The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1902, Page 2

seen HEE THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVE LIS LE STOCK MARKET in the Pit Dodge Favors Bond Plan, William E. Dodge, the multi-mill- jonaire director of the United States Steel Corporation, has written a letter to the leading banking Interest be- hind the Steel Trust bond conyersion plan in which he emphatically de- nounces the use of his name by those EiPivetopments Chitago Corn | ? i Helped RO GENIE 1 Soi ara bpROwing. the ralirenient Gt - Securities Here. 200,000,000 of the preferred stock wy and the issuance of $250,000,000 in ) ‘ bonds to take thelr place. Mr. Dodge JRAILROADSWERE STRONG says that he believed in the plan at! ey |the start, belleves in it now and is | heartily in accord with the action of | the directors. He denounces as ma- licious the statement that he is not | in full accord with it. e ¢Good Crop Prospects and ¢ bondon Buying Contributed to Bull Situation—Amalga- mated Copper Was Active. 5 . A regular dividend of 1 1-2 per cent D on its first preferred stock for the alx months ending June 30 has been de- ® Bullish sentiment was pronounced " tin to-day'’s market, and the develop- ‘ments in the corn pit at Chicago, twhere the props seemed to have been tpulled from under corn, helped pro- mote activity in the Stock Exchange. }t The decline of 15 cents in the price Jot July corn seemed to take aw: “from stock speculation all the latent Duneasiness of the last few days over {the possibility of panicky conditions Mater, following the end of the Gates red by the Board of Directors of the Erie Rafiroad. The dividend is payable Aug. 20, Carnegie in Railroad Fight ? Andrew Carnegie, whose income \s 80 great that he has to use the public library scheme to keep it down, is sald to be the inspiring spirit backing the Wabash in the bitier contest between the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Gould line. It was because of this antagonism that the Carnegie Steel Company contracted with the Gou'ds to give the Wabash a big proportion of Its tonnage. Carnegie at one time threatened to parallel the Pennsylva- nia to tidewater, and for years was unrelenting in fighting it. After the active opening a number of | ues heretofore overlooked developed eat activity and temporarjly became ders, The pronounced aggressive | 4 of the’ market and the tendency to den operations were the features of he ‘forenoon trading. The prominence of the Southwestern Bt tirely natural, It was due! the good crop reports and the con. The Luce ( and Cotton Com nuance of the recent fine harvesting pany, of . with a capltal of ty $5,000,000, has been incorporated under | Ita in this territory that the winter Jersey Jaws, It will manufactare cot- ton compressors Repeal of Call Loan Tax. It fs the opinion of Wall street heat and corn crops first mature and consequence shipments of the crop pparket begin the earliest Tt will not require more than ten days fortnight of present weather con- bankers that the action of Congress in repealing the law requiring a tax Foa-eall loans will have an immetiote bepeficial effoct, 1k will buying through the call loan system, which has been riously ourtailed while the fight over the tax was on. It also wipes out the millions of dol- lars in back taxes affected by the contention over the law, and enables encourage the Stock [xchange to clear up the sitnation and start anew. It encour ages buying by the public, because |the repealed tax was charged to the man who bought. Judgments In fiyor of J. 8. Bache & Qo. against the Toledo, St. Louls and Kansas Clty Rallroud, which aggregate $73,000, been filed at White Plains, NY. Rockefeller’s Sugar Stock. Since the Standard Of] Trust aban- doned its’ definitely formed plan of fighting the Sugar Trust by starting o,:position plants, Joha D, Rockefeller has Invested so many millione in sugar stock that to-day he {is sald to own more shares than Henry O. Havemeyer, President of the trust. At any time he wants to, it is af- firmed, Mr. Rockefeller can take from Havemeyer the crown of Sugar King jority of the trust stock is now in control of J. D. Rockefeller and his son and Henry 0. Havemeyer. oo Private oMcial advices recelved by the officers of the Towa Central Railway Company state that the reports of dam- age to ys In the West have been exaggerated. In small local sections the heavy rains have caused some dam- ago, but it te slight compared with the general conditions prevailing. se Varying Crop Reports. Here are two