The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1902, Page 7

; MEAT BARONS ROG NEWYORK Evening World’s Investiga- tions Show There Is No Excuse for the Exor- bitant Prices Maintained Here by the Trust. RATES LOWER OUT WEST. Receipts Are Heavy and a Fall of Three Cents a Pound Is Reported, but There Has Been No Decrease in This City. Investgations made by the Evening ‘World show that despite the fact that ‘beef has decreased in price in Chicago ‘and Kansat City, from which markets the meat svpply of this city is secured, there has been no corresponding de- crease in price in New York. Beet is at the prohibitive price that has reigned ever since the rise of months ago, and the condition that caused such an outburst of popular in- ignation at that time prevails to-day. ‘The Beef Trust, in othér words, is us strong as ever, notwithstanding that its methods have been exposed and attempts hhave been made to check it, So vehement ‘Were the denunciations of this combina- tion when the price of beef was put be- yond the reach of the poor that It ap- peared that the combination would be broken up. But there interposed a hap- pening that drove frofi the public mind all thoughts of the Beef Trust and has kept {t out—the coal strike. Lost Sight of Meat. ‘This was a matter of so much public interest through the summer and fail that the meat question was lost sight of. ‘With the advent of cold weather the acarcity of coal became the crying need of the hour, and the price of beef was Jos} sight of altogether. Even the an- nouncement from the West that tho price of beet has gone down has been practically overlooked in the coal short- age. Qf course the beef magnates are on hand with excuses. ‘They say that while beet 1s lower on the hoof there are not enough cars to transport a sufficient sup- ply to this market to affect the price. As a matter of fact the Beef Trust control: its!own cars and could place as ‘nuch meat in this market as it desired. The Rees is to hoodwink the people of 1 York as long as possible and gain tional profit from the exorbitant ices demanded here as against the lower purchase price of the raw product at the packing houses. ‘Once more does the coal strike come im handy as a peg ueon which the beet magnates hang their subterfuges. They gay that so many cars are hauling coal that the raflroad lines are blocked and that this interferes, with the shipinents of beef. So the misfortune of New York in being compelled to pay prices for beot that bar it from the tables of thousands is played against its twin misfortune— the exorbitant domands of the operators and dealers in coal for that urgent negessity of life. vening World's Inveastigation. ‘emp Gorrespondenis of the Evenlog World “Ya Kansas City and Chicago have Inves- tigated the situation and report that thére are plenty, of fat cattle on the ranges; that the farmers are anxious to ahip, but that the beef barons, in order to Keep up prices If possible, have ad- Viged thelr agents in the field to buy as few cattle as possible, A realization of the way the managers of the Beef Trust are gouging New York may be gained from the following despatches. —_—— MEAT TRUST DODGES, AS IT ALWAYS DOES. nd (Special to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Notwithstanding the substantial decline in live stock quotations, retailers of the country have failed to make corresponding reductions in price to the consumer. ‘The retailers claim they have received little or no concessions from the packers, Packing interests say that prices lo- cally are easier, and that there 1s no reason why the reduction should not be:felt in the East. When asked why, in,view of liberal recelpts, a further re- duction is not made, they dwell on the advanced price of labor and the difl- culty experienced in moving fresh meat shipments over Eastern lines, ‘The discharge of 100 men in the can. ning department of Armour & Co. yes- a nearly precipitated a general tenday