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New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Regular Declarations

Canada Foundrics & Forgings Companv.-
Quarterly dividends of per cent on tho
common and 1at per cent on the preferred
stock. both payable May Is to Stockholders of
record April 30.
Hood Rubber Company.-Quarterly div-
dend of y per cent on the preferred stock,
payable May L to stockholders of record
April 90.
Iron Cap Copper Company-Dividend of ,.
cents per share on the common stock. paw
90. Hpiii
Kelsey Wheel Company.-Quarterlv d;v;.
dend of $!.75 per share on the preferred
stock. payable May 1 to stockholders of rec.
ord April 20.
Kellogg Switchboard Company.-Quarterly
DIVIDEND OF per cent. payable April 30 to
stockholders of record April 25
National Carbon Company Inc.-ouarter,v
dividends OF per cent on the preferred stock
ana ~ per share on the common stock both
payable May l to stockholders of record
April 90. e''"
Portland Gas & Coke Company.-Quarterly
dlvidend OF ~ per cent on the preferred
STOCK payable May l to stockholders of rec
ord April %.
Pyrene Manufacturing Company.-Quarter
ly dividend Of ~ per cent on the common
stock. payable May 1 to stockholders of rec
ord April 22.
Pacific Mail Steamship Compnny.-Quarter.
Iy dividend OF IA per cent the preferred
stock. payable June l to stockholders of rec-
ord May II. "
B: F: Goodrich Company.--Quarterly divi-
dend or ? per share on the common stock
payable August Is to stockholders of record
August .. "
Reading Company.-Quarterly dividend of
per cent on the first preferred stock. nav
able June Is to stockholders of record May
Cities Service Company.-Rcxular monthly
dividends of u of l per cent on the pre.
ferred and cash dividend Of X of 1 per cent
in cnsh and of / per cent in stock on the
common stock. 'S
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Other Cities

Confer on Leather Prices.-WA ASn'
INGTON, April 1.-THE War Indus
tries Board to-day announced that rep,
resentatives of packers, country moe
dealers and tanners in conference heIs
have named an advisory committee !"
determine for the government the re's,
tive value of the various grades ~
hides and skins. Van A. Wallin, pfes.'
dent of the Tanners Council, was eieS. 81.
ed chairman The report made Dy .ns
committee, it is understood, Will lo,m n'
basis on which the price-fixing com,
mittee of the War Industries bosir
may determine the price OF iea'hs'
products to the consumer.
Certificates To Be EXCHANGES
WASHINGTON, April IT, baass s.;ss
which wish to buy treasury cels" "s
Gates of the $500.000.00o current lssai' .,;tS
dated April %, may pay for them .sa.t MY
certificates of the $40o,O00,OOo o'Sss Sss
due on that date. the Treasury .h;s lis
announced. To the extent tina. iii iii
transaction is made the old issue .hs
be refunded. The current issue 10 w.
last which will be offered in prepTTss Tss
tion for the third Liberty Loan, ..ast s
certificates bear Az per cent lnteisrd and
the same as other recent issues
are PAYABLE july 49,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
New Haven r. r. Nav
Resume Dividends
Possibility Of Payment Is Dis
cussed at Annual
Meeting

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, April IT,
There was a new angle OF interest
for the stockholders Of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com
pany who met here In annual session
to-day. Financial troubles did not loom
SO big, the Federal government having
taken over the property and assumed
the $4,000. 900 Of floating indebtedness
which had been represented by short
term notes.
The meeting had before it the prop
ositions to issue $1e.758, 900 in debent-
ures to refund or repay certain indebt-
edness; to authorize the raising Of
funds for extensions. betterments and
equipment, and to ratify an agreement
with the United States government re-
garding compensation for use and oper-
alton Of the company's property.
Eli Whitney, of New Haven, retired
from the directorate. All the other
directors were reelected. Walter B.
Lashar, of Bridgeport, filled Mr.. Whit
ney's vacancy.
All items Of business were approved
BY stock vote. Clarence H. Venner, Of
VIM h0uC AoIMdI pEOtcSt against
the issuance Of debentures to be ex-
changed for Providence Security Com
pany debentures. This brought from
President Buckland, upon request,
an explanation of the financing Of the
purchase by the New Haven road of
the Rhode Island trolleys.
Buckland explained the governments
operation of the property by agree
ment. He said that the basis Of re-
endorsement first established the net
operating revenues at $21, SOC, 900. Out
OF this the company must pay S1S,OOO,-
700 Tor rentals of leased lines and in
terest on indebtedness, leaving about
$3,O00,000 available for dividends. to
which will be added the benefit of l
per cent, saved in interest in the re-
financing OF $43 900 900 by the govern
ment. The law. however, gives the
President power to compel the putting
back into the road for bettern1ent Of
all kinds portion Of the whole Of the
net revenues available for dividends.
Stockholders asked what the dividend
would amount to and Mr.. Buckland
thought it might be l per cent. The
matter Of dividend rested with tho
President and would be determined bv
the amount Of net surplus made avail
able. While on the face of things the
amount available might appear to be
as high as 3A per cent, there was no
certainty that the dividend would be
that.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Paper Production
Declined in March

