Show Who Own She Bonds New York 20 Tribunes Washington Wash-ington EobertP Porter of Chicago special agent of the census in conversation con-versation with a Tribune correspondent corres-pondent givesthe full details as to the ownership of United States bonds In the absence of exact figures I should say that the New England States own about 11 percent per-cent of them the middle states about 43 the southern states a trifle over 2 and the western states own nearly 8M while banks insurance companies and other corporations own about 35K In New York state although the amount of the registered bonds owned there is nearly 210000000 out of 650000000 included in this investigation there are less than 15000 holders On the other hand Massachusetts with nearly 40000 000 of the bonds has nearly 17000 holders In my opinion the debt is owned by less than 100000 persons Over 35 per cent are held by banks and other corporations and it is probable that 1500 persons own over 4100700 of these bonds This aggregate is held in amounts exceeding ex-ceeding 50000 It must be remembered remem-bered that many banks hold considerable consid-erable in small amounts in trust for people therefore the 100000 do not fairly represent the bondholders of the country I have just returned from New York where I made arrangements which I think will prove successful Of the 8510 716000 coupon bonds outstanding last August probably the coupons of 400000000 dollars were returned I for payment to the subtreasury in New York and twenty of the leading I lead-ing banking firms presented not less than threefifths of them With this oflice having ascertained the exact ex-act amount of the different species of bonds presented by these firms we shall by their operations be able to ascertain the respective amounts forwarded to them from their cor respondends abroad the amounts of domestic holders and also in some cases how distributed in parts and from our country We can however how-ever in the event of failure to ascertain ascer-tain the home distribution base a calculation on the known distribution distribu-tion of registered bonds and it is not probable that the coupon bonds will differ greatly from the registered regis-tered excepting that we may expect to Ibid 100 to 150 per cent more proportionately pro-portionately in the larger cities of the country |