reports of crop condi- tlons which are valuable because of the source whence they come. An and place {t on his own brow. A ma-| GOSSIP IN “AND A ABOUT ‘WALL STREET. officer of the Great Western Railway says that floods in lowa have laid thousands of acres of grain under water, and unless plenty .of hot weather and sunshine comes at once crops will rot in the ground, An Atchison official, whose road touches the other end of the corn and wheat belt, says that corn has not been damaged by excessive rain along that line. In Kansas the most serious in- jury has occurred in the northern part of the State, where the land 1s low, Steady rains have worked some damage to wheat, but it is not ex- tensive, Coal miners from the varlous districts are assembling at Indianupodls for the national convention, which will convene Thursday. The impression grows in Wall Street that they will declare against a national coal strike. Hill Returns and Dines. James J. Hill, President of the 400,000,000 Northern Securities Com- pany, and head of the Great North- ern Railroad, who has just returned from a month's yachting crulse in Labrador waters, denies specifically two statements made about his trip. He Insists that he did not inspect the harbors of Labrador with a view of using them as the Western ports for his Atlantic fleet, and categorically denies that the yaenting party en- countered a 200-foot sea serpent off Cranberry Head, C. B. “It wasn't as bad as that at any timé on the trip,” 1s the statement attr'buted to Presi- dent Hill. Subscribers to the capital stock and surplus of the proposed Consolidated National Bank have been notiMled to have thelr subscriptions pald in at the Natlonal Park Bank by Thursday of this week. In case of default of pay- ment by July 2%, the right to allot stock to other applicants Is reserved by the committee. Gitions to assure the crops of Missourt, nas, Texas, Oklahama and the In Territory A tremenious volume of profit taking | WIRELESS SIGNALS the rise to a higher level checked lemporarily the advance in several estes, but the general tendency was tw. advance. The strong opening in the marke: | s é here was helped by the improvement In | Tortlon and the falr supply of buying | orders that came In, we | Marconi Tells of Great Success Harris, Gates & Co. Selling. with Cornish Station— Ing In this market was principally Harris: Gates & Co, and ethers “Complete Message Sent i tern firms prominent in the corn} About 860 Miles. Mt. They took every opportuntty i spose of stocks ty advantage, dnd i jhided the movement in several slow In LONDON, July 15.—Marconi, who Mies which enabled them to ease their fontmitment A feature that added strength to the Maeenprat Hist was the buying by Standard GH and banking interests. They bought | S heavily of all the leading issues on alt | , and showed no disposit Ht go any of their purchases Av shar advance in Amalgamate: Opher followed a dull opening and was @aincident with the report that the trust | {s on board the Italian flagship Car- lo Alberto at Cronstadt, Russia, has cabled to his London office that he has recelved wireless signals from 1 to {the Cornish Station, about 1,400 {miles distant, partly overland. Complete messages were received so far as Skagen, Denmark, about 850 miles from Cornwall, ‘directors might have a surprise In store | SA cae AL the dividend meeting Thursday | {Western Mallrondn active. THE QUOTATIONS. Ab Paul, Union Pacific and the roads pin the Burlington Holding Company | f combination were stronger on the heltet | Amish COPPHE ssssessss Be” A that a general movement for unifica- | Am. Agr, Chemioal,: 98 28 Sof the interests of these lnes was Am: Gara st “undér way and was being promoted by | im) 9 90 the big men in the combination 100 Am, Cotten OI Lele 8 Many buying orders in Southern Pa- Re st Gifich were reported from London which ihased me 3 i reputed to come m James R.