CHAPTEE III

WALL STREET

The Best-Known Half Mile in the World

Of the four streets in New York known the world
over—Broadway, Fifth Avenue, the Bowery and
Wall Street—the latter is by far the most famous.
Newspapers in every section of civilization print
the name of the last-named thoroughfare in every
issue, and the Wall Street column has a larger num¬
ber of daily readers than any other item printed.
For a street less than half a mile long and but
little more than thirty feet wide, its importance is
altogether disproportionate to its mere physical size.
It does not lack dignity, however, both sides being
lined with buildings of the most costly and im¬
posing character. Aside from its fame as the great¬
est of all financial centres, the street derives piquancy
and zest from the thrills and excitement of meet¬
ing face to face most of the men whose names are
familiar to the reading public.
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