Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1915 — Teaching New Boys the Language of Wall Street [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Teaching New Boys the Language of Wall Street

NEW YORK. —Going to work in Wall street these days is just like going to school again for a hundred or so of the latest additions to the army of clerks and runners in the various brokerage houses on “the street.” Wall

street speaks a language all its own. That fact made no trouble a year ago, for then everyone had been on the job long enough to know that when a hoarse-voiced, wild-eyed lunatic yelled ‘SHow’s Mop?” all he wanted to know was the latest ticket quotation on the stock of the Missouri Pacific railroad. But when the war came many Wall street employees found themselves out of jobs, and found work elsewhere. Then the exchange re-

opened, and the brokers hastily employed new boys as runners and clerks. There was no trouble in finding them, but when the broker asked after the condition of “Mop” they were likely to bring back a report that “it was dry as sticks, and that fool porter wasn't around at all.” And when the broker’s partner wanted to know "where’s Katy now?” more than one of the newly enlisted boys was heard to answer “hanged if I know.” instead of giving the proper stock quotation on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas stock. To overcome the difficulty new employees have been required to report an hour earlier than is customary and go through a course of instruction ■ at the hands of some one of the older employees who was held over during the hard times period.