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PART IV

Bar Patterns

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now seems an almost incredible proportion

of the brokers and opera tors in the Wall Street

of twenty-five to thirty years ago-at least such as

were family men-had homes in the immediate vicinity

of the Waldorf, Westchester and Long Island and up.–

town apartments not yet having come into widespread

vogue as dwelling places for Wall Street. "Cocktail–

hour" drew a real majority of them to the Waldorf Bar.

Whether they drank or not, there they knew

thei

would

find men they wished to see. Often one would discover

"room-traders" like J akey Field and Bernard Baruch

in the crowd, and the two Wasserman brothers, who

were heavy speculators, were invariably present. Jay

Carlisle, the Wrenn brothers-one of them a famous

tennis player,-"Charlie" Knoblauch, the rough-rider,

were often pointed out, and William D. Oliver, stock–

broker, whose name is now perhaps a memory only to

a few middle-aged or doddering old gentlemen, but then

everybody's relative! For "Billie" Oliver, as some called

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