Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-02
Utility Share Prices
Hold Around Peaks
On D. {. Exchange
Capital Transit Stock,
Most Active on List,
Selling at 24h
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Public utility stocks listed on the
Washington Stock Exchange will
enter November with prices at or
close to the years peaks, a survey
discloses.
Capital Transit, the most active
issue in the list, is now selling at
241a, the 1912 top. Norfolk & Wash
ington Steamboat stock, at ITO, has
advanced 3312 points this year,
biggest gain on the board.
Potomac Electric Power per cent
preferred, at 1151a, is practically at
the best 1912 price, while Potomac
Power So per cent preferred, at ia,
is down point.
Washington Gas Light common,
at 1855, is selling lower than earlier
in the year, as is Washington Gas
$3.50 preferred. Gas IS preferred
at 80 compares with a high for the
year of 1921.
Washington Railway & Electric
common has sold at only one price
this year, $500 share. Railway
preferred now commands 112 against
1912 top of 1854.
Bank Stock Prices Steady.
While several bank stocks are
selling considerably under their best
1912 prices, Quotations recently have
been very steady. The last sale in
National Capital Bank stock was
recorded at 176; Liberty National,
170k; Riggs National common. $50;
Riggs National preferred, 1919.
lou Of Iii Is
now selling at SO, American Security
& Trust at 1870, National Savings &
Trust at 205 and Washington Loan
& Trust at 200. Other bank stocks
on the exchange nave registered no
recent sales, but bids have remained
firm
Miscellaneous issues have held up
especially well on the Exchange.
Woodward & Lothrop preferred is
the highest priced stock in the list,
now 100. The common is quoted at
80. Lanston, at 231a, is at the years
top, as is Mergenthaler at 37A and
yielding 1881 per cent.
Other issues are Garfinckel pre-
ferred at Is, the common at 83s;
Carpet, 20; Lincoln Service prefer
red, 40; National Mortgage, Az;
Real Estate Mortgage, 7ia; Peoples
Drug, 10, and Terminal Refrigerat-
ing & Warehousing, so.
Loan Employees Enter Service.
Many building and loan associa-
ton employees have recently left
their positions for service in the
armed forces. A list assembled to-
day included the following men now
in uniform:
G.. Morton Nicely of the American
Building Association and former
lieutenant commander in the Navy;
Roy Burlingame, Herman Winkler,
R. Weston Redman and Burl john
son, all also from the American:
Edgar F.. Britt, Thomas Deniels,
Henry Greene and H. Grafton Har-
per, Perpetual; Jerry S. Davis.
James A. Donohoe, jr., and Thomas
r. Harrison, Eastern Building: G.
Wylie Allen and Harold E. Shelters,
First Federal; Ned E. Heilig and
Robert L. Warrington, Columbia
Federal John Saul, Columbia Per-
manent; Henry P. Seidemann, North
western Federal, and Ernest R. Ger
ner of Oriental.
Transit Outlay, S1,139,0OO
The Capital Transit Co., since
and including 1887, has expended
S1,139,000 in new garages, terminals
and new car house, according to
summary announced since the
recent opening of the new bus
garage at Tenth street and Michi-
gan avenue NE, this structure
costing $365,000 and taking care
of 300 buses.
This is the third garage Capital
Transit has built in five years. In
Guiding additions to bus handling
facilities, these garages cost 1886 900.
In 1941 Capital Transit built
new car house costing Sill, 400 and
in five years has spent $4,000 on
suburban passenger terminals.