Business: Morgan Eve

With the years a spacious legend, heavy with the frankincense of gold, has grown up in grey Wall Street about the New Year's Eve of the great House of Morgan. It is told that as the old year passes the Morgan partners assemble in the low chunky marble building which stands at Broad and Wall Streets, the solid fulcrum of the business world. They come to sit in quiet, awful council while Mr. Morgan apportions to each his share of the firm's profits for the previous year. Naturally the largesse of a Morgan is always large. To this partner several...

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