Deiring the busy season the em- loyess work Sundays, Owing to a mis Phderstanding they failed to report last Bunday and wero discharged. President Donnelly, of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, held a Conference. with officials of the com- y, and has given orders for the men fovretun to work. Other packing firms fave almost daily difficulty with thelr employee! )Rule Works Only One Way. “The Rabltc may reasonably expect that, with the cattle market golng down fat such a rapid pace, beef should pe Gheaper:’ said a Now’ York buyer thi ing. As an excuse for the advanc rices at the butcher shops last sum- ind packers polnteg out, the paucity of renelpte ‘and explained that they were ‘Smpelied to pay the highest prices for compelin twenty years. This justified the higher cost of meat, but, now that tatuie values are at the lowest point of year, the public should get the full i Of the decline, ts, poor rule won't worl th wi "shortage of car: here ts BroneDy at Frishie, depart: ment man for Armour & Co., states the sit iy improving. Bastbound Foads are, sald to be 1,00 to 3,000 cars Sere in their equipment. The car situ- fiuon promises to grow worse as ation Pivances. , shipments of pro- Withng to the East the past week wer Hkor"fons, ‘an increase of 1,238 tons tor the week, and Of 5,571 tons over last YGko railroads declaro they have not ugh engines to even move the coal that is blocking the yards of the far th. They sey the rush of Christ: ness 18 « reat they cannot idle t-olass freight, s a result of the warning recently eéat out to farmers against marketing foo much live stock at this time the tl Seu pe ear ** Farmers Want to Sell. s. however, counts THE CLO THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1902. \ ALL THE LATEST NEWS OF THE BUSINESS WO Car & Foundry Car @ Foun. pf Copper. om Bicycle % . Bicycle pt. By . Grane Twine. 2 . Cotton Ol “ 98. . Cotton Oll pt. 12,300 Am. Sugar + 128% 100 Am. Steel Foundry .: 14% cy 20,100 C.-M. ‘200 Chic. Un. ‘Tract 600 Chic. & ‘Alton 200 Chie. & Alton pf. 10) Chic. & NW... 2000. L & W 200 Col. Fuel & Tron. 700 Col. Southern 100 Col. Southern 24 pt... 10) Col. & Hock. Val. pl. 96% 100 Consol, Gas. 200 Con. “Tob. pf. 100 Corn Product 400 Del. & Hudson. 10) Den. & Rio G. a) 700 Den. & Rio Grande pt 91% 200 Det, South. pf. 300 Dis. ee, Corpn.. 0 Exlo 24 pf. % 900 Evans. & Terre Haute 1.400 111 400 Towa Central 100 Min, Beach. Bh 700 Met. et. RR, 100 Mex. Central 32 10) Minn, & 8. 1 5 106%, 400 M., St. P. a 8. 8M. 74 10 M., St. P. & 8's. M. 500 Mo., Kan. & Tex..... 200 Mo., Kan. & Tox. pt.- 12,000 Mintour! Pacific ‘ 300 Nat. Lead 2,000 Norfolk & 200 8,100 D 4/300 Ontario & 100 Paolo Malt pt 122 a 2,000 Pressed Steel 29,800 Reading 1,900 Reading Jat RS oe pr. Low, Clos. 7 Shares, High. Low, Clos, Me MM « 19% 184% 19% 89” 89%] | 200 Rep. 1 18% 76 78 57% 89% | 14.800 Rock Island Ve Bk 4a aN % —-%| 9.100 Rock Inland pf... 82 Sl MEMS 2% 2%| 400 Rutland of... We 70 708 or) 100 Ry. Steel” Spriai uM “4 300 Ry. Steel Spring p soy oS i% $8 100 Gloss Sheffield 67 67 10% 10% | 8,900 Southern Pacito 62% 63% 39 39 6,100 South, Rail 31% 324% Oy ‘200 Sou! 93 mM mat 300 St. Le a aN 6 100 st. L. B4 Hs 9 394] 1008: DL. BW. oF. o wo Do% 0g | 300 Tenn, Coal & Iron.. 67 08) bi 138 sig] 6.000 Texas Pacito i ‘38% 39% faa tae] 100 Toh, Lk ay 2M eed 100 Tol., St. In & 6 45 10) Twin City R. T. 114% 114% 116% 9,809 Union Pacific 9% OT 00 Union Pacite pf 3” OPN 88 800 U. UN 12 100 8 oy 100 324 3 600 2m Be sy 12,100 MM sae 31000 Si AN 100 m 6 60 0 f 2% BM 700 sins a 4m 4B 100 We fon Tel... 87% SIM RTM 100 Wh. @ L. &. Ist pt.. 53 63 83. OME AL Bde: Be ay Be 96 96% 1,000 a The t 200, 2, ty G oe fk ing Toe , HN BS Be oe me ke He Fi 82% lhe Be st 4 2% 9% 13 ont oT 1h BON OTN . Rapid Transit 66% 69% H% 69 Canadian Paci@e sess 12) 190". 1288 130 4% 46% 6 Ha wh 2s ON 176 S 1784 174% 176% 7% TO De 78% M34 BS ath 44 1M TS 22% 124% 122% 124 Manhattan 1434 14TH 1% 147% Motro. st. “HR. 187% 1804 136% 196% Mo,, Kan, & Texas... 