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FINANCIAL HISTORY
CONTENTS
Published by the Museum of
American Financial History
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FRIENDS OF
Two New Successes Was Trade Settlement
FINANCIAL HISTORY
for the Museum Always on T+3?
Issue Number 56 • Summer 1996 FounderJohn Herzog reportson the annual A History ofClearance and
(ISSN 0278-8861)
benefit and the new internship program. Settlement Changes.
Sarah Elizabeth Massey By Kenneth S. Levine
Editor
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Alan Barnett
Art Director About the Museum
EditorialAdvisoryBoard The Museum ofAmerican Financial History:
Dan Cooper Hours, location, exhibits. THE COLLECTOR
MaristCollege A FORUM FOR THE COLLECTOR OF
DianaE. Herzog, 8 VINTAGE FINANCIAL MEMORABILIA.
R.M. Smythe & Co., Inc.
Museum People and News
Douglas Parrillo,
NationalAssociation ofSecuritiesDealers, Inc. Museum Interns, Antique Dictaphone 28
ArthurW. Samansky, Machines, Bowling Green Arts,
HSBCAmericas, Inc. FriendsNews, and YoungVisitors. Relic of a Railroad Wreck
BobShabazian, Travel down the road to bankruptcy
American Stock Exchange on the Penn Central.
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Richard Sylla, By Sanford Mock
HenryKaufman Professor Who’s Who at the Museum J.
ofatnhdeMHairskteotrsy,oNfeFiwnaYnocriaklUInnisvteirtsuittiyons Spotlight onTrustee Edward 1. Altman. 32
By Kristen Mooney
Jason Zweig, Shopping Guide
Columnist, MoneyMagazine
Museum Staff I I
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DianeMoore, Executive Director One of Wall Street’s
MegVentrudo, Collections Manager Prominent Leaders Recieves Books for Collectors
Jim Festa, Public Information Officer the Museum’s Highest Honor
Milazim Durakovic, Intern Bookseller Ray Boas reviews
JoyceWallis, Intern The Museum honors Richard Grasso The WreckofthePenn Central.
at its annual benefit.
Copyright 1996 by the Museum of American
Financial History, publisher, 26 Broadway, Room 35
200,NewYork,NY 10004-1763.Telephone:212- 13
908-4519, fax: [phone].All rights reserved. Fall I 996 Events Calendar
Permission isgranted to reprintwith propercred- Educators’ Perspective
itto FriendsofFinancialHistory. OfButtonwoodTrees and Beer:
Four issue subscription $25 in U.S. and Canada. The Beginings ofExchanges Past and Present.
$30 airmail Europe, U.K. Single copy $7.00. By Dr. Dan Cooper and Dr. Brian Grinder Collector’s Marketplace
Paymentmustbemadeindollars,bycreditcard,or
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to FriendsofFinancialHistoryatdieaboveaddress. How Much. .
A look at the HerreshoffYacht Manufacturing From the Collection
Coverphoto: HaroldS.Vanderbiltsailingthe Company, the top boat builders of Summer fun, familyvalues,
Enterprise,aHcrreshoffyacht.Story, page 14. the turn ofthe century. and gambling on the boardwalk.
PhotocourtesyofTheMariners'Museum, NewportNews, VA. By Stephen Goldsmith By MegVentrudo
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FOUNDERS REPORT
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Museum Fundraiser and
Program Bring Great Success
Internship
By John E. Herzog
T
he joys of summer also bring us splendid private club on Pine Street, where 130th Anniversary of the founding of the
good news aboutdevelopments at a warm fire greeted visitors. An Internet Pennsylvania Railroad, to the celebration
the Museum. During the spring demonstration let visitors see the Museum of the Herreshoff Yacht Company, boat
term, the Museum had its first full semester site on the World Wide Web, recently in builders for the great financiers of bygone
collegeintern, and the projectwasquitesuc- the top 5% ofall Web sites! The guest of palmy days. And who was it who said “If
cessful. For two days each week, Kristen honorwas RichardA. Grasso, Chairman of you have to askhow much, you can’t afford
Mooney, a then senior from Marist College The New York Stock Exchange (see page it.”? Find the answer inside, and have a
in Poughkeepsie, worked on a variety of 11). Inevitably, there were some words great short summer read.