WASHINGTON, April 17.-Prodmc-
ton of print paper declined in the four
weeks ended March 81. as shown in
statistics made public to-day by the
Federal Trade Commission. Shipments
continued to exceed production and
mill stocks showed decrease of more
than 1000 tons.
From January l to March 81. the to-
tai print paper output was POI, ,746
tons, of which 6,O70 tons were STAN
dard news. The production for the
corresponding period of 1917, was 327,-
037, and 301,707 tons, respectively
Loss of production in March was at
tributed largely to lack of fuel, and to
the fact that power at Niagara Falls
was diverted for war purposes. One
mill in Maine was unable to obtain
fuel oil
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

The above rates express the cost of
foreign money in terms of the Ameri-
can dollar You buy an English pound
sterling at, say, s4.75as. The intrinsic
parity is $4:S69s per pound. Thus you
say either that pounds are at discount
or that dollars are at premium, which
is owing to the fact that in England
the demand for dollars with which to
settle accounts in this country is greater
than the demand in this country for
pounds with which to settle accounts in
England.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Spain's Foreign Trade

The value Of Spain's total imports
during 1917 was $239,110,O9S, COM
pared with $230,664,231 in 1916. Inn
ports of gold bullion and coin amount
ed to S106,339,37S, compared with $685.
silver bullion and coin, the imports de-
creased from $164,424.496 in 1916 to
1892, ,4S8.o32 in 1917. The falling off
was greatest in the value of raw mate
rials, followed by alimentary products
and manufactured articles, while the
value of live animals imported in
creased
The value of all exports>from Spain
amounted in 1917 to 1924, ,O52.
against s249.0os,o91 in 1915, the heav-
lest II decrease being in the export of
factured articles and raw materials.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Larger "Mob" Earnings

A report issued yesterday giving the
results of the operations of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad since it was
taken out of receivership showed total
operating revenues for the seven
months from June to December, 1917.
Of s47,193,4O9. Operating income
amounted to $l2,710,2Sl. which was in
creased to $13,612,b22 by the addition
of other income. The balance after in
terest charges was $6,994,341, which,
after allowing for dividend require
mcnts on the 6 per cent preferred
stock, was equal to $5.46 share on the
$S2,839, 800 common stock, or at the an
nual rate of $0.36 share.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Silver Bill Delayed

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE ad-
ninistration silver bill, designed to
stabilize prices and to stimulate pro-
duction of silver by melting up $780,
100000 of silver dollars in the Treasury
and purchase of new silver at 81 an
ounce was reported to the Senate by
Chairman Owen of the Senate Bank
ing Committee He asked its immedi-
ate consideration as emergency legis-
lation, but Senator Gallinger. minority
leader, objected and the bill went over
until tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Relevant Comment
Another Excuse for "Strafing''

Cotton market observers are begin
ming to wonder why, in view of the un-
precedented collapse in prices in recent
days, Southern representatives in Con-
gress have not resorted to the old and
ancient sport of "strafng" the New
York Cotton Exchange. 1t was recalled
in the Street yesterday that there has
hardly ever been time when cotton
prices were tumbling that some one
with a direct interest in maintaining
the market value of cotton did not
blame the collapse on New York specu-
latOrS
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
New Moroccan Notes

