Show I I I 1 PITHY PERSONALITIES AN INSIDE VIEW OF WAll STREET Adams dams who makes make V Wall street and ald the big business ss men of the country a. a a life lifework le work worle gives the following Interesting ac account account ac- ac count of conditions as he them hem for tor tho Boston News Bureau Bareau Though leading interests ami makers of markets still maintain a passive at attitude attitude at- at I learn they are looking forward I to a spring rise rile A year It wa was the war order stocks that stirred speculation and enlisted the public This season activity Is II expected to center more in inthe inthe the standard shares the sharel-the the railroads coppels coppel's coppers cop cop- pers pel's steels Most properties of this sort Bort are tow low All Al tue e making big money Their prospects likewise are excellent These are Incentives that later on will willbe wi be ma made le the basis of operations by marVn mar mar- leaders leader who for the moment are lEIE 11 watching events The Allies The influence again bulks large larg I said saida a a week ago It was the dominant Influence It I is toda today It I has made itself felt In as everybody knows though to meet with wih defeat It I Is at work covertly coverty on the stol stock exchange and In 11 the market place at the the expense of confidence The drive against Verdun was timed to militate as much as possible possible pos pos- sible against success of current negotiations tons looking to further loans and additional ad ad- credits for Britain and France The he French Anglo bonds are one of the objects of the German offensive They are under fire fre more or less week In and w week ek out Anything to cripple the thE money getting abilities of the he enemy But despite despite de de- spite this sort of thing arrangements are are About completed I am informed whereby I I I I I the allies will wi have their exchequers am amply ply replenished No doubt report overstates overstates over over- I am-I states the total sum to be advanced to France Also AltO It It remains to be seen in tn inthe the event of a smashing success by the kaiser in the west if leaders will wi falter My y Information under an circumstances cir clr- new credits credis to the amount of several hundred million milon dollars are practically provided already and will wi be forthcoming regardless of the outcome of th the fracas around Verdun The return of J. J P. P Morgan organ shortly shorty is it goes without saying awaited in th the financial community with extraordinary interest No homecoming of the founder of the Morgan organ house in the entire career of ot that remarkable was ever Invested b by the business public with wih I greater importance I 1 may add that the pres present nt head of the firm has haa displayed an all around ability and grasp of affairs al in his present mission abroad that are the admiral ion of the foreign bankers he heI I has had to deal with J. J P. P Morgan still on the sunny side of 50 50 I Is the junior of ot most of the finan financiers ciers he has been conferring with nearl nearly every day for weeks on the other side His HIl good Judgment and breadth of view therefore goo on more than one occasion are said to have have taken talen their breath away away The Morgan people of course ourse are In- In i and enthusiastically pro English the al and d pro French and pro Russian Jn In case of the head of or the firm It is a matter matter mat mat- ter of or heritage It was J. J S. S S Morgan organ grandfather of the present J. J P P. Morgan organ I who nearly h half f a century ago o a ras raised for tor Jance when the I were on top of her and war war had laid the country waste and lenders so 80 far as France was concerned were scarcer than I J. J J.P. P. P hens bens teeth Moreover orE over the late In his long sojourns abroad every Morgan organ 11 at home and equally was year ear esteemed In that country or l England He had Iad the warm legard of their bankers banker for tor decades Thus loyalty to them Is In his successor Expansion In of the letup in tn stock business brokers are anything but discouraged Wall street s reads the future correctly cor cor- as a rule It I Is significant In view recty in inthe Inthe of Its forward looking propensity that the is first quarter of or the year ear a period of and reaction many new firms have quiet ben been formed It is also not without significance sig I that a number numb r of houses houS right now are tha expanding a their facilities and preparing for an active spring and sumler sum sum- Indications are that more auxiliary aux The mer ler offices will wi be doing business after aler lary a year the outdoor season opens up than han ago Wall Val street has grown rown amazingly The war war and the accumulation of ot wealth from the earth at It the Incredible rate rat of often frol have given it a new billions a year ten world Its banks status in the financial ord Is branches all over the globe are opening beginning al with the top of It lends money toP I the alphabet and Argentina Argentina to all II coun countries And In history for the first time tries tightening fast Its grip on things is so sq that the and so hard there is no chance end o of the war whether it i comes this next or still later in the future year or sUI will wi States loosen will never it radically lose all al the The ground United