When Stocks Came in From the Cold

The racket made by buyers and sellers, often shouting orders to colleagues hanging out of windows, brought repeated attempts to have the Curb shut down. By about 1910 an informal group, the Curb Association, had begun to weed out the undesirables, deciding that a move indoors was the only way. Thus Mr. Hill wrote in 1920 that the Curb “is getting measured for a frock coat, and is contemplating a silk hat.”