Wright's Street List and Rapid Transit Guide to the City of Hartford and Vicinity (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Wright's Street List and Rapid Transit Guide to the City of Hartford and VicinityBusiness in those days, however, was car ried on under many and great disadvantages. At the outbreak of the Revolution prosperity was general, but the financial necessities of the war caused the Continental Congress to force upon the public issues of paper money, which after the war was ended brought serious evils upon the. People. With peace and the at tempted development of a new prosperity, naturally came heavy importations of foreign goods, which, owing to the exhausted condi tion of industry and the consequent scarcity of exportable commodities, had to be paid for in actual cash. The country, therefore, became drained of coin, both silver and gold, and all that was left to the luckless inhabitant for use in his business transactions was the depreciated currency issued by Congress. Nobody knew from day to day what a dollar of paper money was worth, and therefore nobody wanted it. The only recourse the people had was to barter, - that is, the exchange of their wares one for another, on such terms as could be arranged. Naturally, this method of doing business became unbearable, and the wise heads of Hartford began to cast about in their minds for some means of relief to themselves.It was soon recognized that the need was for a bank that would command the confidence of the community and furnish a currency for local use.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.