New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-16

Ing the Standard Rope and Irvine Company
and marketing it's goods. The company will
advance so per cent on all manufactured goods,
and will guarantee it's accounts. receiving in re-
turn a commission on sales. The Standard Rope
and Irvine Company had at the close OF the
fiscal year S1.700,000 in cash and quick assets
and had no floating debt, having earned interest
on its bonds, including the incomes and some
thing on the stock.
APPLICATION TO LIST.-Application has
been made to the Stock Exchange to list S3'-
800 900 common and 81, $4,000 preferred stock
of the United States Rubber Company, Issued IN
| connection with the purchase OF the Boston
Rubber Shoe Company.
BANK CLEARINGS-The total bank clear
irgs OF all the Clearing Houses of the United
States for the week ending yesterday have been
81. 3TS 163OO6 a decrease Of S&4S1.Gn from
last week and an increase Of SAT DO. 146 as COM
pared with the same week last year
RAILROAD EARNINGS. - THE Financial
Chronicle" computes the gross earnings or "
roads for the fourth week of September. lSoS'
at So 6663 jS. an increase of $751; 49, or 6.3'
err cent; 6S roads for the first week Of October,
1905 at SS,304,9j an increase of S4o1,Il2 or
515 per cent; 100 roads for the month of Sep
tember 1895. at $4S 969SS5 an increase of s.
19O,S0j, or GOA per cent; and 12S roads from
January to September 30. 1898. at S1.-
sos. 403, an increase Of 37.4S5,39l.
SOUTHERN RAILwAY.-An advance in the
price Of Southern Railway preferred was due
to buying induced by report that the COM
pany would declare dividend of 1l1 per cent
in January.
c. c. DICKINSON RESIGNS.-Charles C.
vi psid Of 10 Colonial Trust
Company. has resigned his office on account or
i'll health and the directors have accepted the
resignation with regret. Mr.. Dickinson who Is
one OF the best-known and most popular Of the
Younger bank officers in this city. was for sew
eral years State Bank Examiner, a post which
he resigned to take part in the organization or
the Colonial Trust Company, of which institu-
ton he has been vice-presdent since 1t began
business, year ago this month. His conduct
Of the office of bank examiner was so success
full and satisfactory that upon his retirement
from that post the trust companies united in a
letter expressing their appreciation Of his work.
His successor in the Colonial Trust Company
management has not yet been selected
AN ARRANGEMENT MADELINE silver
bullion which under the law must be coined at
the San Francisco Mint at the rate Of 100000
standard dollars a month will not after all have
to be sent overland to that city, as AT first was
thought necessary, on special train by the
Government, arrangements have been made
whereby the firm of J. G. w. Seligman & CO.,
Of this city. will supply to the mint the full
quantity Of bullion needed The Seligmans con-
troll the Anglo-California Bank. of San Fran
CISCO and deal largely in silver bullion sent to
that city from Pacific Coast points, and from
British Columbia, Mexico and Central America,
the total amount handled by them yearly being
approximately the amount which will be re-
quired by the San Francisco Mint. Under their
agreement with the Treasury Department the
firm will deposit this bullion at the San Fran
cisco Mint receiving for it certificates from the
Treasury Department at Washington or the
ub-Treasury in this city