| porveetive tf at it Keene, who |s now abroad. | Me ccun mes ae Mie time money market was firm,| Foes, # Bet PE re ee ! ith a firmer tendency. Bids were free Mining io” o” ly made for loans over the year at 6| 70.0» Av 2's FRG Ty ) per cent., and the ruling rate was 41-2 At, Top, & 8 Fe pf.. 101% 100% and 5 per cent. for moderate-time le & Ohio 108% 108, id not se m disposed to tle & Ohio pt. BN 95% Up money Ww. pref to awalt d sad “4 “ yelopments later on For Money. to move the crop com vest mand from Matccrstion's Ass Assets Equal Amount of Preferred Stock| { and Earnings Are in Excess of Capital. | AM) Detroit Gar ’ | foo Dele ata NEWARK, N. J. July 15—The an 200 Des Moe mt vf the United States Steel Cor-] 117) Berit Routh, | portation to the suit designed w prevent | Mn Mutliling eo 421,000,00 bond conversion plan Dieting co, pe: t by J: -Aspinwell Hodge, Widia| rts and Bernard Smith, waa 1i day. The suit ia base on the c oh that the corporation's a wal the amount of itm pre ‘and that, therefore it cannot pro. | tab {uitended under the act of 14. | answer, whica |x supported by an on It of Chafies Schwab, states that x will amount to more vnan mock, bonds, common and boo 0 70 |, OF more than $1,400,00,00. fab in his affidavit mainiains The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, of the North German Lloyd line, and the stexmmhtp Moltke, of the Hamburg- American line, two of the biggest liners in the transatlantic service, had a nar- row escape from running into each other in the North River to-day. For a few minutes It looked as if a collision was Inevitable, but, owing to the efforts of Capt, Hogemann, of the Kaiser Wilhelm, his ship was brought to a stop Just in time. Both steamships were due to leave at 10 o'clock, but the Moltke left a little late, ‘The Kaiser Wilhelm had left her Slip at the foot of West Twelfth street on time and backed out Into the middle of the river, The Ude, which was running very strong, helped to turn her nose around, and soon she’ began to speed down the river. A crowd of about one thousand people were assembled on the plier front, cheer- Ing and ving thelr handkerchiefs, when suddenly they saw the Moltke LONDON MARKET STRONG, American Ratiway Shares Dinplay Strength and Activity, The London market to-day was active and «strong in all departments. The general tone was firm throughout, and traders displayed more confidence in | the market than for some time past. — | In th rtment for Amertean r les the. stre ot th Konarket was. re! " was active, and the who! very good | str Price: of New York — | were sub- | yesterday's Prices Firmer on the Heerse. | BBRIAN, July 15.Prices were gener-| ally firmer on the Boerse to-day, on more encouraging “reports from the foreign Boerses, espectally from. the London mining market, which produced a favorable impression. The Sn re ports were also satisfactory and the tron Industry was considered to be In # healthler condition, The ease of money further stimulated business urksa were active vanevaale were harder. | stronger, | Greene | Mail Signal Northern Securities Olle Elevator orn TWO BIG LINERS BARELY ESCAPE A COLLISION. + Tide Swings the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the Moltke Together. emerge from her slip right in front of the Kalser. ‘Tae Kalser had by this time attained a high rate of speed. and it looked as {f she would crash into the other ves- sol's starboard side, Men could be seen running about tne docks of both steamships, and it ap- peared as if there was great excitement ‘on board A great wall of foam could be s at the stern of the Kaiser Wile showing that her engicies had been 1e- and that Capt, Hogemann had the peril that his ship was in, Kaiser kept on, however, until Mt looked as if a space of a few fect was all that separated, the two vessels. At last she stopped and began to move back ward, and a sigh of relief went up those who had been anxtously watching the two ships on the dock Some tugs ran out to the vessels und the Moltke was soon pushed over to the other side of the rive Kaiser gave three toots of her whistle to tell those on shore that she was all right and then began again her interrupted voy- see. Manhattan ‘Transit, Company in Demand in Outside Dealing. The outside market ned firm and was fairly Company up active. vhattan wos in good ¢ 34. Northern and ‘Tennessee ‘Tra’ selling 0 6 active stocks at Ameri pper Teh United AFTER AFRICAN TRADE. Americans 0, ering on §! Low Freight JOHANNESBURG, ‘Transy July a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce today, called to recelve the Britlah Trade Commissioners, a momber cable despatch which he had offering freight from rk to Natal at 30 shillings #250) per Chamber said offers, This Is the out hillings § t freight Sthor members of. the hey had i rato ia not come of ¢ pence $5.31 rate from England oe The Wheat Market, Hout Bou ih 0 Mallway Hallway aut Li 10) Twin City R F T 600 0 8. Cant [ron Pipe Mon fe much as to give vim) is K my val ot the actua) worth of the 400 Uste bis esti sO 1.50) _ and bls estimates or! } 8 Ntotattan ot mong other things, that] 4,20 Mere ae ni 1.30) Mextoag Central he corpo n the Lge t