Show NEW YORK STOCK BOARD in his correspondence to the buletin Jiul letin franl pixley thus endeavors to describe the new york stock exchange 11 1 I wish I 1 could describe to you the stock board it is the most ludicrous absurd abbul d and remarkable of ill all the scenes I 1 have witnessed in new yoi boik k imagine n a long loom of the size of the san francisco bank Exclia exchange billiard billi aid loom with raised seats arranged 0 like a second class melodeon thele are arc a presiding pie siding officer with a wooden ham mer to p pound his desk jn in one hand and n d a arum drumstick tick to b beat c ata a gong i an fn n alj jhc thc 0 other half a dozen secretaries three hundred well di diess essed cd bright and all alive business men it is confusion all the time a babel of ton tongues ties everybody lias has liis his hat bat on with a dum book and pencil in his hand standing C up A stock is called and pandemonium bicais loose half tile the body rush to the center of the hall everybody at the same time is as loud as lungs 0 S can bawl shouts and bellows and boais in in senseless jargon his offers to buy or sell gesticulating with both arms shaking every finger dancing like a howling bobbing up tip and down like a shaking quaker there are all tones from the gamut of a one stringed chinese fiddle to the deep base of the trombone or the shrill shriek of a locomotive whistle the pencil and the memorandum book note the cash sales the le ie cording t secretaries ret aries note tho the time sales till when all have bawled themselves hoarse and turned red in tile face they aio broughal up with a shout and hammer and gong the president pounds and those not operating in that particular stock hiss and call older till tile tempest subsides and the next stock called is tile the renewal of a similar scene no language can besci describe ibo a new york stock board take the raving maniacs a es from a mad house make them all drunk on tarantula juice put them in in a hot room with scotch snuff a and nd red pepper on oil tile stove and you have an idea of the now YO ic stock I 1 exchange achan 0 cre in an all excitement or a panic |