Show brokers of wall street wall street brokers hold themselves a million times higher in caste than bookmakers and they are right they are the creme de la creme ot finance bookies are the scum yet there are many bool makers in the street and not a few of them are backers of brokers some are big operators supporting brokers by their commissions there are 1100 mem bers of the stock exchange and these represent brokerage and commission farms whose partnerships aggregate no less than 1 able bodied men it is safe to venture the assert on that each member of the exchange and his partners would turn up the nose at an income of less than 20 a year hence at each year these brokers clean up net about 29 there are some stock exchange firms chich pa annually for the rent of their offices these firms em ploy 7 cleri s and assistants boob keepers runners etc at an average wage of 1 which makes 10 thus we have in three items alone that must come out of the pockets of customers to keep the great machine well oiled that is to say the public pays the sum of 42 annually tor the privilege of supporting in splendid style people in order that they may have the r hands at telling which way the stock will go new york press |