Fporation in one Hy METieel, Cantal Of ite existence have of 10 per cent, of the ‘10.000 Altenourt Pasig 100 National Lead RR. of Mex fact that counsel for the Fecelve the affidavits ne- counsel for Mr. Hodge went over for 100 Vo, Daa & Paper pf. 66,100 | 420) Un i Too | GOL) &, 1700 1) Steet 4700 UB Bueel pt 600 Ving Caroling chem. ny 2.00) Waban i} 3.200 Wabash of ay 10) Westinghoum K, @ M. 208 200 Union’ Te a, 4 i a A joming H : hy 6 wi :. ia he eer Tt Hiei pe The total males ‘ot wore 146400 vel ia caro sf shel 3k Hit yt agit, OF ‘The wheat market to-day opened woak and without aotivity, Outalde markets were all bearish on reports of excep- tionally fine weather reports from the Western States. There were heavy of- fering» during the early market, with very little demand, Corn was also weak at the opening. After the cal sentl- ment continued bearish. w York's opening prices were; Wheat-May, 80 1-4; Septomde Th to 18; Docember, 78 1-4 Corn~Soptomber, 1 9 offered cago's opening prices were: Wheat ‘May. 4 “i July, 74 1-2; Bep- tember, 72 December, 18 d-4 £0 Te Come May, 44 8 to 48 1-85: July, ) to 79; September, 6 to W 6-8; Deoom- der, aT ba ae Now York’s closing prices were: May wheat, 80; July, BO IK bid) September, 17 19 bid; December, 71 8-4; July corn! f 13) (eptember, @ 1-2) December: May, 48 bid a July prices were: whe CENTRAL OPEAS ITS Thirty Miles of Track Wil NEW COAL ROAD, Enable It to Nearly Double Its Traffic in the Bituminous NEWS OF THE BUSINESS WORLD. WEATHER FAVORS CROP CONDITIONS, Government's Weekly Report Shows General Improvement —Some Damage from Rain in Portions of Missouri. Region. , WASHINGTON, July 15.—The follow- It was announced to-day that the new]. SS the Weather Bureau's weekly extension of the Pennsylvania division |summary of crop condition of the New York Central had been com- ble temperatures prevailed k ending July M in aft pleted and opened for traMe. ‘The #coj leted and opened for (ram he Seon aistrists east of the Rocky Mountains of these improvements an the Pennsy|- | with the exception of the Central and vania Division is shown oy the fact that] Bast Gulf States, which have suffered “ . somewhat from excessive heat it will iner tonnage in bituminous | Somew i ‘oo to from sawn to} 2 considerable portion of these last coal from 5,10), 0 i mentioned districta have, however, re- 10,000,000 per annum. ceived much needed rains, relieving to a Until the new line, thirty miles long, | great extent the severe drought that has prevailed for several weeks, was built along the valley of the West 4 although Branch of the Susquchanna River, it fava Tain is greatly needed in some sec- was necessary to use four engines in] OOS . hauling thitty-fve cars of coal. With| Heavy rains have continued in the the new line one of the new type of loco- | Missourl and upper Mississipp! valleys cee eoeol weventyefive ioaded | 284 portions of the lake region, delay- pacha : ai (8S cultivation and causing destructive cars, The improvements have cost! freshets In places, about $1,600,000, but the gain In the abil- ity to haul more cars 1s enormous. estates. Through the building of th extension the division taps one of thi richest bituminous coal deposits | Pennsylvania. TO GIVE WABASH Officials at Pa., Said to Have that Ob ject in View, (Spectal to The Evening World.) WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, July Important conference of prominy road officials was h after which representatives of four roads started for Pittsburg in a train. will Join them In conference. ing and trip are regarded as furthei evidence of the closing of a deal whict will enable the Wabash Ine to reach New York City. Last night the officials of the Hudson River Rallroad: and at an early hour thi Central and arrived here Railroad o} and Reading and Central my mind Indicates clear gon is on In London tn full force, There {x no sensational situation in The Cottov Market. tional rains In the crop country, was offset by mand fr August short Ath ewhat was held by the Vanderbilt and McGee ENTRANCE HERE? Conference of Great Railroad | Williamsport, —An nt rall- 1 here this morning At that place it Is said that the offi- clals of the Wabash Railroad Company The meet- | Buffalo, | Rochester and Pitsburg and New York morning the officlals of the Philadelphia that the silly ‘Phe local cotton market opened steady to-day, with prices 1 point higher to 1 point lower. ‘The early trading was a Kittle mixed owing to the conflicting influences. There were reports of addl- but this rn | The