Thomas L. James 685 John H. Clews 687 James B. Clews 689 Roswell P. Flower 691 J. Pierpont Morgan 693 John D. Rockefeller 701 William Rockefeller 713 Henry H. Rogers 729 John D. Archbold 735 Edward H. Harriman 793 Wm. H. Moore 821 Daniel G. Reid 843 Thomas F. Ryan 849 John W. Gates 853 Chas. M. Schwab 869 August Belmont 879 Anthony N. Brady 881 Stuyvesant Fish 903 William E. Gladstone 921 _Fac-simile_, Gladstone letter 923 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEDICATION TO THE VETERANS OF WALL STREET, MOST OF WHOM I HAVE KNOWN PERSONALLY. -------------- MY DEAR FRIENDS: I have attempted, in the following pages, to relate in a simple and comprehensive manner, without any aim at elaboration, the leading features of the most prominent events that have come within the sphere of my personal knowledge and experience during the twenty-eight years of my busy life in Wall street. I have never kept a diary regularly, but have been occasionally in the habit of preserving certain memoranda in the form of letters, and a few scraps from the newspapers at various times. With these imperfect mementoes, I have revived my recollection to dictate to my stenographer the matter which these pages contain, in a somewhat crude form and unfinished style. In fact, I have not aimed at either finish or effect, not having time for it, but have simply made a collection of important facts in my own experience that may help the future historian of Wall Street to preserve for the use, knowledge and edification of posterity some of the most conspicuous features and events in the history of the place that is yet destined to be the great financial centre of the world. If I can only succeed, out of all the poorly-arranged material I have gathered, in furnishing the historian of the future with a few facts for a portion of one of his chapters, I shall have some claim upon the gratitude of posterity.