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Show MAKES $30,000 IN A DAY "Telephone Boy" May Cauae Stamped of Wall Street Pikers by i Hit Luck. I Aa the reault of the passage through j bankruptcy of a local firm of atock I broker, James H. Keene's plunging J "telephone boy" has been hauled Into ( the limelight. An acrlmonloua controversy con-troversy occurred In court to whether he had made f 30,000 or 150,-000 150,-000 by taking advantsge of the io-i io-i called Hocking pool. The "boy" la-I la-I tinted that he "cleaned up" only $30,-000 $30,-000 on that deal, and atuck to thta j statement. The airing of bin market dealing I likely to causa a stampede Into the "telephone boy" business, and give new encouragement to the thou-aanda thou-aanda of pikers who bury their spare money In Wall atreet graven, selected through tlpa, secret Information and sophisticated ruinora. It aeema a pity therefore that there couldn't have com out along with Mr. Keene's telephone boy'a atory a few dozen alorlea about the other telephone boy a whoae market mar-ket operations have accumulated nothing noth-ing for them but a series of diminutive tombstones. There are 909 of them to every aucceasful piker. Indeed, If atatUtlca mean anything, the man who puta hla money Into chicken-farming almoat hopelnaaly hatardoua aa that occupation la known to be haa a better bet-ter chance of getting out whole tban the telephone boy plunger and hla aa aoclnted apeculatlonlata. It la an unfortunate un-fortunate ctrcumatanc that the example exam-ple of one aucceaaful clean-up haa more weight with thta endleaaly recruited re-cruited band of tdealtata than a hundred hun-dred thousand fallurea. New York Presa |