New-York tribune., 1902-03-21

common and preferred. Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Baltimore and Ohio common. Chicago terminal
Delaware and Hudson, Erie common hrst and sec
ord preferred, Louisville and Nashville. Manhat-
tan, Missouri Pacific. New-York Central. Peoples
Gas. Reading first preferred Republic steel COM
mon and preferred. Rock Island St. Paul southern
Railway preferred, Southern Pacific, Sugar. ZEN
nessee Coal and Iron. Union Pacific common ana
preferred. United States Steel common and pre-
ferred. United States Leather preferred Naoash
preferred Western Union AZ per cent; Metropoh-
tan Street Railway. American Ice common, J.
TWO HOLIDAYS.-Tne governing committee Of
the New-York Stock Exchange yesterday granted
the petition Of members to close the Exchange on
Good Friday and the day following, March y
and %
NEW CURB SECURITY-The curb market re-
ceived yesterday important addition TO its list
in the first mortgage per cent gold bonds or the
Cape Breton Railway Company Limited. There
were sales Of $4,000 at 1ol. The introduction OF
these bonds the curb ma attracted consider
able interest as the Cape Breton Railway is one
OF the roads controlled by the Dominion Securities
Company. and under the auspices Of the Webb and
Meyer combination.
UNITED STATES STEEL-Owirg to continued
scarcity of cars and locomotives, the output of
steel rails by the United States Steel Corporation
IS very much curtailed, the mills can neither
obtain supplies make shipments as East aS
desired. United States Steel officials that they
know nothing of the report from Reading, Penn,
ing renewed efforts to assimilate the American
Steel and Iron Company. The latter company as
at present constituted. organized two years
ago with capital of $2oooo.OG). 1t has five plants.
three at Lebanon and two in Reading, The con-
trolling interest is represented by j. H. Sternbergh,
Of this city.
TENNESSEE COAL AND IRON.-Iuterests
identified with the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com
pany say there IS ground for the rumors that
the concern IS TO he absorbed by United States
1frrs
It Is stated that there is no intention Of beginning
dividends the stock large amount Of money
must yet he expended TO bring the plants up the
efficiency contemplated by the management
ANOTHER STEEL CAR PLAINTIFFS Amer
lean Car and Foundry Company Will. The Rail
road Gazette" says, build new steel car plant at
Berwick Penn: to be duplicate of the plant re-
Gently built at Detroit which is PROBABLY the finest
steel car shop in the world The company expects
have in the shop a number Of improve
meuts which Will make il even superior 10 the one
at Detroit. The main ear erecting shop at the
new plant will he 73o feet long and ls5 feet wide
All machinery in the plant will be electrically
driven, and the best labor saving devices and
machinery will he used The American Bridge
Company has the contract for the buildings. and
Westinghouse Church. Kerr & Co.. are doing
the engineering Tho plant will have a capacity
OF ten TO twenty steel cars day.
WARASH-An officer Of the Wabash Railroad
states that orders we're placed in December and
January for rails for the Wabash Wheeling and
Lake Eric and Ptttsburs. Carnegie and Western.
agEregating about N75o ooo, the Piusburg line TO be
ao-pound and the balance So-pound rails. About
three hundred miles Of So-pound rail Will be laid
the Wabash main lines about two hundred
miles being laid west of ST. Louis the Omaha.
Kansas city and Des Moiucs lines Between 81.
Louis and Chicago enough viii be laid TO mn gaps
So that # will he all S)-pound rail between these
two points. Twenty-Five or thirty miles will also
be laid ON the main line east Of Chicago, ninety
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