Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1923, Page 3

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HIS CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, Train,” $2.00 NORTH OF THIRTY-8IX, Hough, $2.00 SEA HAWK, Sabatini, §2/00 STELLA DALLAS. Prouty. DANGER, Poole, Those may be rentcd livrary for 2ic cach, BRANCHES 607 13th Street N.W. (Between F and G Sts.) Alno at 2 JANE BARTLETT'S 1337 Connecticut Ave. N.W. WEPATLLD nered at your house: will go anywhe: WITH 1 paper, $6 to §. )T BE RE debts contracted by any oue other t of home comforts cent_patients, pa re of couvales- g nursing and ced people. Mrs. A. I 57 Bair road, “Taktoms TIONS PREPARED 1. of drawing. for practitioners, during gust at $2 per drawing sheet; work deliv- pred dn, twelve lours. ALFRED E. GLAS. NNIBLE FOK ANT those contracied I R. 116 Up roi QU remodeling, screens NSIBLE FOR ANY any others than myself. 4 10 g ARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EXIN ng between T. B. Brown and Adoiph B. Johnson, under firin neme of Brown & John- son, has, under date of July 24th, 1023, been dissolved, all bilis to be rendered to Adolph R___Johnwon. 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A heavy-bodied coating of « phalt and as hestos; ten times thicker than paint. Does uot dry up. We are daily covering roofs, rusted and worn, on residences, warehous public ga- rages, churches, laundries. FIRE RESISTING—WATERPROOF. For Sale and Applied by Paul H. Sears Co., Inc. Main 8934. CONTRACTORS. _Bond_bldg. The “Ironclad” Roofers —will put your ‘roof in good shape and keep it's0 for many years to come, Our guarantee says so, and we furnish ome with every job. IRONCLAD Roofiog 1416 F st. n.w. Gompaay. Phone Maln14. >| " They of "Defeat VI | BY R. K, TREVOR. 2 IdC(p,\n[hl. 1923, by New York Commer ) In the ‘wake of the war shares boom of 1915-1916, and the period of depression in stock market prices which followed, the public began to hear that a huge by shop system {was once again in existence. As storfes of the methods of operation jof the curb bucket shops spread the | | public oused and began to call ifor punishment of the criminals. It was one thing to call for pun- {ishment of the bucketeers. 1t was quite another thing to find how they could be punished. State prosecutors in' localitles outside of New York were hampered in efforts to show that the crimes came within their {jurisdiction. So far as the federal | authorities were concerned they | found it difficult to act because of the | inadequacy of the federal statutes | with regard to the frauds of the {bucketing system, and also there was that usual hesitaticy of embarking on a_line of prosecution which state officials might consider an encroach- iment on their prerogati | Naturally, therefore, it was to_the | office of the district attorney in New | York county that the country looked {for a prosecution of the bucketeers. | | “On various occasions there was | much skirmishing on the part of offi- | {cials in that office, accompanied by, |official statements ‘which seemed tol igive promise that a vigerous crusade {against the bucket shops was to be Vhen much-heralded ar- |rests came, however, the cases would be disclosed as simply agalnst some |minor flim-flam artists on the fringes (of the financial underworld, and in Ino way part of the bucket shop| | system. {launched. i Resentment Spread: | This sort of thing went on for a few !yes Meanwhile the agitation against the bucket shops throughout the country continued to grow, and it found full force after bucketing raids on the markets in some stocks | during the course of the short bul" highly exciting boom in the spring of | 1919, This time the demand for pun- jishment of the rb bucketers was | more pronounced. The office of the {district attorney of New York county | ! took on an appearance of greater ac- | tivity than ever. The pres: in- ormed that the district attorney’s of- ce was determined to do all ft could o clean up the bucket shop situation, | jand that it was determined to do ali it could to make the curb market it- self assist it in that endeavor. Up to | that time the curb market was still § an outdoor institution, and the powers |of the Curb Market Association were efore, very limited. It was still ible to inaugurate a big market | a curb stock without submitting | the Curb Mar- | by not hav- i ll\b the stock listed. The pub) as now treated to a lot }o( official talk to the eftect that the jreal remedy for the evils of the curb | market la in havin th market {transterred indoors. he public was Ilold that in tl would the bucket shop svs ed out. it was told that the public authoritie: {and the officials of the Curb Market ! Assoclation were working toward the {end of having the curl become an in- !door institution, o that its entire ac- {tivities could Le brought under the upe ion of the a: ciation. The I district attorney's office became ver: active In examining promoters of the markets in various stock Finally, i the curb market went Indoors | A Doubtful Victers. ! The public w then fed wiih a lot of talk of the markable victory | Which had been scored over the ! Ducket shops by the curb market offi- | | cials and the public authorities. The italk may have fooled come people. It !may even have fooled e of the; 1(3]‘(1’( ] But fo anybody with any fair de- | gree of familiarity with bucket shop | conditions the talk was a joke. For ~ | here Is what those people Knew: knew, fii that the district!