White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-18

Didst ever stand at Yonkers, or
Nj. Vernon, and hear come rumbling
over and through the ambient air,
like the magnifed sound that issues
from a telephone receiver, something
like this:
"Geerooo-o-o, an Fights forathou-
sand; sell fihunredata half; awgo-
wananquityerkiekin; give vol a
quarter for five thousand Ely Con.
Ray Central; or, you-ray."
Maybe you didn't hear these words
but If you were there in Yonkers, or
Mt. Vernon, and heard words to this
effect, and wondered wherefore the
why of it, you can bet the last dollar
you've got in your breaches that it
was Bill Gallagher, he of the vocal
magaphone, in action down on the
New York Curb market.
The carrying powers of Bits
voice are almost limitless; they do
say that in the fall of 1906, when the
Goldfeld boom was at its height, he
used to operate a vocal wireless be-
tween the Curb enclosure in Broad
Street and the stock exchange
in Goldfield, and that when the wind
was right for transmitting his vocal
izations, Bills market shoutings
used to beat the telegraph in carry
ing quotations to Goldfield.
That may be a little bit overdrawn
but il stands as an indisputable fact
that w. G.. (Bill) Gallagher, one of
the host loved most popular and most
successful, as well as one of the
livest brokers on the Curb, has the
hi0naef vpioa that ~ mo. NJ u.
a human being. 1t can be heard
above the roarings of all the bulls
and the growlings of all the bears in
the Street; it is ~unafraid before the
thunder that rolls out of the heavens
and when wintry billiards buster up
and down Broad Street, sending
nearly everything else to cover, Bill
Gallagher and his voice are there on
the Curb, and his voice is supreme
above the elements.
There are only two things about
Bill Gallagher that are more con-
spicous than his voice, and their con-
is slighter different from
his vocal magnitude. One thing is
cigar-'One of those %gooduns,
Andy; three for a dollar-come on,
now, put the bunk stuff back in the
Bits voice is no more in
separable from Bill than is that long
black cigar, and the mans effective
ness on the Curb could be destroyed
taking n away as quickly as by
removing the other; he can't work
without both.
The other big thing about Bill Gal
is his habit of being constant
Iy on the job, and of always making
good. It's a pretty good habit to
have, and ii has been a habit with
ever since he has been out
Of school, and that's been nearly %
years now.
Gallagher is a New Yorker, born
and bred, and his education was OBJ
-ained in the public schools. He made
good there, for he finished his school {
ing. graduated and got his diploma
he was only 10 years old. For
hree years after leaving school he
vas a messenger and Office boy. In {
$50 he obtained a position with I
Tobias, bond broker, and, {
tarting from Office boy, ros to be {
head of the bond department.
instance of making good. I
Ifter ten years with Tobias, Gal
agher tied his fortunes with Price,
IcCormack & Co, as assistant man. 8
ger of the bond department, at a |
alary of $40 a week. In nine months !
lie was manager of the firms bond g
department. with a guaranteed sal {
Try of $4,000 a year. In addition ]
o the bond department, Mr.. CAL I
agher handled the unlisted securities
business of this firm, and there got I
lis Introduction TO the Curb stocks. I
Price. Mccormack & Co., failed, !
md with a capital of $1,000, Bill I