THE END OF “DAMP FEET”

Has anyone noticed that there are no longer, around the Stock Exchange, these dealers in obsolete securities or in securities issued by fabulous or sunken companies, merchants who were referred to under the name of damp "feet?" and who sold each title from two to twenty cents?

Why have “damp feet” disappeared?

This is because speculation takes place there as elsewhere and the fallacious papers thus put on sale in the past for almost nothing are today, just like the pound and the dollar, the subject of serious demands.

On the other hand, the modest clientele of “damp feet”, who were content with insignificant gains or even who lived on hope, have also disappeared.

The “damp foot” is now nothing more than a historical type, a picturesque memory for the anecdotal history of Paris.