Mr. - Wiseman, the other to Mr. Newcomb, requesting them to call at his office that afternoon betwéen half-past three and four on business of great importance. He rang for an A. D. T.. messenger, and when the boy. came he gave him the two notes to deliver at their respective addresses. _., Well, Mabel,” he said to Miss Williams, “you ‘saw my caller, didn’t you?” ie 3 _ Oh, yes, and I thought her a most eccentric- looking old lady,” replied the girl. “She isn’t a “new customer is she?” she added, roguishly. _ “That's just what she is.” 2 . “She doesn’t look as if she’s worth a hundred dollars.” “Tf I had two or three’ more customers as good as she I’d be able to hire as fine a suite of offices as any brokerage firm in Wall Street.” “You're joking now, aren’t you?” “Neyer more serious in my life.” “Do you mean to say that she has lots of noney 7” \ i f “She’s got more than I ever expect to make if “Llive to be a hundred.” ; Sito NY we f 15 “Why, who is she?” “That’s one of my business secrets, Mabel.” “Pardon me for being too inquisitive.” “Don’t mention it. You’re forgiven. She is my thirteenth customer.” 4 “Thirteenth! Oh, my! That’s-an unlucky num- er. “Don’t you believe it. than any other number.” “It’s considered so. I know the Standard Oil Building has no thirteenth floor in its directory.” “That may be, but the floor is there, just the same, even if it’s called the fourteenth. A foolish . bluff to down an alleged hoodoo. Well, this little old lady is my thirteenth customer, and I consider her my luckiest acquisition. See if it doesn’t turn out so.” “T hope it may, Phil.” ; Just then Broker Davis walked into the office. “How do you do, Mr. Davis?” said Phil. “Sit down. JI haven’t seen you since you were here trying to induce me to go into your pool to take advantage of a certain tip on J. & D. which you said.you had gotten hold of. How did you come out? Didn’t a screw work loose jn your plans?” “Not at ali. The stock went up, as you know, and we cleared a big wad apiece out of it.” “I know it went up; but it went down. first at a lively rate. I thought perhaps you had made some miscalculations and got squeezed in the shuffle.” “Not a bit of it. The slump was part of the game,” replied Davis, glibly. “Oh, then everything worked out all right?” “As fine-as. silk.’ “Glad to hear it. I always prefer to congrat- ulate my acquaintances to condoling with them,” said Phil, cheerfully. ‘‘Well, can I do anything for you?” : : ‘ “That depends.” 4 “On what?” “Whether you have any M. & N. shares to sell “M, & N.” said Phil, ‘thinking of what was going to happen to that stock in a day or two. “Are you buying some ?” : - “For a customer, yes.” | “What are you giving for it?” “I am offering 75 1-8.” ; “Well, I haven’t a share, but I guess you can get all you want from Mr. Crossley. He told me the other day that he could spare a couple of thousand of a block he has on hand.” _ “Crossley and I are not on good terms. I don’t care to visit him office.” “No!” replied Phil, in some surprise, for only thet morning Mr. Newcomb had told him that the two brokers were hand-in-glove. “When did the hreak happen?” Pins eet ane but “a ee care to discuss . Crossley. ill you call him and buy an se - el ag Shares at 75 1-8?” Boge) these - se if you write me out an order ser “All right.” replied Davis, doing so and hand- — ip ee paper to Phil. The young. broker looked at it. : : “I beg your pardon, Mr, Davis, but to sign it.” . : we “Oh, excuse me,” returned the broker, taking It’s no more unlucky ~ you forgot
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=e _ --want ?” 16. the paper back and scrawline something at the bottom. ; “Is this your regular signature, Mr. Davis i 6 “Certainly. What’s the matter with it?” “T should never recognize it as such. Will you ‘oblige me by making it plainer?” / “How blamed particular you are, Forester!” said the broker, testity. a “One can’t be too particular where a deal in- volving possibly $750,000 is concerned.” Davis, much against his will, wrote a new ° order and signed his name legibly. “T hope that will suit you, young man,” he growled, “That is all right. Now about this stock—shall I tell Mr. Crossley to send it C. O. D. to your office ? “By no means. T’m buying it.” : “Supposing Mr. Crossley has as much zs 10,000 shares do you expect me to pay for it and take it to your office?” ; “Pay for as much aS you can and I will settle with you on delivery. Then go back and get the rest.” : : “As I’m only the ‘Baby of Wall Street’ you ought to have brought the cash with you if you expected to do business with me.” ‘ “Haven’t you plenty of cash?” asked Davis, in Some surprise. “I heard you had made a quarter of a million out of J. & D.” : “T guess I’ve enough to ‘run my business on at present,” replied Phil. R “Tf you have then you can pay for the stock in the usual way, can’t you? You know how business is done amagg brokers.” { “Very well, Mr. Davis. T’'ll: go Mr. Crossley. about the stock.” He put on his hat and accompanied his visitor to the sidewalk, where they departed. Phil went -on to the Astor Building, where Crossley had his office. He found the broker in and was admitted to his private room. . “Hello, Forester,” said Crossley, “what can I do for you?” “T believe you have some M, & N. for sale? What are you asking for it to-day?” “How much do you want?” “Any part of 10,000 shares.” “T ean let you have that much for 75 5-8.” I don’t want him to know that over and see “That’s too steep. The market price is 75.” » “Well, ‘go around and see if you car get it for 75.” “Pm authorized to give 75 1-8.” “You can’t get it from me at that. I wouldn’t sell ft at all if I didn’t need the money, for it will be up in a few days.” Z “You.are confident of that, Mr. Crossley? “T am perfectly satisfied of the fact.” : “Now, I have a different idea. I wouldn't mind selling you a five-day option on 10,000 at 70,” said Phil, coolly. : “At what?” roared Crossley, in astonishment. ee Ape Oss: ‘ - “Do you mean that?” “T do.” . “Vil take you. How much deposit do you “Five per cent,’ of the market price.’' A GAME FOR GOLD ' ~ the stock at that price.” s ‘for if taken up,” replied Phil. “Tl | — “Write your option and I'll write my check. in your finish as anybody else.” = oie . t i é F aie Hold on a moment, you’re a minor and not a member of the Exchange. What guarantee have I that you will make the delivery when I call on you for it?” “111 have Mr. Newcomb endorse the option.” | “That will be satisfactory. Bring it in here with his name attached to it and I'll put the deal through.” Wages “All right. ll call in the morning.” : ce “Tl] look for you.” . Phil then bade the broker good-by and left. — He went down to Davis’s- office and reported — that Crossley had the stock but wouldn’t sell it for less than 75 5-8. eed “All right,” replied Davis, “then ’ll eancel my —_ order. I don’t blame him for asking that, as a quotation has just appeared on the ticker of 75 3-8.” P Of course the broker didn’t let on that the said quotation was the result of a wash-sale put — through with the connivance of a friendly trader in order to head Phil off of getting the stock at 751-8 if he went to any other broker than Crossley. The whole thing was a bluff to try — and interest the boy broker in the stock, with a view of subsequent operations. Phil’s offer to sell a five-day option on M. & N. was going to — make a change jn the plans of the wily traders as soon as they came together again. titan The chance of the stock going do der ordinary circumstances, was no likely by any well-informed broker, who knew that M. & N. was already ten points below its normal value. But the reader knows that Phil, — since his interview with the little old lady, was in a better position to judge of what was going ~ to happen to M. & N. than any broker in Wall Street. ow “That may be,” replied Phil, in answer to — Davis’s remark; “but, still, I think he would have made money by taking 75 1-8.” Poe “Nonsense!” almost snapped Davis. “ M. & N. will be up to 85 again in a week.” ie ae got money to bet that it won’t,” replied il. ae “Indeed!” sneered the broker. will you bet?” $l tell you what I'll do with you, if you’re so confident. T’ll sell you a five-day option on the. stock at 70.” ae “You will?” exclaimed the trader, in surprise. “J will. And to make you understand that I mean business I’ll have ‘the option endorsed b Mr. Newcomb. guaranteeing that I. will deliv Santi = “How mu * ' “Bring the option here this afternoon or to- morrow and J’ll give you my check for the r quisite deposit. If \you were a member of f Exchange I’d have you sign it now. It’s m opinion that you’re only putting up a bluff, M. & N. will never see 70, unless a heayy slum should happen to carry the market down. that’s not likely ‘to happen inside of the five days.” : i ree “J never make bluffs that I can’t ee option here to-morrow morning.” Was - “Fetch it along. I may as well have a | “x P=
