Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-20

hOOul nifty years ola, rlCn, IN blooming !
health, ana as full OF joviality and good
fellowship as any man Of his business re-
sponsibilities can possibly afford or find
time TO be. RIGoLo.
Wall Street Gossip.
There is a project ON foot to secure for
the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum ex-
change new building to cost with the
site 49, 10000, the idea being to make it
the largest and finest exchange in the |
world. 1t now has 22o0 members and |
only 2400 will be admitted. The present |
room is too small, the ventilation Is de- |
fective and in the summer 1t is almost in |
tolerable. There is Broadway entrance |
and the two buildings utilized extend |
through to New street, SO that there is an
other entrance opposite the Stock ex-
change. And great is the rivalry between
the stiff-necked, insolent and yet old-fogy
lsh Institution famous as the Stock eX
change and its aggressive, energetic and
enterprising competitor, the Consolidated
exchange. The "seatsn at the latter
board are worth $3.50 now; they have been
dearer and are likely TO greatly increase
In value Its members ieer at the mem
bers Of the older institution and they were
filled with delight when the Stock eX-
change recently felt obliged to openly
take arms against rival which II had be-
, fore affected to ignore and despise, yet
which was by its more reasonable COM
! missions taking away good deal OF the
stock business OF the older body. The
. action referred to was designed to pre-
f vent members OF the Stock exchange
from doing business at the other eX-
4 change, but it has simply made transac-
= lions of this kind more secret than
@ formerly III the petroleum trade there
r has been q great change since the days Of
{ the old Pine Street exchange, where
), brokers In all branches of business az
n semhled-eyen the drug brokers met up
! stairs and where VIM. Rockefeller, now
n one of the rulers of the Standard Oil com
. pany, one OF the greatest business powers
/. in existence might be daily seen, quiet
/. and courteous, hut military looking and
/ resolute, working his way towards the
, financial prestige that came soon after
s Then, by the way, he had quiet little OIL
n ces In sleepy and sunless Cedar street
Il among the drug firms near Pearl street
NJ Now ne sits in business palace at p
h Broadway, and the man who was once
m small grocer in ON inland town is now ont
. of the financial potentates Of the metropo
IL lis, speculates heavily in Wall street
a. drives fast horses, and has valuable gal
O. lery of paintings.
~ In the gloomy old Pine Street eXchang
ii. the petroleum brokers would stand 10
GO hours making transactions in actual oil Q
1v in oil "for future delivery" 1t was 4
~ the DAYS before the pipe lines had revolu
,is tionized the trade and oil flowed as waite
a. over a wide stretch of territory, enrlchin
nj men aud corporations as marvelously a
es by a touch of handwriting genil in
or Persian tale. With the pipe lines 500
Of came the pipeline certificates, and the
nj the gambling in oil began on a new an
no gigantic scale. Sometimes as much o
ia &c, O0O, 600 barrels is sold here in singl
lis day--the daily average IS l0,0oO,OOo pa
ar. rels; the production and accumulate
IA fupply are sold and resold many time
no From Pine street the petroleum brokel
10 removed TO Beaver street, still later
20 William street. then TO the splendl
~ Welles building, one of the finest stru'
70 lures in lower Broadway, and close
~ that ancient oasis, Bowling Green, ar
~ now they meet with stock brokers
80 broadway, close by some valuable pro-
,or erty owned by John Jacob Aston, an
har which the exchange may endeaVor
acquire.
an Strikes and boycotts have come to
he curious pass. Big, brawny men are tr
nd ing to crush quiet, gentle-faced but q
M termined Mrs. Gray, who keeps bake
80 - - in Hudson street, because she refuses
"a employ union men although she pa
,e5 union wages; and Charles Croker, I
90. millionaire, and Others from flfth aven
IN. send her checks and encourage her
ono maintain the fight She has tne syinpat
'eat of the public The knights OF LABOR
w a hody aiming TO secure justice for lab
l,lt GVmnQtl
cot but few more boycotts like this mig
rha do much to bring the organization n
~ reproach. Mere straws sometimes enc
WI, wonders. In New York city at least M
,hay, GRAY may be the innocent Delilah
and shear the locks OF Samson
Va Another straw on a different current
The the strike Of the bootblacks at the PrC
nIlv lnce exchange. A handsome, goo
H. & natured Italian, ebony" Aster by nan
ca nays the exchange $500 rent year
snre Inc Aie. brass-plated stand with chs
had for half a dozen persons, which Is loca'
tact I'm the lower corridor. He pays MS els
a IN vonng assistants from So TO IS a wei
can 90 that his annual expenses are not
sc- from $1,000, and yet he himself recen
~ n handsome return from the pusine
With His assistants demanded more pay, o
the this beng refused they STRUCK AZ On
in whereupon TINS en.er a', t,ner,v ' ve
{ IN Italian hardy IlVIo .l,un ,'r.ar ba,
hing of age--lmmedlately secures green MAJ
for and proceeds TO break them In lie $
in ne does as they 40 on .nu ,,nre no,
II he road ne gives ms assis se1..t I,s ro2
,nch men have established reputation
eing dazzling "shines," in which they take
get artists pride. II is an unexpected
how plication of the homely old rule that WI
and ever IS worth doing at all Is worm 90
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