The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-08-02
Eighth Day

York might not interest you-and the
| things that interest you / may not
have seen. For instance, since /
came home everybody nearly, who
has been to New York, has asked me
IL l went to the Hippodrome. Now
I had heard Of the Hippodrome before
| went down East, but never thought
of il once in New York, nor heard it
mentioned. ] didn't go 10 the Hippo
dr6me nor any other show place in
New York, except one. l simply
didn't have time.
II might not interest you 10 go thru
a great publishing concern but IL did
interest me. This morning | spent
two hours in the Butterick Build
| ing. where The Delineator. Every
body's Magazine. Adventure. and
other Magazines are published. II
| IS a great concern, and | saw ii from
skylight to basement, meeting vari-
Gus people about the organization
from the office boy who inquired
| diligently into the Importance of my
business mp to Mr.. c. w Wilder. the
president of the company. / find fire.
Quently a United States Senator IS
easier of approach than his private
secretary and the president of a great
corporation is more cordial than the
guard at the gate. Altho l am not
complaining. / wasn't thrown out of
any place in New York.
] had to leave this interesting build
ing all too quickly TO meet luncheon
engagement with Mr. Donovan at the
| Bankers Club. l don't know wheth-
er this is the swellest club in New
York City or not but it is the swellest
Club l was ever in. II occupies a floor
or TWO at the top OF the Equitable
Building and its quarters are pleas
an;iy located and elegantly furnish
ed.
After lunch / visited some stock
brokers offices. including the estab-
lishment of Hayden. Stone & Co.
tere Mr.. NJ. NJ. Ferguson, one of the
I firm. treated me as well as il | had
had money 10 invest We talked"
over investments and we watched
the action in the board room where
u s. steel was going up at the rate
of quarter of a point a minute
reaching a higher price than it had
ever gone before. i observed by
their joyous countenances that sew
eral in the room had bought at the
right time while some others show
ed plainly that they were short
a board room on an active market
resembles a mixed political crowd
getting the. election re,urns-there
are conflicting emotions plainly evil
dent.
| After a while strolled over to the
Curb Most OF the stock business is
transacted in several stock exchang-
A ,.-tsh Lob . l,..
Curb is sort of stock exchange out
Of doors. Here rain or shine during
business hours you will see several
hundred men out in the middle OF
Broad street doing business frantic
ally. Everybody seems to be hallo-
ing and waving his arms AT the same
time They are Offering for sale. Of
ferine TO buy. buying or selling stocks
that are not listed in the exchanges.
These stocks include the Standard
Oils. In the buildings on both sides
OF the streets are many offices of
brokerage firms. In the windows of
| these Offices sit men who commune
cate with representatives down in the
street by signs and the finger alpha
/ oej. and buy and sell stocks by the
wave of the hand. You can't under
stand a thing that is going on but
an hour or two later you can buy an
/ evening newspaper and read the
stock quotations on the Curb Market
that this mob OF financial activity has
made.
| had an invitation to call on a
gentleman eight or nine miles up
town at four O'Clock but | find that
owing to the delays caused by these
interesting things I have been mixed
up in / can't make IL so 20 into a
telegraph office and send 1rin a
| telegram. setting a later hour for the
call. j, is a big and busy city this.
where you have TO telegraph back
and forth about engagements.
These stock operations are inter
esting but they go too fast for me.
can't keep up. am too slow
suppose. fear wouldn't make a
| good speculator.
| had an unusually pleasant and
| interesting evening. visiting with Mr..
James Lane Allen, the author. in his
comfortable apartments. II you like
the best in modern literature you
know who Mr.. Allen is-sthe author
of The Choir Invisible. Kentucky
Cardinal. Aftermath. The Reign OF
Law. A Summer in Already and other
charming stories. Other mehl and
women of these times write good
stories but Mr.. Allen, like Robert
Louis Stevenson combines good stor-
les with good literature. AS a por-
trayer of beautiful scenes. of natures
charms and of the delicate emotions
as writer OF stories about scenes
we love and people We know. Mr.. AL
len has no superior.
For twenty-five years at least Mr..
James Lane Allen has been my favo-
| rite author. as James Whitcomb Riley