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“Take care, Mr. Davis, that I don’t. have a d in yours,” laughed the boy broker, as he bade him good-by. : CHAPTER XI—On The Eve Of A Big Deal. ' Broker Wiseman was surprised when he re- ceived Phil’s note, and wondered what kind of important business the boy broker wanted to see him about. : 5 “T should think it was his place to call on me, he said to himself. “However, I'll go to his office. He’s a clever young fellow, and I do not doubt but he'll make his mark in Wall Street et.” : 2 When he got into the elevator at the Catton Building he met Newcomb there. “Where are you bound, Newcomb?” he asked. “Forester asked me to call on him on im- portant business,” was the reply. : “The dickens you say!” exclaimed’ Wiseman, in some astonishment. “He sent word by a messenger for me to call, too. There must be something in the wind.” : “Tt would seem So when he wants to see us _ both. Perhaps he is forming a pool to corner He some stock,” chuckled Newcomb, “and.wants us - to go in with him.” : & wouldn’t be astonished at anything he might propose,” said Wiseman. “He’s got more nerve to the square inch than any. man in Wall Street.” _ The elevator dumped them out at the proper floor and they entered Phil’s den together. He was alone and waiting for them, Mabel Williams, . at his particular request, havine gone home an hour earlier than usual. ‘ “Good-afternoon, gentlemen,” said the young broker. “ Help yourselves to chairs. As I can- “not afford to be interrupted you will not find any _. fault with me if I turn the key in the lock.” He then seated himself at his desk. : “Gentlemen, you are probably surprised that _ I should ask you here on business, but as I consider my office the proper place to discuss the business I have on hand, I trust there'll be no kick coming on your part.” eohe “Go on, Phil; let’s hear .what’s on the carpet,’ said Wiseman, a trifle impatiently. “To begin with, I want to know if you are tude for me?” ae “Of some magnitude, eh?” said Wiseman. “Are ou going to corner a stock?” he added, feadhingly. ieitee : : x . “You've hit it the first time, Mr. Wiseman, replied Phil. The two brokers looked at each i and then at the boy. _ ¥ did not think it extended quite so far as at- .. tempting to corner a stock,” said Wiseman. “You are under a slight misapprehension, Mr, Wiseman,” answered Phil, politely. “I am not personally interested in this contemplated cor- ner. I am acting for the moneyed party whorex- pects to set the ball rolling through me.” “JT suppose it would be useless for us to ex- et you to tell us who this moneyed party is?” paid Wiseman. - es “It ig not necessary to the success of the deal A GAME FOR GOLD ‘both prepared to conduct a deal of some magni-” “Well, I knew you had a cast-iron nerve, but u to know. As near as I can understand at . tS this stage of the game the person intends to keep in the background and let me do the bossing of the job. Not being a member of the Exchange, it is necessary that I should engage two trusty, shrewd and experienced brokers to fight the bat- tle for me. I have selected you gentlemen. Are you willing to jom me?” ; ; “What is in it for us?” asked Wiseman. : “As much as if you were engaged for a similar enterprise by Mr. Lord, or any other millionaire operator.” Once more the traders looked at each other and then at the boy. “Are we then to understand that the person you represent is a millionaire?” asked Wiseman. “About fifty or sixty times over, I should judge.” Ags % Wiseman whistled. ; “How came you, a mere tyro in the brokerage business, to get hold of such an influential client?” asked Wiseman, in no Jittle surprise, while Newcomb ‘also looked his astonishment. “Gentlemen, I have a number of secrets in my business, and that is one of them. The question before the house is—will you go in with me on this thing?” : “What is the stock. that boomed?” asked Newcomb. “T will explain everything as soon as you have passed your word to take hold.” c= ‘min with you, Forester,” replied Newcomb. “You can count me in, Phil,” said Wiseman. ‘Very good. Now we'll talk business,” ; Phil then put his associates in possession of the facts of the case, and they were not a little astonished at the magnitude of the operation in- volved. : : : “The market is kind of off color this after- noon,” said Newcomb, “which, if continued. to- morrow, will be to our advantage; but still we may have to sell $3,000,000 worth of stock sHort in order to force M. & N. down to 65 and hold it there while Wiseman gets his part of the work under headway. It will probably take all of $5,000,000 to buy in the stock. Then there’s the deliveries we must make to settle our , short sales. All that stock must be recovered at higher figures, and will easily entail a loss of from a quarter to half a million. I should say that we _ ought easily have a matter of $6,000,000 at our ~ back to cope successfully with the situation, for we'll have to ‘take care of the bulk of the 75,000 outstanding shares.” “Money is the least thing you need to worry about in the deal. The Bank of Finance will pay for every share of M. & N, delivered C. O. D.”. “Say you so, Phil?” said Mr. Wiseman. “Then rest assured that the corner will go through.” Z The interview was continued until half-past © five, then. another meeting was arranged for 9:30 in the morning. Phil told them about the options he had practically sold to Crossley and Davis and which needed only Mr. Neweomb’s - guarantee to go into force, and the two men laughed heartily. f “You'll have them both where the hair is short, Phil,” said Wiseman. “As for Crossley, ’'m afraid ~ he'll be in a bad hole if he doesn’t get rid of his ue shares before the attack is made on the Sick? eee ‘ aS After Wiseman and Newcomb left his office the — * J bythe is going to -be
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18 lee boy shut up shop and went home. After supper he called.on Mrs. Sarah Cowell, told her what he had done So far, and what plan of operations had been decided on, provided it met with her ap- -proval, She went over it with him, and Phil was amazed at her clear insight of Wall Street meth- ods and tactics. ‘ She approved of his programme, merely offer- ing suggestions now and then as some point oc- eurred to her mind. It was clear that she had taken a special fancy to Phil, and it,was up to the young broker to make the most of his con- nection with her. Next morning Wiseman and Newcomb were on hand at Phil’s office promptly on time, and the day’s tactics were laid out and _ decided on in conformity with the general scheme. Phil wrote out the two options for Crossley and Davis, and Newcomb endorsed them, guarantee- ing that Forester would fulfill his obligations to the letter. When the boy walked into Davis’s of- fice shortly afterward that broker regarded him in a peculiar way. Davis and Crossley had met the afternoon before and compared notes. Crossley had been tickled to death at Phil’s offer.to sell him 10,000 shares of M. & N. five days from date at 70. Davis had also greedily snapped at the same offer. Both regarded the thing as a “pipe” until they found that Phil had made the same offer to both, they they began to look at his offer with some suspicion. “He must have been bluffing us,” said Davis. “We'll see in the morning. If he really comes to the seratch, with a guarantee that we can de- pend on, we'll sell 20,000 shares of our M. &N. at 75, or at 75 1-2, or even at 74, if we can’t do better. That will be as good as $80,000 to $100,000 in our pockets, for we'll get the shares back in five days at 70, and by that time the stock ought to be up to 76 or 77.” a “That boy must be a chump,” said Davis, rub- bine his hands with satisfaction. j - “Fe hasn’t got that reputation,” replied Cross- ley. “I’ve heard several of the boys say that he’s uncommonly smart, and that he’ll make his _/mark yet as a broker.” ‘Xx of adding to their, pile,” grinned Phil. “This option business doesn’t look like it. That is, if he isn’t bluffing us.” “Tm afraid that’s what he’s doing.” Davis hardly expected to see Phil appear at “his office in the morning, when he did, with the option in-his hand, the broker looked at him pretty hard. ; “There’s your option, Mr. Davis,” said Phil. “Pl] ittake your cheek for $37,500, the amounc of the deposit.” “Say, what do you expect to make out of this ?” asked the broker, curiously. as “That needn’t worry you, Mr. Davis. offering you the chance to raise $50,000 cash by selling 10,000. shares of M. & N. at 75, if you can get it. If you haven’t the stock you can sell that much short with the certainty of covering at 70. J always like to give.my acquaintances a lift.” “Instead of offering me the option why don’t you sell 10,000 shares short yourself and make the $50,000, if you’re So confident you can de- liver the stock in five days at 70?” “Oh, I hate to make too much money all at “once. I want to give somebody else the chance ~ I am A GAME FOR GOLD “You're awfully obliging, aren’t you?” replied Dayis, sarcastically. “Erp _ “Yes, I was born that way and can’t help be- ing so. “Say,” said Davis, suddenly, and with some suspicion, “are you figuring on a tip?” “What difference does that make to you? You'll make $50,000 anyway, won’t you?” “That's so,” admitted the broker. “Blamed if I can understand you. You’re 2 mystery to me.” “Well, do you want the option, or don’t you?” asked Phil. “I must be going.” “I'll take it,” and Davis. drew his check for $37,500 and handed it to Phil. That completed the deal and the boy walked over to the Astor Building to see Crossley on the same errand. Much the: same converastion took place be-— tween them, the broker accevtine the option and giving his check for the deposit. . ; “J suppose you'll lose no time now selling 10,000 M. & N. at the market,” said Phil. “J reckon I will. I don’t know any easier way to make $40,000 or $50,000.” ; : “J wouldn’t wait too long doing it, then,’ chuckled Phil, looking at the tape that flowed from Crossley’s private ticker. 53 “Oh, I don’t know. I may get a better price if I wait_a day or two,” replied Crossley, care- lessly. “J doubt it, Mr. Crossley. Take a look at the tape.” : The broker, noting the peculiar tone of the — boy’s voice, sprang from his chair and seized the tape in his fingers. He gave a gasp of surprisé and consternation. M. & N. had suddenly gone down three points and lower quotations were be- ing recorded every moment. EF ceo “Great Scott!” he exclaimed. “What in thun- der is in the wind? I must get over to the Ex- — change.” : See - He grabbed his hat and flew, Phil following him out with a subdued chuckle. eat CHAPTER XII—Phil’s Generosity. The young broker went up into the visitor’s gallery at the Exchange and took his place ata certain point. He had arranged a code of signals with Broker Newcomb, who was now the center of an excited crowd of brokers at the M. & N. — standard. to convey certain instructions if he deemed it necessary to make any change in his associate’s tactics. M. & N. was now quoted at. 701-2, and that was the figure that confronted — Mr. Cro sley when he rushed upon the floor. He had hardly taken in the situation before New- comb worked off a washsale with one of hi lieutenants that secured a quotation of 70. € ; Crossley was aghast. At that moment, Davis, who had been to his office, hurried on the floor to look for him and consult over the situation. The only way to stop the downward rush of M._& N. was to buy as fast as Newcomb offered the stock. Neither Crossley nor Davis could do this themselves, as their resources were so tied up that they could not have paid for the stock. Besides, they were both bound to accept 10,000 shares apiece at 70, five days hence, of Phil os ester, and that involved a matter of $700,000 each. ee
