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Show NEW YORK STOCIL BROKERS HOUSED IN MARBLE PALACE hH SIFT- 1 1 :.; '1 h : s "fWV In the month of April, 17!5, tho (etock brokers of New York illy met -dally under a spreading bulionwonil tree In front ir To Wull Hired, ami their peaceful traiiHHi-tloiiH were watched rurloiiidy by tho silk-clad beauties and hewigged beaux whoso hornet lined the street. On April 22 the present generation uf brokers met for thn flrHt time In the veritable palace pal-ace which ban been built as a 111 thin home for the thousand odd securities, y valued In blllloiiH of dollars, repro- seating Hid material wealth of a nation na-tion which bus leaped from thn narrow nar-row confines or a strip along tho Atlantic At-lantic to the coast or I he Pacific and beyond. The new exchange Is built or white niarblo and la nine stories high. Its outward claim to dlatlnctioci Is In Its dlRtillled simplicity. The llroad street front, the reul show front. Is noteworthy note-worthy for Its six magnificent Corinthian Corinth-ian ro I ii in nil. 62 feet In height and 60 Inches in diameter, surmounted by a pediment, for the tympanum of which J. Q. A. Ward has designed a series of sculptures whose mnln theme Is Integrity, In-tegrity, represented by a central fo-male fo-male flKiire. to whom tho arts and Industries In-dustries bear their fruits ror adjust-nient. adjust-nient. The Wall street end of the structure, which occupies an Irregular quadrllalernl, IibvIiik frontHKes of l:iS feet on llroad street and 103 feet on New street, with a depth or H,0 feet, I Is less ornate, but equally appropriate. The li in I n effort huh to provhln a suitable suit-able bourd room, whero the actlvo ' trailing Is done, and to this end tho architecture hns yielded. Tho entrance to the exchange rrom the main llroad street doors reveals lllKhts or nun bio steps to right and left leading to the floor of tho board room. Directly ahead are corridors running tbruugh tho basement. Thla Is devoted lo the members' coat moms, to tho olTlces or the cable and telegraph companies, and to ofllcca ror use aa barber shops, news stands and so on. In the aub-baacment aro the rooms ror employes, tho vaults for securities, and much of tho costly machinery ma-chinery which serves to light, heat and ventilate the structure. The apparatus ap-paratus for thn latter purposes cost mora than (400.000. In the telegraph and cablo olHcea are the outlets of the pneumatic tube system, whlrh, with Its branches, taps every room In the building. Following tho marblo slept to the door uf the board room. Immensity Is the first Impression given. It la a hall resplendent In gold leaf and pure white marble, HO feot long, from llroad to New street, and lo8 feet wide, from tho Wall street to the south end, with Its celling 72 feot above the floor. In the renter of the celling Is a colored glass skylltht lent square. Tho llroad and street ends of tho room nrn hlniplj. great windows, sustained by Iron ni lions through which are seen tlis ' inthlnn pillars of each fnraile. Then are 1.1,000 square feet of floor SP'W, ' and thla expanse is broken only h tho trading posts, fifteen In notnlw, scattered about It, and by the pnruld rows of telephono boot ha on the N street end, whlrh extend some eljll-con eljll-con reel Into the room proper. On tho seventh floor, In the Brad street front, Is the bond room, wbzh la In Itseir a great hall, built llkou amphitheater, two stories high, ltd lighted by a skylight. It Is finely decorated In gold, lith green and brown wall panels. TMs will bo used for members' sffftrd;i and by the governing commit! alio, The New street sl.lo of this Door It given over to tho handsomn otRces of tho president of the exchan;e, to the clerks, workroom, and, with a part of tho Wall street end, to the secretary's offices, all finely decorated and com-modioua com-modioua rooms. From the maehlnerled mara of Its depth to Its lofty dome, rcsrlrndsnt with light, the slrueturo Is peifact In Its purpose to be tho poising h-srt to which lead the financial artorieanf the nation, and in tho not far futire, of tho wholo world. New York Sun. |
