New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-13
North Pacific &C. Paul.. 02I %
pref. .......... 81 62L Reading general
Phil & Eric..... 29b 29a mortgage g. 1885, 1884,


TUESDAY Oct. 12-P ~
The railway earnings thus far reported for tho nrss
week October almost universally show good gains
the period Of 1885, In the returns printed this
morning the g. Paul road eives . gain OF over per
cent tho Milwaukee ami Northern 10 per cent.
Central Iowa per cent and ST. Louis and San Fran
| cisco nearly i3 per cent The now system recently
adopted By Chicago and North western making lie
weekly returns by averages for last year instead OF by
the actual OF that week renders It's present showing
absolutely worthless In comparison. because Ia
that It Is impossible 10 tho hrst week of
October this year TO obtain the daily average
OF earnings OF the next three weeks It's report
for the first in October of this year. compared
with the approximate actual OF the week Of $685. gives
a OF over per cent or course the percentage Of
increased earnings named does Int, account
the addition Al miieage the mileage OF the respective
periods Is clearly stated In ell weekly rsporu Of
railway earninga OF the reports printed beov. Cal
cago and Alton and Chicago. 81 Paul, Minneapolis
and Omaha give only small gains on the week OF 1885,
Peoria. Decatur and Evansville give. a gain Of over 80
per cent. St. Paul and Duluth sain about Is per
cent Canadian Pacific gain of over is per cent. Long
island gain OF nearly 10 per cent, I~,uisvilie and
Nashville gain Of IL per cent. Wabash ST Louis and
Pacific q rain OF per cent. Cnicaso and
West Michigan gain OF 20 per cent, Norfolk aud wes
80 per cent, and Buffalo, Rochester AMI Pitts
burg about 20 per cent. stakeholder" 10 Informed
that the Office OF the company In this city our ngures
294 mes. representing the earnings ofboth 1888 and
1885 OF Buffalo, Rochester and Pistsburg, verified
correct.
In the face Of such and OF the fact
that all experience has shown that railroad pools have
their being In good times. and that
Illegal pool IN times are only rope
OF sand becomes farcoal u consider the qnes
OF whether this or that poo will De formed
or the others hold together. Yet to-day tho
Chicago report that some OF the Western "poos"
could not u and thai others we're on the verge
disruption factor Ia duli stock market ana
The prime pal cause aside from an unnrrciiui
pounding OF values, OF such lowe pr ices ~ were made
The truth PROBABLY Is that the reports checked buying
and thar OF purchasers gave the ponnders
such small results they achieved. The business ot
day amounted only TO 3Oi, 100 shares aud tnat
was unusually veDy divided The ma kot general
y sho declines aud the old granger stocks are
on-pcuous In doing that. The coal sfoeks
attacking NewYork and New England At every possible
opportunity. Yet despite whole days worrlment ara
the fearful printed onslaughts OF the MANHATTAN lie
waited Road Interest and the personal stten ion OF It's
heerrs together WI The sterrotypd assertion that
ono wants It,, ~ stock Is ~xcrpio IN showing
final of IS per cent, winch left the record
4as higher than the Manhattan Interest sod
90 shares saturday. or cours' all talk of con-
sDiIdatIon other New Dkland Inns IL 'Ies
which have ground" hut, nevertheless. me
between the ofic al OF the different lines; the
discover equitable basis and an gamma
OF the respective Properties on all the same
tho Manhattan Elevated interest snaps, snArs and
denies the general market, including Western Union
closed weak and unsettled.
Government bonds dull and early sold AZ lower
hut recovered that ther" "a no change 10 tno
final quotations, winch are as foliOws