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Show LUCKY BOT BPEOUIwATOBB. The sight or the curb market reminds one of a email slxed. though fiercely agitated agi-tated riot. However, with all their excited ex-cited and wtld gesticulations, gyrations, and howthnr. for all the world like a pack of beasts, there la method in their madneee. The curb has brought forth an army of bov speculators, many of them street urchins, sn this case literally being lifted out of the gutter onto the curb I There Is some th tax tn the atmoermera of Wall street that stirs the gambling: spirit In the young blood. Thousand a of email boys ars "plavtng the market" and having hav-ing the time of their young Uvea Juggling stocks tn Wall street, and their trading le eltogether on the curb. Moot of those voung gamblers In stocks are employed in brokerage and banking houses in ths financial district, and the usual run of bor speculators take their gains or loseas quite aa philosophically aa the most hardened veterans of "the street. Onlv a few veers sgo an off I rat boy te a large atock exchange house made enough money playing the market to buy a seat oa the exchange. Ha baa since drooped nut of Wall street and no one In the financial district eeesna to know what haa become of him. Hla seat waa sold a cow pie of years ago. The story of Pennia Fog-arty a now one of the traditions of "the street. Dsnnls used to be stock runner for John W. Gate. Paeetng up and down Broad street be finally began to take "fliers" on the curb with the notes that represented rep-resented his occasional accumulation a When he became li veara old he threw up his Job and took his place aa a full fiedged speculator en the curb market. Luck waa with hlna. What la more. It stuck bv him one weede large euantl-ttee euantl-ttee of luck eat the curb! Ho got bold of eome western mining stocks when they were cheap and sold them after tney bad Jumoed several pointa. making- a few thousand dollars In about three moot ha The curb thee, became too slow for 'this lightning- boy operator, and be began to take a fall new and then out of listed securittoe. With luck still a railing on him. be made mora money. When steal common waa down a rou ad 14 Dennis bought heavily of It. It soon atarted up. and kept oa going tap and up. Whew It had reached a fairly high point Deavue beoamo 11 aad be wkw.y ct Crated his majorl ty by sal Hag out From "Wall Street ; fta History, aad Romanoa." ia the Strand. |