New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-01
EXCHANGE LOOKS
FOR IMPROVEMENT
rwo Seats Sell at $4,000
Each. $4,000 More than
Last Sale.
end OF YEAR MARKS
FEW DISSOLUTlONS
49,, Firms Went Out of Busi-
', ",ss IN 1918, but New Partner
ships Were Also Formed.

- ,mprovement in sentiment that mas
l"' = Noticeable in Wall street since
....ee OF the currency biH was re
nc ,-estsrday IN two sales Of Stock
hs0'eo seats at $500 each. an IN
49, ~ A5oo over the last previous
cSSS tn. seats transferred belonged 10
sax Fuller and Frederick HERE
Aan-' ~. purchasers were Gustav SUI
$50 s,s Charles x. MaoDonaio' MI
u ..nonald sold his seat several months
A a. ySmo and is said TO have re
AtO - one I'm the belief that the
p-Is.ss bushes during 1914 is gong
:. ~ much better.
IN, falling on in business IN me I''.,,,
- district during 1918 has been oireeuy
$50 in the prices OF memberships
,hs stock Exchange. which zen 10
~ an last summer. the lowest price since
tn. high price for the year was
- compared With $4,000 IN 1917
.scn in 1911. The low price in l9l-
-. SEQ and $500 in 1911.
va 49, ,ss close OF 1918 Wall Street had
...sir,ed hat many Stock Exchange
49, would 80 out Of business but "nen
-, vear-end changes were announced
ms. &c n was seen that such predio-
- we're not based on fact WINE
- Ass hesn a number of partnershlp
s,..oir,,ops during the past year on'Y
- hsv. been added TO the list. Inc
80. AZ. George Leask & Co, OF NO
= u.u,sm street. and j. KENNEDY lOo
NJ. Nassau street. The former
r,s organized on January ], l"l'
81 -. mariners we're Edwin NJ Leash
y oor member. Julian W. Koooins anu
FGsorr. Leask. The partners OF Ioa q
"a were William Stewart TOO HUT
,,,rhsr. AND Robert Il. Tod.
,nout twenty-five arms retired from
-. hroksraee business in Wal -S'ree'
sn,ipr 1918. according 10 the weekly oui-
80 ,ssped bv the stock Exchange. 10
-, mis- there we're more than ten ne"
am, formed. The most noteworthy iSl,-
M. Of the year was that OF H. r. i'oi,
a., 4 20 whose liabilities were placeu
~ approximately Scooo".
Nsw Stock Exchange partnerships
which 20 into effect to-day INCLUDE the
following ~ 1,o-d
Edmund 6. Burke. jr, John h. ho'u
and Henry s. Curtiss. under me III Il,
name o, Burke. Hord & Curuss; Maynard
T, Fvre. William A. Jennings and Archi'
ia = Mc1,eish. with NJ. r. Campoeh as
= snacisl mariner. under the firm name u
Prince q Whitley: William Wallace Lana
han. Henry Law Duer, under the nrn
name Of W. ". Lanahan & Co. Inc oio
firm Of whelan. Duer & Lananan o's'
solves partnership to-day
.artners OF Stock Exchange houses VINO
sre retiring are II. l.. Horton. OF II. l.
Horton & Co: Charles NJ. Ransom OF
Ford. Enos. Wclcott & Ransom Johf
parkinson. OF Parkinson & Burr; Harry ,
K,bp. Of Josephine Louchheim & Co.
Rsvsrd Dominick. Of Dominick & Dom
loirk. Henry /. Maxwell. OF H. \. Whit
pev 4 Sons. Herbert Fl. Knox Of NJ
Burr. r.. & Co. and George c. BALDWIN
Of II. r. Bachman q co.
New mariners that have been ADMITTED
70 Stock Exchange firms include Alfre'
Rsu IN II p Goldsmith & Co; Il. W
Worth. 10 G. 3. Salisbury & CO.. Roeer
G. Kennedy. TO Morris & Smith; Norman
H Donald. 10 McCurdy. Henderson & Co.
Richard whitney, 70 Cummings Marek
Vald. Harry II. Bemis. TO Curtis & san
ger: Constantine Hutchlns. 70 Parkinson
& Burr: Louis Sternoerger, 10 Josephthsi
louchhein & Co. Nelson ]. Asiel. TO Aisle
q Co.; Charles P. clifford, 10 Jackson q
Curtis. and Sidney NJ. Goldstein. TO Aisle
& Co.
The following branch Offices will be dis
confined after to-day: Herrick Berg q
CO. al Fifth avenue and Goth street; Mich
OILS. MacDenen d Schneider al No. liO Yves
Cd street. Wsrdwell & Adams at No. 40
West 18th street
". Ledysrd THOMPSON. Edward *. Cooi
and c. Arthur Comstock were elected
members Of the exchange yesterday.
According 10 statistics given at the eH
change the aggregate number OF sharei
Of stock dealt In on the floor during th'
year up 70 December 90 was S2,6lS.osi
During the same period the total transac
tiens in state railroad and miscellaneou'
bonds aggregated Hs5.SSs,6OO par value
The transactions In government bondI
amounted 10 tLi9e.22o. The transactions
in rights totalled 227,5s3.
During the year 1872 the total OF share'
o. stock dealt in on the New York Stool
Exchange amounted TO 13i.12S.42s. and the
aggregate transactions in bonds was ssI5.
2iS.5o par value