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PART IV
Bar Patterns
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W
HAT
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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