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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

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

REFERENCE TO WHICH SEE NOTICE AT THE END

IRVING PUBLISHING COMPANY

Post Office Box 1915, New York City

Copyright, 1908,

By HENRY CLEWS

PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR.

vi15 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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