Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-30 | Page 9 | Messenger at 6 A.M., at 6 P. M. a Millionaire

Messenger at 6 a. m., at 6 p. m. a Millionaire PARIS. July 29. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) A messenger boy of tho Paris Stock Exchange wc,nt to work the other day with ten francs In his pocket. He returned home to lunch a millionaire, lie looked like a boy who had just raided an apple orchard when he lugged away what seemed to be a large fortune There were bills bulging from every pocket but since they were Soviet rubles and Austrian crowns, the boy cannot retire from business busi-ness until Europe' ailing finances havo been cured. There art- many boys, clerks and waiters who aro waiting for tho same thing. Speculation on the exchange in Paris which before the beginning of tho great slump was confined to capitalists, and bankers, has now extended to smaller purses. Finally, so widespread Is the traffic in exchange, that postcard and peanut vendors hav become literally curbstone bankers. The boy who made the million is the customer of a dealer who owns an open air stand In front of the Bourse. The dally turnover is many millions in ruhl. s, crowns and marks. The boy paid four francs for a million rubles and mx francs for 10.000 crowns, the dealer assuring him that he got a bargain and that millionaires never could be made cheaper because be-cause of the strength of the paper market.