Show HOW MY fleecs A arthur r brisbane in the world describes the of wall street this is what happens to a man dan who goes to walt wall t to 0 make money any one of a dozen things has hai sent seat him bill there ami made him A lamb usually he lias a lip of dome borne kind ile kacys a aclei cicik k lit iu a big coke brokers ris office obice lie he hrs hos men who looked like monca moncy king talking on the street cers cars he has madeep made up his mind by matching hatching stork prices very often orten althou gli he confess ithe has been to ile he has been told it is his lucky month that whatever lip be touches diu must A succeed or come such childish nonsense and with his warm fleece on his back lie arrives in the street the bikker is ready for him hill ery ready lie ile rubs ills his hands and invites invite shim him to 10 sit down on very fine fu I 1 kiture the lamb talks tal ks wisely i isei and the lo 10 broker is amazed at hill hib I 1 shrewdness hr ddn wonders why ile he has kept out of finance for so long sees seea at a glance that he is made for it the lamb bleats and bleats and is feverishly happy though a little nervous dig big figures are talked about him the lucky man of the hour is pointed out the three great questions of the wall street gambling arn bling shop are soon put they are put very del cately and gently that the lamb may not take fright first ilow how much ready rash cash bae you to 0 o open your account with second what property properly hove bove aou ou behind you have you got that can be quickly turned into cash third where can call you be reached immediately and at any time by aire or messenger such are the three test questions in the brokers examination ahnin aaion of a lamb the second should really freighter freigh ten him but it rarely does the third which means meana where can we find ou on to 9 get a t the he ret relt of our money ought to scare him away inith ith his fleece on his bis back but it does not ile he opens his account tells ells what lie I 1 le thinks lie he would rould like lika to gamble in lal asks advice perhaps discovers with joy j oy that lie can control iv woith of stockwith stock with 1000 makes his is first venture and begins the lambs ambs progress A few days baysor or weeks ot 01 perhaps months of feverish hope and fear ollow follow tle he sits around the ticker niah ith theother the other lambs they com pare are notes and listen greedily for any golip concerning the stocks on oil which they have bet if 1 the gossip is ig fei s arable they believe in it if it is unfavorable they scorn it they read depotts re pOtts and figure profits iro fits they bleat and bleat and talk alk and talk some winning winnin temporarily are flushed flush flux I 1 happy and ana admired others are worn and worried but hopeful occasionally one is called away from rom the bleating group by a nod from rom the head accountant or junior daltner of the house kihne an lobe duty it is is to watell watch the lambs accounts there is a whispered little consultation and the lamb draws a check ile he has been told that margins are a little close of course the house relies on him but knows lie uvula lather have hare things chip shape and regular one after another tile the lambs leave the ticker to go up for the shearing which it n done in sections after each shearing the lamb is less leas gay and filisky ills his bleat is a little more doleful lis his opinion of himself falli and lis his opinion of wall street drops diopa laid baid one fine day da our particular lamb is unable to respond to the head accountants gentle nod and the ilia group of lambs miss hun him ile he has baa do not t come down that day the I 1 oue gnosis pretty well what is the ther matter with him three questions ushered him into wall street three little notes or tele telegrams grauls usher man him out first note please send more margin second note we must have more margin argin in by 2 0 clock today failing that your stock will be sold for your account account third and last note ar ouy our account in stock was war sold this lly at leaving leaning a balance due in our furor of ile we remit tile the a small one the house ins b attended to to it I 1 t may da Y get that balance lalance La lince and it mat not it expect it it cures cares little bew lading have cometo come to the street new dew fleeces are arc growing ind and eager to be shorn the la last 8 t ittle tuft of wool antho on the lamb that th 11 t IS is rone gone is not missed L but ut what of the larn ba he is uptown out of the street ills ilia trembling borly body is sheared clean and a coll cold wind is blowing ma reidy ready cash is gone fione all the cath cash that he be could get is gone ills his boue i is mortgaged ills his neglected bubi bu neba or plot slon is dan dair Tied liged or ruined ills his heart bearl is too sick bick 17 lor 01 any plucky efi effort ort gambling more than any other v vico ice weakens the will ile he must must hein begin the work of building aup up a fortt fortune ine nil ill over again agal wi with th his nervous system shiken shaken and his energy sapped acly P e ty him but dont bo be like him K keep T out of wall street it is not pleasing to wall street brokers to bo be told that their shops aie aa again gambling bli dg shops p but lit a gambling shop ill op is a gambling nn abling shop chop who whether t her the ilie owner bets nith his corners customers tor ners or eb charges a ages the them a for the pleasure of gambling a 1 commission called a aake otin other gambling houses house no wall street man woun would advise vs his friend to go into the street streel the broker n N ho most eai nestly and sincerely objects to being caller ca flerl a gambling house r would irian n irn lis his son against agai list the vice of his customers and nork hard bard to keep keel him bulof out of other houses one bicker pointed out the fact yesterday that the best houses in the street would not let a man deal unless he came with an introduction from a responsible in man n that is true of a number of wall all street houses and it is true of CA a imort all regular gambling houses the world over it is ii not true of legitimate business enterprises ell wall street is dangerous because like monte carlo it throns abron a around g rambling fabling a an air of respectability it needs to tote le written about plainly if brokers dislike icing complied corn kaied w with th gambla gamb gam ld professional gamblers gambi ganibi I 1 ersi may reasonably leason ably object to having brokers compared to them no to gambler would dare to take such net a percentage from his bia customer as the wall street broker takes if you sat at a table with a mao in an betting 5 on a berf perfectly atly even chance and a thaid man bitting with you took 50 cents every time linae jou bet bat who bould aste the money at the dai djus Is end the broker is the man who takes the 30 30 cents each time in gambling hous houses it is customary to address or allude to customers by initials only in the biggest wall street gambling institutions customers are often knon n only by mystic initials the head 0 of I 1 the house only knows of whom horn w lie ho is talking cheri he inquires about the standing of or T II 11 or X Y brokers sometimes besera the statement that tha t gambling operations through the them m are is as bad I 1 d 1 IS as any Y Is not this gamblin ghouse so sv stem of concealing the cut customers omers name a confession by bv bicker and cub customer tomer of the true nature of the transaction when a man buys a house or a horse he be does not conceal his name when lie deals with a wall street broker lie con ce cealia Is his entity lie ile feels at the bottom of his heart even if he is not in the senate that lie has no light to be in fit wall street and the broker nho helps to hide bide the truth confesses confes ws it the song bitong I 1 of wall street quito quite as good in its it way as aa the song son of the shirt was sung long ago by saxe men who think of trying wall street might inight learn the son song by heart its N ery cry short here it is I 1 cheat by false graces and duplicate faces and treacherous praises and by hiding biding bad things under plausible phrases phrase sl 1 theres cheating and lying in n et selling elling and an buying and all borts of frauds frauda anti and dishonest exactions le brought to the smallest of moral infractions merely by naming them business transactions keep out of wall street |