South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-07
NEW YORK STOCK
BROKERS ARE ON
EASY ST. AGAIN
Everybody Even StraphangerS
Filled With Spirit of Come
BaCk"-VenderS Reap Big
Returns.

NEW YORK. May IA month ago
when one mentioned the word, STOCK
broker, ne thought OF lean, hungry
looking individual. run down at the
heels buying l5-cent lunch IN
hashery and afraid 20 90 home Tor
fear the LANDLORD would meet him.
Now broker" connOtes red-faced,
sleek young man rolling up To tango
palace ia 10-cylinder automobile,
ordering the best in the house, and
ainging bills ont of pockets that are
stuffed with them
such is the effect on the Wall st.
gentry of the revival Of the stock
market 1 took a walk down through
Broad st. and New ST., just after
these five million share days. Really
even the stenOgraphers seem 10 have
written on their faces. we've come
back
Hawkers made streets resound
which had been comparatively silent
for a year or two. All sorts or side
walk and corridor merchants. neck
wear and lace vendors and flower sell
ers who had long confined their activ-
tiles 10 more fertile soil, were on the
job here again.
A friend OF raine declares that the
price Of boutOnnieres rises and falls
with the movements of the stock mar
ket- 1t goes something like this:
Stocks Boutonnieres
Active and sounding. ..$ 10
Excited and booming. ...... 20
Depressed 10
am not in close enough touch
with the stock market myself, l am
sorry 10 say, to corrobOrate this
statistical Information, but / can see
some things with my own eyes. If We
keep up at this rate. so they tell me,
we will sell a billion dollars worth
more a year 20 Europe than we buy
from her. The people who are get
ting this billion dollars are coming
right down 10 Wall st. TO hand it over
TO the stock-b brokers and maybe the
Ock-brOkers are not glad To see
them.
It is getting so noisy in New York
that the plate glass show windows
have 20 be braced up. Walk along
Broadway and you viii see a buffer on
the center of a big plate OF glass fixed
with guy wires passing to the win
dow frame. But it isn't the rumble
and roar of the big city that is caus-
ing the big damage. Ii is the blasts
from new construction.
New York is now spending $780,
$1,000 on new subway and elevated
lines and it is putting up a whole lot
of skyscrapers, despite the war
the last few weeks The federal drug
law has ct last prevented bringing the
cocaine. heroin. morphine and other
dOpes across the river from Jersey
for the city's fends. The drug users
unable to obtain their ordinary sup
plies OF inspiration, have been reduced
TO nervous wrecks or helpless idiots
They have actually been surrendering
in groups 10 the police, crying for
something TO relieve the awful agony
in which they find themselves. Most
of them viii have to be shipped TO
asylums, and another blot on the
reputation Of New York Will be gone.
son ARRIVES.
Born, TO Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Bet7
of Benton Harbor, a son. May g. Mr.
Betz is a son OF Mr. and Mrs. r. A
Betz 14O6 Miami st Mrs Chester
Walters OF Detroit, a sister of Mr.
Betz, who has been visiting in the
city for some time. left last night for
Benton HarbOr.
MILLINERY ANNOUNCEMENT.
We should be pleased 10 show you
our beautiful new line of midsummer
millinery.
MRS. NJ A. FRALICK,
Isl y. Main st.