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With the immense increase in wealth in the United States during the last decade and its more general distribution, the problem of investment has assumed correspondingly greater importance. As long as the average business man was an habitual borrower of money and possest no private fortune outside of his interest in his business, he was not greatly concerned with investment problems. The surplus wealth of the country for a long time was in the hands of financial institutions and a few wealthy capitalists. These men, the officers and directors of banks, savings-banks, and insurance companies, and the possessors of hereditary wealth, were thoroughly equipped by training. | How to Invest Money by George Garr Henry 1 HOWTO INVEST MONEY GEORGE GARR HENRY How to Invest Money by George Garr Henry The Project Gutenberg EBook of How to Invest Money by George Garr Henry This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title How to Invest Money Author George Garr Henry Release Date November 28 2010 EBook 34463 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW TO INVEST MONEY How to Invest Money by George Garr Henry 2 Produced by Julia Neufeld and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. HOW TO INVEST MONEY BY GEORGE GARR HENRY Vice-President Guaranty Trust Company of New York Illustration FUNK WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON 1908 COPYRIGHT 1908 BY FUNK WAGNALLS COMPANY Printed in the United States of America Published April 1908 CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE 5 I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF INVESTMENT 7 II. RAILROAD MORTGAGE BONDS 23 III. RAILROAD EQUIPMENT BONDS 40 IV. REAL-ESTATE MORTGAGES 51 V. INDUSTRIAL BONDS 63 VI. PUBLIC-UTILITY BONDS 76 VII. MUNICIPAL BONDS 91 VIII. STOCKS 100 IX. MARKET MOVEMENTS OF SECURITIES 108 PREFACE The aim of this book is to present in clear form the simple principles of investment and to afford the reader a working knowledge of the various classes of securities which are available as investments and their relative adaptability to different needs. The book is an outgrowth of the writer s personal experience as an investment banker. Most of the matter which is presented has appeared in the pages of System Magazine through the courtesy of whose editors it is now rearranged and consolidated for publication in book form. G. G. H. How to Invest Money by George Garr .