wi Slate 1914 of g gained since the summer Wage I pay rolls roUs will wi I hear her be the In Larrer sequel to current curent w wage ge disputes dis in the railway world but not I great enough larger lo to make malte for any curtailment of d earning capacity The Be Bee In His HI Bonnet Bonet Some Albany Alban statesmen n are pretty i i know from long I I I I ence i for r instance nc what a avital vital part poli politics pol- pol the In b bj tics usually plays plas whispered legislature tC Just now It is around the state capital that what Is ts I called the Hughes bee is buzzing very Hughe be busl- busl In the bonn bonnet t ot Senator George GeorgeF commit committee chairman of the F F. tee Thompson that has ha been delving Into the commit I affairs commission and InI In- In ice sen-ice of the public Rapid Transit Which means mem the senator is bent on making the that same sort of hit in the latter later inquisition I did In tn the famous In InI Insurance In- In governor ex-governor the as course e he investigations could capitalize ov Id ilz ilzo Such u enormously o success lv of to I his advantage politically Nearly eV every I there are two body knows however that l will not cogent reasons why Thompson wi the Hughes achievement One duplicate Hughe governors governor's Is that he has bas not the former ability The other is that he has not the same opportunity The gifts of cash by the to Its and others other ma may not have been Justified but the have unearth unearthed nothing to that show there has been any ay of in the management I stealing fraud or about the company compan Even the bonuses which such an ado has been made are arc a compared with the great re resources reo total wih trifling while the I sources of the corporation So been extended committee has life of m my I several months the chances chantel are that when will be found that thatis ended it labors are its I wi I i is Its chairman has not gained any great is word the public I Is on on In a I In This I or proceeding of f cour course e has ll rt j I the Consolidated stocks J Ji occasioned In t the s place quite tl a genI gen gen- i rn 1 I eral fear di that there e was something n ten in Denmark Now however there is isI I beginning to be recognition of th the f fact ct I that the Inquiry Is to the advantage of that that Is spells closer coser hus husbanding I banding of Rapid Transil's cash People also now recall that only a 11 short time ago three e very high class men Alexander J. J ao hemphi A. A D. D Juillard and Guy Tripp accepted places place on the latter hoard Cert they would not ha have ve done so had they not known that so far fal faras falI as dishonest methods concerned the I is ns clean as a hounds hound's tooth O s cean I Gamble A l- l I Io I To o some of the shrewdest men in the market marlet place I 1 may add In common l looks right now to be one of the I greatest gambles on the list The earnIngs earnings earn earn- ings of the te underground lne lines from which it derives Us is chief revenues are gaining handsomely handsome Earnings of 0 the New York City the I roads are also alo Improving and the in interest Interest In- In terest recently declared on these bonds of which Consolidated Is a I heavy holder is Just so much increased cr rj income for tor the latter concern Then h r. r what about the Rapid Transit Tran- Tran sit Construction company I I understand that eventual eventually its profits of several roll lions lons will wi find their wa way Into the holding company's coffers All Al of which makes makel some level headed speculators think thai Consolidate common l Jn th Jh teens and controlling the finest finest traction system in the world is a speculative proposition of great geat po possibilities Rubber a winter for rubber S 'S business v trader soliloquized he yet et Colonel Colt Col tells us dividends on his are not Jn sight All the there are those who regard President Colts Colt's annual report on the operations of- of the States Rubber company AS extremely encouraging Income has got to be such a bull argument on things that In the opinion of observers ob- ob servers 11 will not be surprising If the Rubber shares sell as high before divi dividends on them are resumed as they did when on a 6 per cent basis Rubbers Rubber's gross sales of last year by th way make an imposing The late Addison who led many a bear campaign In Wall street was always a. a bull on sugar because because- it had an annual output valued at a hundred million dol lars On an Income like that he would say they can make all the money they want John D Rockefeller People from Palm Beach hava remarked how blissfully ignorant John D. D Rockefeller always appears Stock brok- brok eis appear to Know a great deal more than Mr Rockefeller who never appears to know anything I suppose Mr Rockefeller ler Is the one man in the world wh doesn't have to answer questions to either customers associates or anybody higher up in the financial world He does not have to talk about finance and he Apparently he lovea to talk about golf and the world in general both within and without the church I never yet yet- heard of anybody having an interchange of financial views with John D. D ler Yet I hear that at Palm Beach h had nine rooms more than one secre secretary tary and a private car How many ears ago was it that Mr Rockefeller retired from active business |