In order to facilitate small payment mt
new issue of banknotes has pee" hsy
into circulation in Spanish Morocco ,hoat h
ing value of 20 pesetas eacn, ,ss IN.
$3.50. This paper money bears csansnish 20.
scription Of its value IN the and
and French languages on one SioIh Ihs;nr
in Arabic on the other. the plll I'll nil
about the size of the 100-pcse1
current in the Peninsula.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
New York

To Draw on Cuban Sugar POol.-lne
nationwide syndicate which particl-
patcd in the s10O,oO0,0Oo revolving
fund to finance the l917-1S Cuban
sugar crop, it was stated yesterday,
will be asked to advance Sl0,OOO,o.Ou
within the next few days. 1t is 6eo pc,
licvcd that not more than s50,Ooo,ooV
will be required altogether by the
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
News Digest
Foreign

London Market Tame.-LOND0N.
April 1.-THE stock market to-day
opened tamely, aside from the strength
shown by the gilt-edged issues. Field
Marshal Haig's communique, however,
had stimulating effect, although the
man-power measures exercised a re-
straining influence. Spanish bonds
slumped five points. There was
further improvement in exchange.
United Havanas were weak through
fears Of a scrip payment of the divi'
dend
Paris Bourse.-PARIS, April H.
Trading was quiet on the Bourse to-
day. Three per cent rentes, SO francs
25 centimes for cash. Exchange on
London, 81 francs 1615 centimes. Five
per cent loan, So francs 55 centimes
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Chinese Bankers Organize

An association has lately been
formed by twelve of the native banks
In Shanghai. which conduct their bust
ness more or less along modern lines.
Representatives. meet daily at noon at
one Of the banks interested. The as
scciati0n has purchased property and
expects 10 erect building.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
Pursuant to a resolution Of the Board Of
Directors of The United States Playing
Card Company of New York. adopted at a
day of March, 1918. a meeting OF the
stockholders of said Company will be held
at the Office Of the Company. No 432
Fourth Avenue. Borough of Manhattan,
city OF New York. the o5th day of
April. 1918, at 2 P. NJ. for the purpose Of
voting upon a proposition that such cor
poration be forthwith dissolved.
ARTHUR r. MORGAN, Secretary
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Montreal Notes Taken

The Bank of Montreal has announced
that the public issue of $6,900,O00 City
of Montreal fve-year 6 per cent gold
bonds has been fully subscribed and the
lists closed
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
The Dollar in Foreign Exchange

Slight advances were registered in
Scandinavian rates in the local foreign
exchange market, while Spanish bills
eased off. Swedish crowns sold up u
cent to h< cents for checks. Spanish
pesetas were quoted 2SA cents for
checks, against high record of 31A
cents early this week. Franc and ster-
ling bills continued to display frmness
yesterday.
Closing rates yesterday, compared
with a week ago, follow:
Quoted dollars to the pound.)
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
DIVIDEND NOTICES
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC

& MANUFACTURING COMPANY
A dividend Of one and three quarters per cent
Isl n Gems per share) the COMMON stock Il
this Company for the quarter ending March 81,
1918. will be paid April 80 1918. TO stockholders
Of record of April 4, 1918
H. +. BAETZ Treasurer
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
OverlOaned on Cotton

Seriously speaking. it is fact that
the precipitate drop in cotton in the
last week, following the dizzy ascent to
record high prices, has caught Southern
banks somewhat unawares. 1t was re-
ported yesterday that many of these
institutions have been compelled to
send out hurry calls for additional
margin on the cotton paper they were
carrying. 1t is understood that owing
to the freight congestion in the interior
of the country and at the seaports, as
we'll as the disposition of the Southern
cotton owners to hold the com modity for
the highest prices possible. the banks
in the South have loaned up to the limit
on this class of commitment. To
strengthen their position the banks in
that part of the country have lately
availed themselves freely of the facili-
ties of the Federal Reserve banks with
which they are affiliated. With the in
crease in the demand for funds in con-
nection with the spring planting which
is now upon them the banks are said to
have also come into the New York
money market for accommodation, in
addition to redscounting at their own
reserve institutions.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

