Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — Heavy Footed Brokers. [ARTICLE]

Heavy Footed Brokers.

When the New York Stock Exchange gave up its old quarters less than a year ago in order that a new structure might go up on the site, it took temporary quarters in the building of the Produce Exchange. There is a short flight of stone steps leading to the exchange floor. When the stock brokers went in, these steps were practically unworn. In less than six months masons had to be called in to remove these stones and reset them the other side up. Deep furrows had been worn into the surface by the thousands of brokers, clerks and messenger boys rushing up and down the flight. They will have to be replaced altogether before the end of the year.