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A GAME FOR GOLD ' which they had not expected to have to meet. As they already held 35,000 shares of the stock, | which was heavily mortgaged, on which they were so far out a matter of $8 a share, or $280,000, every point the stock dropped now represented a loss of $35,000, not to speak of what they would be out five days from date if M. & N. was below 70 at that time. Kipp and Wilcox were on the floor, but were taking no part in the excitement. To them Cross- ley and Davis rushed for help. The four held a hurried consultation, and other bull. operators were called in. By the time a movement, head- ed by Kipp, was made, M. & N. was selling at 673-8. Newcomb had been offiering “any part of 10,000 shares” right along, with no takers. When Kipp stepped up and accepted the batch, Newcomb dropped to 5,000. Kipp took that, too. In a few minutes Kipp had bought for himself © and his associates $2,000,000 worth of M. & N. at 67 and 67 1-8, but Newcomb still offered the stock. Kipp didn’t dare buy any more, for it-was a question how they would be able to meet their obligations as far as he had gone. The Kipp crowd now held by a tenure 65,000 or 75,000 shares on the market. The slurp of eight points in the price, however, had placed Crossley and Davis in desperate straits with reference to the - $5,000 shares which they had hypothecated to their full limit. The two banks that had loaned money on the stock called for more security to _ eover the loans. The traders were unable to meet _ the call and the 35,000 shares were thrown on _ the market by the banks’ brokers. z Wiseman, who was on the lookout for any stock offered by traders outside of Newcomb. and his ‘men, immediately bought the stock up as quietly as possible. He had already taken in 15,000 shares prior to that at prices varying from 70 down to 67 1-2. This gave him 50,000 shares to turn over to Newcomb to meet the 35,000. odd short sales he had made off the Kipp crowd, As _ goon as Kipp drew out of the fight, Newcomb of- fered any part of 5,000 shares for 66 7-8, 5-8, 3-8, 1-8, 65, with no takers. The Exchange was now a pandemonium of excitement. Every stock on the list took a tumble, and the traders were frantically trying to dispose of their customers’ holdings at any. figure they could get. ‘Phil, seeing that a big panic was imminent, signalled Newcomb to stop, and the trader drew out of the crowd, with M. & N. standing at 65. A couple of sharp-eyed brokers had seen Phil’s signal, and noted the effect that followed. They ‘recognized in the boy the “Baby of Wall Street, and they saw at once that he was directing some big deal. Newcomb was on hand whenever an effort was made to bull M. & N., and the attempt failed, so that when three o’clock came around / and the chairman’s gavel fell, the stock closed weak at 65. Broker Newcomb had the stock ready - to-deliver to Kipp. That trader offered to settle for the difference between what he had bought it at and the prevailing market price, and was accommodated. Wiseman, in the meantime, had secured 5,000 more shares at a price around 66 1-2 which gave Phtl 55,000 shares of the stock. The intelligence that Phil Forester was at the head of the big bear raid on M. & N. was soon around J] Street, and created great astonishment. In the meantime a score of brokers called at . do will 19 his office, singly or in pairs, but failed to find him in. That night Phil called to see the little old woman at her home. From ten to three that. day she had sat alongside her private ticker scan- ning the fight on M. & N. that the boy broker was engineering for her, and she smiled with evident satisfaction when she saw Phil was hold- ing the situation well in hand. Phil was at his office next morning at eight for he had a lot of bookkeeping work to do, and he put in an hour and a half getting things straight. Then he went over to see Newcomb. He was waylaid by a dozen brokers, but he laughed at their remarks about his connection with the previous day’s up- roar on the Exchange. As only two trailers had actually seen him in the gallery his attitude cre- ated a doubt as to whether he really had any- thing to do with the bear raid. That day M. & N. went down to 68 5-8, and Wiseman gathered in about 10,000 more shares at panic prices. On the third day of the slump the stock was offered by Newcomb for 68, and Wise- man gathered in 6,000 more shares. Phil now had 70,000 shares paid for at the Bank of Finance, On the following day he met Crossley on the street. 3 “Well, you see I knew what I I sold you that option,” he sal to the trader. “Will you be ready to pay for those 10,000 shares to-morrow at 70?” Crossley glared at him. “Are you at the head of the bear raid?’ he demanded, hoarsely. “If you are you have nearly ruined Davis and myself.” “Why, I thought you and Mr. Davis didn’t speak any more?” said the boy, somewhat sur- rised, for so far he had not suspected collusion tween the two traders. “Who told you that?” “Mr. Davis did when he sent me to you the other day to buy any le of 10,000 shares o M. & N. at 75 1-8,” en Crossley recollecte the scheme he and Davis had hatched up against Phil, but which had not been carried out. “J’m not responsible for what Davis said,” he growled. “All I know is we had 35,000 shares of M. & N. which we couldn’t hold. on account of the slump. We're out nearly $400,000 on it. I can’t pay for those 10,000 at 70. The best I can “ to raise the difference between 70 and the market price, which now is 63. It may be 60 to-morrow, and that will clean me out of everything but my seat in the Exchange,” added Crosley, with a groan. “Well, Mr. Crossley, I don’t want to force you to the wall. I have the power to do it, though, if I wished to do you up. I have, the resources behind me to push M. & N. down to 50 before the time limit of the option expires, and that: would a you as dry as a sponge. I'll tell you what Til do. If you want to settle now at two points above the market I’ll let you out of your hole.” “Do you mean that, Forester?” exclaimed the trader, eagerly. _ “I do. I hold $87,500 deposit of yours. Give me your check for $12,500 and my. option back and we'll let the deal go at that.” : i “This is generous of you, Forester,” said Cross- ley, in a broken voice. “I’m nearly down and as doing when ‘out, and you are givigyg me a,chance to get on — _ my feet again.” ae “Pd sooner do that ‘than crush you.” a5 ¢ ri eS as Sige
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Ps 20. “You are heaping coals of fire on my head.” “In what way?” ; “J put up a job on you in connection with Davis to try and. unload a part of our 35,000 shares of - M. & N. on you so that we could turn ourselves,” “Did you two hold 35,000 shares of that stock?” asked Phil, in surprise. ‘We did. We purchased it at the time of the rise of J. & D., when the market looked to be going up out of sight. 78 for it,.and expected to get 90. It represented an investment of two and a half millions. Of course we didn’t have that amount of money at -our disposal, so as fast as we bought the stock we borrowed as much on it as the banks would let us have so as to pay for more of it. Well, this slump caught us bad. The banks sold the stock to protect themselves and instead of making half a million we lost néarly that amount.” “Well, I’m sorry for you, Mr. Crossley. Vil go around to your office and we'll close out this option matter right away.” The broker was only too glad to free himself from an incubus, an when he handed Phil his check for $12,500 and “the option he said: “{ sha’n’t forget this, Forester. Some day I may be able to return the favor. If I ever can 1 will, depend,on me.” f “All*right,” replied Phil, cheerfully. “I'll take your word for it.” then shook hands and They parted. 4 CHAPTER XIlI—The Young King of Wall Street. Phil, after leaving Crossley’s office, went to see Mr. Davis. The broker had been told that Phil was believed to be at the head of the bear raid on M. & N., and he had also seen the fact chron- jcled in the newspapers, but he wouldn’t believe that such was actually the case. Whoever the person was his success had led practically-to the ‘broker’s ruin, and Davis had very hard thoughts against him. The last straw with him was the ‘option he had bought of Phil. There were two coursés open to him—either to meet his engage- - ment like a man, if it took his last dollar, or sac- - yifice his deposit and repudiate the agreement. _ He glared at Phil when the boy walked into his office. “Well, what do you want?” he demanded in a surly tone.: of thought V’d drop in and see if I couldn’t re- lieve you of that option before-M. & N. drops completely out of sight,” said Phil, cheerfully. “Oh, you did?” replied Davis, with a sneer. “You've got $37,500 of my good money. How much more do you want?” sea “As the market stands to-day $32,500 will just square us. As it is likely to stand to-morrow, when the option expires, if will cost you $50,000 to settle.” “You seem to ket these days,” talked around that you ~ Yut I didn’t believe it. in it, ’d-———” : “What?” asked Phil, coolly. “Throttle you. This slump thas done me and know a whole lot about the mar- gnarled Davis.