Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-01
Brokers PLAY Football.

Four little boys in blue caused a gooG
deal of trouble on the New York
Stock Exchange Wednesday afternoon
They were in the gallery shortly be,
fore Change closed, and they wore
military suits. They had long military
coats and bright gold lace on their hats
and they had just come down from
boarding school. They were on theil
way home to spend Thanksgiving
They came into the gallery of the EX-
change just as quietly and modestly as
any boys would: but when the old
brokers looked up and saw them, they
recalled the old days when they, too.
went to boarding school and when life
was pleasant TO them. One of the
boys, not abashed by the prominence
of his place, yelled out something about
Yale and Princeton, and the old wal
horses on the Exchange, who in early
days had fought many Rugby game,
felt new Inspiration, and one of the
head devils in this new inspiration was
Dick Halsted. He sent out messen-
gers to buy all the footballs in the
neighborhood. The messengers on the
Stock Exchange are well paid and they
move quickly, and by fifteen minutes
of 3 Mr.. Halsied had twenty footballs,
fully blown up and ready for use. He
distributed them, and in an instant the
great room of the Exchange was dotted
with flying feathers.
Halsted was the moving spirit in the
whole business, and those four little
boys in blue up in the gallery grinned
as they saw this oldlmerpass the foot
balls to his friends and urge them on to
all sorts of high kicking. Halsted's S
first lieutenant was Allison Hopkins,
one of the fair, faced young men of the
Exchange, and roaring high kicker.
Behind him came Talbot II. Taylor,
James X. Keene's son-in-law, and fol-
lowing in quick procession were ii. T..
Brookman, Edmund Fish, Charles
Rubsamen, John Wallace, the Lacka-
wanna specialist: John Henry Clews,
the roIy-poly member Of that family,
Ell La Montaigne, Charley Andrews,
A. V. de Goicouria, Dave lapsley, Sam
and Dan Chauncey, Richmond Termi-
nal Quick, all the Hunter boys, and
last, bat by no means least, Emery
Hodges.
Mr.. Hodges in the old days was one
of the finest spol,s of the Exchange.
but some of his friends got to work and
elected him governor, and after that he
became too severe to live. He was so
strict that the boys of the Exchange
began to call him the Inspector, and
one day they dressed up an employee
of the Exchange in the Sarb Of an In
spector of the Police and tackled on to
him the placard, "This is the Inspec-
tor" Wednesday Mr.. Hodges was out
ofotiice, and he kicked up more merrl-
ment than all the others put together:
The twenty footballs were kicke d
into the air, they were kicked into the
galleries, and they were kicked into
that famous chandelier which is at the
top of the dome of the Exchange. Even
those four little boys in blue in the
gallery were amazed at the tremendous
effort. They gaugeG the distance from
the floor to the chandelier, and it was
with astonishment that they saw that
these old-time fellows, who left college
wears ago, had force enough to send
those footballs into that chandelier and
smash the electric tubes and the porce.
lain lining. But this was done. and
fragments of the chandelier and the
porcelain lining raincd down on the
brokers.
During the melee William Euclid
Young, who believes that be wears the
finest bevelled hat in the town, got IN
the way Of one of the kickers, and that
hat was sight to see afterward. All
this time Chairman James Mitchell, up
on the rostum, was banging away with
his gavel trying to be stern. The Old
boys of the Exchange didn't care any
more for his gavel than they did for a
straw in a mint julep. But Mr.. Mitch
ell fined about one hundred of them
anywhere from 81 to S25. Mr.. Mitch
ell didn't make any record of the fines
and after Change the boys attempted
to settle up in another way. The four
little boys in blue in the gallery then
went home to see their papas and man.
mas and told them that they had seen
the finest football game imaginable
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