New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-24
ITEMS OF WALL STREET
Business for foreign account yesterday
totalled about 10000 shares. evenly d.
vided between purchases and sales.
Dividends were declared as follows:

Dividends were declared as follows:
C B Newton Coal Company semi-annual
Of 80 per cent on first preferred. payable
November 10 stock Of record October "a.
Sycamore Manufacturing Company, Al
per cent, payable October 30. OF which per
cent is for regular quarterly and ~ per
cent is 20 make UP for smaller dividends
paid in 1911 and 1912. making the rate
Lackawanna steel Company regular quar-
terly OF 1A per cent on preferred. payable
December ] 20 stock Of record November 20:
Silversmith Company regular quarterly OF
/ !. per cent, payable November 10 to stock
OF record November =
Norfolk & Western. regular quarterly OF
| 4 per cent, payable December 10 TO stock
OF record November 30.
Commonwealth Edison stockholders Of rec
ord November Is may subscribe to the issue
OF 10 per cent Of the new stock at par in
payments Is per cent on December !, Febru-
airy !. May / and August l.
Monarch Knitting Mills. quarterly OF TX
per cent on preferred and liz per cent on
common PAYABLE November !.
National Screw and Tack Company. per
cent or common. payable November ! TO
stock Of record october IS.
Proctor & Gamble. quarterly Of per cent.
payable November 10 TO stock Of record
October 81.
Mccall Corporation, per cent on com
mon. payable November / 10 stock OF record
seaboard Air Line Railway Company. mi
vember II 10 stock OF record November 8.
Pouch & Co. have prepared an illus
trated booklet on THE Age Of Oil" which
they are distributing to those interested
in Standard OIL subsidiaries.
Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation. who ar
rived from Europe Wednesday, left yes
terday on his private car for Chicago,
where he will be one of the speakers at
the annual meeting OF the American Iron
and Steel Institute.
j. P, Morgan & Co. have sold 5000 900
South e. North Alabama consolidated
ncrtgage per cent bonds. due 1886, guar
anteed as to principal and interest by the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, to syn
dictate composed Of Kissel, Kinnicutt
Co, White, Weld & Co. and Blodget & Co.
The Ontario Power Company, OF NIAGARA
Falls has applied TO the New York Stock
Exchange to list an additional tl,203,0o0
first mortgage per cent i0-year bonds,
due 1913.
Alexander Hilton, general passenger
agent of the St Louis & San Francisco
Railroad Company. has been promoted TO
passenger traffic manager.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
reports gross earnings for September OF
s3,5S5,997, as compared with s3,S56,04 for
September last year. while net earnings
after taxes were sl,07S,55l, as against
$l,S59,672 For the three months ended with
September gross earnings were SO 705,99i.
as against sll.3s9.51 for the same three
months last year. and net earnings were
8. 235. 351, as compared with 13Sl.053 last
year.
The report of the Adams Express Com
pany for the year ended June 80. 1913, as
filed with the Massachusetts, Public Ser
vice Commission showed a balance. after
all charges. of sl,O05.4s. and deficit,
after the payment Of dividends, Of t2Oi59S.
compared with surplus at the close OF
the previous year amounting TO s6sLSs.
The protective committee for the first
mortgage bondholders or the New VI
leans. Texas & Mexico Railroad has with
drawn it's objection TO the proposed issu-
ance of 100000 ST. Louis & San Fran
cisco receivers certificates, Of which
5000, 900 are TO be issued Immediately.
The Public Service Commission OF the
Second District Of this state has granted
permission to the Erie Railroad 70 issue
equipment bonds in four series, amount
ing to $4,000.
The new head of the Sub-Treasury'
Martin Vogel. will enter on his duties
next Friday In the mean time pre-
liminary count of the sl75,0D,O cash
stored there will be made by the local
force. as is customary when new assist
ant treasurer assumes office.
According to compilations made by The
Journal Of Commerce. disbursements or
interest and dividends to investors in NO
vember will amount to 1913, 1868, an IN
crease OF n,8ll,l3S over November, 1872.