Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-05-13
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL.
A SUCCESSFUL BRoK Err.

What the Financial Record Says Of II
Newrane Roy, who Formerly Lived
In BrattIebOro.
The Financial Record. an important in.
vestors' journal, published in New York,
has in its issue of May a two-column
halftone portrait of William p. Eager, a
native of Newfane, and former telegraph
operator in Bratteboro. He went from
here to Holyoke, Mass, and later to New
York. He wrote several years ago a series
of financial letters to The Phoenix which
attracted much attention.
The picture is accompanied by all eX-
tended sketch, from which the following
has been taken
Born in Vermont in 1868, Mr. Eager has
been in the "Strect' for the past 10 years,
and a member of the Consolidated En-
change since 1892. Before becoming a
stock broker Mr. Eager was for four years
private secretary to Clemens IIerschel, the
eminent civil engineer, and in Mr. Her
schers service got a training and acquired
knowledge which have been of much use
to him. lie learned facts and exact meth
DDS
Mr.. Eager is one of the younger genera
ton of Wall street men whose success has
been due to strict and steady attention to
his chosen business A broker, it has
| been his desire to be thoroughly good
! broker, to understand his business and
all that pertains to it in general and in a
detailed way And he has resolutely con-
fined himself strictly to a commission bust
ness. But, that he might understand the
/ market in which his work is performed, he
has been a very close student, in an open
eyed, unbiased and original way, of all
that goes to make up the market, anally-
ling its elements and their action and re-
action upon each other. The market is as
changeable as Kaleidoscope, but there is
a reason for every change, and every day
affords room and opportunity for study
and for the acquiring of information and
experience.
As one of the bright men Of the young
er generation, studying each question as
it comes up on its merits, Mr.. Eager is a
man more than likely to get to the front.
Mr. Eager has Just published little
volume of facts with some opinions run
ming along with the facts for company,
styled oval Street. Facts versus Wal
Street IIumbug,n which has attracted gen
eral and widespread interest and attention
among those who trade in stocks. Its
value is that it deals in an analytical way
with vital facts concerning several of the
more active stocks, Sugar, Burlington, st
Paul, Gas Rock Island and Missouri Pa
cific as examples, showing what there ha:
been for the trader in these stocks for thu
past half dozen years rs an index of wha
there may be in them, and in other activ,
stocks in the busy years ahead. And thu
facts brought out have been revelation
to some of the older and more experienced
men, and have set spectators generally t
thinking.
Perhaps as notable a thing about Mr.
Eager as any relating to him, is the fac
that among all who have had bushes
with him as a broker or have come in con
tact with him in any way, he has not al
. enemy, His straight, direct ways hay
t made him host of friends and have large
S ly increased his business, especially anon
a out of town and distant customers, VIII
i must trade al long range. But nowher
Il in the street or out of it have his bushes
operations made him an enemy. Thes
s facts speak volumes for the man,