Commercial Paper.-Quict conditions
prevailed in the commercial paper mar
ket, with rates holding firm at per
cent for the regular maturities.
Bank kAcceptances.-This market con-
tinued active yesterday with a substan-
tial volume of buying from the in
terror. Rates were unchanged, as fol-
lows:
Thirty Sixty Ninety
Spot de- days. days. days.
livery: Per cent. Per cent. Per cent.
E igi Bile
= Saaks b e g Der .;;'4A@4 4h@4a 4a @4a
E | ig lie
Der banks.4a@41s 4A@4h 4H Oar
bank ( bills.s4@4a4 5M@4a4 sA@474
For delivery within thirty days:
Per cent.
Eligible member banks. ......... 45a
Eligible non-member banks .. N434
Ineligible bank bills.
Bank Clearings.-The days bank
clearings at New York and other cities:
Exchanges. Balances.
New York. 80. .$617, ,319,540 $73,844, ,65A
Boston ....... 5o,Q35, ,632 8,537,31
Philadelphia -. 64,61O,768 9,760,O2O
Silver.-Bar silver in London was
47Ad, unchanged; New York, 95sxc.
unchanged; Mexican dollars, 77c, un-
changed.
Sub-Treasury.-The banks gained
from the SubTreasury yesterday $685.
600.
London Money Market.-LONDON.
April 17.-Money was in slight de-
mand, ruling at 2% per cent. Dis
counts were quiet, with short bills at
3h per cent. and three months bills
at 3 9-16 per cent. Gold premium at
Lisbon, 10000
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
pYRENE MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

DIVIDEND NO %
dividend of two and one-half per cent
t2l2 90 has been declared the Common
Stock of this Company. payable May lst,
1918, to stockholders of record April 22nd.
1918, at p. NJ. The transfer books will
be closed on April 22nd, 1918. at P. NJ,
and reopened on May 1st. 1918. at 10 A, NJ.
EDWARD A. CLAPP. Treasurer.
New York, April 18th, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

Below is given the current exchange
value of foreign money in dolla1s and
cents, together with the intrinsic gold
parity, as calculated by the United
States Mint:
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Dividends
Specials

Ludlow Manufacturing Associates
A special dividend of 81 per share has
been declared in addition to the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of $15O per
share, both payable June l., to stock
holders of record May l..
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Expansion of Silver Currency

One reason why the Treasury is
seeking through Federal Legislation to
obtain an adequate supply Of metal by
the melting down of 35O00O,O0O silver
dollars now held against circulation is
seen plainly in the steadily increasing
coinage demand in this country. On
July l, 1913, year before the war be-
gan, the actual circulation of subsidi-
ary silver coin in the United States was
S154,705, 500. A year later it stood at
$16o, ,263, 900. From July /, 1916, to July
l, 1917, the subsidiary silver circula-
tion jumped from S169,995,821 to $780,
1880. BY November of last year
there had been another increase to a
total of $207 ,S84,124. At the beginning
OF the current year the total was $216,.
434,729. Taking these figures in the
aggregate, it is seen that the increase
IN actual circulation of subsidiary sill
yer from July l, 1913, to the first of
this year amounted to approximately
40 per cent. The per capita circulation
OF this form of money was S1.6l on
July l, 1914, and So on January / last,
England and France are said to show
similar increases in silver currency cir-
culatiOn. '
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Papers Belated Response

international Paper common stocks
response to the excellent annual report
Of that concern was an advance of 5A
points to 1914 yesterday on a turnover
of $4,000 shares. The preferred rose
~ to- 635s on dealings of 5000 shares.
This is a case where the favorable
showing in an annual statement was
not discounted by the market in ad-
vance. Paper common closed last week
at 20, the preferred at 60. Present
prices compare with high of 1875 for
the common in 1917 and 771a for the
preferred.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Extras

Vacuum Oil Company.-An extra
dividend of 81 per share has been de-
clared in addition to the regular semi
annual dividend of SO per share. both
payable May Is, to stockholders of
record May 1.
Peoples Natural Gas and Pipeage
Company of Pittsburgh.-The company
has declared an extra dividend Of SO
cents per share, payable April 25, to
stockholders of record April 18.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18
Market Barometers
Stock Exchange Transaction

Stock and Bond Ave-ages
New-York tribune., 1918-04-18

Finance Economics
WALL STREET OFFICE Telephone:
Mills Building Is Broad st.

compared with year ago, were as fol-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-29