2ite 264 25 25 Misiourt Pacito 106% 208% 105, 106% Norfolk. &Weat.cc. 70% 70% 70% 70% Ne ¥, Central 1614 161% 161) 161 Ontario & We 20% 30" 295 Pennsylvania WA 164 168K 354 Reading Day Of Gl Oe Rock Inland 4m 43% SIN 48% South. Paciite 6 6% Be Bag |Boun, R'y Sim 2M SIN a2 Tenn, Coal @ Tron... 68 BGM GoM 6M ‘Tex. Pacific 39% 39% «SBD |Unton Pacis dey BN ie RN [res eat uy ih WN Nh U. & Steel HK UN OU ie y 83% Ay RT am ay Te ag" ait 41% a4 8 : were BOND TRANSACTIONS. Am Bloycle 63 17000. Cent of Ga 2d B00... es. 36 Clies & Ohio R&A div Ist con 4 Chic & Alt 3140 1008).. 79) 10000 GO. 79% culo Bur & Quincy 4a joint bis Det Mas & ‘Mar land grant 2} 000. 10 Mo P Int con G« StL Southwn Ist 6000. 6008... 121 Fir hnenebonaa 2000. 95% 104% — South | +106 104% mt 6000. South Ry int be 1000... 1 Tex Pacific iat 10000. «jis ‘Third “Ave con 3000 6000. 4000. no Lak Ww oye Norfolk & 6000. we Pocah Union Pao iat 4a 1000... 2000. + 104% Union Pas cony 4a 10000. 5 8000... 1 North Pac Ex 6a 1000. 1 i +. 13h Ore Rt & N’ con 4a 2000... - 100% Oregon Sh Line Ap o & percepts 10000, 3000. 10000 10000, 37000. Heading 20000. & real ent 4iga 1000. 10000. eee see TO 0000. Wheel & LB 1st con 4s stb I unity & ref de, 6000. 92 San An & A P 40 2000. 110% 104% 103% 14S» 23% — ‘in coup 1004 1D. C. 30 Gba.1 tion at presen’ said a cattleman, “and farmers are greatly handicapped In get- ting their corn out. thelr cattle because the: Western States.’ Hastern shippers to fill this morning, and any sulted them was not on hand Many are shipping y hayen't suff clent feed to carry their stock. fields are in bad shape in most of the had sufficient orders The thing that long, there being more cars for Eastern shipment here, ally, h teature of yesterday's m which helped things very materl- the liberal receipts of dressed tur which caused the market to sag %4 cent arket wal ey, per pound on dressed stock, the best dry cents.’ Tl olng at 17% picked golng at 17s cents. 1 comfort, however, birds In’ the hands 0} f consume: his is poor lace the around 21 cents a pound, which ts double the price of a year ago. KANSAS CITY PRICE FALLS THREE CENTS. (Spectal to The World.) KANSAS CITY, Mo, last two week: the wholly to the increased supp); all summer. Stock was on and was not in condition for With the great corn crop and grass of the early fall the steers took Dec. price of beef has dropped from 2 to 3 cents In the Kansas City market In the ‘This, thie managers of large packing-houses say, 24.—The 1s due iy of cattle thin grass shipment. the heavy on welght, and all of the western coun- try produced a large beet su dropped to $6 and $7.50, ‘Then came a tumble in prices. that was worth $8 in the dry season and the fat pply- Beef stock rushed in was only limited by the supply of cars. The price dropped first about two weeks ago when covered the Western ranges, shipped to this market. As it is now, one Kansas Cli 2,200 cattle scattered over a range, all of which were read: be even lower now if cattle could be the snow and would rm has) olorada for ship- ity. ment, but were scattered by the blizzard, The New York market is governed by Chicago prices, but they are reflection of the Kansas The reduction is due | creased receipts of cattic. ‘There ie some debay the Eastern seabo: but t only to the umual holida the price In the Bast will be hotly in turn @ mark: to in shipments to, that is due rush. Whether] $8, lowered in time for the holidays as a result of the West reduction is pric Shere bas dropped on fi will on Holiday on Stock Exchange, @ question, The foot and in take one other ex- CALL MONEY UP TO TEN PER CENT. Bankers Not Sure Now There Will Be No Pinch and Say Next Week Will Be Crucial. Call money jumped to 10 per cent. this forenoon and time money was firm at the prevailing rate of 6 per cent, Bor- rowers for over the holidays were obliged to pay the highest prices of the day. Bankers were not go confident as hore- tofore