New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-09
ITEMS OF WALL STREET

There was practically no business cor
| foSeign account Yesterday. This was
/ PATTY due TO the fact that the British
1 land lines connecting with the cables
were working badly making quick COM
municstion with London impossible.
Dividends have been declared as rol-
! lows:
american cisar COMPANY resusr ouas-
; tprlr .! / y p"r cent on the common stock
Isble February to stock OF record Jan
/ BROOKLYN CITY Railroad. regular quarterly
| Giv!uend Of pc' cent, payable lanusrt 10
! to stock Of icco:d January T. Books close
/ January :. reopen January III.
'Inion Railways Gas and Electric Com
/ pary initial Of Der cent on it, common
stock. payable April 20 stock Of record
/ Raiiusy ar5 Light Securities Company.
| s,mi-annuel Of " per con; on the common
: stock. an increase Of y 81 ! nof cent and
I the regular scmi-onnual dividend OF per
I cent ~ it's preferred. both pa ysbie February
/ ! &c stock o. record Ienuary ~.
J. g. White & co. I"gulsr quarterly Of
/ February l 30 stock Of record January -.
Iuiius EaNser & Co.. regular quarterly Of
! -. per cent on he first preferred and sec,
ord pr. ferrco stocks payable February
+, to stock Of ircord January 20
The s. 6. krtssc Company. operating
! chain Of five ana ten cent stores. reports
sales for the year ended December 81 ~
SO go 567 compared with s1,92SoA in 1911,
/ an increase of s2,i01, 5O5, or S0.32 per cent.
Directors Of tho Baltimore g. Ohio meet
to-day to authorize the sale of ~ g'r
cent convertible bonds, agsregatins be-
, tween 100000 and 100000, TO SpeNer
! I 90. ana Kuhn. Loeb & Co
/ The Rock Island Railroad has placed
an order with the Standard steel oar
Company for 900 aoudoia cars. The Nor
! folk & Wcstern Railroad is making n
lures for 100 hoppers
/ Directors Of inc Third Avenue Railway
! have declared AZ interest payment OF
/ IL per cent on The 81, So 90 Per cent
/ adjustment honda. payable April Z. This
disbursement will he the first made on
these bonds ana will he paid from earn
inss for tho year ended December 81. :ht
/ first year o. operation Of the reorganizcd
| company.
! n A circular sent 10 stockholders rc-
CardrS subscription TO tho new tl2o1o,r0
'
Western Railroad Company SAYS: In
+ COY nection with tho subscription il mus;
be roted that there are no rights. When
the stakeholder receives IN" receipt FOR HE
| subscription that receipt will bear s
/ per cent interest and will be negotiable.
/ The receipt will cover - per cent Of thr
( total subscription. II j. not expected
that The new stock will no issued Before
the close Of the present year.
Tho IIunkin-Coukiu Construction Com
pany has obtained the contract for the
! erection Of now forty-acre steel plant
! TO- The Corrran-McKinney Company. AZ
| Cleveland II + planned that the plant
will - completed h. 1915
Regarding the Denver. Northwestern
| & racinc Railway. which is TO become
| the Denver e. Salt Lake Railroad. New
man Erb SAYS that its reorganization has
| proceeded go FAR as 20 warrant the pre-
dict!on OF foreclosure sale within sixty
days.
The annual meeting Of the Detroit Ed
ison Company viii he held on February
2. Books close January D and reopen
on February 1.
I.azsrd Freres have engaged 5000 80 In
gold bars for shipment 20 Europe to-day.
including the $4,000 bars Professionally
, enga ged Tuesday. II is said that the
metal will be shipped by La SsvOio for
Havre. presumably consigned 10 Paris.
I Al the annual melting Of the Equitable
Safe Deposit Company q. Y. Drew was
/ elected secretary 20 succeed Il. l.. He
rlsse. The Office OF assistant manager was
. created. and w ". Gibson was elected
( TO II. r. r. Hunter was elected 10 the
I directorate to succeed MI Drew
! The gross earnings Of the New lOr't.
Ontario & Western Railway for Novcm-
; Der were yl5.lE, an ipcrease OF S2.5'3.
/ The months surplus was AZ, an in
crease OF ,.2ps The Ave months sur
. plus was ,Ssoi2. a gain Of S259.93t
| As predicted In the Tribune several
weeks ago the Tooacco Products Cor
! pora ton has acquired the Booker Tobacco
! Company OF Virginia. This IL the only
I concern taken over by the Tobacco Prod
/ ucts Corporation which does not manu-
| facture cigarettes About $4,000 is un-
/ dersiood 20 have been involved in the
/ deal.
| Nothing could be learned ia well In
! formed quarters concerning the repor.
| that some New York interests have been
: working on plan 10 consolidate several
! large Canadian iron and steel companies
and a number Of United States concerns.
! The report was that the capital Of the
rev, company would be $1,000.
MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS.
| ,r-,,rnt.h.d hv Frederic H. Hatch ( Co. Sew