tasks for the Museum, and for a few other from your chairman, but the highlight of Otherwise, many interesting projects
firms. The Museum had a great benefit and the eveningwere the remarks well prepared areworkingalong, including a new fall show
Kristen learned about many different office by Dick Grasso, whose command of his in the form ofa major exhibit on railroads,
activities. We are looking forward to the subject combined with a creative use ofthe with someseldom seen artifacts. Let us know
next intern, who is also from Marist College Exchange’s records, make him an effective if you have something you feel should be
and will be working with us this summer. and highly respected speaker. Attendance included, and remember, please, do not
Our annual benefit was a great suc- was over one hundred, and many compli- throw any of your old stock market letters
cess, and the first one to be held in the ments were received from our guests. and papersawaywithoutlettingus know.We
financial district. In past years, we have Some fine stories await you inside, are always interested in adding to the
migrated uptown for our events. The from a retrospective of“T + 3” and earlier Museum’scollection. Haveawonderfulsum-
venue was The Down Town Association, a changes of the settlement process, to the mer, and best regards from all ofus here. iaa:i
TRUSTEES
Edward 1. Altman Stephen A. Cooper William M. Pinzler, Esq.
Max L. Heine Professor President NewYork, NY
ofFinance Nemco Brokerage, Inc.
NYU Stern School ofBusiness NewYork, NY MortonJ. Wagner
NewYork, NY Executive Vice President
Smith Barney Inc.
George Haley Garrison
ThomasJ. Asher New York, NY
President
Regional Director, Executive Vice President
The Robinson-Humphrev Co., Inc. Bond and Share Society John L. Watson III
Atlanta, GA Williamsburg, VA President
SecurityTraders Association
Molly G. Bayley John E. Herzog New York, NY
Principal Chairman
Molly G. Bayley Consulting Herzog Heine Geduld, Inc. John Westergaard
Washington, DC New York, NY Westergaard Publishing
NewYork, NY
William P. Behrens
Chairman, CEO Thomas D. Levis Jason Zweig
Ernst & Company Managing Director Columnist
NewYork, NY Investors Company Money Magazine
NewYork, NY New York, NY
Randy Cepuch
Vice President Communications Gordon S. Macklin Martin E. Zweig
Fund Management Division Chairman Chairman and President
Capital Research &£ Management White River Corporation The Zweig Funds
Washington, DC Bethesda, MD NewYork, NY
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CHRONICLING THE HISTORY OF AMERICA’S FINANCIAL MARKETS
The Museum ofAmerican Financial History is the newestpublic repository ofdocuments,
stock and bond certificates, engravings, and other historically significant artifacts
dedicated to the origins and history oftheAmerican capital markets.
The Museum is located at 24 Broadway, NewYork City. Hours: 1 1:30am until 2:30pm, Monday through Friday.
Admission is free. Special hours can be arranged for group tours. For further information call 212-908-4519.
Coming this Fall! A Century of Railroads 1835-1935
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A unique perspective on one-hundred years of railroad develop- opened and underwater tunnel service began between New York
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ment in the United States as only the Museum ofAmerican City and New Jersey and New York City and Long Island. The
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Financial History can bring will open this Fall in the NewYork station covered an area of 28 acres! The Pennsylvania Railroad
City Gallery. Join the Museum staff in celebrating the trans- annual report of 1910 stated that the cost of the tunnels under
portation technology that linked our vast country. the Hudson and East Rivers and the large station was
The certihcate featured here is a Pennsylvania Railroad $112,965,415. As the railroad became the preferred vehicle of
Company General Mortgage 4/ Gold Bond, Series D, $1,000, travel, the then-traditional ferries from Brooklyn andJersey City
due April 1, 1981. were discontinued two months after the opening of the station.
The vignette represents the original Penn Station of New To learn more about the once-great Pennsylvania Railroad,
York City. On September 8, 1910, the building was officially please see p. 28, the Collector’s section.
TheMuseum ofAmerican Financial Historyisa NewYorkStatechartered non-profiteducational andservicecorporation.
