"Where are the customers' yachts?" (1885)

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Does Fred Shapiro have this famous Wall Street remark?
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29 October 1885, <i>Forest and Stream</i>, pg. 276:
THE BROKERS' YACHTS. -- When Mr. W. R. Travers was at Newport last summer,  a
great many fine yachts lay in the harbor. "Wh-who-who-whose yacht is
th-th-tha  that?" he asked, pointing to one of them. "That belongs to Mr. Jones, the
well-known broker." Mr. Travers raised his dexter finger slowly and brought
into  line another yacht. "Wh-wh-wh-whose yacht is that?" he asked with some
difficulty. "Oh, that's Mr. Smith's the broker." "Wh-wh-whose is that?" pointing
 out still another. "That belongs to Mr. White, another broker." "W-w-well,
wh-wh-where's the customers' yachts?" inquired the great Wall street joker. --
 <i>Chicago Mail.</i>
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24 August 1890, Washington <i>Post</i>, pg. 3:
"W-w-where are the customers' yachts?" stammered the famous William R.
Travers after the yachts of this and that wealthy stockbroker had been pointed  out
to him at Newport.
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13 August 1937, Washington <i>Post</i>, "No Customers' Yachts,"  pg. 8:
"But where are the customers' yachts?" said the visitor to the New York
Yacht Club after his host had pointed to one after another of beautiful craft
anchored there and named its broker or banker owner.