WOMAN’S DEAL IN BONDS

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5145, 29 June 1927, Page 2

WOMAN’S DEAL IN BONDS

£6,000,000,000 WORTH TRADED. WALL STREET STAGGERED. Wall Street’s most successful Libferty Bond broker is a woman who has :had no business training or college education, and who had done no work at all before she started, ten years ago, on the career in which she has traded £6,000,000,000 worth of Liberty Bonds.

She is Mrs Irma Dell Eggleston, known to her friends as “Mrs E,” and she started through patriotic motives, and has kept on- because business is the most exciting recreation she has discovered.

Even to Wall Street her £6,000,000,000 is a staggering figure. It is ■double the volume of New York’s stock exchange for the period. It is almost twice the amount of total Government war bonds, which means that Mrs Eggleston’s transactions are equal to having twice-bought and sold every Liberty Bond Uncle Sam issued“The urge to be useful came when so many men went to the front in 1917,” she- says. “I knew nothing of work or business, and I was offered a position ,in a bond ihouse, so I came in, hung up my hat, and started work just ten years ago.

“After I found out what it was all about I was Here was a game more exciting than any I had ever discovered. And it paid me, too! Do you wonder that I stuck ?” Unlike many successful people, “Mrs E” has no formula for making good. “Success is a mixture of a lot of things,” she says, “good luck, hard work, sound judgment, and selection of the work for which you’re best ■fitted. How to find that occupation ? Oh, that’s where the luck comes in“Being a woman,” she added (says a London paper), “was neither a handicap nor a help. Sex has nothing to do with bond trading.”