, 1866-12-11
NEW YOHK CITY.


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An Hour In the Gold Room.
tCorrespondenes OF The Chicago Tnbuue.l
NxwYo2k. December l, 1895
New York IL the commercial focus OF the
continent, and the Gold Room is the focus of
New York. In little court yard surround.
cd by four walls, and closed in With roof,
having a circuitous passage way from Broad
street, msy he Witnessed, 1t any hour Of the
day, and ei1 days In the woek, soene which
has not its likeness Ia earth or heaven.
Whether its parallel can be found in he'll
will not undertake to say. Perhaps It can,
buk this much / consider certain, that the
Now York Gold Room lis to-day the grcstest
curiosity In the world. It beggars descrip-
'tion. IN attempting to give the reader some
impression Of 1t, I begia BY saying that It
can neither be penned nor painted, and that
H hen II Is finally closed by = return TO specie
payments. posterfty will have lost 3 most
vivid Illustration OF the capabilities of the
human mind.
. Imagine rat pit in full blast, With twenty
Of Thirty men rarged around the rnt tragedy,
each with a canine under his arm, all yelling
aud bowling 1t once, and you have as good |
comparison as can be found In the outside |
world, of the aspect Of the gold room, IS It |
strikes the bcholder on. hia first entrance. |
The furniture Of the room IL extremely SIM
ple. II consists of two iron railings and An
"a indicator" The first railing is a circle,
about four feet high and ten feet in dinm- |
eter, placed exactly in the centre Of the
room. In the interior, which represents the
space devoted to rat killing In similar estah-
lithments, Is marble Cupid throwing up q
| Jet of pure Croton. The artistic conception
is not good. Instead Of Cupid throwing
! pearly fountain into the air, there shoald
| have been hungry Midas, turning erery.
thing to gold, and starving to death for
inability 10 eat his own currency. The other
| railing is sem5-clrclc twenty or thirty feet
from the central one. This outer rail- fences
of The "lame ducka'' and "dead beats''-
men who have once been famous at the rat
pit, but have since been " cleaned out"
Being unable to settle their " differences"
they are not allowed to come inside. Eoly-
eucy Is the first essential of the gold room.
Nothing bogus Is allowed TO interfere With
the serious business In hand. Nevertheless,
these "]amc ducks " aud "desd beats'' can.
not keep away from the place. Day after
day they come and rnnge themselves along
tle!r iron grating and look over at the rat
pit with the strangest expression Of inteiN-
gent vacancy aud longing despair that can
be found this side of purgatory. They seem
to be a part Of the furniture Of the room.
While was there did not see one Of them
, move or speak, and when they winked It
WAS with much the same spirit that m owl
, | at midday lowers the film over his eyes and
hoists It again. The "indlcator," which is
The third piece of furniture In the room. {or
the fourth, if we count the "dead beats, L.
D piece Of mechanism to show the changes
! In the market. It Is something like an old
4 fashioued New England clock, seven OF
l eight feet afEh, with an open space at the
: top disclosing three figures anl n fraction, a.
c 141l5, ut which the market stood when
= / entered. The figures being movable
|. slight manipulation will manifest any
e Change ia the market. Connected with ths
.- indicator Is a plain deak with book on 1t, 1t
|: which arc recorded all the movements Of tht
Indicator, with the hour and minute at whtc1
e each movement takes place. The door Of tht
y establishment is rather pavement, with cir
T. cu1ar steps or tciraces rising from tho centr'
: to tho circumterenc. ''Seat but not gaudy.
{. 10 the general aspect Of the premises. O
q course such An Institution could not eris
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