on april 13, 1926, directors of the exchange voted to extend trading time from 75 minutes to two and a half hours, from 10 am to 12:30 pm except saturday, "thereby placing the local exchange on a parity with exchanges in other cities." the board also established stock lists of trading quotations. as of early 1927, harry s. rein was chairman of the exchange. on january 12, 1927, he announced that in 1925, the exchange had seen stock sales totaling 591,966 shares, or $32,087,323. in 1926, it had fallen to a total of 382,856 shares, or $17,101,763 in value.