Fifty years in Wall Street
by Henry Clews
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- FIFTY YEARS IN WALL STREET
- CONTENTS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- DEDICATION TO THE VETERANS OF WALL STREET,
- INTRODUCTORY. MY PART IN MARKETING THE UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR LOANS.
- CHAPTER I. MY DEBUT IN WALL STREET.
- CHAPTER II. WALL STREET AS A CIVILIZER.
- CHAPTER III. HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN WALL STREET.
- CHAPTER IV. IMPORTANCE OF BUSINESS TRAINING.
- CHAPTER V. PERSONAL HONOR OF WALL STREET MEN.
- CHAPTER VI. WALL STREET DURING THE WAR.
- CHAPTER VII. MORE WAR REMINISCENCES—BRITISH AND NAPOLEONIC DESIGNS.
- CHAPTER VIII FOREIGN INTRIGUES AGAINST AMERICAN LIBERTY.
- CHAPTER IX. SECRETARY CHASE AND THE TREASURY.
- CHAPTER X. THE NATIONAL BANKS.
- CHAPTER XI. THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE.
- CHAPTER XII. “CORNERS” AND THEIR EFFECT ON VALUES.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE COMMODORE’S “CORNERS.”
- CHAPTER XIV. DANIEL DREW.
- CHAPTER XV. DREW AND VANDERBILT.
- CHAPTER XVI. DREW AND THE ERIE “CORNERS.”
- CHAPTER XVII. INTERESTING EPISODES IN DREW’S LIFE.
- CHAPTER XVIII. PANICS.—THEIR CAUSES.—HOW FAR PREVENTABLE.
- George I. Seney.
- John C. Eno.
- THE CLEARING-HOUSE AS A PREVENTER OF PANICS.
- CHAPTER XIX. OLD TIME PANICS.
- CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE STORY OF BLACK FRIDAY TOLD FOR THE FIRST TIME.
- CHAPTER XXI. CAUSES OF LOSS IN SPECULATION.
- CHAPTER XXII. VILLARD AND HIS SPECULATIONS.
- CHAPTER XXIII. FERDINAND WARD.
- CHAPTER XXIV. HENRY N. SMITH.
- CHAPTER XXV. KEENE’S CAREER.
- CHAPTER XXVI. OUR RAILROAD METHODS.
- 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.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. ANDREW JOHNSON’S VAGARIES.
- CHAPTER XXIX. THE DIX CONVENTION.
- General Grant to General Dix.
- General Dix’s Reply.
- CHAPTER XXX. CONSEQUENCES OF THE UTICA (DIX’S) CONVENTION.
- CHAPTER XXXI. GRANT’S SECOND TERM.
- RESOLUTIONS.
- CIRCULAR
- CHAPTER XXXII. THE TWEED RING, AND THE COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY.
- CHAPTER XXXIII. HON. SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
- CHAPTER XXXIV. COMMODORE VANDERBILT. —HOW HIS MAMMOTH FORTUNE WAS ACCUMULATED.
- CHAPTER XXXV. WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT.
- CHAPTER XXXVI. “YOUNG CORNEEL.”
- CHAPTER XXXVII. THE YOUNG VANDERBILTS AND THEIR FORTUNES.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE ROTHSCHILDS.
- CHAPTER XXXIX. TRAVERS.
- The Death of Travers.
- CHAPTER XL. CHARLES F. WOERISHOFFER.
- CHAPTER XLI. WOMEN AS SPECULATORS
- 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.
- CHAPTER XLIII. RAILROAD INVESTMENTS.
- CHAPTER XLIV. THE SILVER QUESTION.
- Questions.
- Replies.
- CHAPTER XLV. THE LABOR QUESTION.
- CHAPTER XLVI. AN IMPORTANT SYNOPSIS.
- CHAPTER XLVII. INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
- CHAPTER XLVIII LARGE FORTUNES AND THEIR DISPOSITION.
