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Show NEW YORK'S BLACK FRIDAY. Several Trust Companies and One Na- tlonal Bank Suspend. HJ New York. Friday was another nerve-wrecking day, but tho financial' institutions of New York hnvo shown , HE extraordinary power of resistance to Hi tho pressuro put upon them. Whllo It Hi is truo that several minor institutions Hi have been forced to close tholr doors, Hb yet two things should bo said about Hb Hh First, that tho amount Involved was Hi not so great ns to exert nny marked. HV Influcnco on the general situation, as) HJ thoso banks wero located in rcstdon- HJ tint quarters and did not como Into HJ touch with tho larger financial Instl- HJ tutlons of tho metropolis; and, second, HJ thero Is every reason to bollovo that HJ theso banks nnd trust companies nro- HJ entirely solvent, nnd their difficulties- HJ will provo to bo ouly temporary. Tho institutions which closed their HI doors on Friduy, with tho sums due ' HJ depositors, were: Tho United Stalest HJ Exchange bank, Harlem, $000,000; In- HJ ternntlonnl Trust company, about $100,000; tho Borough Bank of Brook- HJ lyn, $4,000,000; tho Brooklyn bank, HJ $1,300,000; WllllnmBbui-g Trust com- HJ pany, Brooklyn, $7,500,000, nnd tho HJ First National bank of Brooklyn, $:!,- HJ 000,000. HI |