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Show THB HOODOOS OF WALL S TIBET. Wall street people are euperetitimia Ther will deny it when told so: but if you ask anyone in ''the atreet" if he ever kaew s hoodoo, be will eav. "Tea. many a one." 'Burn a one waa a cotton expert who, highly recommended, recom-mended, applied for a place with a stock exchaage hsase that had bought a cotton exchange membership, and Beaded a man to ones a new field of speralatioa to its clients. The applicant appli-cant was in every wsy desirable, save for the fact that three houses with which he hsd beea connected had . failed, though not one for a dishonor-p-. able reason. He was rejected aa a hoodoo. Shortly afterwarda be made s eonneetioB with another house ta fill a similar want, aad proved a very valuable valu-able mn ia his sphere; but witbia a year the fourth house failed. The hoodoo ia oftea a mas whom everybody likes, apeaks well of, and recommends to everyone else, with the one reservstioa he ia a man who unaccountably un-accountably has not succeeded. There is nothing whatever against him; he ia hoaest aad shrewd, aad all that, but iansuceeasful. Once the. hoodoo becomes be-comes kaown aa eneh, he must a'taeh himself to the aeweomera those who do aot knew, hive not .been warned, or who are ao new aad confident aa aot to care. Each connection he makea is a little teaa deairsble. until he finally reaches the stage at which ' he is ashamed of hia associations, having made them in tha demi-monde of finance because he could make them nowhere else. Evan they fail him at last, and thea yon find him la New atreet. Ta many brokers womea are koodoos, koo-doos, aad some stock exckaSre bouses refuse absolutely to have aavthing to do with the fair eex. The majority of hroksraare firms trv their beet to keep womea 's apeeulative aeeoune out of their ofneee. Soma aouaea ara obliged to tske women's accounts aa a matter of personal friendship, but thev will aot opea aeeoaate for other womea. ao matter how well they may be introduced. intro-duced. Wall atreet men do not have a high opinion of the average voiug'i busiaess sense. Moat womea have an idea that one needs oalr to get a "tip" from some "insider" ia Wall atreet to be sure ef msking "barrels of money" for new gowns, hats and jewelry. From "Wall Street: -Ita Boms nee and History," ia the rjlraod. |