that there woW#l b# no money squeeze and admitted that the next weok would be @ crucial one so far as the money market {s concerned. Rates are expected to go as high 16 per cent., ax that ds the point at which gossip says the money pool has decided to intervene, In the foreign exchange market ster- ling opened practically unchanged in rates. The demand for sterling cables to even up the year-end balances ts atill heavy. Sterling cables were quoted at 4.8750 and 4.8760, with demand at 4.8600 and 4.9670, ‘The brokers and commission men who have been holding off on time commit- ments hoping for easier rates made haste to-day .to borrow all the three- months money they coul ——_— Operator Thomas Mo Files a Petition in Bankruptcy. Thomas Morgan, a real estate operator of No, 14% Vyse avenue, has filed a Petition in bankruptcy with, labillt 118 and nominal assets $2,067 in ou standing accoun' Of the Habilities 000 are secured by bond and mort- Sages on property owned by him for- morly at No, B69 to 61 Burnside avenue ‘0, 645 to 853 Hast One Hundred and third street, and No, 2000 Ryer 12,118 are unsecured, 0) is 'for commissions ‘an: ig’ dam sul Antonio r personal injuries, eer? aes DID NOT KNOW SHE High Rate for Call Loans and Prospective Year-End Money Squeeze End Boom Prices and Hurt Trading. BEST ISSUES FEEL EFFECT. 'Ten per cent. call money and the approach of the holiday season with prospective squeezes in money until the year end transactions are over, put an end to boom prices to-day. Under this combination of depress- ing influences the market became dull and featureless, the bulls trying occasionally to get out a little “Christmas money,” and the bears contenting themselves with holding their strategic position. Brooklyn Rapid Transit was the biggest feature of the market. Under the fostering care of the strong B. R. T. pool it was boosted from 65 to 68 1-4 in the first two hours of trading. This was accom- plished chiefly through the good re- ports of recent earnings. The pool skilfully utilized, too, the report that the Pennsylvania Rall- road has acquired a large if not a controlling interest, in the company, and will utilize it In connection with its North and East River tunnel fran- chises. Holiday dulness affected most of the stocks. Brokers were desirous of either keeping out of the market un- til the call money flurry is over or selling the stocks they held. This feeling caused fractional re- cessions in Atchison, St. Paul, the United States Steel shares, Baltimore & Ohio, Union Pacific, Rock Island, Texas & Pacific and the common and preferred shares of Wabash. The hard coal roads were firmly held. Generally Stock Exchange gossip connects them in a positive way with a big pending consolidation of anthracite carriers in which J. Pierpont Morgan is named as the underwriter. The sudden boom in Erle stock lent additional strength to the ru- mor of combination. Wasserman’s bid of 34 for 6,000 shares, or any part of it, for Erie common caused holders to become more confident. Since the pool in Sugar began its operations, with Washington as the active end, something has gone wrong. The stock has broken three points in two days, and, although it was advanced fractionally, it was one of the weakest issues on the list. The pool started to boom the stock to 135, but in the general iusa to get holiday profits it receded from 130 to 127, and was irregular to-day at an advance of a point. Figures showing a marked increase in the exports for the week were the cause of the fractional advance In many railroad issues. The total for the week was $11,117,699, against $9,965,593 last week and $10,889,981 for the corresponding week last year. Cheerfulness due to this good showing was somewhat dampened by the transfer of $200,000 more to New Orleans. This was offset, however, by the telegraphic transfer here of $250,- 000 Yukon gold deposited in the Sub- Treasury at ‘Frisco. Predictions of a poor bank state- ment