The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
BROKERS LET LOOSE.
Initiating q view Member in the New
G@sk Stock Exchange.

H0ak. Stock Exchange.
When business Is dull in the New York
Stock Exchange the brokers out-do tn,
widest school, boys in their antics ane
tricks. Describing the scenes enacted
during a recent dull day, the WortG
says:
A little before 2 o'clock a faultlessly
dressed young broker, with a beautifully
curled silk tile resting on the slda OF hls
head, sauntered into the room. A knot
of men, who had been vainly e~ndeavorlng
to get up some excitement in Lake Shore,
caught sight of the newcomer. In al
| flash thew surrounded him and his head
gear was soon flying toward the other
end of the room. Two minutes after
ward a gray-headed broker walked
up to the hatless dude and presented him
with a rim with a few futtering ribbons
attached to it. Twas all that remained
of one of the latest styles.
A broker with a perfectly bald head,
except a fringe of white hair on the sides,
pushed his way into a group OF Union
Pacific men. When he emerged from
the crowd his head was ornamented with
red, yellow and white envelopes which
had been glued fast thereon. Without
attempting to remove the stationery n
mingled with the crowd around the LOAF
sign, when presto! three frisky member
of the board surrounded him, and wit
lead pencils commenced writing order
on the envelopes which adorned his PATE.
Whistles, shrieks, yells, cat-calls ana In
one corner a.quartet of brokers rendering
a popular air made things lively for the
inmates of the visitors gallery.
Here a sedate looking individual, VINO
might easily be mistaken for a deacon oil
a church, amuses himself by forcing a
newspaper down over q fe~ilow-broker's
head till the latter looks like q school
boy with one of the prevailing wide col
lars about his throat. There stands a Dig
nifed broker, who must be fifty-fve at
least and whose hair and side-whiskers
are completely gray, blowing away tor
dear life On a tin whistle. But mere
comes an employe with a w~atering-pot,
engaged in sprinkling the paper-i1ttered
floor. He is quietly hustled into a
corner by two or three mischlef-makers,
one of whom. a six-footer, grabs the
watering-pot and goes from group TO
group industrionsly sprinkling. the
brokers' neatly polished shoes. Finally
the sprinkler is snatched away from the
self-appointed employe and is returned
to it's rightful owner, battered and bent
and looking as if it had passed through
a clothes-wringer. ,
But what means this wild, prolonged
howl and this sudden stampede at the
far end of the room. An excited crowd
struggle and push and shove around a
pale little man with a black mustache,
5 and the word passes round from mouth
, to mouth, ga new member p With
a stalwart broker on either side OF him
, the little man tries hard to be COM
7 posed and at his ease. He even attempts
5 a smile. but it is a dead failure. He is
rushed u b to the chairman's desk and hast
, ily introduced to that individual, who
l smilingly implores the boys mot to be
:, too rough" Then the new mi Is
backed out into the center OF the room
!, by his guides, and the fun begins. His
" Derby hat takes wings and, describing
9 a curve that would have made a boom
e erang blush, lands in the middle of tht
shouting crowd, who tear it to pieces
The new man is jammed, embraced,
kicked, caressed, bent double, lifted BY
the ears, forced on his knees and straight
q ened out again. He is introduced tt
thirty or forty men, each of whom hug
70 him in the most affectionate manner. HI
is deposited in the laps of members wit
k are seated, and they bounce him out int
% the crowd like a shot from a cannon
In despair he makes a bolt for a sid
'e door, but is dragged back unceremoni
d ously and introduced all over again
" Finally the young man, whose smile D
: this time has become an absolute look 0
3 pain, is forced into the lap of the onl
" man on 'Change who is know to get MAJ
at a practical joke. He goes by the nam
of "Crossn Carey, wears a sack coat,
low-cut vest, showing a yard or SC {
n shirt front, and an old felt hat. Th
ut new member politely offers his hand t
- the other individual, who quietly turr
his back on him.
Us Then the new broker is forgotten an
id Mr.. Carey's case is taken up. The brc
40 kers in the rear of the crowd shove thos
in front, and again and again they fall i
a heap on Mr.. Carey, who wakes madde
Q and madden. Finally he shoves his wa
through the throng to the chairman an
lodges a complaint. A perfect storm {
Kisses and groans arises, and IN an II
aC slant the rash mans felt hat is gone. Ht
a white with rage, gesticulates and shout
of at the chairman, who tries to pacifyhin
!, Losing all control of himself 'Cros'
l. Carev forces his way to an iee-wat'
Id cooler and Selling and filling cup aft
its Gun. hurls the contents over the crow'
who jeer at him aed take the cup out
his hands. The chairman fines sever
nd members, but the $ o'clock gong souns
Oh at this instant, and he has no further j
ho risdiction over them. Recognizing tn
- fact, Carey assumes o ferocious expire
u sion, buttons up his coat, and, clenchiI
re, his fists, punches right and left at b
nd tormentors, and finally succeeds
ID making his way through them and out
~ a side door into the street.
in,
ld. The Pantheon.
en- The Pantheon was called by Byr'