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Show NEW YORK'S BLACK FRIDAY. Several Trust Companies and One National Na-tional Bank Suspend. Now York. Friday was another nerve-wrecking day, but tho financial Institutions of New York havo shown extraordinary power of roslstnnco to tho pressuro put upon them. While It Is true that several minor Institutions havo been forced to close their doors, yet two things should bo said about them. First, that tho amount Involved waa not so great ns to exert any marked Inllucnco on tho general situation, ns thcEO banks wero located III residential residen-tial quarters and did not como Into touch with tho larger financial Institutions Insti-tutions of tho metropolis; and, second, there Is ovcry reason to bcllovo that theso banks and trust companies nro entirely solvent, and their difficulties will provo to bo only tompornry. I Tho Institutions which closed their doors on Friday, with tho sums duo depositors, woro: Tho United States' Exchango bank, Harlem, $000,000; International In-ternational Trust company, nbout $100,000: tho Borough Hank of Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. $4,000,000; the Brooklyn bank, $1,300,000; WllIlamsbuiT; TniBt company, com-pany, Brooklyn, $7,500,000, and tho First National bank of Brooklyn, $3,-000,000. |