Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1916 — Luck In Wall Street. [ARTICLE]

Luck In Wall Street.

The case of the former Wall street messenger boy who has just paid $72,000 for a stock exchange seat out of his winnings In “war stocks” will long serve to point a moral -and adorn a tale of the magic possibilities of stock speculation. As against this concrete example of successful get-rich-quck finance, all the hard-luck experiences of the less fortunate and all the warnings about the snares and pitfalls of stock gambling will be as nothing. There was the unlucky case a few months ago of the bank'teller whose faith in war stock profits proved his ruin. But that is another Btory, and as opposed to it here is the more agreeable instance of the youth who has made good, and at thirty-one from the humblest of beginnings has reached the cherished role of all stock brokers' clerks. But it is to be noted that he mad* his fortune operating from the lnsid* and- not-from-the outside.—