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...first case it is the syndicate head, except when it does not invite any participants but handles the entire job itself, Most houses are syndicate heads in some issues, participants in many others. The lordly House of Morgan, however, is never a participant. During the present year Goldman, Sachs & Co. and G. L. Ohrstrom & Co., Inc., have also handled no issues except those in which they were the leaders...
Harris, Forbes Co...
...Otis & Co...
...United Light & Power Co. (500,000 preferred...
Harris, Forbes & Co. began in 1882 as N. W. Harris & Co. At that time Founder Norman Wait Harris had an office on Chicago's Clark St., three employes and $30,000. But he also had two ideas. First idea was to send salesmen out to sell bonds. In 1882 such procedure was regarded as undignified; Mr. Harris and his men were termed doorbell ringers. But Mr. Harris knew that he, small, new, obscure, would never prosper by waiting for investors to call upon him, so he rang the doorbells, sold the bonds, became ancestor of all bond salesmen since...