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To: SBerglowe who wrote (393)	4/17/2000 12:12:00 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 538

Are you targeting this as a crash date? -g- econwpa.wustl.edu:8089/eps/eh/papers/9610/9610001.html "According to the story Wall Street tells about itself, an agreement was reached among twenty-four brokers on 17 May 1792 under a Buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street to provide a market for the purchase and sale of these new securities. Known more commonly as a Sycamore, the Buttonwood is a tall, majestic, leafy tree that can grow to one-hundred-fifty feet, spread its girth to as much as a fifteen foot diameter, and takes its name from the hard brown fruit that looks like a button. The largest hardwood in the eastern United States, the Buttonwood is a loner -- a solitary giant that often grows in isolation from other trees, even those of its own kind. The Wall Street specimen was all the more compelling as a singular and sheltering meeting place, because during the Revolutionary War years of 1779-1780 most of Manhattan's trees had been cut down for firewood. This towering Buttonwood and its story has retained a special place in the iconography of Wall Street. The tree survived until 14 June 1865 when at eight in the morning it succumbed to a storm."