Fifty years in Wall Street
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FIFTY YEARS IN WALL STREET By HENRY CLEWS, LL.D.
Eng. by E. G. Williams & Bro. N.Y. Henry Clews
“TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS IN WALL STREET,” REVISED
AND ENLARGED BY A RÉSUMÉ OF THE PAST
TWENTY-TWO YEARS, MAKING A RECORD
OF FIFTY YEARS IN WALL STREET
Henry Clews, LL.D.
SUBJECTS THAT ARE OF NECESSITY BRIEFLY TOUCHED
UPON IN ORDER TO KEEP WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE
PRESENT WORK FIND FULLER EXPOSITION IN THE AUTHOR’S
“WALL STREET POINT OF VIEW,” FOR FURTHER
Henry Clews
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CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
George I. Seney.
John C. Eno.
THE CLEARING-HOUSE AS A PREVENTER OF PANICS.
Georgia’s Outlawed Bonds.
Georgia Bonds.
How the Georgia Bonds were Negotiated.
Georgia Securities and New York Savings Banks.
The Attorney-General’s Decision.
Georgia’s New Issue.
SHALL REPUDIATION BE RECOGNIZED
A REMINDER TO SENATOR EVARTS.
ANOTHER STRONG PROTEST.
General Grant to General Dix.
General Dix’s Reply.
RESOLUTIONS.
CIRCULAR
The Death of Travers.
Collis P. Huntington.
Leland Stanford.
Darius O. Mills.
Charles Crocker.
Mark Hopkins.
W. S. O’Brien.
James G. Fair.
William Sharon.
Wm. C. Ralston.
John P. Jones.
William H. Stewart.
James Lick.
John W. Shaw.
Questions.
Replies.
Stephen Girard.
Peter Cooper.
Calvin S. Brice.
Gen. Samuel Thomas.
Ancestry in England—Brains in America.
Washington E. Connor.
A Future Financial Power.
JAY GOULD AND HIS SYSTEM.
Cyrus W. Field.
Hon. Stephen V. White.
Austin Corbin.
Philip D. Armour.
John A. Stewart.
Anthony J. Drexel.
The Jerome Brothers.
Addison Cammack.
Russell Sage.
Chauncey M. Depew.
James M. Brown.
Stedman, the Poet and Financier.
Moses Taylor.
Anthony W. Morse.
Former Giants of the Street.
J. Pierpont Morgan.
Thomas L. James.
Illustrated by Personal Reminiscences of Its Leaders.
Charles M. Schwab.
Daniel Gray Reid.
Thomas Fortune Ryan.
John Warne Gates.
August Belmont.
William H. Moore.
Anthony Nicholas Brady.
Stuyvesant Fish.
GOVERNOR HUGHES AND WALL STREET.
FIRST.
SECOND.
THIRD.
FOURTH.
FIFTH.
SIXTH.
SEVENTH.
EIGHTH.
NINTH.
TENTH.
LASTLY.
CONCLUSION.