- “I’ve heard it were running the market, If I had taken any stock ~ Grossley up, and—— -, 4] think you’re wrong about ‘Mr. Crossley. I A GAME FOR GOLD We paid an average of © qd ~ present you with the difference.” ‘said Phil, who was very angry at the treatment a just left him and he seems satisfied, now the worst has blown over, that he’ll soon get on his feet again.” — : _ “Did he settle with you in advance of the time ae _ “He did, and he acted like a gentleman about __ it. If Mr. Crosley should need any assistance to get into shape again he wouldn’t have to go further than me.” Broker Davis almost gasped. : “e that’s your opinion of Crossley, is it?” he sald, tz Se “ That’s my present opinion of him.” s “And what’s your opinion of me?” ‘I think that’s rather too personal a question for you to ask, Mr. Davis. Do you want to settle that option to-day or would you prefer to let it -run its course?” } “J don’t care anything about the option.: zie sha’n’t call on you for the stock. You’ve got all the money out of me you’re going to get.” ~ Pe “All right, Mr. Davis. If that’s the way you're going to fix it hand me over the option and I’ll ' “You'll present me with nothing, you young monkey!” roared the broker. “I don’t owe youn cent. According to the rules of the Exchange I’m not responsible for anything outside my deposit — which you have. That’s all I’ve got to say to you. Get out!” Phil rose and looked at the broker. “To-morrow morning at eleven, when the op- — tion expires, M. & N. will be offered on the Ex- change at 50. I will then send the 10,000 shares : to you for you to accept or reject, as you see fit to do. But remember, if you don’t take them at — 70 every trader on the Street shall learn the facts of the case—that you are hiding behind a rule of the Exchange. Good-day, Mr. Davis.” — | As Phil turned toward the door Broker Davis jumped to his feet with a howl of rage. He sprang’ upon the boy, and bearing him to the floor by his — superior weight, he tried to grasp Phil by the — throat. A violent struggle ensued Gtaens them, the noise of which brought several of the clerks into the room. It was with the greatest difficulty that they succeeded in pulling their employer one the boy broker. es. “I intend to swear out a warrant against you for asault, unless you apologize for your conduct,” he had received. The reply Davis made was siz- — zling hot. ~ Bes “1 camein here like a gentleman, and I intended _ to settle with you on the same terms I offered Mr. Crossley and which he accepted. It would have let you down easy and in an honorable way. To- morrow you'll either take in the stock at 70, or pay the difference between that and the market. — ailure to do either will not redound to your credit.” Thus speaking, Phil readjusted his neck- tie and walked out of the office. When the Hx-
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_ option expired by default. As soon as Mr. New- _ comb returned with his answer, Phil sent a paper _ to the chairman of the Exchange announcing the _ consolidation of C. & G. with M. & N. Its reading created great excitement, and on top of it Wise- -- man started-in to boom the price. Wiseman started - the bidding at 51, and no stock being offered, he - went on, amid growing excitement, to call for any _ part of 20,000 shares at 52, and 80 on up “ed 5 ive the Exchange and the traders to fight it out among themselves. ; a ~The whole deal had been a great success. ~ Wall Street never learned positively who was the deal, though a strong suspicion existed that the little old woman in black, as Mrs. Cowell ‘as called, was in some way connected with it, notwithstanding that she had never been known to operate through anybody but Westlake, Page & Co., who’ this time were left out in the cold. Phil, however, was recognized as the broker ho had engineered the deal to a successful con- clusion, and it gave him a tremendous reputation. Phil now had nearly $600,000 capital to call upon and he also had the assurance of heavy financial backing from Mrs. Cowell if at any time he need- sd additional capital to push any of his own deals to a successful end. CHAPTER XIV.—Conclusion. No one heard of Phil’s successful rise in Wall ‘reet with greater pleasure than Nanny Lee. ‘When Phil opened his new office his first visitor was Nanny Lee. _ “Oh, my, what a grand place you have now, Forester!” she said, looking around the big n, about half of which was divided by a tall ‘ass wire fence and supplied with a big safe and asks for the cashier and clerks, while the open. rt had a ticker and chairs for visitors. . “Yes, it?s nice and roomy. J had to make the change, for business came down on me so sud- denly that I was quite snowed under in my small fice in the Catton Building. I am glad you did ne the honor to call so soon, for it shows that uu take some interest in me and my affairs,’ he dded, as he led her into the handsomely-furnish- ed inner room, off the reception-room, which he ad appropriated as his private office. shall always take an interest in you, Mr. ester,” said Nanny, “for I owe you a debt of atitude that.I can scarcely hope to repay.” . “Well, if you’re anxious to repay me I think I show you how you can do it,” he replied, tak-_ ; d in his.. youl sihgree she asked. ng a life interest in me, Nanny,” he ae re PN Sea ae A GAME FOR GOLD ises the real power that projected and financed” "the it with his own name wrote down, “M. ot answered, for the first time addressing her by her Christian name. She did not withdraw her gloved hand from his, but she cast her eyés down at the handsome rug which covered the floor, and a rich blush suffused her lovely face, “You must have noticed that I have learned to care for you more and more since the first day we came to know each other,” he went on. “T- have come to regard you as the one girl with all my heart, and now on the threshold of what prom- es to be a prosperous business career I want to win your promise to be my wife some day in the near future. Do you care enough for me to make that promise? Or at least may I hope that you are not indifferent to the feelings I entertain to- wards you?” Although she did not immediately answer, her attitude was so favorable that he was emboldened to steal his arm around her waist. ; “What is your answer, Nanny? Is it ‘yes’ or ‘no’??? s “Yes,” she answered, hiding her blushing face on his shoulder. Inside of a week every trader in the Street knew that the “Young King of Wall Street,” as he was jokingly called since that appel- Jation was attached to him by the Sunday news- paper, had moved into quarters as fine almost as any broker in the entire district. While there were many brokers who regarded his sudden rise with feelings that could not exactly be called friendly, there were only two who actually hated him, and hungered after his downfall. These two were Kipp and Davis. Kipp was pretty well fixed, but Davis was om the ragged edge. The latter, however, secured a tip on a certain stock a month after the operations of M. & N. had ~ ceased to longer interest the Street. Then one day these two traders put their heads together to see if they couldn’t get up some scheme for downing “Young King of Wall Street.” They tried to get Crossley to come in with them, but he declined, and then they succeeded in interesting Wilcox. In a few days this broker — called on Phil and asked him if he would take charge of the buying and booming of a certain: stock for a syndicate of operators Whose nates he dectined to mention. “Why do you come to me, Mr. Wilcox?” asked Phil. “I’m not a member of the Exchange, while you are. If I undertook such a commission I'd have to operate through one or more brokers. Why don’t you take charge of the buying and booming yourself?” “J should like to, Forester,” replied Wilcox, frankly, “but the members of the pool seem to think that you are the white-haired boy of the Street, and they believe that whatever you handle “, ds sure to succeed.” : : . ~ “What is the name of the stock?” “Michigan Northern.” ¢‘Does the pool expect to corner the stock?” “Yes.” Phil, after some thought, declined to undertake the job. Finally, after failing to get Phil to reconsider his determination, he asked the young broker if he would assist him in buying up as much of the stock as he could find on the quiet. : ! re “T’'ve no objection to doing that. Give me a written order.” Wilcox wrote the order, naming 84 as the price to be paid, but instead of ; ae, ay
