Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-02
WALL STREET IN LIGHTER VEN


 flers. artic boots and varied colOred caps and hats crowded around one another, filing the street from curb to curb, shouting and waving their hands in the air while fingers made fantastic motions. This was the curb market A tough Joking collection of brokers to say the least.
 The buying and selling here went on the same as on the Stock Ex- change only any one who wished could buy and sell. The means for exchange of stocks were not as con venient as on the Exchange. Being done on the streets other means had to be found for communicating from the street to the brokers offices This was found, and the result re sembled a deaf and dumb school on
 picnic.
 The brokers in the street signaled | with their hands to operators, with telephone headgear on, in the win i dows of the red brick building and
 the one just opposite The sales were thus telephoned to the various | 1 ferent colored caps, white, or white with green stripes, red, purple, law endar or black with white initials on the crown. Their fingers danced and | shimmied in grotesque figures. The ! operators signaled back to them Tn
 the same manner. Sharp whistles or
 a clanking bell from the window at ! tracted the attention of the broker;
 he watched and received his orders.
 made his purchase or sale and signal ' ed back the result. One operator tap
 ped the window pane, another ham,
 mered the stone casing with tuning fork. Each operator producing an in | dividual noise and each served its purpose to attract the attention of the broker.
 Most of the brokers in the street
 seemed to be youths about twenty or
 twenty-two years old. They jostled and pushed and milled around, calling ' their wares like street vendors, and many of them could have been push q, ing a go cart full of bananas without
 appearing out of place. Traffic con tinued to use Uassau street as if | there has been no one there. The Il crowd opened up to let an ambulance l pass, a taxi followed, and the hole
 closed up again.
 The curb. too, was having quite
 morning, my companion told me. Well
 I would keep away from it when it Il was having an unquiet period.
 Leaving the curb market I turned north up Nassau street toward the United States treasury that stands or : the corner of Wall street directly op ; posite the building owned by Morgan
 and company. An imposing corner Il
 was with those three buildings, the Exchange, the Treasury and the Nor gon building. When I first saw the
 Morgan structure I thought it was
 morgue, it looked so sold and silent ! standing dignified among the other
 higher although less impressive build ings. This, then, was the center o
 financial America and financial New
 York.
 I Continuing up Nassau street block or two the atmosphere changed a little. Shops, the kind that art seen in a business district, became plentiful, shops for the most part tha
 catered to men, The restaurants ap peared as if they were only used dur ing the day and not at all in th' } evening. They gave the feeling tha
 they were in a hurry to have you com' 7 in and get out so that they migh close as soon as possible.
 Wall Street for the casual visitor Il unattractive. So was the impression , that it gave me. But with it's unat
 tractiveness there was a certan charm about it. The tall bulldlng
 towering story above story, cutting or the rays of the sun and casting lon'
 gloomy shadows over the marrow streets; the people passing with al
 air of business; the lack of womel 1, and the over quantity of men, th'
 very rumble passing taxies ana mo , tor cars seemed to breath the wor' , that things were being accomplished : big business was being done. Yet th' ,, bigness did not detract from the har l mony and smoothness with whici | everything proceeded.