Show BIG BIB MERgER I NOW SlA ID Bankers and Manhattan Trust Companies to Join in the Great Merger According to Latest Wall Street Rumor GRAND AGGREGATE OF DEPOSITS Mercantile and Equitable Con Concerns corns cerns Expected Eventually to toBe toBe Be Taken Into Same Power Powerful ful Alliance Sooner or Later GREAT FINANCIAL POWER New York Jan Pierpont i I Morgan MOlgan and associates may control through further trust company mer mergers mergers gers in New York the enormous sum of in deposits alone This is approximately more than the deposits of the Na National National City bank of this city the Jar lar largest gest financial institution in the United States Reports of additional trust company consolidation are given credence In vier of yesterdays announcement or of the me r ger by J P Morgan Co of the Guar Guaranty anty Trust Truet Morton Trust and Fifth Aye H nue Trust companies with combined di posits of about This brought a revival In the financial dIstrIct of so IU mors embracing the Bankers trust and the Manhattan Trust companies In t The e s mA combination ThAm i 1 I I thai ih Tu Trust tV ipa nd the EQuitable Trust company eventually would be taken Into some Orne sort of a power pon powerful tul ful alliance Allied With Morgan In point of fact the Bankers Trust corn com company pany is closely affiliated with the so s called Morgan Interests In that two part partners partners ners In the Morgan banking house George W V Perkins and Henry P DR Davi In the directorate of the former Other dIrectors of the Bankers Banker Trust company Including A B Hepburn and A AH AH H Wiggin president and vice president respectively of the Chase National bank and William II 11 Porter president of tJ ti Chemical National bank are active In th the affairs ot or the Guaranty Trust compan which Is to be made the titular head the Avenue eon COD Relations between the Morgan Inter Interests eats ests and the Manhattan Trust compan always have been Intimate though tit ti latter Is not regarded as a Morgan ap appendage appendage It Is perhaps signIficant that the building now DOW occupIed b by the Ma batten hattan Trust t company Is to be rated see 1001 seeto to make wa way for tor a to te be erected b by the Bankers Trust corn com company pany Deposits of the Bankers Trust compari aggregate and those of the MarL n hattan Trust company so that the two companies if combined it those now In pr process 86 of absorption b by T J JP TP P Morgan and associates would total 1 deposits more than National banking interests do not look with uniform favor on the Increase In trust com company pan power It was pointed out today that Inasmuch as the law makes it possIble for the trust rampa nies to hold stocks and to enjoy other ad advantages advantages vantages forbidden to national banks it would easily be possible for tor the lar large t trust companies to take up many und unde writing propositions which JarKe Jarge banks bank or of Wall Wail street find It Inexpedient to bar haf bardie die |