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kent . friends had been selling the stock short, ge A GAME FOR GOLD | | be dicate.” Phil looked at the order and at once sus- ected that there was something behind it that ooked like a trap. He said nothing, however, t promised to attend to the matter. “Buy all you can get of the stock and hold it poses instructions from the syndicate,” said ileox, as he got up and prepared to go. “All right,” said Phil. Wilcox had hardly gone ‘before Crossley came in to see him. “Forester,” he said, “I owe you a good turn. You treated me white when I was in a hole and I said then I would return the favor if I could. Well, I want to tell you that Kipp and Davis are trying to work some kind of scheme off on you. The asked me to go in with them, but I refused. don’t know exactly what the game is, but I think it’s connected with Michigan Northern.” Phil thanked Crossley for his warning and when the broker left the boy put on his hat and went calling at many offices for M. N. stock. He had no great difficulty in buying it at 84, but.as soon _as he secured 80,000 shares he took them in to Mr. Newcomb and asked him to work them off in small lots on the Exchange. Then he went around and bought 20,000 shares more. These also he got rid of through his trusted broker. Next day Wil- - cox came in and asked him if he had bought any of the stock.” j “Yes. I bought 50,000 shares,” and he showed the broker the memorandums he had taken from the traders from whom he got the shares. “When : and where do you want them delivered?” he added. “7’] let_you know this afternoon,” said Wilcox. Then he went away. Phil put on his hat, fol- “lowed him and saw him go straight to Kipp’s ‘office. Then the boy went to Newcomb’s office and had a consultation with him. At the close of their talk Nedcomb went to the Exchange. Hardly had he got there when Kipp, Davis and Wilcox ap- peared and began to sell big blocks of M. N. They dumped it on the market so fast that the price broke and went down from 84 to 74, at which figure Newcomb commenced to buy it in, causing a slight reaction. There was only 80,000 shares on the market and Newcomb soon had 65,000 of them. Phil secured 10,000 more on the outside among the offices. That gave him a corner on the stock. Newcomb in the meantime discov- ered, as he had suspected, that Kipp and ye ae _ ing to buy it in at the low rate. They would have succeeded but for the fact that Phil’s broker had gotten ahead of them. When the Exchange open- ed the next morning not a share of M. N. could be had. Newcomb then began bidding the price ‘up, and it went with a rush at 88. Kipp and hig crowd were now in a bad hole, for they had sold 60,000 shares that they could not deliver. fact that they believed Phil had been squeezed gu the 50,000 shares Wilcox told them he bought was Vittle satisfaction to them now when they found themselves badly trapped, too. Their con- sternation was great, however, when Phil noti- fied them through Newcomb that he held their ob- ‘ligations for 60,000 shares of M. N., and demand- ed delivery of the stock. The result was they had to try to settle with him. The only terms he - would give them was the difference between what . they sold for and the market, and this put all put Kipp out of business, and so crippled him that The . _cayations are to be resumed... he had to throw up his seat in the Exchange and go on the Curb. Fees The Street soon heard about Phil’s coup and talked about it for days. It brought a fresh rush of customers to his office, for everybody wanted to put his business in the hands of the lucky young broker who was now worth a million. From that day everything went swimmingly with Phil, who in due time built a fine home in Larchmont, which he presented to Nanny Lee as his wedding gift on the day they were joined to- gether in the holy bonds of wedlock. : To-day Phil is well known in financial circles as one of the biggest men who sway the moneyed interests of the country but he prefers to be re- membered eby his early title of The Young King of Wall Street. Next. week’s issue will contain “A WIZARD a na or, GETTING AHEAD IN THE FIRST BIT OF CLOTH USED BY MOUND BUILDERS Explorers sent out by the Ohio Historical and Archaeological Society to open the great central mound of thé Seis Group, near Bainbridge re- vealed another page in the amazing history of the ancient race which populated the interior of the North American continent. They discovered that, like the E American mound builders sometimes buried their princely dead in heavy-timbered mausoleums, un- der canopies of exquisitely fashioned cloth, and _ that when these tombs were built the tribesmen _ carried earth in baskets and heaped it on the sepulchres until em had reared mountains thirty feet above the level of the surrounding country. The new discoveries were centred around the disentombing of four skeletons, believed to be the __ remains of members of a royal family. In the sepulchre was found the first bit of cloth ever — seen in a North American mound. The design of the cloth was on concentric circles almost per- fect geometrically. The cloth showed colors of green, tan, black and white, but it was not cer- tain that these were original colors, the explorers said, because it was found under a corroded cop- _ Bey plate, which may have discolored the fabric luring the centuries it lay there. : or The Sitabs erin could be traced by the rotted and charred timbers that surrounded the plat- form on which the bodies lay; and on the ceiling of the sepulchre could be seen the imprint of a fabric which had decayed. : Several quarts of pearls were gathered up front the tomb, the removal of the skeletons revealing layers of pearls, which corroborated the idea that they had been woven into shrouds for the’dead. Intricately carved and highly polished tortoise — shell ornaments also were found in the tomb. One — of the skeletons wore a necklace of bear tusks. From the skull of another protruded two co rods, each more than a foot long around whi the ancient American’s long hair J This find ends the season’s work on the mound, which has been one-fourth explored. H. C. § trone, curator of archaeology of the Ohio torical and Archaeological Society, ts make further researches next spring, when tians, the a
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ae e: c= ee 3 - : oe FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY == sO" b> HARRY THE HALY-BACK | Goce tscmre opeceme As Winslow resumed his position, Perey Silk- ane: OR well ene etciain aS ae te a Z seemed as though he had just reali at he A FOOTBALLIST FOR FAIR had in effect been forced to apologize; had been backed down by the quiet young stranger, and a ashe meds ns eee boil. — - ae : > GASTON GARNE ; e suddenly dashed his cigarette on the floor By ‘ »and strode forward and confronted Winslow. His 4 eyes were blazing with ragé, and he shook his (A Serial. Story.) fist in the youth’s face and hissed out, with the CI geo oe viciousness of a rattlesnake: Em CHAPTER II.—(Continued) “You are an insolent puppy! Do you hear? ae S 3 oo iaaena rier so eee A puppy—puppy—puppy |” : “Well! oe ae “who is he? He All present stared in silence, while they quiv- ~ isn’t a student here? ered with suppressed excitement. “Yes, he a ey - . . They knew that Percy Silkwell was keyed to oo ee fiat eee “4 the fighting Bie one a oe the quiet bas ne. : Se iste Os a Z grim face and glinting eyes o arry Winslow Seen oa sade gg Pe made them come to the conclusion that he was ‘Winslow over, with a sneering look in his sinis- not the fellow to permit himself to be insulted Bs ee ies , 2 . aces te eee ee es te . i 5 By nd they were right, for, as they stood there, oe marek Bee Pgh haere ed staxin in woudbr and eager excitement, some’ ‘ Wiliens,” said Eugene Small, who delighted in ting happened. 5 stirring up stvife. Siw : ; Pe: «Well, it won’t work,” growled Wilkins. “I'll : CHAPTER III stand up for my rights. I’ll report the fact of : xt is being’ a professional to the manager of the An Arrogant Youth. ‘Larchmount team, that’s what I'll do.” i : : ; cs ~~. “Don't jump at conclusions, gentlemen,” said Harry Winslow reached out like a flash and) arker, ca. ly. “Mr. Winslow here is not a.pro- caught Silkwell by the wrist. A vigorous twist - ac ‘al, but is a regular entered’and en- and down went Percy.upon his knees, while a ~~ udent, ees f ¥ ‘rolled the same as the rest of-us.” _ howl of par escaped his 7 ie ee. “How does it happen that he has only ju-t “Qh-h-h-h!” he cried. “Let go of my wrist, hown up, then?” sneered Silkwell. “Here it is _you——” ; ‘ _ October, and the term sobvag Fs a aneger : Another quick, vigorous twist and- Silkwell’s “His mother was very ill, and he could not words were cut short, ending in a howl of pain. omé sooner,” was the reply. shat “Take it back,” said Winslow, ‘his face set and “So he says, of course,” sneered Silkweil. a glint of fire in. his eyes. : _ The youths glanced at Winslow, and they noted “Let go of my wrist!” responded Silkwell, vic- “that his face flushed slightly and that there was iously. é a peculiar glint of fire in his usually calm eyes. He made an effort to rise, but a twist. sent him _ “J’l] wager that he can fight,” whispered Curly back again. : cy Carwell to Arthur Pessiman. The youths stared in amazement. The 'ma- - “Yes, but he couldn’t stand up before Percy, jority were delighted as well. They disliked Per- you know,” was the reply. _ 7 ey, and were glad to see that he had met his - “T -wish that he might. be able to do it.” - “match. : mv G0 do.1.” , Of course his immediate cronies, Sniall, Thorp “Suddenly Harry Winslow stepped forward. He and Wilkins, were not pleased, but they were so confronted Percy Silkwell, much to that youth’s amazed that they could only stare in wondering. amazement, and looked him steadily in the eye for and _ horrified silence. _ eer ew moments. Then he said: 2 “Take it back!” said Winslow, sternly. se po you mean to insinuate that I would lie?” “Let me up!” from Percy. | ay Dee he tone was quiet, ominously quiet. Ses “When you retract your statement.” F ilkwell, to the surprise of all who were wit- “You don’t dare come outside and give me a s of the affair, changed color and looked ill fair chance at you!” hissed Silkwell. oe sase, They had expected that he would knock “Tl go out with you and give you all the chance — new. student down, for he was very hot-- you want after you take back the epithet you — ee -and would not brook sauciness from any applied to me,” quietly. =r Seat oe “was a word and a blow with him and us- “Will you?” eagerly. ee oa the blow came first. 2 “Yes,” ’ ~ \ fae eps, Why—that is—I—why, no—I don’t mean to “All right; I take that back. Now let me up. uate anything of the kind,” he stammered. and follow me if you dare!” 52 et ae /am glad of that,” was the quiet reply, and Winslow laughed a peculiar, exasperating, sar- castic laugh and immediately let go of Perey’s J ART wrist. s feet and glared at Wi icious hatred in his eyes. — ‘are smart, don’t you?”
