The herald., 1897-05-27
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The statement Of the First National bank
Of this city will be found in another COL
umn OF this issue ana that Of the Mer-
chants National bank appeared in the Is
sue of yesterday. In each case crafty
ing showing Is made Of the growth Of busi-
ness In the face of the numerous hin
ORANGES that have affected general trade.
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H. J. Fleishman, cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants bank. reports that the
country banks are apparently in a more
prosperous condition than usual; the re-
turns from the citrus frnit shipments and
other sources have brought a good deal
OF money In and the outlook Is encour-
aging. .A,.4.
Rumors have been current for two
months past OF dissensions existing among
the principal stockholders of a prominent
bank in this city. The dispute, 1t Is threat
ened, may result in q lawsuit, in which
the novel spectacle may be presented Of a
bank suing some of Its own officers through
an outside attorney, employed on con-
tingent fee. 1t hardly seems credible In
times like these. when public confidence Is
not by any means in the soundest condi-
ton, that the persons most interested in
the success of bank should ignore the
fact that depositors would be the first to
take alarm at the beginning Of a law suit
of the kind proposed; that with diminished
deposits dividends would become impossi-
BILE, and that even worse results might fol-
low. 1t is easier to start a fire than to
put one out, and there is an old proverb
about washing dirty linen at home. 1t is
to be hoped, on public grounds, that the
parties interested will settle their differ
With0nt hQVipr 20 <6c
courts.
About the bicycle trade the London Pail
Mall Gazette says: I'VE have already re-
ferred in these columns to the marvellous
growth of the American cycle trade, and
especially to the export side of 1t. We have
now been favored by the chief of the
bureau of statistics at Washington with
details Of the shipments and the various
destinations of the cycles sent abroad dur
ing the last fiscal year. namely, that which
ended on June 30th last. Their total value
was H,SsS012. distributed as follows: Six
hundred and thirteen thousand two huud-
red and ninetytwo dollars in shipments
to the United Kingdom. $492. .6S5 to Canada,
x45.S92 to Germany, $1OS. .414 to France $S4,-
6l0 to Australia and New Zealand, $66, ,S6i
to the Netherlands As,62l to Italy, ss4,S56
to Denmark, $23S43 to Norway and Sweden,
$2S.17 to Belgium, $70.59S to the different
countries of Central America. $50, 800 to the
Sandwich Islands. $27,056 to Japan, $23 979
to the West Indies and $74O2 to British
Africa. Other countries near and far took
American machines in smaller quantities
1t would be difficult to name land In
which civilized men exist that is not men,
toned in the list before US. The values are
in no case very large. and the total is little
more than one-flfth Of Great ,Britain's. but
It must be remembered that the American
export trade in this commodity was vir-
tually inaugurated during the second half
of the year under consideration. for in the
first half the value of the shipments did
not exceed $243. 700. The details we have
given seem to us to show that American
manufacturers contrived in q very short
time to spread their arms over the world
to some purpose, and that their grit will
probably tell against the British maker in
the near future with much rigor."