Evening star., 1915-06-14
FAIR AGGREGATE TRADE
IN LOCAL SECURITIES
Business in Stocks Was Chiefly of
tie 0dd-Lot Variety-Bonds
Steady.
Washington Gas and Capital Trac-
ton Shares Lower-Virginia Bank
ers' Convention This Week.
BY I. A. FLEMING.

In the aggregate there was a falr
amount of activity Oh the local stock
exchange today. but witHout special ac-
tivity in anything. odd lot buying was
a feature. and in this respect Washing
ton Gas was the leader. quite a num-
Der of sales being made at .S to '2i2.
with 12as bid at the close.
Capital Traction was another stock in
which odd lots traded in, sales
being made at SS24. That price was
the best bid for quotation lots, which
were offered at SO. slightly under the
closing days OF last week. Po:ofa .
preferred was quiet at 81, The COM
mon was nominal at sli2 bid. s2ie
asked
Bonds were more active than on the
closing days of last week Potomac
consolidated IS leading, with se.ono.
par value. sold at 10l. Riggs tteait.
IS. long maturity. sold at 10l L. ana
Railway Is at s2ls, with a five-hun-
dred-dolar bond at sc.
Dividend Declared.
The Home Savings Bank will pay the
usual semi-annual dividend of per
cent to shareholders of record June SO.
checks going out that evening.
Virginia Convention.
The Virginia Bankers Association
Will hold its annual convention al Old
Poin, Comfort the last three days OF
this week. This gathering always
draws very large attendance of local
bankers. and it is expected that there
will be an exodus Wednesday evening.
the more SO as Weekend, combining
business and pleasure with comfort,
Will in no way interfere with duties
at this end OF the line.
Among local bankers who are ex-
pected to attend the convention are
George w. White of the National Met
ropoltan Bank: c. W Warden of the
Continental Trust COMPANY w T,
John Poole of the Federal National.
A. g. Clapham of the Commercial, r.
y. Harper of the District National and
Cuno II. Rudolph of the Second Ma
tional Bank.
Financial Notes.
Total gold imports for the year to
date are s96,345.0oO. outlook for the
year promises a total of S200,000,00O.
Third avenue line of New York city
reported surplus after charges for
ten months of the fiscal year ended
April 80 of s53o,s77, equal to 80 per
cent on its stock. On the same basis
maintained through the months of May
and June the line will be able to make
> per cent. Chances for dividends are
not favorable, as the president is of the
opinion that every dollar earned ought
TO go back into the line.
The Bethlehem Steel Company is
erecting new building for the manu-
facture Of shrapnel shells, to be COM
pleted in forty days.
In the Chicago district los member
banks joined the intradistrict check
collection plan.
Money in London is easy at l. to l y
per cent.
Decreases in operating income for
the ten months of the fiscal year ended
with April 80. reported to the in
terstate commerce commission, as
compared with the same months for
the previous fiscal year were as fol-
lows: Norfolk and Western, $293,O06;
Louisville and Nashville. $2.502,154;
Chicago Great Western. $151,406: Bur
lington. s466.1SS. Philadelphia and
Reading. S1.041 .4s3: Atlantic Coast
Line, s1.ss7,.es: Kansas City Southern.
$a52.s71; Big Four" s4,1ss,000. In
creases were reported by Missouri,
Kansas and Texas. s1.s4S.13S. and s73,-
S13 by the Nickel Plate