helped promote dulness and the early celebration of Christmas was @ good thing for many of the traders who wanted to protéct their holdings. — Last year in this week the surplus reserve of the Associated Banks in- creased $2,106,025,, bringing up that total to $7,891,350. The reserve last Saturday was $8,093,600. STOCKS WEAK ON THE CURB. Orders Light and Few Bulle in the Outside Market. | ‘The ourb market was weak to-day. Brokers had light ordets and few on the bull side. Quotations for the active stocks were: Bid, Asked. Northern Securitte: + 100% 110 seeee a B, Virginia Coal Virginia Coal Bay State Gas SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY, Sun risee,. 7.22/Sun seta.. 4.26) Moon rises, 2.2 THE TIDBS. Esau 3.38 High Water, ASL P. e Sandy Hook fra Governor's 10.20 10.28 Hell Gate Fer 1.4 12.00 PORT OF NEW YorK. ARRIVED. : -Rotterdam ‘DUB TO-DAY, Etona, Shields, Anchoria, Qh Citta ai" Mii Naples. Liverpoo! Bristol City, Swansea. Seriphos, Ha: El Dorado, Galveston. Horatlo, Pare. Lroquots; Jacksonville. OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS. BAILED TO-DAY, Southampton, New York, Gen SING QUOTATIONS. [ETAGKS ULL, |BILLIDVOOLLAR ROTASCHLDS IN PRICES OOH.) TRUST WVGAS, TUNNEL ROAD John D. Rockefeller Credited in Chicago with Heading a Syn- dicate to Control Plants in All the Europecn Cities. BRADY TO FUSH THE DEAL. CHICAGO, Dec. 4—The Datly News to-day says that capital to the amount of nearly a Dillion dollars {s reported to be represented in the formation of a gigantic gas trust, which will Include the different compantes in nearly all the principal citles of Europe and the large interests of London. A Chicago man {s alleged to be the originator of the scheme, and Chicago and New York capital is represented In tho project. John D. Rockefeller ts credited with being the largest pros- pective stockholder, Other New York canitalists sald to be interested are Anthony Brady, D. 0. Mis, A. R, Flower and C. KG, Bill- ings, of the People's Gaslight and Coal Company. Anthahy Brady, sald to be one of the prime mover In the venture, the story runs, will leave within ten days for Paris to perfect the deal. It,was reported In Wall street recently that Willlam C. Whitney and A. Brady were to give attention to gas In- terests abroad on a big scale, but Joan D. Rockefeller was not mentioned in the connection. The report of the big deal from Chi- cago could not be confirmed tn this.clty to-day. METAL MAGNATE M’BIRNEY DEAD. Treasurer of the National Lead Company Was |Ilf with Pneu- monia Only Three Days. Joseph I. MeBirney, Treasurer of the Natlonal Lead Company at No. 100 Will- lam street, died this forenoon after an illness of only three days. Mr, McBirney was stricken with a coki Sunday which rapidly developed into acute pneumonia, and his physi- clans were unable to help him. He succumbed carly to-day at his apartments in the Lenox, No, 987 Madi- son avenue. Mr. McBirney, who wus fifty years old. came here from Chicago in 1889 and had been Treasurer of the National Lead Sompany since its organization eleven years ago. . He was prominent In the metal trade, His widow survives him. Mrs. aonirney is prostrated with grief, and the physicians fear she mey die fram the shock of her husband's death. Sne was married to Mr. McBirney only seven months 2go. Before_ her marriage she was Miss Laefla Owen Ellis and 1s a member of & prominent Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and N | Suspec: It Foreign Bankers Buy $10,000,- 000 of Stock of Interborough Rapid Transit Co., Which! Leased the “L” Road. Gertrude Warner Scott Cured by the Great Kidn yo Remedy, Swamp-Root. hae BELMONT GETS THEM IN. ‘The Rothschilds, of Europe, have In- Vested $10,000,000 1n the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, which has : leased the Manhattan “L" road for 999 years, President Auguat Belmont, of the In- terborough Company, has for years represented the Rothschilds in tho United States, and yas their represen- tative in ¢he Loulesville v! alo ville & Nashville ‘The $10,000,000 tnvested in New Y 4 rapid transit facllities by the big: fore elgn bankers is larger than that from any other one Interest in the combina jon. Tt was Mr. Belmont who Induced t Rothschilda to take euch a SOS mthent part in the development of rapid transit in Manhattan, and {t in sald that thelr holdings will ye further increased when 9 Subway Company ts re: tend its system,” Teady to exe re ENGLISH TRADE FALLS OFF, Big Cotton Spinners Show Loas for the Year, LONDON, Dec. 4.