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24 “Why so?” - “Why, your catching me by the wrist when I _ ‘was not looking proves it. Doubtless you think that because you did that you are a better man than I am.” “No, I don’t think so because I did that, but I think so for the reason that I am sure that I am a better man than you are.” “Oh, you're sure of it, eh?” “Yes.” “You've got another think coming,” sneered me Small. f “And so have you, Gene,” grinned Jimmy Op- per. 4 “Our man will lick your man, I know As sure as water down hill does flow.” Small glowered at Opper, but did not reply. He was too greatly interested in what the principals in the affair were doing. Silkwell, after glaring at Winslow a few mo- ments, said, viciously: ° “Come with me.” “Where to?” asked Harry. “To the ‘Kield of Honor.’ ” “Very good; lead on and I will be right with There was no hesitancy in Winslow’s manner. He seemed ready and willing. “Come on, everybody,” said Denman. “Since there has been a clash between our two fellow students, it is as well to have the difficulty set- _ tled as quickly as possible.” ; _ their lips: _ desirous that the new student should be the victe FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY hand on his hip and leaning over sli lifted Curly slowly and steadily till he Bhi eee high — in the air above his head. ae It was a remarkable feat of strength, and all stared in amazement. ‘ Silkwell himself was so astounded that he dropped his cigarette and held onto the lighted match till it burned his fingers, causing him to utter an exclamation of pain and anger. , “Bah!” he sneered; “that is two parts trick and one part real strength. It proves nothing.” But the majority of the spectators thought dif- ferently.. Exclamations of amazement escaped “Whoever saw the like of that!” x “Wonderful!” = “Beats anything I ever saw!” “Jove, just look at him!” Small, Thorp and Wilkins stared-in open mouthed amazement, and even they, who had come to think that Percy Silkwell was invincible, — began to fear that in this new student he was to meet his:master. Winslow laughed and set Curly a murmured apology. Hoe “Excuse me for taking such a liberty, old fel- low,” he said. et ' “Don’t mention it,” grinned lank { “That’s higher up in the world than you will — ever be again, Curly,” said Opper. “Oh, I don’t know; you can never tell.” aed “That’s so; I forgot that you are pitcher on the baseball nine and that pitchers are prone to go ‘up in the air.’” <n -“Enough of this-foolishness,” growled Silkwell. “Come along if you are going to and stop your showing off.” i a “You stopped to light your cigarette,” smiled Winslow, “‘so it was not I that brought about the delay.” ; Bess An inarticulate exclamation of anger was Silk-— well’s only reply, and he strode out of the room and along the broad hallway and out through the front door and away in the direction of the - gymnasium. After him went his three cronies and following them were the other students. “Methinks our noble Silkwell is going to get beautifully trimmed,” murmured Jimmy Opper- to Pessiman, beside whom he was walking. “I don’t know about that,” replied the other, soberly; “Percy’s a bad one in a fight, you know.” “Oh, you old pessimist! Ill wager a stick.of- ye gum that Winslow thrashes him sound- __ on his feet with ae “Don’t bet,, boy; it is wicked,” droned Pessi- man. ; ; ee The little crowd making its way across campus attracted the attention of a number students, who quickly guessed what was in th wind and fell in line, eager~to see the affair. They made eager inquiries and were pale all the information possessed by those who the affair from its inception. — The majority expressed themselves as b ng “Don’t worry; he will be,’ said Jimmy Opp who was confidence personified. Sifts tee (To be continued) — a
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} SNAKESKIN SHOES FOR WOMEN High shoes for women, after having been in By hedishment for eleven years, again will be in _ fashion on the streets of London this winter. - The shoes will not. be the plain black and tan ones of years ago, but will be of highly colored -Jeathers and snake and crocodile skins. Jeweled and other fancy heels will add a piquant touch. Men’s footwear also will undergo some radical for the autumn styles will be of man s—green, red, blue and brown—to ma ng. Also, the heels will be higher = x have this. S PAL.” tra: ded a ten- year While the show was in Newark, N.J., a ee looking old man came up to meet Ezra ter they had exchanged pleasantries, the new- omer informed the old scout he was 100 years his new acquaintance was Ezra asked him if he did them harmful. “No,” wag the reply, as he took an extra long , “and V’ve used ’em since’ I was eighty.” : -PIRE GIRLS GUARD BERLIN - Weidmannslust, a little suburb of Berlin, is the -only community in Germany which has a women’s - fire brigade. On their own initiative twelve young women founded the town’s fire department, as ere were not enough available men for the pur- ese firewomen sport a green uniform and erbockers. But they could not be induced card their smart, high-heeled shoes. They insisted that it was just as easy to be active in rty footwear as in service boots. At the fit- anniversary of the town they were the -prin- feature of the celebration. They went h a fire drill with a precision denoting ex- nary discipline and efficiency. .. THE DEAD SEA - . ead Sea, a lake in Palestine which lies 90 feet; below the level of the Mediterran- ea, is given its name because it is so salty = - ean eee ae z i 2S FAME AND. FORTUNE WEEKLY : is _ GOOD READING / Bach nu 166 West 23d Street 25 , that no fish can live in it; only the lowest forms of animal life survive there. e principal reason for its saltiness is that water rag mineral salts is continually running into it. The intense. heat evaporates the water, leaving the lake al- ways at about the same level, and the salts re- main behind. The lake lies so low that it has no outlet. Occupying the lowest part of the great: chasm through which the Jordon flows, the Dead Sea is about five times ag salty as the water of the ocean. If we try to swim in it we cannot ssibly sink but bob up and down like a cork. his extreme saltiness is due to rapid evapora- tion. Each of the numerous streams that flow” into it brings a small amount of salt. The Dead Sea deserves its name, for fish put into its water die immediately. Such scanty vegetation as is found is covered with a white salt crust-that makes it look as though it had been “smitten with leprosy.” Yet, seen from a distance the water appears brilliantly blue and clear. THE “CIVET CAT” What is known as the civet'cat in America is the cacomistic, which is not a true civet but is more closely related to the raccoon. These ani- mals are similar in haunts and habits. The ani- mal is slender, about ten inches long, with sharp, fox-like face, large bright eyes, surrounded with light patches and erect ears. ‘The long soft fur is light brown, darker along the back; the under parts are white and the bushy tail has six broad white rings around it. The civet is an inhabi- tant of the warmest regions of the Old World, chiefly Africa and the Malayan Islands. It is about two or three feet long and ten inches high, is more slender than a raccoon and has a lon tail. The fun, gray above and white. below, is tinged with yellow and marked by dusky spots in rows. Civets live in holes, like foxes, and eat birds and other small animals. They are also fond of crocodile eggs and are considered valuable ~ |. along the Nile because they prevent too rapid increase in the crocodile family. Most of all, civets are valuable for a fatty substance with a musky odor, which is taken from pouches in the body and use in making perfumes. In London an ounce of pure civet is valued at more than $10, and many thousand ounces are imported every years Tato sash “Moving Picture Stories” A Weekly Magazine Devoted to Photoplays and Players PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY ‘contains Three Stories of the Best Films on the Screen—BHlegant Half-tone Scenes from the Plays —Interesting Articles About Prominent People in : Films—Doings of Actors and Actresses in the Studie and Lessons in Scenario Writing. re : _ HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc. “New York City. - * ian ar
