Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-04
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languages.
Navigation In Wall street waters Is
dangerous because the rocks are all out
OF sight. When you locate one by strik-
Ing 1t, they shift to another anchoring.
wall street on dry days amuses it.
self by soaking the public also on wet
days and other days.
"Dlrectorships in trusts carry With
them sacred duties, hard work and no
emolument. There are exceptions where
directors are dllatory In operating on
their advance knowledge, thereby tax
Ing even chances with the stockholders.
They are rare exceptions and when dis.
covered are dropped.
THE ticker rests upon the Sabbath
to bury its victims.
"Panics fall alike upon the shorn and
the to be shorn.
THE ticker first asks. What do you
think I'm going to say?' then says the
opposite.
There are two kinds of pilots in
Wall street waters-the licensed and
unlicensed. Each is worse than the
other.
when you are long and they're
dropping, it's purgatory; when you are
short and they're rising, it's hell.
"a Wall street pilot is one who, tired
Of sinking his own craft, sinks others
for salvage.
Most Wall street rumors have care
fully prepared itinerary.
Nothing succeeds like success
except inside information.
"Wall street advice is free. and 1t is
worth it.
"The public brings it's wealth to Wall
street. and, owing to the frictionless
working Of the most perfect financial
system in the world, it can at any time
get back its equivalent in one form or
another, usually another.
Each day million shares are
bought and sold for the public Wall
street receives $25OOOO in commits
sions, yet those who should know bet
ter say brokers are not producers.
"Ofttimes a few yards Of tape con-
tans more history than all of the vol
umes Of Macaulay or Bancroft.
"When you gamble in stocks, it is
you against the world - one mind
against millions.
There are many philosophers in
Wall street, but they're all broke.
"rhe ticker every day at quarter
past 2 tells the victims the time. 1t
appreciates that they had watches
earlier in the game.
"The ticker blasts more lives than
rum and cards combined.
"a swarm of bees visited the Stock
Exchange. but We're so ashamed Of
their inactivity that they left in a
hurry.
almost any good mathematical sys'
TEN can beat the ticker to standstill
before 10 and after 3.
'If the garden of Eden had been in
Wall street, Adam would never have
got even bite of the apple
Aristotle must have been flirting
with the tape when he said the world
was made up of two kinds Of people
liars and liars.
"Tickery. tckery, took.
The lambs ran after stock;
The stock 1t turned, and the lambs got
burned.
And now they're all in hook
"Almost all directors of modern
trusts are yachtsmen. The reason
trusts capital affords mooring the year
round.
"A lie well told in Wall street is the
truth.
zone of the fundamental principles
OF modern finance and the one to which
America owes much of it's enormous
wealth, When a stock has advanced to
prohibitive high figures, double the
capitalization and repeat
when Wall street holds a husking
bee, insiders get all the red ears.
"a straddle is a sort of half sister,
mother-in-law bride-one of those puz-
zling creatures who don't know wheth-
er to 60 back to ma, elope with broth
er-in-law or settle down and be prim.
"Hark, bark. the dogs do bark
The coppers are tumbling down;
There are some with bags and lots with
jags.
And they'll surely bust the town"
Upon the frontispiece of the calendar
appears this inscription. "E & o M b
O." which translated means Errors
and omissions must be overlooked" a
variation of device by which brokers
in submitting statements Of speculative
accounts to clients limit their liability.