Bisbee daily review., 1919-12-02
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cigarettes around the inside of cage i in a trust company near Wall Street there is something wrons, vr aU least peculiar. with our present financial systef. The gentlemen who undertook to explain to me some Of the intri- e sies of money movement on Wall Street poured forth an unintelligi ble stream of language about stocks and bonds, margins and profits, us ing terms that the average layman knows nothing about, and fer which he cares less. "Oh yes, the other day when call money was so high I called in ESQ., OOO 900 over the phone from brokers. MCney, why that is the mo5s pienti-I ful thing around here. But if you ever take a job in one O. these houses don't leave your cigarettes lying around it is not safe. The man man next 70 you who is counting those $1OO0O0 checks may take a fancy to them. Then they are gone He spoke half boastingly, half hu- raorously. He was comparatively new to the game and still Oubb'ed over 
 put me to counting money first, then I graduated 10 figuring margins un- til the president happened to see me and showed me back at money work, saving that it took years of eXper- fence to figure margins. hal no az gument."
 By this time he had finished punching the adding machine. We set off 10 see the famous stock eX- change and the curb market.
 Wall Street is not such a bad place after ali. As a child 1 had imagined it as a place where bulls and bears chased each other around through the narrow canyons formed by the tall buildings, tripping over the curbs and pumping into innocent by standers in their attempt to outwlt one another in doing" someone out of his money. But Wall Stree was like any other street. Perhaps Ihe people were in little more or . hurry. Their faces, most of them' showed worry. Who does not worry over money matters in this world so that should not be the cause or 1hPlr TIOuDle. IIOGC NAiC HNO''N
 been hurrying were not. In front or a book shop where cheap novels were advertised two Western Union messengers were discussing the rela- five literary value of "Diamond Oickp and ''Mushy Mystery, while an old gentleman groomed as the latest fashion demanded was nall running I'D the street.
 We swung into the revolving door on Wall Street that gave entrance in inc Stock Exchange. A uniformed attendant stopped us.
 "Whatja want?" he demanded try ing to block the twelve foot pasose with his rather narrow frame
 eve are going up in the gallery.
 "All right go!" he. stood aside with a gruff expression
 From the gallery I loked down on the pit of the Stock Exchange. Be low me. and across and the other side of the room,' in narrow stalls were the telephone booths of the diff ferent brokerage firms. From these the sales and orders for purchases are telephoned to and from the or fees of the brokers. On the floor, congregating around the twenty posts were the brokers, their mes senger boys and assistants or clerks' A dull buzz, the hum of voices, arose from the pit, telephones Jangled' now and then broker called louuly ar whistled for messenger, the tick CT behind me droned out 1ncessan'- ly the quotations on never endlns strip of paper Letters and numbers numbers and letters. Above the LICK CT on a card was the key to the ao- breviations On either wall large black boards indicated automatically numbers. Were they stock quota tions? No, for there were no aboreV' iations and the numbers ran Tn series advancing from the bottom upward Now there flashed 295,296,297 among tbe others. then they disappeared.
 An official guide or explainer to the ignorant answered my quesuon and informed me that they were in dicators. Each broker had nuInper when q telephone call came for hm if was registered on the board. Jus' like the call numbers for motor cars over the. entrance of 9 theatre or de. nartment store, that was one way oi being paged.
 We learned that business was dull that morning. Saturday only the odds and ends of business were cleaned up. I wondered what the exchange would be like on a very busy day few days back when call money rose to 90 per cent and stocks 1iuc tuated as great as fifty points the place must have been more like mad house than a dignified market
 The individual brokers on the floor were men in the prime of life. heal thy, prosperous and energetic look ing. Here and there an elderly gen tleman wandered among the throng mad in hand. greeting a few frienos