Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-12-15
WOMEN SPECTATORS.
ONE OF THE SIGNIFICANT SIGHTS
OF NEW YORK WHICH ONLY
The INITIATED SEE.
WHERE THEY LAY THEIR BETS on
STOCK-NTARKET FLUCTUATIONS.
Broker Says They Are Bad Losers,


Between 10 A. m. and p. IN. a contin
uous procession of women may be seen
streaming into the offices OF New York
brokers who make a speciality OF catering
to the feminine love for speculation.
private room is set apart for their use,
and as it is equipped with rocking chairs,
ornamental tables, growing plants, and
in some instances divans heapeA high
with pillows, they feel very much at
home there. The only business-like fea-
lures of these rooms are the bulletin
board covered with stock quotations, and
the tickers.
In the Office of a downtown broker
there is particularly luxurious room
for the use of women patrons. As rule
25 to 30 women may be found there, and
the hum of gossip never ceases. The ma
iority of them are hard featured, elderly
females, but here and there is seen q
youthful face on which no lines have as
yet been drawn by anxiety and nerve
tension. They cluster round the tickers,
taking turns in reading. the quotations
aloud. When a woman drops the endless
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so,,Iotin,ns hor ,,oicn ,roys shr;I Win
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whenever the ticker procaims a decline
in stocks in which one of the spectators
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