New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-02-09
TOPICS OF THE STREET.

FOREIGN TRADING. Transactions Tor
! foreign account in this market as6I'7"'0'
about 700 shares. all purchases
DIVIDENDS DECLARED. 80 DIVIDENDS
have been declared as follow: SoutheI.
Pacific Company, regular quarterly IL per
cent, payable April !; Brooklyn RapII
Transit Company. regular quarterly "a per
cent payable April /: =. Lorillard Com
pany a dividend of 184 per cent on the pre-
ferred payable April /; Butterick Company,
regular quarterly - per cent, paEaple
March l.; Federal Utilities. regular quarter.
" IL per cent on the preferred, payaple
March J.; May Department Stores. regular
quarterly | per cent on the common, paya-
bic March |. and Philadelphia Electro
/ Company, regular quarterly l'a per cent
payable March 10.
NORTHWESTERN BONDS ALL SOLD.
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. announce that the Sla.-
OO0,C00 Milwaukee. Sparta d Northwestern
Railway Company first mortgage ! per
cent gold bonds. guaranteed by inc IN
| Cago d Northwestern Railway Company
purchased by them on Wednesday, have
! all been sold.
UNION PACIFIC DIVIDENDS: - The
! Union Pacific Railroad. Company mas he.
clared the regular semi annual per cent
dividend on the preferred stock ana inc
regular quarterly 2lz per cent on the COM
mon both payable April !. The company
announces that all orders for mailing CiNl-
dend checks were destroyed in the Equita-
! bile building fire. but that all of the stock
transfer books were saved. STOCKHOLDERS
are requested to apply to the treasurer 70, Ei
! the company. No. 165 Broadway. for blank
order forms as promptly as possible.
| Checks for these dividends Will not be
mailed without proper written instructions
! By letter or on the company's forms
! GOLD FOR SAN FRANCISCO.-Ih he sub
| Treasury has transferred for local bankers
! 81. 900 900 10 San Francisco. making the toJal
| amount transferred this week Sl,3DVVo. The
! shipments are for account of the redemp-
, ton of certain bonds called for payment
/ February Q.
! BANKERS BUY OMAHA RAILWAY
/ BONDS.-The Chicago St PAU, Minneap )IrI
! lis q, Omaha Railway Company mas sold
/ 100000 debenturc > per cent gohdS ~
| Kuhn. Loeb u 60. The bonds. which will
I he dated March and will mature IN 1870;
/ have been issued to pay for additions and
betterments already made and TO be MADE
and for additional equipment
! AMERICAN STEEL FOUNDRIES.-R.
p Lamont, formerly viCe-presldent or the
! American Steel FOundries, has been elected
| president, succeeding william '. Kelley
who has become chairman or tho DoarG;
/ The annual report. soon 10 be Issued VIII
cover a period Of seventeen months. owing
! 10 the change in the close OF the nscaI
year from July 81 a. December 81.
/ TORONTO RAILWAYS COMPANY. -
! Gross earnings of the Toronto Railways
| Company for the year ended December -
last were $.Sjl,54l, an increase OF $40 10
and net earnings S2l9S.l7s. an Increase or
SIS. 80. After deducting $l,0-o.'8I Tor inter
/ est taxes and other charges and on.l55 Tor
3 dividends the surplus for the year was
sos 90 "A decrease Of SlH,9& the dlyl-
bends paid were Slll,l59 larger than Tor the
/ preceding year.
! SAFE COMPANY'S s T PC IN
! CREASED. Stockholders Of the Herring
| Hall. Marvin safe Company have author
! ICED the increase Of the capital stock from
/ 500 on to 81 iOOC o".