"APPLE MARY."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1125, 12 May 1911, Page 5

"APPLE MARY."

.£12,000 MADE BY LUCKY "TIPS." •The funeral ,has just been held in Chicago of "Apple Mary," who for forty : J*ears had a little fruit and cake, stand at the entrance of the Board of Trade. The old woman was a well-known character in Chicago, and her funeral'was a public one, being attended by thousands of people, who walked behind the hearee. The othcials of the Board of Trade conducted it, and many of the members were present at the graveside when the old woman was buried. • "Apple Mary," whose real name was Ileresa. Cella, was a living directory of ill ] the big Chicago traders of the past and present. She could relate the rise mil tall of every "corner" in wheat for the past twenty years. She sold sandwiches to Mr. James Patten, the great wheat and cotton operator, and called him Jim."

Mr. Charles Hutchinson, the multimillionaire banker and grain merchant, and president of thp Board of Trade, was a great friend of the stand keeper, and was always known 'to her as "Hutch," ins designation in the market being "Old Hutch. She was proud to relate how on the day when Mr. Joseph Leiter's great wain corner' collapsed she sold him His: only luncheon of an orange - : Pl A¥* M "5-;' has loft a fortune of El 2 00G, most of it accumulated through una.ll speculations made on "tips" given ner by Tier Board of Trade friends. The wmey has been left to a nephew, who »opes to go into business with it.