In producing SO remarkable
spectacle as Cleopatra" in which
Theda Bara is said to give glaring-
ly effective portrayal of this Egyptian
beauty, more astonishing in its de-
tenement of love and passion than
has ever before been portrayed on the
screen, William Fox has revealed the
limits of motion picture production.
There have been plays, also pictures,
that have aimed to disclose the mo-
tives and causes leading to the down.
fall of women, with the avowed in
tention of warning them of the pit
falls that are always open for them to
fall into, but here is an illustration
that great men, too are quite as cas-
lily led away from duty and their
wives, when a bewitching woman de-
lermines to win them over to herself
julius Caesar, Marc Antony and
Pharon, the hereditary king to the
Egyptian throne, who had sworn to
kill Cleopatra, are the three illustra-
tons of the weakness of man that
are used in this picture production.
And modern men were never so en-
tranced by the display of magnifi.
cence, the gorgeousness of surround
ings the fetes and feasts given in
their honor, as made by Caesar and
Antony her slaves. Cleopatra was
| the arch siren of the world, and as
such she will be personified by Miss
Bara in Cleopatra" at the New Grand
theatre two days starting Friday,
April 5, with matinee daily.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-29
SHEEP RA|SERS TO
ASK FEDERAL DEFENSE
MAURY COUNTY FARMERS TO Pc.
Triton CONGRESS FOR FED /.
ERAL DOG LAW.

Maury county farmers and all 9TH
ers interested in the sheep industry
will assemble i'll mass convention in
Columbia the second Monday in
April to petition congress to enact a
federal dog law that will help pro-
tect their sheep from the depreda-
tions of worthless dogs.
With the nation crying for more
wool and conservation of food, mum.
Der of leading farmers and sheep
raisers of the county have reached
the conclusio nthat the best way to
increase the production of wool and
mutton is for the federal government
as war measure to issue a decree
against the dogs.
At the meeting on the second Mon.
day in April when the county quar-
terly court will be in session, promi-
nent sheep raisers will speak, and
resolutions setting forth their desires
will be adopted and presented to the
congressman from Tennessee.
State laws have proved ineffective
in reducing the menace of the dog,
but it is believed that federal action
will curb the ravages Of the worthless
ours that prey upon the sheep.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-29

Today, young men, who year ago
we're balancing bank books or seiing
life insurance or writing advertise
ments or doing thousand and one
other things, are directing batteries
of artillery or commanding compan'
les of infantry, or tipping around
through the air in fighting planes.
Most OF them we're densely ignorant
year ago of the things they are now
doing with confidence, assurance
skill. They acquired their new know
ledge and cunning by the hardest KIND
of work in training camps.
There are today many thousands OF
husky high-school boys, from sixteen
to twenty-one years OF age, who KNOW
no more about ploughing or hoeing
or handling. team Of farm horses
than their elder brothers knew year
ago about machine guns and gas
masks. But 1t has been shown that
training camps can teach the techni-
calities of farming as well as the
technicahties of soldering. And II
the first transformation can be ef'
fected by military training camps, is
there any reason why another great
army, of very different type, can
not also be supplied-in part at least
by the training plan?
We must have farm labor in ORDER
4 to increase food production, and. we
must increase food production in or
der to win the war. And yet, war con
ditions have caused shortage OF
skilled farm labor. Obviously one o.
the things to do is to train as much
new farm labor as possible. AS re
suit of such reasoning and conclus
ions, boys farm training camps came
into existence last spring, just aftel
we entered the war. They sprant
into being simultaneously in various
parts of the country, but We're mos
numerous in the Eastern and New
England states, where the farm-la
Dor shortage was very pronounced
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-03-29
ugh! CAlOkEL MAKES
YOU DEA!HlY SICK
STOP USING DANGEROUS DRUG
BEFORE IT SALivATES YOU!
IT'S HORRiBLE!

You're bilious. sluggish, constipat.
ed and believe you need vile. danger.
GUS calomel to start your liver and
clean your bowels.
Here's my guaranteed! Ask your
druggist for a bottle OF Dodson's
Liver Tone and take spoonful
tonight. n It doesn't start your liver
and straighten you right up better
than calomel and without gripping or
making you sick want you to 60
back to the store and get your money.
Take calomel today and tomorrow
you will feel weak and sick and nau-
seated. Don't lose Z days work.
Take q spoonful Of harmless, vege.
table Dodson's Liver Tone tonight
and wake up feeling great. It's per.
tectly harmless, 30 give to your
children any time. It can't salivate,
so let them eat anything after.
wards.--tAdvt)