Financial Diary (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...supply of available bars. M0NDAY, MAY 24, 1909 1880--First Reading receivership. 1900--Price, McCormick & Co., members of New York Stock Exchange, fail. 1907--Attorney-General Mayer, New York, begins proceedings against Consolidated Gas Co., with the object of dissolving the Trust. Dlv. Meetings Det. & Mack.-pf. Nashua Mfg. Underwood. Ex. Dlv. Nashua Mfg. Norfolk Ry. & L't. Quincy Mining. Sloss-c. Payable Amal. Copper. An. Meeting Torre H. Tr. & L't. TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1909 1900--Two largest checks ever drawn, for $34,500,000, one for $17,000,000 and one for $17,500,000, pass through New York Clearing-house. Drawn by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York, payable to Hugh J. Grant, receiver for Third Ave. R. R., New York, in payment for the road, which was acquired by the Met. St. Ry. Cck, New York. 1903--Beginning of "rich men's panic." Ended September, 1904. 1904--$2,250,000 gold engaged for export. 190S--Fall River cotton manufacturers reduce wages 18%, swelling total of wage cuts in New England to 170,000. 1908--$1,250,000 gold secured for export, mostly coin. Dlv. Meetings An. Report Acushnet Mills. Shelby Iron. Atl. C Line-pf. Cen. Leather-pf. Chi. & Northw'n. Hcywood Bros.-c. United Bank Note. U. S. Leather-pf. Ex. Dlv. Am. Gas. Cal. & Hecla. Heywood Bros.-c. Roch. Ry. & I.'t-pf Payable Indep. Brewing-pf. North Penn. Peoples Gas. U. S. Gypsum-pf. An. Meetings Grand Trunk. Int'l Nickel. UritedN.J. R. lis. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1909 1904--$1.000,000 ltold engaged for export. 1904--Cuba's S35,000,000 issue of bonds taken. 1906--Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, head of the banking house of Rothschild, died, 78 years of age. 1908--Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. sells $16,000,000 4% bonds, through J. P. Morgan & Co., of an...