New-York tribune., 1901-12-07
WALL STREET AND EXCHANGES.

FOREIGN TRADING.-London not an active
factor in the local market. Arbitrage houses
bought about 5000 shares. There was fair demand
for Baltimore and Ohio Southern Pacific and the
Steel shares.
STOCK LOAN oUOTATIONS.-Loan quotations
Amalgamated Copper Anaconda, Atch1son
common and preferred. Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Delaware and Hudson, Erie common. Erie nrst pre-
ferred Erie second preferred Louisville and Nash
vile, Manhattan, Missouri Pacific New-York Cen
trail, Peoples Gas, Reading first preferred, Re
public Steel common and preferred, Rock Island,
St. Paul, Southern Railway preferred, Southern
Pacific, Sugar, Tennessee Coal and Iron. Union Pa
cifc common and preferred, United States Steel
common and preferred, United States Leather pre-
ferred, Wabash preferred, Western Union, 4q41a
per cent Baltimore and Ohio common Chicago
Terminal 312.
HEAVY NOVEMBER CLEARINGS-The aggre-
gate of bank clearings in November compiled
by "Bradstreets" was in excess Of that for Octo-
Der, and was also by far the largest total
ported for the month of November The gains
shown over the same month of recent years of
course, not great in earlier months
Present comparisons made with exceptionally
good returns one and two years ago, but they still
point to present aggregates of bank operations and
therefore presumably of the general busines vol
ume, heavily in of any corresponding period
IN the country's history. The like showing is made
by the eleven months clearings, and the ndi-
Gated final total of bank operations makes it GER
tain that 1901 has far outdone any preceding year
The total Clearngs eighty-siX cities S979l,
o64933, 80 per larger than in October and 12.5
per cent larger than in November. 1850.
HEAVY ORDERS FOR CARS-The American
Car and Foundry Company, according TO The
Railroad Gazette" has received new orders for
follows: Seaboard Air Line, 800 Reading
1.15O; Buffalo. Rochester and Pttsburg. 800 Ameri
can Refrigerator Transit Company, 200; Colorado
and Southern. 400 Rock Island 300; Pennsylvania
1880; Lackawanna. 2.o0o, and miscellaneous. 251
making total of 6.6m cars. Colorado and Southern
has ordered 10 locomotives from the American
Locomotive Company. Burlington has ordered 80
locomotives from the Baldwin Works. and the
Chicago and Northwestern is having Is locomo-
tives built by the Rhode Island Works
GRAIN EXPORTS Brldstreet's" reports the
exports OF wheat for the week 46Ois46 bushels
against 51i7i7s bushels last week and 3432 59 BUSH
els last year. Since July l, l32, 423 906 bushels
against sl.23l426 bushels last year. Corn for the
week aggregated 362 s4f bushels against 6So,96s
bushels last week and 5s7.s77 bushels last year.
Since July !. 19.5i6,93l bushels. against s0.c5296s
bushels last year.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.-The directors OF Cen
era Electric have declared the regular quarterly
dividend of per cent on the common stock. The
directors of the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Com
pany have declared the regular quarterly dividend
of Il. per the preferred stock.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN.-Gross earnings of
the Norfolk and Western in the last week in No
vember increased So. .937 compared with the
time a year ago. For the month the increase was
TO REDUCE AUSTRALIAN CABLE RATES.
Advices received by the Commercial Cable Com
pany say that IL is the intention of the Eastern
Telegraph Company to reduce rates to many points
in Australia and Africa after January l.
COFFEE EXCHANGE-F. II. Haserot Laurent
Oppenheim, Walter Lewisohn, Lion Gilbert, Eu-
gene L. Norton and L. c. Pressprich have been
elected members of the Coffee Exchange. The
calls in tea. introduced about year part
of the exchanges operations will be suspended
at the expiration of this year.