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Fifty years in Wall Street — Henry Clews

Fifty years in Wall Street

Henry Clews

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  • Book language: English
  • 950 pages

Fifty Years in Wall Street is a financial history and memoir by Henry Clews, based on his long experience in New York’s money market. It covers Wall Street speculation, investment, and the financial growth of the United States, giving a participant’s view of the stock exchange and its leading figures. It offers a firsthand record of a formative era.

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FIFTY

YEARS IN

WALL STREET

By

HENRY CLEWS, LL.D.

Eng. by E. G. Williams & Bro. N.Y.

Henry Clews

FIFTY YEARS IN

WALL STREET

“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
BY
HŧƿǡΏ CƯŧ΅Ǫ, 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
REFERENCE TO WHICH SEE NOTICE AT THE END
IRVING PUBLISHING COMPANY
PLjǪǵ Offiŕŧ BLjΎ 1915, Nŧ΅ YLjǡƫ CƗǵΏ

CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1908,

BΏ HENRY CLEWS

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR.

15 TO 17 BROAD STREET NEW YORK.

To My Readers:

The following pages are intended to throw some light on imperfectly known events connected with Wall Street speculations and investments, and also upon the condition and progress of the country from a financial standpoint, during the fifty years which I have experienced in the great money center.

The theme is worthy of an abler pen, but in the absence of other contributors to this branch of our National history, I venture the plain narrative of an active participator in the financial events of the time in which I have lived.

I have also made a brief retrospect of the history of Wall Street, and financial affairs connected therewith since the origin of the Stock

Exchange in New York City.

In sketching the men and events of Wall Street, I have freely employed the vernacular of the speculative fraternity as being best adapted to a true picture of their characteristics, although probably not most consonant with literary propriety.

I have simply attempted to unfold a plain, unvarnished tale, drawing my material from experience and the records of reliable narrators.

HENRY CLEWS.

New York, March 31, 1908.

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Contents

  1. FIFTY YEARS IN WALL STREET
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. ILLUSTRATIONS.
  4. DEDICATION TO THE VETERANS OF WALL STREET,
  5. INTRODUCTORY. MY PART IN MARKETING THE UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR LOANS.
  6. CHAPTER I. MY DEBUT IN WALL STREET.
  7. CHAPTER II. WALL STREET AS A CIVILIZER.
  8. CHAPTER III. HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN WALL STREET.
  9. CHAPTER IV. IMPORTANCE OF BUSINESS TRAINING.
  10. CHAPTER V. PERSONAL HONOR OF WALL STREET MEN.
  11. CHAPTER VI. WALL STREET DURING THE WAR.
  12. CHAPTER VII. MORE WAR REMINISCENCES—BRITISH AND NAPOLEONIC DESIGNS.
  13. CHAPTER VIII FOREIGN INTRIGUES AGAINST AMERICAN LIBERTY.
  14. CHAPTER IX. SECRETARY CHASE AND THE TREASURY.
  15. CHAPTER X. THE NATIONAL BANKS.
  16. CHAPTER XI. THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
  17. CHAPTER XII. “CORNERS” AND THEIR EFFECT ON VALUES.
  18. CHAPTER XIII. THE COMMODORE’S “CORNERS.”
  19. CHAPTER XIV. DANIEL DREW.
  20. CHAPTER XV. DREW AND VANDERBILT.
  21. CHAPTER XVI. DREW AND THE ERIE “CORNERS.”
  22. CHAPTER XVII. INTERESTING EPISODES IN DREW’S LIFE.
  23. CHAPTER XVIII. PANICS.—THEIR CAUSES.—HOW FAR PREVENTABLE.
  24. CHAPTER XIX. OLD TIME PANICS.
  25. CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE STORY OF BLACK FRIDAY TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME.
  26. CHAPTER XXI. CAUSES OF LOSS IN SPECULATION.
  27. CHAPTER XXII. VILLARD AND HIS SPECULATIONS.
  28. CHAPTER XXIII. FERDINAND WARD.
  29. CHAPTER XXIV. HENRY N. SMITH.
  30. CHAPTER XXV. KEENE’S CAREER.

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