Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-02-06
BIDS FOR BONDS.
The New Issue Subscribed For
Over and Over.
The Offers Run All the Way From
Par Up 10 liz and Over.
More Than Four Thousand Offers to Pur-
chase With n Total 'robabIy Exceeding
S4OO,00O,OOO-Thro of Bankers
and Capitalists Were Present.

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100000 3o-year four-per-cent. United
States bonds were opened at the treas
ury department ut noon Wednesda,
under the conditions prescribed in tn,
circular issued January last by Sec
rotary Carlisle. The principal condi
tion is that the bonds must be paid fol
in gold.
The bids were opened in the room O.
Secretary Carlisle, an apartment about
4Ox95 feet. A large table was placed
at the south end of the room overlook
ing the Potomac river and the Wash.
ington monument, at which table sal
Secretary Carlisle, Assistant Secretary
Curtis and several clerks
In front of the desk were placed 8
number of chairs, and every seat was
taken by those who had come in per
son to present bids, and many were
compelled to stand. Hundreds of
millions of dollars were represented.
Nearly all the bidders came from New
York, but there was sprinkling of
tinanciers and brokers from Chicago,
Cincinnati and other western cities,
and some from Boston.
A large tin box was placed on the
table shortly before 12 o'clock. 1t
contained the bids. They were done
up by days, and upon each package
was marked the date on which the bid
was received.
Under the immediate charge of AS
sistant Secretary Curtis the following
committee opened the bids: James II.
Eckels, controller of the currency;
Daniel n. Morgan, United States
treasurer, and A. r. Huntington, chief
of the division of loans and currency,
secretary's Office.
There have been received 3, 7O1 bids,
aggregating $3.50, 232, 500, ranging in
price from par up to ia and fraction.
The bids have not yet been entered
and will probably bring the mum Der
up TO 1850, with a corresponding in
crease in the total amount
At 1915 Controller Eckels appeared
at the door with list of bids in his
hand.
The first bid was received January
13 of 5000 at no Among the first read
were those Of Jennie Waldeman, OF
Chicago, $1,000 at 100 and NJ. L. Hull,
Chicago, 5000 at par. The first bids
read out were in small amounts rang.
ing from $50 to $40, 900 each.
The following list in addition to the
bids received from points in the west,
includes all bids of $50, 900 or over:
Al bids of S5O,O0O or over: Peoples nation
1l bank, of Buffalo. go, 900 at ITO. j. F. Smith
s. Louis, 10000 at l04: Miine's sa wings bank
Of Portland, Me-. $3.50, 900 at 10: williamsburg
(New York; savings bank, S5CO,oOo at
Ill. This bid was received with ap-
rlause as it was the highest
bid up to that time. Benny national bank,
Ala. $4,000 ut 1O3; Atchison ma
tional bank Atchison, Kas., $50 600 at lO4: De- |
troit national bank, Detroit, Mich, 500 900 at
ITO; Suffolk savings bank, Bosten, Mass, $500
200 at III; West Branch national bank. Will |
Transport, Pa, $4,000 at l05
Eds at no 5O-Bank Of Charleston, S. c.,
f75,COO; Mahoney national bank, Youngstown
D.. j2O0J0; National Bank of the Common
wealth, Boston, 100000: Robert f Glenden-
l!ng & Co., Philadelphia 100000; Hecht
Brothers & CO., 10000; First national bank, |
Cnouta y. V. $4,000 National City bank, |
leveand, O., 900 Citizens national bank,
Knoxville, Tenn, $1,000; Merchants Loan and |
Trust Co Chicago 800, ,o00 Farmers national
oank, Salem o. $4,000; Northern national |
oank, Erie. s!5OOI: Merchants national bank,
Albany. y. Y, 100000, First national bank
Ashland. O., $4,000
The bid of Joseph Pulitzer. OF New York for
81, 100000 Mt ia had memorandum attached
20 it, Stating that this bid at the highest mar
set price Wednesday is in lieu OF the offer TO
lead the list with n subscription of ri ,OOO, ,OOC
% popular loan on the basis which was not
adopted, OF an open subscription ut a fixed and
,qual rates
Bids at 1l1-Included Big Sandy national
)ank, Catlettsburg. Ky, 5000; Central ma
onal bank, Greencastle, Ind, {. ,0j); Bank
If Athens, Athens, O., Sll 900; First national
)ank, Waterloo, o., $50 900.
Bids at ll2M-Cattlettsburg Ky0 national
'ank. $4,000, Union national bank OF Pitts
,urgh $1,000
AT li275: Robert G. Glendenning. Philadel-
'hia, 100000 Harvey, Fisk & Co, New York
lid for sl0J 100000 at 40 6S7G
Price IL: 7s: Bank of California, 300 900;
National Bank OF Brooliville. Pa, 100000 New
'irst national bank, Meadville, Pa, S25 900:
Baker, Boyer national bank, Walla Walla
Wash, S5O,LC0; jacob Harris, Boston, :T5.0O0
Price III: First national bank OF Helena
Ark, $4,000 First national bank of CadlZ o.
!OO0O; First national bank, Grafton, w. Va.
10000; Nevada bank, san Francisco. 100000
Price li2 National Bank OF Commerce
cleveland, o., 80 900; the Lamprecht Broth
RS Co, Cleveland, O., 10000; Fourth ma
ional bank, Cadiz, O., $4,000; Harrison ma
tonal bunk, CadiZ o., $4,000 Third national
ank, Louisville, Ky. SEQ 000 national bank OF
Jrbara O., s5O,0)O, First national bank, Ash
and, o, $4,000 Savings and Trust Co. Cleve.
and, o., 50 900, and others.
Price 40 10; The Union Savings Bank and
Trust Co, Cincinnati, $4,000.
Price ITO 50; Second National bank Tol edo
J., $4,000
Price llOA; Union Savings Bank and Trus,
o., Cincinnati $4,000.
Price, ll0Os; Il, b. Sperry g. Co., Baltimore
$4,000. A. White, Boston, 10000: The Union
savings Bank and Trust Co, Cincinnati $50.
UO
Price, il6ei7l; First nationapbank Paseda
AL, t25,00) .e r- 80
Price i5 Nevada bank. San Francisco
200, 900 '''
Price, 1880; First national bank, Grafton
". Va, $4,000
Price, 1873: Albert L. Judson s5OO0)0
Price, lliO6: The Bank of California, Sar
Francisco $1,000
Price, ll405)6: German American savings
'ank, Burlington. La, $4,000. New Orleans
lational bank, sl00, 900; First national bank
Fresno Cal, $4,000
Price, llil3; Sutro & Co., $1,000
Price ITO: First national bank. Madison,
nd. $4,000; First national bank, Chillicothe
J., $4,000; William w. Gray, S50OO0; the
'tudeba ker bank, Bluffton, Ind; $4,000: Citi.
ems national bank, Covingt ton, Ky. 100000;
second national bank, Parkersburg. W. Va
35, 900; First national bank, Leetonia O., sIO,-
co.
Manley Refuses to Talk.