Show Blind Broker Is Active Trader In Turmoil of Chicago Grain Pit CHICAGO Dy The Associated In S the shouting gesticulating mob of brokers milling about the grain pit In the Chicago board of oC trade often Is seen a strangely calm figure In un- un unhurried unhurried hurried fashion the trader does busi- busi business business ness on a large scale but he never takes put part In the be bewildering system of hand sIgnals which transfer owner owner- I ship of millions of bushels of grain with the raising of a finger The broker who Goes about his business s so quietly Is John I He Is stone bUnd blind When In the turmoil of the pit decIdes to buy or sell he listens for a suitable offer from some booker oker within Immediate reach and then elm elm- I es the transaction with a shrill quick word sold Always the kindly hand of the brok- brok broker er nearest him JUm pencils the necessary record of the transaction on the sight sight- sightless sightless less mans man's trading card formerly represented In the pit one ot of the largest graIn companies In the world Overnight after an exciting day he went blind hU his optic nerves being paralyzed A boy leads him around the familiar corrIdors ot of the board of trade but when he reaches the pit he becomes es as keen a part of the rough and ready tradIng as In the days when he had his sight |