New-York tribune., 1910-12-21
TOPICS OF THE STREET

| FOREIGN TRADING.-Foreign houses
were not active in the local stock market.
dealing in less than 2,eoo shares on both
sides of the account.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED. Dividends
have been declared as follows. The East
| Pennsylvania Railroad regular serni-anual
; per cent on the common. payable January
| II. The United Merchants Realty and I'M
provement regular quarterly 5 per cent on
| the common, payable December 81. Inc
Mines Company of America quarterly ~
per cent, payable January "a The Dolores
Company Az per cent. payable January "a
The Ell Rayo Company Fls per cent. pay
able January "A. The Kansas City South
ern regular quarterly L per cent on the
preferred The National Bank of Com
| merce regular quarterly per cent. payable
January g. The United States Smelling.
Refining and Mining Company regular quar-
| terly per cent on the common and regu-
lar quarterly 1s4 per cent on the preferred
| both payable January 10. The Empire Trust
Company regular quarterly ~ per cent,
PAYABLE December IS The Sen Sen Chiclet
| Company regular monthly / per cent, pay
able December 81. The American Telephone
| and Telegraph Company regular quarterly
! 2 per cent payable January Is Corn Prod
| ucts Refining Company regular quarterly
per cent on the preferred
| POSITION OF SHORT INTEREST -
| Brokers in the loan crowd devoting them
selves almost entirely TO the loaning OF
stocks for various houses state that there
! have been steady returns Of borrowed stock
for over a week, reducing the outstanding
| short account materially. especially that
| portion of il that represents the active trad
| ing interest There is still a good demand
| for Union Pacific and Reading, and there
may be a large short account that has been
standing for some time and IS not reflected
| in the day to day borrowings on the eX-
| change.
LEHIGH VALLEY.-The executive COM
| nlittee of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com
pany held a protracted meeting yesterday
without announcing at the close whether or
not a decision had been reached as to the
RI j.rSd6 WlfCn
at the meeting OF the directors IN Phlta-
| deIphia to-day. It was rumored in the
Street that strong differences of opinion
had developed at the meeting OF the eXecu-
! tive committee and that the prospect OF an
| increased rate or an extra dlstrloution was
not so well defined as reported Few days
ago.
SULZBERGER & SONS STOCK ISSUE,
| A public offering is made by Ha!lsarten d
| Co, No. Nassau street, and William Saioo 10
| mon & Co, No. . Broad street of 3,aetdo0
| z per cent cumulative preferred stock OF
| Sulzberger & Sons Company, the successor
| by merger to Schwarzschfld & Suizberger
| Company. The subscription price Is 99l2 per
cent and accrued dividends, but a very
| large amount of the issue has already oeen
placed here and in Europe. S1InuitansousS s
| issue will be made by Adnlph Boissevafn 4
CO.. of Amsterdam, Holland The subscTlp-
| ton here Will be closed at p m next FRI
day or earlier at the option of the bankers
The COMPANY, whose business was estab-
| Iished in 1853 is now one of the four largest
packing companies in the United States
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JER-
SEY-The directors of the Central Railroad
Of New Jersey have declared the regular
quarterly dividend of per cent and an
extra per cent, the latter payable out OF
the earnings of the Lehlgh and WI!keS-BaIte Re
| Coal COMPANY. The regular dividend is
pavabIe on February and the extra on
December 3 Howard "; Maxwell ha 5
been elected a director of the company, 10
| succeed his father the late J. Rogers Max
well.
| AMERICAN CEMENT PASSES DIEI-
| pEND The directors Of the American Gem,
! ert Company have passed the sernl-annuai
| 5iz-idend IN July a dividend OF I per cent
was declared and in 1903 there were two
| senlt-annuaI dividends Of per cent Ad-
verse conditions IN the cement industry
| are given as the reason for the action OF
! the directors IN placing the stock IN the
non dividend paying class.
| ADMITTED TO THE LIST-The-N Niagara
Falls Fouer Company, 500 csplral
stock has been admitted to the STOCK *
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