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Title: Fifty years in Wall Street

Author: Henry Clews

Release date: March 25, 2023 [eBook #70377]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Irving Publishing Company, 1908

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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.
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.