New-York tribune., 1910-02-20
TOPICS OF THE STREET.

NATIONAL STARCH BONDS. = An
nouncement is made by Speyer q 20. thdL
over 800 of the outstanding 1,oYo S..rpcb Pc
Company and per cent bonds OF the Na-
tionaI Starch Manufacturing Company MAJ MAJ
so far been deposited under the p[oteo'tCe tos
morrow. The first call for deposit OF the
bonds was made on December = ana tr1e
There are still out about 80 out of 512 of
the per cent bonds. and about 2S out OF
3,544 of the debentures. and, as ~ Is |ne
wish of the Corn Products company 70
make a clean sweep of the matter, II Is
likely that Speyer & Co. will continue 10
receive the bonds and pay me pas. r-aI,' oae
colIpons and interest even after tomorrow
No time has been set yet when the pond
holders committee will convene
ERIES IMPROVEMENT; = AlthousEh
Wegtern railroads and several of the trunk
lines report slow movement of freight and
a heavy falling OFF in the number of cars
moved resulting in blockades ana congeS-
comes out with wonderfully good report
of operating efficiency. The Erie ngureS
give a total of 5s7.S44 loaded and efnpt!
cars handled over the several divisions IA
the month. an increase of 12.224. OF wnlcn
70 $40 were loaded cars the cars loadeo a.
stations and received s i9aded % II9 for
such unusual efficiency Is found m tne
superior condition at the present tune OF
me me f1II,est Extent of facilities which have
always been regarded as insufficient
MOVEMENT OF COTToN.-The total
port receipts of cotton. as reported py LIE ne
Financial Chronicle" follow: For the week
ended February g the total receipts were
10i. SAG bales, against ISIS bales in the pre-
ceding week making ,o5a 6ae 'S1ss KS 2n 6aes
against 7,911. .63S bales for the same perlod
OF 1905 90 showing decrease Slnce So
tember / 1863 of 1,952.S41 bales Dispalche
from the South indicate that vet weather
has been detrimental to crop preparatlonIs-
Rain has fallen in most districts, Win I1 tIIe
nreciniration light in Texas. but above nor
nal IN portions of the Atlantic and eastern
C,r1if states Snow has fallen IN some 10
calities.
BANK CLEARINGS.-The total bank
eesEng5 agded 50F FebPaary 5Ps IL 1910 one day
TnatedI according TO The Financial Chron-
ce were s3.5l54S 478 % as @ az against IN t sI he
corresponding week of last year Compared
with last year, the total bank clearIngs
have increased a. as per CEN 81 q per cent.
Philadelphia of 2e.s per cent ana CLlCdso ~ oI
1s7 per cent while Baltimore SHOWS de-
crease of g per cent
HUNGARIAN AMERICAN BANk,a A;Sttos
William E. Holloway has been elected
president of the Hungarian American
Bank to succeed E a; dc e Ina I'm Ranr0 Moo
Way;csno de Comercio e Industria. OF
MEXICO City. Mr.. Holloway comes from
NJ the Montgomery Bank and Trust Com
pany-
APPLICATION TO LIST-Applcation
has been made TO the Stock Exchange to
list s. OOOO additional capital stock of the
Mechanics and Metals National Bank ana
& O0OOO0 additional capital stock of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
BUFFALO & SUSQUEHANNA-One
hundred shares of Buffalo & Susquehanna
Railroad preferred stock were sold yester-
dav at So decline of ~ points from the
last preceding sale, which was made last
April This is one OF the properties IN
which Fisk & Robinson, who recently
failed were interested.
BANK AND TRUST COMPANY FIG
URES-Ackermann * Coles. of No 20
BROAD street have issued a valuable pam
Dhlet giving statistics of Manhattan and
brooklyn banks AID trust companies for
the last year.