New York Stock Brokers: James A. Taylor of Rolston & Bass and Rolston & Hooley

James A. Taylor held a seat at the NYSE through the tax period and moved from R&B to R&H along with William Rolton.  I have no clue what the caricaturist was up to here, except that he's holding stock ticker tape.  

Rolston & Hooley continued to use the same R&B punch cancel of the Rolston & Bass firm, though they had a new CDS made.

 

New York Stock Brokers: Walter Bass of Rolston & Bass and George W. Dougherty & Company

Mr. Bass must have liked shooting sports as well as his dog, who rather bizarrely pops out of this "caricature".  Rolston & Bass shuttered operations when Walter left the partnership in January 1901.  He moved to the firm G. W. Dougherty for the last year and half of the tax period.  

Looks like I might have been a bit tipsy when I attached the mounts to this page.

New York Stock Brokers: William Laimbeer of E. C. Randolph & Company and James A. Oliphant & Company

No, he's not the former Milwaukee Bucs Center with the rogue approach to basketball.  (I never mentioned the whole Chuck Knoblauch thing when I posted his caricature on October 23, two weeks ago).  This Bill Laimbeer spent the first three years of the 1898 tax period at E. C. Randolph before moving on to James A. Oliphant & Company.  He received a rather gentle approach from the caricaturist.

New York Stock Brokers: Cornelius W. Provost of Provost Brothers

Cornelius Provost is the gentleman above juggling streetcars and in the black and white photo on the left below.  Cornelius was a fully seated member of the NYSE through the entire four year tax period from mid 1898 to mid 1902.  He must have made a bundle on street railroad investments.

New York Stock Brokers: Henry Wertheim of Probst, Wetzlar & Company

 

Henry Wertheim acquired his seat at the NYSE sometime between late 1898 and 1900.  He traded from the firm Probst, Wetzlar during the entire 1898 tax period.  With an American Eagle on his arm and a British Lion under his palm, it is inferred he cares more about money.  What a guy.

New York Stock Brokers: Clarence DeWitt of Post & Flagg

Clarence DeWitt was a half back at Yale as late as 1895.   The uniform made for convenient caricature device, though I'm not sure who the cartoonish figures are on the right.  He gained his seat on the exchange sometime in 1898 or 99, and was part of a Post & Flagg firm that was one of the largest on Wall Street.