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Show FORTUNE i TELLER. I The New Stock Exchange will soon bun;- out a Stock ticker running about a fifth faster ihan the model that now brings the sad news to the gentlemen gen-tlemen who spend their days In chairs before the blackboards in brokerage offices and bucki t shops. It seems that the sad news doesn't come fast enough. On a busy day the ticker sometimes runs a quarter of an hour or more behind prices on tho floor of the stock exchange Since the market can do a lot of shifting in H minutes, plungers will welcome u faster-geared ticker. It brings them closer to the battlefield where their dollars are fighting heavy-odds. heavy-odds. The stock ticker was invented by B preacher. Dr. Samuel S. Laws, back In Civil War days. A Gold Exchange had b' n e.-tab llshcd in New York, to adjust tho price of gold at regular intervals, thus letting bankers nnd other business men know what their paper money was worth on B gold basis. A board of trustees met each morning, morn-ing, to adjust the price of gold. As they emerged from conference, hundred- of messenger boys pounced on them, eager to rush the gold price to bankers, brokers and merchants. The trustees, by the time the messengers got through mobbing them, sometimes had to buy uew clothes. So they Jumped at the chance when Preacher Laws showed them sketches for the first electrical ticker machine. Young Thomas A Edison had charge Ol the telegraphing service. The first stock tickers, of course, were crude compared with the machine ma-chine in glass cages that spit out quotation quo-tation ribbon today. More than 7000 tape tickers are now in uce, four-fifths of them recording record-ing the price waves of stocks and bonds. Of all machines Invented by man, j the stock ticker is easily the most in- irppring uaiiy it regulates too emotions emo-tions of hundreds of thousands of people. What a story it could tell, If it could talk! In tho main, the story would bo tragic blasted hopes, exploded ex-ploded dreams, thefts, prison terms, lost fortunes and suicides. The brighter bright-er side tho story' of lucky strikes is the flame that lures the moths. on |