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aye “26 26 Fame and Fortune Weekly” NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 13, 1925 TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS NWESi. oc). 6% AEDST $5.00. TO SEND MONEY—At our risk send. P. O. poey. Order, Check or Registered Letter; remittances din any other way are at your risk. We accept Postage Btamps the ‘same as cash. When sending silyer wrap the Coin in a ee piece of paper to avoid cutting the envelope. Write your name and address plainly. Address letters to HARRY E. WOLFF, Publisher, Inc., 166 W. 23d St., N. Y. ITEMS OF INTEREST Charles E. Nylander, Sec. Harry E. Wolff, Pres. L, F. Wilzin, Treas. . YACHTSMAN CATCHES TURA WEIGHING 290 PORUNDS OFF CAPE MAY A tuna weighing 290 pounds was caught by H. E. Derbyshire, of Philadelphia, a“fetired business man, while fishing off Five Fathom Bank Light, from his private yacht. He caught six large ones two weeks ago. The oldest fishermen on the South Jersey coast express amazement at the run of tuna in these waters, as this fish rarely has been known to come north of South Carolina. ESKIMOS TAKE LONG TRIP Eskimos inhabiting King Island, in Bering Sea, during the winter months, packed their be- longings and canoed to Nome, Alaska, this sum- mer, arriving in time to celebrate the Fourth of July in the same manner as do the white people. The e, numbering about 170 Eskimos, annually comes here to dispose of ivory, furs and ‘skins, which amount to several thousand dollars a season. On the bleak and barren King Island, not far from the Diomede Islands, they settle each autumn with a winter’s supply of provis- ions, consisting mostly of the necessities of life, the balance of their food being gained from the sea and hunting on the ice floes. { MONKEYS DO MEN’S WORK In Pattani, a southern province of Siam, and - $n Kelantan, one of the unfederated Malay States, monkeys are trained by the natives to pick cocoa- nuts and edible seed pods for their masters, ac- cording to D. Bourke of the Indian Forest Serv- ice, who has made an interesting observation of -g@ new commercial. use of trained domestic ani- mals. - The romantic notion—derived from literature’ of the Swiss Family Robinson type—that mon- “keys naturally climb cocoanut palms and throw down: the nuts out of mischief or from desire to oblige is pure fiction. The monkeys must be caugnt young and carefully trained to their jobs by attaching them to a long pole on-the top of oo Raphi apse ge FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY _ “Just barely—it read: which is fastened a bunch of fruit. The animals quickly learn to run up to the fruit and throw it down for their own food. Having once mas-— tered the central idea, as it were, they can then os perfected in their profession in the palm rees. . Only the larger monkeys are successful with the cocoanuts. It requires considerable effort and frequently the use of teeth as well as hands to detach the nuts. But the smaller monkeys: can readily manage the pods which grow in small clusters on the ends of the branches of the _ sataw tree, and which provide the natives with an important food item. -The seeds resemble a broad bean, and are eaten as a vegetable, both raw and cooked. It is said that a well-tramed monkey can pick aS many pods in a day as a man, thus enabling his fortunate owner to earn ele day’s wages with a minimum amount of effort. imi LAUGHS < “The man I marry must have common sense,” re said thé haughty one. “He won't,” the other — answered, bitterly. eg _ Florence—Do you think I have a perfect fit in this gown? Billy—You ought to. I had one” when I paid the bill. : go “T think I shall buy. an automobile.” “But 4 in can’t afford it, old man.” “Why?” It doesn’t cost anything to think.” eae “Did your uncle mention you in his will?” ‘To my nephew, John, bequeath nothing.’ ” ¥ i He—Darling, when did you first find out you loved me? She—When I got annoyed because my friend called you ‘an idiot! Husband (reading the paper)—What fools —Now, some men will make of themselves. Wife- Henry, dear, what have you done this time? “Have you any friends in this city?” asked the paying-teller at the bank. “No,” the sad eyed stranger replied; “I am a baseball um pire.” : nes Polly—Pa, don’t you think I will be a saeven in business life? Pa—No, Polly, not unless you get a situation where you can boss the boss “What’s de matter wid Jimmy?” “Aw, he feels disgraced fer life.” “How’s dat?” “His mudd come out yesterday and took him home right. second base.” ~ zm . be Gargoyle (back in town after a year’s absence) — —When I went away Jones and Brown were rival suitors for Miss Twitter’s hand. Which proved to be the lucky man? Glanders—Can’t tell that yet. She married Brown only a mont! ago. Ask me again in about a year, =
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. FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY 27 CURRENT NEWS \ BIRDS USING MAIL BOXES white coat disappearing’ meantime. If any of the Rural carrier Messer, Unity, Miss., says that growth remains stubbornly, or threatens to return _ fully a dozen mail boxes on his route have been @fter it has gone, a second bath should be given _ preempted this year by wrens, who have built in the same way. The treatment should not be 3 : their nests in the boxes and refuse to leave. One repeated too frequently, however, as it then be- _ farmer solved the problem by getting them to ¢omes injurious to the goldfish—In E. Embanks ' move b — a bird cote on ihe same post, to in Our Dumb Animals. - - which he moved the nest and young. r, and a ere as ESTES Mrs, Wren accepted the new bungalow. TO MAKE A HECTOGRAPH _ j aE Sees) A hectograph is a pad composed of gelatin and FINDS FORTUNE IN PLATINUM glycerin and is used for making impressions of A mining pioneer of Vancouver, Charles F. Writings and drawings. This pad is made in the 'Shaw,. has discovered a deposit of chrome iron Papen of one ounce of gelatin to six and one- containing a large.percentage of platinum. The ‘alf ounces of Lt bien _ These two ingredients _ deposit is on the banks of the dake River, should be allowed to mix by slow heating for British Columbia, and the news of the discovery Several hours over a vessel filled with hot salt has excited such interest that over a hundred water. When thoroughly melted the mixture is claims have been staked already. Platinum from pee into a long, shallow pan and allowed to _ Tulaman is not a new development; over 20,000 harden, when it will have a smooth, even surface. ounces have been won from other deposits in this A special copying ink is needed, which can be region. Mr. Shaw’s deposit, however, is the rich- bought at a stationery store. The matter to be ‘est yet discovered there. copied is written and placed face downward on pe the pad. After a short period the imprint of the KILLED AS HE POUNDS SHELL writing will be transferred to the ha About ‘Raymond Cox of West Creek, operator of a 100 copies may be made by placing blank és é paper arage at Beach Arlington, near Beach Haven, Over the tracings on the pad and rubbing ants " N. J., was killed instantly when he produced a thus transferring the impressions. The fags may rrific explosion while hammering a piece of be cleaned for another impression with a soft ron” he found on the beach, and which he did SPonge and water, and it may be melted and ot know to be a bomb or shell loaded with a Poured over again when the surface becomes high explosive. He, took it to the garage, think- Tough and uneven. . ing he might use it, and later got a heavy ham- © Raise chen, _ mer ia = eat of aire Rag eg ia genter PSYCHOLOGY TESTS FOR MOTORMEN ments. The. explosion threw Cox e floor an Special laboratory tests by which it may be utilated his body. A garage helper was far possible to pick mat the san ano has the hak ough away to be only slightly injured. ings of a safe and efficient street-car pilot are How the shell got to the beach is not known, being devised by Dr. Morris S. Viteles of the id the character of the explosive it contained University of Pennsylvania. as not been determined by officials who made —_ A man’s rating on an intelligence test does not a brief investigation. he always indicate whether he is likely to lose his , head in emergencies, or to run his car badly, This was shown by giving such tests to motor- men _in regular employment and comparing the results with the men’s records in service and _ with the opinions of their supervisors. : Dr. Viteles then worked out a motorman selec- . tion test by which signals are given on a piece of” growths. This takes the form of a spreading mechanical apparatus and the prospective motor- hite deposit. As the growth increases the fish man responds with the same muscles that would ecomes listless and disinclined to swim. It will be used in operating a trolley car. This appara- certainly die unless curative measures are taken tus measures the safety factors such as a man’s as soon as the white coating is noticed. capacity to learn, this ability to keep his attention Give the fish a salt bath—this is one of the steadily on his job, and to act quickly in emer- - est. ways for combatting fungus growth. Pre- gencies so as to avoid accidents. To test an ap- are a rather strong solution of common salt and plicant’s general ability and cuortesy, the psy- ater, allowing a heaped tablespoon of salt to chologist devised a set of questions such as: “If h pint of water. When the salt has all dis- an intoxicated man was raptine 3 the passengers lyed, put the mixture into a bowl. : in your car would you (1) Put him off the car? ‘Now catch the fish, using a net if he evades (2) Pay no attention to him? (8) Turn him our hand. Handling the “patient” very gently, over to the nearest officer? '(4) Report tosthe ut it in the bowl of salt water and leave it train despatcher?” ; e for about three minutes. Then put it into The problem of the alert and capable motor- owl of fresh water, and make this change sev-. man is also being studied by use of elaborate times—allowing from two to three minutes testing machines in a new laboratory in Paris. ach bowl. Sect _ A feature of the French laboratory is a realistic hen the fish is replaced in the aquarium it reproduction of a street car, in which the motor- — Il almost immediately show improvement, more man’s reaction speed and control, are put to the nd activity, and will continue to gain—the test. erik ae : é aoe i CURING SICK GOLDFISH 4 \ nn £52}