corn crop, as a whole, in the prin- cipal corn States has made very favor- able progress, although needing oulti- The Pennsylvania Division was for-| vation in portions of the Missouri and merly known as the Fall Brook and| Upper Mississippl valleys and lake Tieech Creek. Rallroad, and the stock |Teslon a# a result ef continued rain, A general improvement in the condi- tion of cotton fs indicated, although in the central and eastern districts the plant Is small, and blooming to top Is extensively reported. Thé part affected by drought in Texas comprised less than 10 per cent, of the total area. WHEAT CROP REPORT SHOWS FAIR YIELD, Winter Product Goes to Har- vest with Average Condition of 83.3—Corn Is in Good Condition. al e n July returns from, American Agircul- turist’s county corps of correspondents show that the winter wheat crop goes to harvest with the promise of June 1 fully maintained. The general average of condition Is reported by that authority July 19 at | 83.3 against 91.4 one year ago, and an average of 80.3 for the past nine years. Taking the present condition on the acreage reported June 1, it seems rea- sonable to Uelleve that 425,000,000 bush- els will prove a minimum measure of this year's winter wheat erop. The condition of spring wheat is reported lo} 6 h h against 94.9 last month, and %.2 a year ago. The present breadth of corn is the largest on record, says American Agri- ail is f 4 culturist, The acreage this year is estl- New Jersey reached WHlamsport in spe- ty Clal cars, A special train of tive core | mated st 97,116,000 acres, Present re- a turns show an increased acreage in en left the clty on their westward t Ene Lett a Hyon iehelr weet rare aes: every state and fairly umiform. ‘The | w vel over the New or present condition of the crop is reported 1 to Clearfeld, and from there | at 921. or about the average for a fe- over the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts- Hes of vears, cil compared with 83.4) Ei one year ago,’ Deep-ri “ burg to Pittsburg, ‘These roads, It fs un- Re aE AMEE Sie a derstood, will pg used by the Wabash | ent will enable the corn to with-tand in reaching Williamsport. From. here | #2¥ ordinary perfod of drouth, On the the Reading road will be t other soll nas been too w Tamanend, Schuylkill Count to ‘admit cultivation and the conneotion’ will be made with the Cen- | Srowth of weeds has been rapid, tral Railroad of New which will | re HE entero Into New York aan Liverpool! Grain and Provisions, poualble nist wares d Pitts-| LIVERPOOL, July 15.—Closing—Wheat burg. —Spot stead. 0, 1 Northern spring, 6s. futures dull; July nominal; Sep- DENIES ‘COTTON | CORNER. mber, 1-80,; December, 68, 211-4 d. Corn—Spot firm; “Amerlean ‘mixed, fs.; futures dul; September, bs, 2 5-8d.; Oo- Theodore a» Story from | tober, Ie “ zi is | \Pork—Prime ‘mess Western firm, Rae, London Is Untrue, 6d. vas ap cut 1d to 16 tbe. | Theodore H, Price, the cotton expert, | strong. Sls, Qacon—Strong—Cumberlane cut, 3) to 80 Ibs, Bos. 6d.; short rib, I said to-day that there was absolutely | t 24° Ibs), dts. éd.; long clear amiddies, no truth In the reports from Condon to- , ht, 25 to 34 Ibs., day that he was ihe prime factor in a] dles, heavy, 33. otton corner which would close the] (ar hacks, 16 to 20 Ibs. Ge flea bel- Lancashire Mills, square, 11 to 18 Tbs 48s. The story ts simply made out of whole cloth.” said Mr. Price, “and to| Roumantan Wheat Harvest. BUCHAREST, Roumania, July 15.— ,|‘The recent favorable weather has quite cotton. All indications point to a very | changed the prospects of the wheat large crop. This means prosperity and|harvest. Cutting has commenced and good tines in various lines of Industry | the harvest promises to surpass that of and of commerce. 18M, which was the record crop for T have b for ten days, and| Rolmanta, The prospects for the maize ave just returned, so that the London | crop are also excellens story is the baldest kind of rubbish,” ——— ———— Liverpool Exchange to Clone, LIVERPOOL, July 15.—The Provision Exchange here will be closed on Aug, 4,| the Lammas holidi —— COOL BODIES Made by Appetizing Food. You can feel as ‘fit as a lord” in chao hot weather if you eat sensibly, If 1 srices were: July, 8.69 to} you aren't entirely happy in hot £0 a ade ed Paptamber, 3.07 weather suppose you quit your. way. 776 bid . 78; January, | 0d try ours. a6 to ’ bid; March, Take a sold Beanies Bathe aie 175. to leisurely and sit down to a breal The prices at 2.40 P. 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