Show W WOMAN M A N A BAD A ED LOSER L 0 S E T JL ff C L wall street brokers draw the sex line now new york consolidated exchange firm lakel likely to ele be disciplined by board tor for its Vial violation atlon unwritten rule exists now york A Wa wall estreet street brokerage firm has got itself into trouble and may be suspended by the tha consolidated stock exchange because it recently opened a department fitted up with a few rocking chairs had a woman oman in a white sweater stationed at the tha ticker to read the quotations and allowed woman speculators to come gown down and bring their young ones with them if they cared to which they did in some cases this is a punishable ottense in the tha street not the children but their mothers are the ones object ed to there are no DO cries arlea of place lux dames I 1 in the stock market zone the establishment with the nursery attachment t to td its department Is on new street just a block away from the exchange ot of which the firm a a member it bad really only just begun to build up the new branch of ts to business when the exchange heard it if it and signaled the tha call to arms of the board ot of governors this had the beat ot of clearing the room ot of 11 children and of all ait but two women while the person in the white sweater who had been fingering many yards 0 of ticker tape was supplanted by t man you may search the rule book of 0 the consolidated from cover to cover bover for an article or a bylaw by law forbidding women to come down and trade in stocks like the men and to bring illein youngsters along with thorn thom as now and then a proud father has done on DIM a half holiday but you yon will not find what you ate io looking tor for the rule exists none the less lesa it simply printed the nearest thing to it in print Is a rule prohibiting acts detrimental to the exchange on the part of its members which as one of the board ot of governors pointed out might be made to cover any number of things among them la Is the catering to feminine speculators bo be said the fact that a sort fort of kindergarten annex went with tho the department had nothing to do with the case wall street half expects to see the proprietors of the nev street rocking chair trading club and day nursery punished in some way by suspension from the I 1 Ss it la pretty certain that the club and the nursery will go out of existence it will have to women who want to dabble in stocks are as unwelcome as a crook below the dead line all this in spite ot of the tact fact that only a few weeks ago mrs emmeline Emmel lne told wall street any number of stories about women who had gone into business and made a success of it its the experience of hundreds of stock brokers that the woman who cornea 0 mes down here to speculate Is a bad loser said one officer of the consolidated soli dated recently say what you please about this being the day of equality but deep down in our bearta we feel that there is a difference i stock gambling Is a mans game we dont want women breaking in this man was inclined to excuse the new jew street brokers on the ground that the firm had been a member ot of the exchange less leas than two years and perhaps did not know better if that were the case the alarms sounded by the board of governors when they heard of the dep department artmen t and its nursery annex had bad evidently taught the young firm a lesson A visitor dropped in to see the feminine speculators in action with their young ones romping in the shadow of the quotation board tabard and the ticker basket but there was waa none of that to be seen when a woman makes something on the market said one broker of thirty years experience in the street she takes the credit of it all to her self it was she who did it when she loses it was her brokers fault he deceived her and a peculiar trait Is that in losing she cannot quite clear her mind of the suspicion that what she lost the broker gained |