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University Students Learn Not-for-Profit
Business with the Museum
In the middle of a harsh, New York City
“Every student fears that, at an internship, the only task we will winter, a 350 year old red oak tree trunk
get involved in is filing and photo copying,” said Museum Intern was transported to BowlingGreen, theold-
Kristen Mooney, “But at the Museum of American Financial est public park in America, right across the
History, the opportunities for project-oriented work are abun- street from the Museum Gallery. Many
dant.” A student ofBusiness Administration at Marist College in remarked on its large size and moss-cov-
Poughkeepsie, New York with concentrations in Finance and ered exterior. What is this massive piece of
Personnel, Kristen Mooney just completed a semester-long internship with the Museum. wood doing on Broadway?
Kristen worked with the Museum staff, Chairman John Herzog, and Ernst & Company, Arturo DiModica, the artist made
while experiencing “life on Wall Street”. famous for his bronze “Charging Bull”
“What I like about the people at the Museum is that they asked me what I wanted to nearby, has agreed to create a masterpiece
do, what would I feel comfortable with. Ofcourse, I did many small organizational pro- from the venerable tree trunk from
jects in the archives, but I also learned about cataloguing the Museum pieces on comput- Riverdale, in the Bronx, that was felled by
er and editing a magazine.” Kristen was asked to get involved in all the current projects ol disease. Scaffolding is going up as we go to
the Museum. In February, she helped to plan the Museum’s annual benefit. In April, she press, and DiModicawill begin worksoon,
worked on articles for this issue ofFriendsand much, much more. now that the winter is finally behind us.
“Ofall my students, Kristen was one ofthe quickest studies. Kristen embraced informa- He expects to complete the project by
tion technologyandwas always lookingforways to learn more about finance. Shewas a natur- Labor Day. He will work outside, for the
al firstchoice to startour internship experiencewith the Museum,” said Professor Dan Cooper enjoyment of the Wall Street community.
ofMarist. Dr. Cooper, aFriendscolumnistandeditorial board member, finds timebetween edi-
tions to help select prospective interns from the Marist College finance department.
Collections Manager Meg Ventrudo had praise for Kristen’s positive contribution.
“Kristen was very helpful with the Bond Club ofNewYorkarchive inventory. Kristen came
to us with a great attitude, and she was always enthusiastic about the Museum’s projects.
We
will miss her.”
New Acquisition Reminds Us
of Life Before Computers
“Why is a ‘Shaver’ on display in the Museum gift shop?,” you
may ask. Because the shaver is not the type of tool you find
next to the sink, it is a machine used to remove dictation from “The project hopes to attract atten-
a wax cylinder. Alexander Graham Bell, his cousin Chichester tion for the maintenance and care of New
Bell, and Charles SumnerTainter invented the first dictaphone machine in 1881, and the York City’s millions oftrees,” according to
Museum acquired an antique dictaphone, dictaphone listening device, and dictaphone a placard near the tree. The NewYork City
shaver that were used at the Goodall Rubber Company ofNewJersey in the 1940s. Department of Parks and Recreation and
When compared to the CD-ROM or even your pocket tape recorder, the three the Bowling Green Association are the
machines seem quite large and, perhaps, medieval. Yet, at closer inspection, one finds that main contributors to the project.
the recording apparatus is a simple, easy to understand version ofthe incredible technolo- Everyone seems to have an opinion
gy ofthe 1990s. A steel stylus cut up and down grooves ofthe human voice into the wax on the sculptor’s odd choice ofmedium. I
coating ofthe rotating drum. The cylinder was then transferred to the listening device for wonder ifthe treewas really dead. Ifit last-
transcription. “Shavers” were then used to remove the dictation grooves ol the human voice ed 350 years, why was it brought here
from the surface of the cylinder for reuse. One cylinder could be used up to 30 times. now?,” commented one maintenance
The Dictaphone Corporation, the company that mass-produced the machines, has worker at 26 Broadway. The financial dis-
received world recognition and has had profitable years since its beginnings (except 197I). trict eagerly awaits the start of DiModicas
Dictaphone users include famous financier John D. Rockefeller. Like a paint palate to an latest project. Will the tree become a bear
artist, the dictaphone was an-invaluable resource to the business peopleofthe 1920s and 30s. to accompany the Charging Bull?
Number 56
of Financial History