Fifty Years in Wall Street

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Author

Clews, Henry, 1836-1923

Title

Fifty years in Wall Street

Original Publication

United States: Irving Publishing Company, 1908.

Credits

MFR, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HG: Social sciences: Finance

Subject

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70377

Release Date

March 25, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.FIFTY YEARS IN WALL STREET
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS.
4. 4.DEDICATION TO THE VETERANS OF WALL STREET,
5. 5.INTRODUCTORY. MY PART IN MARKETING THE UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR LOANS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. MY DEBUT IN WALL STREET.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. WALL STREET AS A CIVILIZER.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN WALL STREET.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. IMPORTANCE OF BUSINESS TRAINING.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. PERSONAL HONOR OF WALL STREET MEN.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. WALL STREET DURING THE WAR.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. MORE WAR REMINISCENCES—BRITISH AND NAPOLEONIC DESIGNS.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII FOREIGN INTRIGUES AGAINST AMERICAN LIBERTY.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. SECRETARY CHASE AND THE TREASURY.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. THE NATIONAL BANKS.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. “CORNERS” AND THEIR EFFECT ON VALUES.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. THE COMMODORE’S “CORNERS.”
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. DANIEL DREW.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. DREW AND VANDERBILT.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. DREW AND THE ERIE “CORNERS.”
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. INTERESTING EPISODES IN DREW’S LIFE.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. PANICS.—THEIR CAUSES.—HOW FAR PREVENTABLE. — George I. Seney. — John C. Eno. — THE CLEARING-HOUSE AS A PREVENTER OF PANICS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. OLD TIME PANICS.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE STORY OF BLACK FRIDAY TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. CAUSES OF LOSS IN SPECULATION.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. VILLARD AND HIS SPECULATIONS.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. FERDINAND WARD.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. HENRY N. SMITH.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. KEENE’S CAREER.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. OUR RAILROAD METHODS.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. GEORGIA REPUDIATION BONDS. — 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.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. ANDREW JOHNSON’S VAGARIES.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. THE DIX CONVENTION. — General Grant to General Dix. — General Dix’s Reply.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. CONSEQUENCES OF THE UTICA (DIX’S) CONVENTION.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. GRANT’S SECOND TERM. — RESOLUTIONS. — CIRCULAR
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. THE TWEED RING, AND THE COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII. HON. SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV. COMMODORE VANDERBILT. —HOW HIS MAMMOTH FORTUNE WAS ACCUMULATED.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV. WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI. “YOUNG CORNEEL.”