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28 = FAME AND FORTUNE WEEKLY FROM ALL POINTS. ; NEW SAFETY GAS The chemical warfare service of the United States Army is experimenting with “sneeze gas,” which may be mixed with illuminating gas so as to save lives by warning room occupants of the - escape of gas. LOOKING FORWARD Believing that the early bird gets the worm a man inserted the following advertisement in the Cincinnati Enquirer: Electrical Men—Will you neec an engineer in a few years? I have been studying electrical engineering at night and will finish in two years. WATCHES AS COMPASSES A watch can be used as a conpass, at any rate in summer. The method followed is this: Point the hour hand of the watch at the sun, and south will be exactly half way between the hour and the figure 12 on the watch. For instance, sup- posing that it is 4 o’clock in the afternoon, point the hour hand indicating at 4 at the sun, and 2 on the watch will be south. In following this rule - _one must remember at 6 A. M. 9 will be south and at 6 P. M. 3 will be south, and that 12 noon points south. But south of the equator the rule is reversed, and the watch will indicate north instead of south. ; ‘ THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediter- ‘ranean Sea, is situated in the most eastern part of - the Mediterranean, 40 miles*south of Asia Minor and 60 miles west of Syria. It has an area of 3,- 584 square miles and a population of 310,709, ac- cording to the census of 1921, including 61,422 Mohammedans and Turks. The capital is Nicosia. Cyprus is governed by high commissioners, an ex- ecutive council and a legislature. Between moun- tain ranges on the northern coast and others in the Southern part of the island there lies a plain which once was well wooded. Now the greater part of the forests are found on the mountains. he streams are mostly mountain torrents, and the island is not well watered, irrigation being practiced to promote the growth of crops. The products include copper, asbestos, marble, gyp- gum, term umbra, sandstone, granite. limestone, salt, wheat, oats, barley vetches, olives, locust beans, potatoes, linseed, citron, wool, silk, cheese, hides, sponges, origanum oil and various fruits. Grapes are plentiful and wine and raisins are produced. attle, sheep, goats and mules are raised. The name Cyprus is derived from a Greek word “kupros,” meaning copper, since Cyprus was - noted in ancient times for that product. The his- tory of this island goes back to about 1500 B. C. It was occupied by the Egyptians, colonized by | the Phoenicians and Greeks and captured at va-_ rious times by the Persians, by the Byzantians, the English, the Venetians and the Turks. It was ceded to Great Britain by Turkey for adminis- trative purposes under a convention made in 1878. During the World War, on the outbreak of hos-. eee teen Great Britain and Turkey in 1914,» ¢ island was annexed to Great Britain. v 1352 “ and the Double Daggers; or, The Secret Sign SECRET SERVICE Grand and Thrilling Detective Stories - By OLD KING BRADY Price 10 Cents We ean still supply the following numbers — of the above Weekly 4 Z 1338 Lhe Bradys and the Subway Mystery; or, Tracking a Gang of Counterfeiters. tt ieaae 1339 “ and the White Band; or, The Sign of the Sil- ver Crors. . 1340 “ and Lock Box No, 11; or, Solving a Post-Office 1341 Mt the 1] Crook yr, The Ch ft “an e Yellow Crooks; or, e ase for the | Chinese Diamonds. ie 1342 “ Strangest Case; or, The Skeleton in the Well. 13843 “ and the School Boy; or, Hct Work on the Brandon Case. : 1344. “* and the Forged Check; or, Convicted by an — Ink Mark. f : ee 1345 ‘“ Best Trick; or, The Clue in the Glass Jar. 1346 “ and ihe Craecksmen; or, A Desperete Game for ons, Zs 1347 * Dato eh tak Mine; or, The Mystery of Shaft — 0. i aT 1348 “ and the Voodoo Queen; or, A Dark Case from San Juan Hill. 1349 “ ~ the Boy Spy; or, Solving a Secret of Seven ears. 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SF ete pr at a ee npg Sacre pignte ed per A a of Seven. e Man Nex oor; or the ‘Ho on High Street. ante’ ahs. sid 1368 “ Case in Chinatown; or, Tracking the Hip Sing =< ong : 1369“. Aud. the Mad Barber; or, Solving A Singular ecret. =e 1370 “ Six Days’ Chase; or, Running Down a Clever _ TOO : 1874 ane wie Black Dwarf; or, Working Up a Poiso: ew. fie 1372.“ Masked Foe; or, The Man With the, Missing inger. : 1378 “ and the Sneak Thieves; or, i racthe: 134) Workin a celina! Oe Oe ee i orking a “Blind”; or, Th 2 Sealed Room. | 2 g ave. the Any of the above numbers will be mailed to postage free, upon receipt of the price in money, postage stamps, , : peepee s ¢ € HARRY E. WOLFF, PUBLISHER, INO., — 43 466 West 28rd Street, © =~ New ‘York, N. ¥. eee er: hi 3 1 t
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WATCHING A LIONESS ‘TRAIN CUBS ‘TO HUNT. According to a report in Euro- pean papers an East Indian of- ficial recently had opportunity to watch a lioness train her cubs in the art of catch- ing and killing prey. It appears that while secret- ed in the bushes to leeward of an open space in the jungle where was tethered: a goat ‘as bait for lions, the’ official saw a lioness come ‘marching along followed by her five cubs: When she spot- ted the unlucky goat the instruc- began. The their mamma Steal up, spring ‘upon the victim -and go through the motions of ving it the coup e grace. Then ‘they faithfully ‘imitated her ac- tions, and after a few trials the goat’s sufferings were over. The lioness “looked about for “another object of demonstra- ion and found it ‘in a buffalo that came strolling that way. 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A STRANGE NEW DRUG A new drug that has been re- cently brought to this country for chemical exami- nation is called bv the natives of the Colombian territories of the Putumayo and Caqueta Rivers, ‘where it grows, by the peculiar name of “Yaje.” The drug is pre- pared from the stem of a rather leafless shrub which averages about nine to twelve feet high. What leaves there are are counterpoised and a dark olive green in color. The infusion made from the stem by heating in water is red- dish with green- ish uorescence, and on keeping this changes to a topaz having a beautiful bluish- green fluores- cence. Under the influence of the drink the natives jump, scream and yun. wildly about, making a great uproar. Accord- ingly it is highly prized for cere- monial occasions, fresh potations the effects of the peing taken as preceding ones wear ott. Accord- ine to Prof. Vil- ‘lalba, who has in- 2 vestigated it, the infusion contains two alkaloids that may be read- ily erystallized. Experiments upon guinea pigs show that the toxic dose is about 0.2 gm. per kgm. body weight. In small doses it gives hu- man beings a deep sleep. Get Rid vor © AT Free Trial Treatment Sent on request. Ask for m “pay - when - reduced” — offer. have successfully reduced thou- sands of persons, often at the /} rate of a pound a day. Let me send you proof at my expense. DR. R. NEWMAN, Licensed Physician State of New York, 286 Fifth Avenue New York, Desk A-95 BE A DETECTIVE Barn Big Money. Work home or travel. Make secret investigations. Fascinating work. Hx- cellent opportunity. Experience unnecessary. Particulars free. Write, GEORGE R. WAG- NER, former Government Detective, 1968 Broadway, New York. oxs, illustrated and GOMTR ~ Le copyrighted at i Washington, tells cause of goitre and new ideas for home treatment. Goitre Sufferers write to—Dr. Rock, Box 737, Dept. A S, Milwaukee, Wis. 5 | A Booklet in 2 col- OLD MONEY WANTED Do you know that Coin Collectors pay up to $100.00 for certain U. 8. Cents? And high premiums for all rare coins? We buy _ all kinds. Send 4c for Large Coin Folder. May mean much profit to you. NUMISMATIO CO., Dept. 436 Ft. Worth, Tex. | NT ais es REAL, 3 it Rate an ig ASTHMA: BOYS BOYS & Chote GIRLS Send name and address. 50 sets of Christmas Seals. Easily sold 10c a set. You keep $2; send us $3. your neighborhood. We Trust You. Many earned $10 Jast Christmas. Write at once. (R) Mistletoe Seal Co., Dept. 59, Brooklyn, New York, Clear-Tone FOR “LE A Your Pp: skin can be uickly cleared of pansies, Black- heads, Acne ‘irupiions on the face or body, Barbers Itch and Eczema, Enlarged P Se Oily or Shiny Skin,” CLEAR-TONE has been Tried, Tested and Paes ts ent in over 100, test cases. RE WRITE TODAY for my FREE Booklet-—“‘A CLEAR-TONE Sxin”—telling how I cured myself after being afflicted for fifteen years. E. S. GIVENS 186 Chemical Bldg. Kansas City, Mo. ALL FREE . Watch with chain and ri & Christmas Money Given | We will send you | Be first in | FREE Send us your name and address and we'll tell you how to get this bracelet watch Absolutely Free Wateh has 14kt, White gold filled case, 25 year guar- antee, Excellent time- keeper, Send name today for free watch plan. RELIABLE SALES CORP. 524 Broadway, Dept. 186, New Yorks Ta Se é ae ener ena Pex $3 moe anath ee roar 8 se rescatapt + face. Bhe BOYS & < NO WOR | GIRLS $2.00 Given Wsrrun | Simply sell 50 Sets of Our Famous Christmas Seals for 10c a set. When sold send us $3.00 and keep $2.00. Trust You till Xmas. Amer- | Sg tS ayn Séal Co., Dept. 131; Brooklyn, A, Represent our big factory show! beautiful Style-Arch shoes to women, Ne experience needed. I shew you how. Fas- sae work, high aes a Fine selling ow jut act at once. lormati: i from STYLE-ARCH SHOE COMPANY, Beau ment 489 CINCINNATI, OHIO, Fc | | P12 Show You How to Do It “S ~ LEARN AT HOME "tbe k al Get into Electricity, 1 Hiectyical exe pores earn $70 to $2 @ wook—$3500 to 0,000 8 vont, and a ay “A ou done pay Joos right bt in your 08S work near so ie ~~ just like 1 trained the 7 pictures you fom Sohaete Gettbe complete Quick and Easy to Learn Bapevicuce.o or E eaorsien an smneoedesty, 1 eae you under # money guarante only s few vee mayen -Complete outfit oft tools peo Kee aay) eh Service given rite Me at anes Anawer the call of Ek cit; 'o mrenvont fost induuiry. Trhonssude oF | AL bolgees needed, Opog: tunities sre everywhere, et the McNabb, 848 Sprii Atlants, Ga. . makes sth si08 ingicaave ros for one of eno Buocess comes quic facts in my Bi FREE. Illustrated Hooke Write a now if you want to make big money. oka cuicacd ENGINECRING WOHKS Dept, 206 2150 Lawrence Av., Chicago a or 22 cal, Bent fon dd quid Rerfumes at ibe choose giftaa ae per off. or catalog. We trust ~ you~ Soatwrite to BELL PERFUME co. «Dep. B 733 Chicage, I.
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