LADY SPECULATORS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1049, 20 June 1883, Page 2

LADY SPECULATORS.

A Titusville correspondent of the Buffalo Telegram writes : —• “ One of the curious features in the late rise in oil is the extent to which the ladies of Titusville have yielded to the temptation of acquiring wealth suddenly and have gone to speculation on the Exchange.' In the gallery your correspondent counted seventy-five of the fair sex watching the fluctuations as keenly as did the spectators and the brokers on the floor beneath. Half of this number were resting notebooks on the railing, and a little shower of notes was continually dropping down into the hands of brokers below containing instructions for their guidance. There 'wenrfaii young girls in silk and satin, whose notes were entered with jewelled pencils on the daintest of bopks ; hard worked shop girls, who eagerly pored over their business-like figures ; matronly ladies trying to look nn-concerned, and dropping their orders as stealthily as possible, and here and there a broker’s wife whose face showed a superior knowledge of trade, but whose dealings were, of a class, the least fortunate of all. These Jadies were all respectable, many of them moving in the best society of the city. There has been for’a long time much speculation among ladies here 1 on the:quiet,’ but not until the last few days has it been so openly carried on. As near as, could be ascertained,, .the., gallery occupants to-day purchased' about 25,000 barrels of oil, the most lucky speculator was; the wife of a well known broker, clearing £l4O on her day’s transaction.”