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII. THE YOUNG VANDERBILTS AND THEIR FORTUNES.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE ROTHSCHILDS.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX. TRAVERS. — The Death of Travers.
45. 45.CHAPTER XL. CHARLES F. WOERISHOFFER.
46. 46.CHAPTER XLI. WOMEN AS SPECULATORS
47. 47.CHAPTER XLII. WESTERN MILLIONAIRES IN NEW YORK. — 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.
48. 48.CHAPTER XLIII. RAILROAD INVESTMENTS.
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIV. THE SILVER QUESTION. — Questions. — Replies.
50. 50.CHAPTER XLV. THE LABOR QUESTION.
51. 51.CHAPTER XLVI. AN IMPORTANT SYNOPSIS.
52. 52.CHAPTER XLVII. INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
53. 53.CHAPTER XLVIII LARGE FORTUNES AND THEIR DISPOSITION. — Stephen Girard. — Peter Cooper.
54. 54.CHAPTER XLIX. SOUTHERN AFFAIRS IN SPECULATION.
55. 55.CHAPTER L. WESTERN AND SOUTHERN FINANCIAL LEADERS. — Calvin S. Brice. — Gen. Samuel Thomas. — Ancestry in England—Brains in America.
56. 56.CHAPTER LI. ARBITRATION.
57. 57.CHAPTER LII. NEW YORK AS A FINANCIAL CENTRE.
58. 58.CHAPTER LIII. EARTHQUAKE THEORIES AND WALL STREET AFFAIRS.
59. 59.CHAPTER LIV. AUGUST BELMONT.
60. 60.CHAPTER LV. THE SOCIALIST OBJECTIONS TO THE PRESENT ORDER OF SOCIETY EXAMINED.
61. 61.CHAPTER LVI. STOCK EXCHANGE CELEBRITIES. — Washington E. Connor. — A Future Financial Power.
62. 62.CHAPTER LVII. A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE.
63. 63.CHAPTER LVIII. JAY GOULD. — JAY GOULD AND HIS SYSTEM.
64. 64.CHAPTER LIX. MEN OF MARK. — 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 .
65. 65.CHAPTER LX. JAMES B. AND JOHN H. CLEWS.
66. 66.CHAPTER LXI. A REMARKABLE CHAPTER OF HISTORY.
67. 67.CHAPTER LXII. BOOMS IN WALL STREET.
68. 68.CHAPTER LXIII. A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE.
69. 69.CHAPTER LXIV. MY CHRISTMAS ADDRESS TO CUSTOMERS DEC. 24, 1906.
70. 70.CHAPTER LXV. EDWARD H. HARRIMAN.
71. 71.CHAPTER LXVI. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF WALL STREET. — Illustrated by Personal Reminiscences of Its Leaders.
72. 72.CHAPTER LXVII. RECENT WALL STREET BOOMS.
73. 73.CHAPTER LXVIII. WALL STREET’S WILD SPECULATION, 1900-1904.
74. 74.CHAPTER LXIX. REVIEW OF THE PANIC YEAR, 1903.
75. 75.CHAPTER LXX. LEADING WALL STREET EVENTS UP TO THE FALL OF 1907.
76. 76.CHAPTER LXXI. THE GREAT CRISIS OF 1907.
77. 77.CHAPTER LXXII. THE CAUSES OF THE CRISIS OF 1907. [2]
78. 78.CHAPTER LXXIII. RECENT MEN OF MARK. — 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.
79. 79.CHAPTER LXXIV. NEEDED PUBLICITY AND REFORM IN CORPORATIONS.
80. 80.CHAPTER LXXV. THE MONETARY SITUATION AND ITS REMEDIES. [3]
81. 81.CHAPTER LXXVI. INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS SOCIALISM. [4]
82. 82.CHAPTER LXXVII. GREAT WEALTH AND SOCIAL UNREST. [5]
83. 83.CHAPTER LXXVIII. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. [6]
84. 84.CHAPTER LXXIX. Table Showing Dates of Admission of the Members of the
85. 85.CHAPTER LXXX. ENGLAND AND RUSSIA IN OUR CIVIL WAR AND THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN. [7]
86. 86.CHAPTER LXXXI. THE CRISIS OF 1907 AND ITS CAUSES. WAS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO BLAME? [9]
87. 87.CHAPTER LXXXII. OUR GREAT AMERICAN PANICS FROM FIRST TO LAST.
88. 88.CHAPTER LXXXIII. WALL STREET AS IT REALLY IS. A VINDICATION.
89. 89.CHAPTER LXXXIV. THE FINANCIAL AND TRADE SITUATION, PAST, PRESENT — FIRST. — SECOND. — THIRD. — FOURTH. — FIFTH. — SIXTH. — SEVENTH. — EIGHTH. — NINTH. — TENTH. — LASTLY.
90. 90.CHAPTER LXXXV. AMERICAN SOCIAL CONDITIONS. [11]
91. 91.CHAPTER LXXXVI. THE FINANCIAL AND TRADE SITUATION AND PROSPECTS. [12]
92. 92.CHAPTER LXXXVII. PEACE ASSURANCES FROM JAPAN.
93. 93.CHAPTER LXXXVIII. THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN.
94. 94.CHAPTER LXXXIX. THE NATIONAL CORPORATION PROBLEM. [13]
95. 95.CHAPTER XC. WHY I AM AN AMERICAN.
96. 96.CONCLUSION.

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