Valentine's City of New York; un guide, avec six cartes et cent soixante photos pleine page . es du temps, mais rien n'interfère avec les affaires. Les bâtiments des deux côtés de la rue, en face de la foule, sont remplis de clérics signalingorders ou de recevoir des messages du Trottoir. Des dizaines de téléphones avec un accompagnateur à chacun peuvent être simplement seendu trottoir et les mouvements frénétiques des opérateurs qui tentent de livrer des commandes urgentes forment l'une des caractéristiques éclairantes de la vie sur Le Trottoir. Le premier phénomène qui pique la curiosité de l'innocent wayfarer est TH

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Valentine's city of New York; a guide book, with six maps and one hundred and sixty full page pictures . es of the weather, but nothing interferes withbusiness. The buildings on both sides of the street di-rectly opposite the crowd are filled with clerks signallingorders or receiving messages from the Curb. Dozens oftelephones with an attendant at each can be plainly seenfrom the sidewalk and the frantic motions of the oper-ators trying to deliver urgent orders form one of theilluminating features of life on the Curb. The first phenomenon that piques the curiosity ofthe innocent wayfarer is the meaning and purpose ofthe finger signs. For the most part, they denote price.They do not convey the full prices. That is supposedto be known. If a stock is selling at 89 1/8, all thatwill be indicated by the hands will be the eighth. Thehand turned up means bid or what somebody is will-ing to pay for the stock; the hand turned down meansoffered, or what somebody is willing to sell it for.The index finger, pointing up, means one-eighth of apoint bid; two fingers a quarter; three fingers, three- 108. Looking down Broad Street from Wall. Stock Exchange on right.Underbill eights, and so on to more complicated signals. Point-ing down, the fingers indicate the fraction of a pointoffered. The multi-colored hats worn by these people are notadopted as a mark of eccentricity, but for the severelypractical purpose of making recognition easy by any indi-vidual in the windows of the firm whom he represents. Romance is thick these days on the Curb. Men havegone there poor, wrecks, failures, borrowing quartersand dimes for lunch; have bought some engraved certi-ficates that nobody else wanted, have prospered, put ongood clothes, worn diamonds, driven automobiles, dinedm the finest hotels, kept chauffeurs and country estatesand yachts, kept on trading and gone back again toborrowing quarters and dimes for lunch. Leaving the Curb we are soon in front of the impos-ing, many pillared building o

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