Weekly journal-miner., 1916-05-31
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 CLOSELY ALLIED.
 NEW YORK, May 27.-The final statement of the affairs of the Gug- genheim Exploration Company has been issued by its president, showing the manner in which the company has been dissolved Mir. Daniel Guggen- helm. president of the company. says the total amount stockholders paid for their shares was S27,650,000. For this the total received by them was S24152,o36, to which must be added S73,OlS.24S distributed in liquidation, or total of So7.171,lS4. Another in stance of big profits and prosperity has been announced in the cutting oi a melon" by the Central Trust Com pany. This will be S2,000,OOO, equal to S66.66 a share to the owners of its bank securities. The Central will en- large the capitalization to correspond with the large business done, and the stock will be increased from three million to five million dollars. The institution has about S20.0G0000 in surplus and undivided profits. A 5o per cent dividend was paid last year.
 For many months there has been T persistent rumor that a merger or combine was being effected i1 the moving picture business. It now ap- pears that there have recently been large sales of stock in The Vitagraph Company of America, to tobacco and traction interests. Comprehensive plans are said to have been made by some of the film stock corporations for the amalgamation of thousands oi moving picture houses throughout the United States with the United Cigar Stores and the Rikcr & Hegeman drug stores. In the belief that drugs movies and tobacco are demanded by the same people. plans are being made so that on either side of each theatre entrance there will be a to bacco stand, drug store and soda fountain. Such independent com panies as can be acquired. will be picked up and attached to the new merger.
 The American Federation of Labor has evidently popularized its method of procedure, since the manniactur- ing interests of the country. who have been holding their convention in New York during the past week. have an nounccd that they propose to form a union in order than all business in tercsts may unite through a repre- sentative central organization - the same way as the laboring men have done. Manufacturers feel that there are so many different interests and branches in commercial and industri al organizations that arc working i'' conflicting ways, that there must be a central organization. As furthei evidence of the superior methods o' the Federation of Labor. it has been broadly published that the Authors League of America will become d union and may affiliate with the Amer ican Federation. The great American Authors are not contemplating d strike. but they have important inter ests that should be protected. and among these are the infringement upon their rights by the moving pic ture concerns.
 New York publishers are materially changing the style Of their rcwspa. pers. and there is material decrease
 in the number of illustrations that are being used. Feature stories and spe- cial articles have never been so little in demand in New York as at the present time Unquestionably some of the papers have been seriously ali fcctcd through the shortage in pape- stock. and as a result the return oi unsold copies and the curtailment of extras has been one of the ways in which economy has been put into practice. The conditions that have affected the small publishers through out the country have hit New York hard.
 That New York City is a decidedly healthy place in which 10 live, is shown by an official statement made by the department of health last week. Only 1880 deaths were reported 1T the city. as compared with 1909 dur ing the corresponding week of 1915. The death rate this year is l4Il per cent for each thousand of population, which so far for 1916. is 24 per cent point lower than for the correspond ing period of last year. The princi- pal maladies and diseases that have caused serious sickness and death this year are diphtheria, whoopi1g cough and Bright's disease. Within the last year there has been a marked falling in the number of cases oi measles, scarlet fever. typhoid fever, cancer, influenza and affiictions oi the nervous system.