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Show - . . Woman Stock Operator i 4 V I - - v-. ! Sdiui Aicvay, woman stock market operator of Tacoma, likes her game of matching wits with male operators on the exchange. She's manager of a stock concern. more like a pretty stenographer than, the manager of an active stock brokerage house. Eut her knowledge of stocks is known and respected in Tacoma and in Seattle, v here she was located lo-cated until recently. Matches Wits With Men On Stock Exchange; She . Likes Market. . j BY A. C KOESTER TACOMA, Wash., Oct. 19. "Buy 2000 shares of Golconda at 73." "Offer 300 Big Missouri at 1.07." "Taken." You, who have the movie- conception con-ception of a stock exchange as a madhouse peopled by disheveled and frantic men who mouth curses as ruination descends upon them, should see a trim, smiling young woman calmly match wits with masculine operators at the Tacoma Stock exchange. Ever since the local exchange moved into its quarters on A street, Edith McVay has watched the big board with its mining stock quotations quota-tions and has bartered and bluffed wicn me cuy s most asiuie ana experienced ex-perienced operators. "T love this game," she dimples. "li. o the most fascinating in the world." Calculating and Shrewd- But don't be misled by that dimple. Behind the smile is as calculating cal-culating and shrewd a mind as was ever possessed by a Wall Street broker. Miss McVay knows her stocks. At the age of 26 she is manager of the Tacoma branch of Watson-Moore Watson-Moore Co., a Seattle stock concern. "There really is money to be made in stocks," she declares, "if investments are made intelligently and without the spirit of gambling." "Scared to Death" "The exchange? Gosh! I was scared to death when Mr. Moore first put me into that sort of work. But I've learned that it is easy if you keep your head and don't allow al-low yourself to be bluffed." At her desk Miss McVay looks |