The name comes form the ticker tape originally thrown onto the parade when it passed stockbrokers' offices in lower Manhattan, before stock tickers became obsolete.
He glanced at the white paper ribbon whose every foot on certain days spells Heaven or Hell to countless mortals, as it rolled out of the ticker in the corner of the office.
Before the ticker should announce the resumption of business these would number hundreds of thousands, for the financial district for more than an hour had been a surging mob.
The ticker was already hissing a tape biograph of this extraordinary situation in brokerage shops, hotels, and banks throughout the country, and in a few minutes the news of it would be in the capitals of Europe.
Mr. Edison says: "I made a great many inventions; one was the special ticker used for many years outside of New York in the large cities.
The stock ticker had been invented about a year before, 1867, by E.
He says: "After the vote recorder I invented a stock ticker, and started a ticker service in Boston, had thirty or forty subscribers, and operated from a room over the Gold Exchange.
The same ticker was used on the London Stock Exchange.
But the above shows that he actually started a ticker service in Boston in 1868.
It has been generally supposed that Edison did not take up stock ticker work until he left Boston finally and went to New York in 1869.
On the instant that the first motion closing the Exchange was passed, word was sent to the ticker operators to publish the news on the tape.
There was some hesitancy at first as to whether these bond transactions should be quoted on the ticker in the accustomed way, but before the day of opening came it was decided to report them as usual.
The Sergeant wished now that he had sent Williams off to try and reach the ticker at Mile 135, or to make a break for help from the western camps.
VIII To his clies my hooks I throw in, And collar his dragons clear away Then his ticker I set agoing, [13] Tol lol, etc.
IX Then his ticker I set a going And his onions, chain, and key Next slipt off his bottom clo'ing, Tol lol, etc.
He constructed no corporations, shoved no companies from shore; he stood at the ticker and took his money off the tape.
Struck in the dark, Mr. Bayard stood at the ticker and watched his fortune of eight millions bleed away; when he dropped the tape he was two millions worse than bankrupt.
For two days he clung to the tickertape as to a life line.
He'd just taken it off the ticker when we found him in Fouts's place there.
Ticker lines were installed, typewriters and telephones put in place, and the Mumbai team arrived (I recall only S.
Both PTI and UNI ticker services were subscribed to (though only the PTI had a carrier station in Margao to cope with breakdowns.
They were in the padded seclusion of the president's inner office, while two blocks away swelled a storm, whose echoes only reached them in the sharp staccato of the ticker in the corner as it vomited a strip of white paper.
Then came an avalanche of small holdings, till the ticker announced that it had fallen behind the record of transactions and that Consolidated was now offered at thirty-five with no bidders.
It was almost like the boys in a broker's office calling off the quotations of the ticker and marking them up on the board.
His dry, small, beardless face creased a little at the corners of the mouth as he heard the ticker chattering behind him.
Ten o'clock came and went, and the ticker began its long journey.
The ticker seemed to set all other business aside and give its attention to the trading in Transcontinental.
The ticker recorded a rise in the price of Transcontinental of a point and a half, upon a purchase of five thousand shares; and then half a point for two thousand more.
There were plenty of whistles blowing, plenty of ticker tape, and parades for the returning hero.
It rained tickertape for hours, and people in offices tore up telephone books and added the bits of paper to the rainstorm.
The hateful ticker drew her back with its light clatter.
Grasping the arms of her chair and bracing herself, she rose with a labored effort and went resolutely back to the ticker where, as one draws aside a veil which may reveal tragedy, she picked up the tape again.
He spoke of that--that afternoon when I read the ticker tape--and knew what had happened.
We will return you theticker because it won't be of much use to us, except the gold case.
We came out, thinking we might pick up a ticker or two or a portmanteau among the wreck.
On the wall facing the window was a great blackboard, and as the ticker spelled out its information, and the slovenly dressed clerk gave it voice, a second clerk chalked away without cessation.
The spinning tack-tack of the ticker was always in his ears.
At five minutes past that hour he went feverishly across the way to the ticker in the neighboring hotel brokerage.
Despite his new-found resolutions he was surprised to find that the obsession of the ticker still held him.
In his room at the Waldorf he had installed special telephone connections, with a clerk to answer his calls; and close by the table, where he could follow his campaign, a stockticker stamped away at its tape.
Rimrock returned to his room and sat watching the tape as the ticker champed it out and soon he saw Navajoa.
But say, what the devil does this ticker mean, quoting Navajoa at six dollars a share?
By the quotation board the ticker is clicking busily, and next it Dow-Jones' news machine is clacking out printed copy that the newsboy will be howling "Extra" over an hour afterward.
The man with his nose glued to the ticker globe is a professional operator who trades from the tape.
The ticker shrieked its message above the storm's din like a little laughing demon: "The Van Dam Trust Company Has Closed Its Doors and Asked for the Appointment of a Receiver!
As the day progressed he stood with one hand on the tape of his privateticker and the other holding the receiver of the telephone which connected him with the floor of the Stock Exchange.
In quick, sharp, startling tones the man at the ticker called out the quotations as the market rapidly sank.
Only the sharp click of the ticker broke the stillness.
A clicking as of a stock-ticker began to make itself heard, and from one corner of the bureau a strip of paper tape covered with letters of one kind and another emerged.
At length, failing to get enough clients in the ticker district itself, Gilmartin was forced to advertise in an afternoon paper, six times a week, and in the Sunday edition of one of the leading morning dailies.
At times their fingers clutched the air happily, as if they actually felt the good money the ticker was presenting to them.
He was out on business for his firm and when he returned the opportunity had gone, leaving behind it vivid visions of what might have been; also the conviction that time, tide, and the ticker wait for no man.
In a measure it was as an anodyne to his ticker fever.
Little by little Gilmartin's whisper set in motion within him the wheels of a ticker that printed on his day-dreams the mark of the dollar.
He not only had lost the "paper" profits he had accumulated during the bull market, but all his savings of years had crumbled away beneath the strokes of the ticker that day.
The very ticker sounded mirthful; its clicking told of golden jokes.
One by one the victims went away and at length Gilmartin left the ticker district.
When the ticker clicked the first quotation of Great Lakes Dumont said: "Now, clear out, Culver!
Then he passes the Henry Clays and sets out a bottle of green chartreuse, and goes over and looks at the ticker tape.
Everyone as aint a fool knows that taters aint wipes, and no one can't say as a apple and a ticker are the same.
