The library was a good guess, but the correct answer was the telegraph decoding office! Was mostly populated by clerks who had to work late into the night dealing with foreign arbitrage in different time zones. So the exchange's managers made a special dispensation for smokinghttps://twitter.com/_John_Handel/status/1339731962047713281 …
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Lol, there are definitely enough weird 19th century finance anecdotes for that! Related to the above: you were not allowed to remove newspapers from the library, largely because it was common to light newspapers on fire as a prank on the trading floorhttps://twitter.com/_John_Handel/status/1115992713285984256?s=20 …
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lol this is awesome, thanks for sharing
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