The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-25

NEW YORK. March 24.-There's ticker
in the Bowery and it's stock ticker. No
horses are announced. no baseball no prize
fights, no sports of any kind. The tape
records only the prices OF stocks dealt in
on the New York Stock Exchange, and is
interesting enough to draw about It a
large group of regular watchers, who hail
from the East Side The Ghetto is begin
ming to~deal in stocks.
The bankers and brokers who first
thought Of running the tape into the Ghet-
to are II. c. Friedman & Co. a member Of
the Consolidated Exchange They opened
their place at 81 Bowery three months ago,
got 1. Sachs, a popular East Side cafe
keeper, to be manager, and already they
number their customers at fifty. It is a
regularly appointed ottice-high stools near
the ticker; a blackboard with a boy direct
from Wall Street, who cries. Mop,
". p. =" u. p " B. X. T.. etc. a bored
telegraph operator and the manager with
tips" There is the wire and the phone
and the slang. The customers go short
and stay long" they talk Of scalping
for pots and taking losses they NOPE
and they cheer up.
Inc Doy stands at MS BOARD Win my
SIX stocks on MS list he IS supposed 10
tear OIL the tape ana mark up the prices.
but the customers VINO cannot wait READ
on Jhe prices ana an ne mas 10 10 Is chalh
them ID their places Inc only alincui'y
occurs when the customers become eN-
cited and use Iiddish. Then the Broad
Street boy looks first panied, then tired
ana ne waits. staring al Jhe customers
uses presence oil mind ana nastily' apolo-
getically restates the facts. The boy com
mands no little respect on account Of MS
familiarity with the Wall street.
That, By the way, is what they call the
Hiafhel. lhey 90 not say no" are
SIotks OF ROW Is tne hdIhet No..
no" Is the wall street To-Day; Da'e 20
: asked a customer VINO was III at dDout lou
o'clock Yesterday.
1T opened up pretty strong went on a
little, but it is holding its own all right
was the placid answer. spoken with some
tendency TO VS. and :, out other"ise quite
conventional.
The customers mostly doctors u'us
gists, business men OF the neighoornood'
sat about in the regulation Dig aTmChalrs
grouped IN the customers ROOM me
manager has private office, with the
telephone. The conversation IS In Niddish.
but the English words, dhlrd Avenue
metropolitan Nipper- break throusn
frequently enough 70 snow that 'he endt
does not WANDER lar from Tue APE 81
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lICher' ousdI n1'l'
ne boy Y4ll uyIes tAeIe' "ip'hs cut
hsuIt' !otlins uONu "lotne.-
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he ,rert On IN ald ANIL tbat MS c,,sto-
mo-. a., not 10 agsrsral +bir,, 10
irg poy. OF IL tbe,- foIlo,y bis sd,.ics and
no hoe rIo,t, 81 ,,t,.ic,. ~ s,iro H.. ,f,o-.,i
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caod ina and b,s beer .rls,,iIo in g~od
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botba, oro.s ,oacs If nina
A doctor who caua il, late Yesterday af-
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