Judge — July 8, 1882 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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SAD IF TRUE. what can Ido for you? A Fortune for $200. BY JOUN BLACKBRID t'nly. Sirius W. Pheeld came to poor boy; was a cash-boy at found a couple of $100 bills one day on the floor 1 nothing about them ; opened a rag shop with the same on Cliff strect shortly after, and failed for half a mil- lion in 1861, Vornelius Ganderbilt started Stewart's ; in with $200, which he had accumulated by | raising bulbous radishes and selling them for blood-beets ; bought a sloop, and soon made tke whole port of New York tributary to his vast de Shay Gool sold a rat patent in 1848 for just $200, and put it up as | margin on a tannery, in which he soon had the hides of all who were so unfortunate as to know him at soak, It was Archimedes who said, “Give me ace to stand, and I will rope in the to that etfec appeared in Sunday's Hur- ru: “$900, WITH THIS gvntieman’ may realize a fo dress Sure Th N ACTIVE risk. Ad- box Onet I thought it best to avail myself of this short cut to fortune, and by an early mail was requested to call on Franklin Nibbs Bankers and Brokers, y was at home, in a which there was a stock indica office, in for, or * tick. Lama boor Irisher evil unt haf spust dropped (With feeling) It has a ferry colt day, wat and a cashier’: artwent, with a hole in the side to pass checks in and out. “T have here the finest business opening in the city,” said Nibbs. “It is profitable; we fill orders to buy a from ten to fifty sha per cent. on the indie: on the bank intl immensely ocks, char, tor pr ks ourselves ; it a quarter 4, and sitting ys Ove country as to percentages; the: e tremendous ; we have a splendid Bat 1 don't looking around, ." replicd Nibbs, ‘they are not here torlay, be itied them yesterday that I shouldn't d or two. Fact is, I needed rest. Another point: I lost $5,000 on ware and Lackawanna last we nd it has temporarily crippled me. ‘That's why I Ivertised for a partner. You s ave money in the drawer to run the stock i and I'm short. Idon’t mind I'mconfoundedly short; flat-broke, soto speak. But this is a splendid business if you confine yourself to attending to your custome: 1 1-4 to 3-4 in your favor all the time, and with $200 any mar jing in here with me can make a fortune in a ye and in two or three ukin't call John J. Astor uncle. ro-bank is nothing | to it. » anybody here,” said I, © we must | odds years he \ A fi “T don’t mind trying ita day or two,” said I, “but without making any definite arran ment until I give ita p Al test.” rising market | minutes of no more,” replied the Banker & ping my hand, ‘Come in at , sharp, to-morrow forenoon, and open busin TI tell the customers we will be prepared for them, market's in a first-rate condition. Very few people can predict the course of the market well as I can. [make it a specialty, and I'm posted. Nine times inten [ know just how the cat's goingtojamp, That’sthe seeret of success in the stock know just how stocks are going tc keep on the ri business—to ell, and to it side of the market. qual to Nibbs. e ten dol- now don't Let me in—thank: 10 o'eloc to bind the bi fail to be punctual at morrow morning At cash sharp, to I within the $ in the cash- r, under my own lock and ke and not a dollar could go out except with my knowledgeand consent. “You see, ty friend,” aid Nibbs, ‘here is where the No Risk th i own cash 10 o'clock I was install inc $200 lay drawe jallmine; and ure ‘Thing come in: You control your and we divide the profits at 3 o'eloc ** But how about th Oh, we won'tmake jis is too supe. rior a business for that. des, I'm well posted on the market, and I'll protect our in- terests. The ticker now rattled in a lively manner, and the tape reeled itself of o the basket, thiekly studded with cabalistic marks, such J.C. 66 14, 1-2. 1000 66 34. MLO. P. 1000, 91 14. -K. T. 500 28, 200 Several rather well-dressed individ. around the ticker, and soon began to write orders which they presented to me ly described, thus: €.66 3-4. Deposit $10." was accompanied with ten dollars in greenbacks, and the cash drawer me plethoric, At eleven o'clock I acts for 400 shares of stock, ix hundred dollars in the drawer, Nibbs came to the desk, and stilingly rubbed ha “The boys think itis gc but just st eleven. : comes a reaction just at that moment, w! Jay Gould goes to Russell Sage’s office aNer his eleven o'clock drink at Delmonico’s. got this point from D. O, Mill We s' wipe out and pocket half of these marg and the other half the boys will close at a loss to themselves. This will be a fine day's tood “Buy 10 s Each such ore this Central at It’s a $10 profit ach, exeept the M. C., that’s only $7.50: ) margins and $ profits is $9 and be quick about it, because I appointment down-town at twelve.” le me feel very sick, but Nibbs in my ear: ‘That's nothing; the slump w nn a mninute or two, and cateh the re m. There's $500 in the drawer yet, al t to your own control.” got an whispe comicbooks.com |