The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-15
New York Letter.

Securities Company Buys Charter
NEW YORK, Feb. Alt was reported
in Wall street yesterday that the New
York, WestcheSter and Connecticut Trac-
ton company, has sold it's charter tc
the new Manhattan Securities company
which is to take. over the Metropolitan
Street Railway under lease.
In order to comply with the law, II
will be necessary for the new company
to acquire an independent railroad line
within the city of New York. The New
York, Westchester and Connecticut
Traction company, which has a very
comprehensive charter, obtained by well
known politicians from Republican
legislature, offered the solution of the
difficulty 1t is said that the charter
has been acquired very cheaply.
The capital stock of the New York
Westchester and Connecticut Traction
company is now $6OO,OOO The plan is
said to be to increase this capital to
$20,00O,0OO and allow the Metropolitan
stockholders to subscribe on basis of
40 per cent of their present holdings
The plan is, however to call Is per cent
as liquidated damages
Columbia Students Explain
Columbia students, wrathful at the at
utude of the university faculty in con-
ttnuing to permit the Barnard girls to
use the swimming pool, and angered by
the published interviews with it's mem
bers, in which Columbia has been
called cO-educationaI have looked into
the matter and yesterday published
their definite stand in the case. They
claim that the attitude of the trustees
and of those in authority is against CO.
education in any form, and that they
intend to keep women from the courses
Tor men as soon as this can possibly be
accomplished.
Catholics to Dine With Prince
Archbishop C6rrigan has accepted an
invitation to attend the dinner to be CIV
en- by the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung to
the American press in honor of Prince
Henry of Prussia, and as the dinner will
take place on the evening of Feb &c, a
Lenten fast day, the archbishop at the
solicitation of Herman Rfdder, has
granted a special dispensation to Roman
catholics who may attend the dinner.
They may eat either fish or meat aft +his
dinner but not both
Without this dispensation. Catholics
present at the dinner would have to
either violate one of the strict Lenten
rules of the church, or dispense with the
meat courses served, and Mr.. Riddnr
characterized the archbishop's action as
very graceful, although unusual. The
archbishop will sit at the guests table
MIR. Rider said that Bishop Potter. who
has also been invited, will be asked to
say grace With regard to the fact that
1'lO0 acceptances to the dinner had been
received, and that the ballroom of the
Waldorf-Astoria will accommodate about
sou guests Mr.. Ridder said that the over
flow would be cared for in the Aston gal
lery of the hotel
Foreign Steamship Rates
Albert Balm, director general, and Gus
tav T1etgens, president of the Hamburg
American Steamship line, and DR.. 81.
W1egand, director general, and George
Plate, president of the North German
Lloyd line, have arrived here from
Bremen. The coming of these men, who
are the most prominent Of all German
steamship men, is for the purpose of
consulting with the steamship people of
this country identified with the transat-
Iantlc trade, in order to, # possible ar
rive at an agreement in respect to freight
rates similar to that arrived at recently
by the representatives of the American
and British lines
War on Richard CrOcker-
The Tammany hall organization of the
Twenty seventh assembly district in mass