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Title: The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Conant, Charles A. (Charles Arthur), 1861-1915
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Publisher: New York : The Progress of the Empire State Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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Georgia marble, the style of the architecture beingRoman Renaissance. The most conspicuous features ofthe Broad and New Street fronts are the high Corinthiancolumns and several groups of statuary by John QuincyAdams Ward. The board room is a magnificent expanse ofI>169,352 cubic feet. The annunciator boards, operated byelectricity, which serve to summon brokers when non-mem-bers wish to speak to them, cover 800 square feet and require8000 separate electric wires to operate. The cost of thebuilding was in the neighborhood of #4,000,000, and it isone of the architectural features of the city. There is nothing mysterious or complicated in the StockExchange system. It is easy to understand, although itrequires a peculiar order of talent to operate skillfully.The Stock Exchange is an unincorporated body of 1100members engaged in the business of buying and selling secu-rities either for themselves or on specified commissions foroutsiders. The objects of the Exchange, as explained in its
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WILLIAM ELLIS COREY i; born in it the mrgh, larles M. S> id in (903 it and dinIs din m Railwa i member Annites of Mining Engineei ng clubs. HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 301 new constitution adopted in March, 1902, are to furnishexchange rooms and other facilities for the convenienttransaction of their business by its members as brokers;to maintain high standards of commercial honor and in-tegrity among its members; and to promote and inculcatejust and equitable principles of trade and business. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. dealings are permitted on thefloor of the Exchange in such securities as the governingcommittee has, after strict examination, admitted. Themembers are prohibited from trading after hours or outsideof the board room. There are no calls of securities as informer days. The more active stocks are assigned todifferent designated positions or posts in the board room,and a member wishing to buy or sell a certain stock goes tothe position assigned to it and announce

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