Show BOYS NO MORE TOTE i N Y Financial Houses Hire Husky Men as Messengers NEW MEW lC YORK Oct IZ 18 1 W Stories to of the tho theft of ot stocks and bonus by youths which a few I sears ears cars ago ajro sied led for positions positions 1 lions in the dah dally daily newspapers ap- ap appear ap appear pear onis now The rhe answer Is 11 found In the al- al almost al almost most l absence of ot bos bo s 9 and oung men meal In the Iole roles toles of runners and messengers for tor the tho houses of ot lo loner all Sall Salland and Broad streets The Tho small satch- satch elii and portfolios containing vilu-ible vilu able securities which con constantly are aro being exchanged between bet Invest insect Investment ment no ho longer are en- en en to beardless boss bo s I Instead husky men the th majority of oC the New r-ew York police and tire fire department hat have hase 0 been ed eddS I dS as messengers run CITY WORKERS 1 A canvass ot of financial institutions in New Nw York discloses that nearly 1000 former policemen and firemen no now are arc on the tho pa i oils or of the houses Many of ot them e hR hase e been retired on by bythe bytho the tho municipal departments byI I Before the war great care caro was as exercised In the tho employment or of runners Such usually ere and the fi pay small So careful however were ere employers In their selection that Hint only occasionally would one of oC thorn run Tun away way with lIh the securities entrust entrusted d to their care or handed n handed empty to leport a fake taho up up hold With the war ar conditions were ere changed It became more mol moland mor and more difficult to obtain bos bols bo for forthe forthe the positions of ot messengers Ac- Ac tl Ac th brought on by the war nr pid p larger wages w and nd quickly attracted much of the boy supply Invest est Ins Investment eat eat- ment houses house had to take tak what they could get GIGANTIC THEFTS Then came camo an in epidemic o mes- mes thefts some of ot them In- In In 5 securities valued at more than 1000 Stock and bond houses sought some corn a way to stop their heavy Y losses and graduallY employed older men for tor the places I Toda Today except e In the ca ease e of ot a few rew houses or in emergencies emers when the regular staf of or runners Is Insufficient no bo bois are em employ employed plo plo- ed for tor these theo responsible th though ugh el sma email 11 pa paling r Ing Jobs |