A MASCOT CAT.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 150, 25 June 1904, Page 13

A MASCOT CAT.

There is a black cat on the New York Cotton Exchange which, in tho recent panicky times, has attracted a great deal of attention (says t.ho .St. James's Budget). It is popularly supposed to be D...iiel J. Sully's mascot, and in his twenty-third iloor of the Wall Exchange building there are many roproduolions of the famous black cat of the Cotton Exchange. When brokers enter the Exchange from the Hanover-square entrnuco they always look for the blnck cat, which inviuiably sits at the entrance diowsiug over a radiator. It li«s invaiiably been the case that whenever ho moves his left hind log for a stietch upward tho market is bound to go up. Mr. .Sully fust noticed this peculiaiity of the black cat, and shaped his niniket operations for the day accordingly. Whenever the cat does not appear to take any notice of any. ono tho niwiket is usually dead und lifeless. When Iho rat is not at his customary placo on the radiator it is tiio invariable sign of o falling market. Dining the panicky times recently tho biokeiwscanned the entrance but in vain for the cat. Day after day tho bull clement searched tho building for their mascot, but he could not bo found. Day after day it was also found that the market slumped in panicky proportions. At last he made his first Bprearamo for nearly a week alter the big break occurred, and the market began to show sijjna of a lally, iSomo call tho cat Dan.