- Stephen Girard.
- Peter Cooper.
- CHAPTER XLIX. SOUTHERN AFFAIRS IN SPECULATION.
- CHAPTER L. WESTERN AND SOUTHERN FINANCIAL LEADERS.
- Calvin S. Brice.
- Gen. Samuel Thomas.
- Ancestry in England—Brains in America.
- CHAPTER LI. ARBITRATION.
- CHAPTER LII. NEW YORK AS A FINANCIAL CENTRE.
- CHAPTER LIII. EARTHQUAKE THEORIES AND WALL STREET AFFAIRS.
- CHAPTER LIV. AUGUST BELMONT.
- CHAPTER LV. THE SOCIALIST OBJECTIONS TO THE PRESENT ORDER OF SOCIETY EXAMINED.
- CHAPTER LVI. STOCK EXCHANGE CELEBRITIES.
- Washington E. Connor.
- A Future Financial Power.
- CHAPTER LVII. A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE.
- CHAPTER LVIII. JAY GOULD.
- JAY GOULD AND HIS SYSTEM.
- 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.
- CHAPTER LX. JAMES B. AND JOHN H. CLEWS.
- CHAPTER LXI. A REMARKABLE CHAPTER OF HISTORY.
- CHAPTER LXII. BOOMS IN WALL STREET.
- CHAPTER LXIII. A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE.
- CHAPTER LXIV. MY CHRISTMAS ADDRESS TO CUSTOMERS DEC. 24, 1906.
- CHAPTER LXV. EDWARD H. HARRIMAN.
- CHAPTER LXVI. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF WALL STREET.
- Illustrated by Personal Reminiscences of Its Leaders.
- CHAPTER LXVII. RECENT WALL STREET BOOMS.
- CHAPTER LXVIII. WALL STREET’S WILD SPECULATION, 1900-1904.
- CHAPTER LXIX. REVIEW OF THE PANIC YEAR, 1903.
- CHAPTER LXX. LEADING WALL STREET EVENTS UP TO THE FALL OF 1907.
- CHAPTER LXXI. THE GREAT CRISIS OF 1907.
- CHAPTER LXXII. THE CAUSES OF THE CRISIS OF 1907.[2]
- 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.
- CHAPTER LXXIV. NEEDED PUBLICITY AND REFORM IN CORPORATIONS.
- CHAPTER LXXV. THE MONETARY SITUATION AND ITS REMEDIES.[3]
- CHAPTER LXXVI. INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS SOCIALISM.[4]
- CHAPTER LXXVII. GREAT WEALTH AND SOCIAL UNREST.[5]
- CHAPTER LXXVIII. THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.[6]
- CHAPTER LXXIX. Table Showing Dates of Admission of the Members of the
- CHAPTER LXXX. ENGLAND AND RUSSIA IN OUR CIVIL WAR AND THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND JAPAN.[7]
- CHAPTER LXXXI. THE CRISIS OF 1907 AND ITS CAUSES. WAS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO BLAME?[9]
- CHAPTER LXXXII. OUR GREAT AMERICAN PANICS FROM FIRST TO LAST.
- CHAPTER LXXXIII. WALL STREET AS IT REALLY IS. A VINDICATION.
- CHAPTER LXXXIV. THE FINANCIAL AND TRADE SITUATION, PAST, PRESENT
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- LASTLY.
- CHAPTER LXXXV. AMERICAN SOCIAL CONDITIONS.[11]
- CHAPTER LXXXVI. THE FINANCIAL AND TRADE SITUATION AND PROSPECTS.[12]
- CHAPTER LXXXVII. PEACE ASSURANCES FROM JAPAN.
- CHAPTER LXXXVIII. THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN.
- CHAPTER LXXXIX. THE NATIONAL CORPORATION PROBLEM.[13]
- CHAPTER XC. WHY I AM AN AMERICAN.
- CONCLUSION.
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