| Show NO ROMANCE IN BUSINESS treasurer of a 2 big powder company Is 1 a living denial of the statement 1 A few ew years ago the man who was the dominant interest in a certain big powder company happened to be in dayton 0 on oil business writes edwin lefeve in I 1 the saturday evening post ile ho got on oil a trolley car there and gave the conductor a five dollar bill the conductor happen to have tile the change as lie he hart had just taken in another large bill from a passenger so he told his fare please to wait until lie he could make change tile powder man arrived at his corner and got off forgetting the change that was coming to him several months afterward lie ho again found himself in dayton on business and again took a trolley to reach his destination before the powder man mail could find the nickel the conductor said with a pleasant smile youre not going to give me another alve fi vedA dailar bill and forget your change are you its been waiting tor for you the powder man entered into conversation with the conductor became interested in the young maa hered to give him a job with the powder company the conductor accept fid lie ho was yount married and had bad several children aleo he h was street car conductor it very long lon ag ago that he avils was ringing fares area an on a dayton trolley car today he la is treasurer of the powder com company liany and ancha has put through some of the big deals two or three months ago the com pany had in cash and looked for or investments the directors appointed a committee to invest the money the treasurer was in trusted by the committee committal with the job and bought large blocks of stocks in companies that have been turning out war material these large investment invest men t pw put chases have so reduced the floating supply of many of these stocks that it Is easy to understand why relatively small buying orders can cause fluctuations eions of thirty or forty points the former street car conductor I 1 am told is worth orth today no romance what |