} attorney’s office had not made an im- | portant move against any big bucket | hop that was in operation. There | had been an Indictment against the | head of one house which had failed, after being caught heavily short of a | tire stock, but that mov not | started until the failure developed and made the move almost a T be made clear to {reader incidentally that what is re- lated in tbis article with regard to| the district attorney's office applies to the administration of that period jalone and not to the present admin- { tion. g Reported Grilling. H . In the underground reports of the Street, much was heard of promoters being hailed to the district attorney’s | office for grilling examinations. Some of these promoters were behind stocks | whose continued upward movements were causing much concern to certain big bucketeers who were presumed to have bucketed those stocks at low marks. There was little or no talk, however, about any of the big buck- | eteers belng subjected to that sort of | grilling. ! The people conversant with bucket | | shop affairs also knew that with the curb Indoors, the curb bucketshop {system had become far more power- {ful than it had been when the curb { market was outside. Not one of the old leading houses, which the street had been accustomed in its gossip to place in the category of bucket shops had bedn put out of business by the curb market officials. What was more important was the fact that the bucket shops were now in much less danger of being “planted” than had been the case when the curb market was oytdoors without ORI Found Great Ease of Operation While Public Was Beguiled With Idea | the officials of the Curb Market Asso- {to any fair extent is unsuited for use | jing 10 aid the bucket th ‘e O one smokes Melachrinos —for their quality . instantly wins ap- | in Courts. Now, with all the curb stocks brought under the supervision of a central organlization, it became necessary for market sponsors to make known to clation the character and extent of distribution of a stock. The method | used by professional “planters” in ensnaring bucket shops was described in the preceding article of this serie and the reader is familfar with the | reasons why a stock that is distributed | in the operation of such a systen. | Considering that condition, it is worth | while to pursue the questionnaire issued by the New York Curb Market Assoclation'at that ame, to be filled } out by individuals w sought the listing of a stock. ' The Questionnaire. The questionnaire covered thosemat- ters with regard to distribution which so much concern the bucket shop in such a manner that when some pro- moters first reach the questionnalre they jokingly asked whether it hadn't | been written by a bucketeer. ! There is no intention to suggest | here that any one in the district at- torney’s office at that time was scek- | wops. It is not | meant to suggest that the Curb Mar- | ket Association officials of that time, | in advocating the moving.of the curb market indoor: were seeking to aid the bucket shops. As to the question- | naire, it was of a form that hit at| questionable promotions, and its pos- { sibilities of benefit to_bucket shops | could have been merely incldental. Nor is it meant to suggest that the! curb officials may not have believed| t the bringing of curb market op- ions wholly under - their super- vision through the passage of the market indoors would not soon put a damper on bucketing opcrations. In' that connection, it is only just to state that within the past few months. when the association has used some | of the powers vested in it. which| were not used at that time, it bas shown itself able to deal powerful blows at the bucket shop system. Of the good work done very recently by the New York Curb Market Ass tion more will be told in & later ticle of this series. | What it is desired to DIJ«. ~forcibly before the reade however, is th fact that the 1 clamor against i the operations of the curb bucketeers, instead of resulting in lessening of © those activities, or in any punishment ! of the bucketeers, was really followed | by an era of greater for their operations, so far as curb market co; ned, and that th bucketeers were in nowise hampered by any activities on the part of pub-| lic authorities. i | i Sought to E The bucket shops the one big public ag to which! the country would first look for al vigorous prosecution of bucke hop { crimes was the district attorne fice in New York county. It is e to see how the bucket shop ma, acted to divert the of the district attorney from the: clves hout the cuting officials be ware of unde hand methods being to misguide | them. It is eas how the men | the district s office at that | time might have n guilelessly teered” into an investigation of i regularities in |||umn(mn- and ther by all the m cred from prosecu f the bucket shop It was a scattered public which | was calling for a curtailment of| bucket shop operations. There were | organized forc to guide | 'he bucket shops, on | . had a remarkably well; srganized system, nd the distric L; attorney’s office—according to. vari- | ¢ ous reports which drifted into the financial district—was supplied with mass of data regarding promo- tions and promoters remarkably willing informants, who may hav had much more friendly relations with leading bucketeers than people in the district attorney's office su pected Meanwhile men who were looked upon as constituting the brains some of the biggest of the bucket shop houses had established vgr friendly relations with individuals who stood high in New York city’s | political machinersy. i Asked Pointed Question. The street heard of that connection Not unnaturally, it began to ask n»g what extent anybody in the district attorney’s office, even an_employ of low ‘rank, might be obligated to- that machine. Men in the street who l:ad denounced the bucket shops for years were now asking questions about in this strain “Why has not one big move by any of the public authorities, county, state or federal, been made against the curb bucket shop system? This system has now been flaunted in our faces for years.” | The bucketeeers, apparently deem- | ing themselves free from prosecution, | e now emboldened to reach out ! beyond the field of curb market se- | curities, in which they had operated for years, and apparently to dery rome of the largest financial inter- | ests of the country by bringing New York Stock Exchange securities once again within the bucket shop sphere. Legitimate brokers who were de- claiming against the spread of the Lucketing_evil seemed powerless to stop it. New bucket shops began to spring up thick and fast, and a horde of criminals from the great white way—who also appeared mnot to be Without their high political comnecs tions—swept into the financial dis- trict. Details on that bold era of bucketeering will be told in the next article of this series. —_— An inventor in San Francisco hak| designed a fiytrap to be mounted on | arbage can. ed that > contrar: by ) liking them GINAL METHODIST CHURCH .22 =" =" | committee The World at Its Worst—The Broken Shoestring—By, GLUYAS WILLIAMS. 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