nine to two o'clock
How savage was the fight these days . Here was news of mines and mills and factories all over the land , clippings sent each morning by special messengers downtown to reach the brokers ' offices before the market opened . One broker wrote , `` Please quote your terms for the following . From nine to two o'clock each day our messenger will call at your office every hour for clippings giving information of the companies named below . '' The long list appended carried Roger 's fancy out all over the continent . And then came this injunction : `` Remember that our messenger must leave your office every hour . In information of this kind every minute counts . ''