—The depression tn the British cotton spinning industry ts evidenced by the fact that eighty-five Joint stock companies in Lancashl with an aggregate capital of $25,175,000 and having 6,067,000 spindles, record a net lose of $7,150 for this year. a MORE WAGES FOR STEEL TRUST MEN Eight Per Cent. Advance Is Granted Voluntarily to 20,000 Workers in the Coke Regions. Se DR. KILMER & CO., Binghamton, N. Y. GENTLEMEN:—My trouble began with pain in my stomach end so severe that it seemed as if knives were cutting me. I was: treated! two of the best physiclans In the county and consulted another. Wone them suspected that the cause of my trouble was kidney disease, They all, me that I had cancer of the stomach, and would die. I grew so weak t I could not walk any more,than a child a month old, and I only ninety pounds. Que day my brother saw in a paper your advertisem Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy. He bought me a bottle at our store and I taok it. My family could see a change in me, for the better, they obttined more and I continued the use of Swamp-Root was so weak and run down that it took considerable time to again. I am now well, thanks to Swamp-Root, and weigh 148 am keeping how for my husband and brother. Swamp-Root after the doctors nad failed to do me a particle of g (Gertrude Warner Scott.) I: rami 4 ‘enliicle Wenn) Women suffer untold misery because the nature of their disease correctly underetood; in many cases when doctoring, they are led to ¥ ‘that womb trouble or female weakness of some sort is responsible for ti ils, when in fact disordered kidneys are the chief cause of their dist troubles. ‘The mila and extraordinary effect of the wotld-famous ee lpladder remedy, Dr. Kilmer s Swamp-Root, Is soon realized. It stands the Inighest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases, A trial convince any mne—and you may have a sample bottle sent free, by mail. Sample Bottle of Swamp-Root Sent Free. SPECIAL NOTE.—Yeu mey have a sample bottle of this ‘The Frick Coke' Company {a a sub-/remedy, Swamp-Toot, sent absolutely free by mail. also a book telling sidiary company of the United States ‘about Swamp-Root, and ccntaining many of the thousands upon thousan Steel Corporation. lof testimonial letters received from men and women who owe their —— |nealth, in fact thelr very lives to the gre: curative properties of TO PASS DIVIDEND. ‘Root. ‘In writing to Dr, Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure to ede: PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. %4.—Notlee? will be posted throughout the Connells- ville coke regions to-day granting the 20,000 employees of the rick Coke Company a voluntary advance in wages averaging 8 per cent. The Increase wilt take effect Jan. 1, and includes the miners, coke drawers, drivers, cagers and laborers. It means! that the company will next year dis- pense in wages to Its men $1,600,000 more than it has this year and that !t will continue to pay the highest wages of any concern in the United States em- ploying this kind of Inbor. lyon read this generous offer in the New York Evening World. and wealthy New Orleans fenlly. fol Te yon ure wrendy convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need, SS aT 4 OE tert Paad cece oom mda te) purchase the regular fifty-comt and one-dollar elze bottles at the a EQUITABLE TO INCREASE. Not Pay om Preferred Stock. (i /oras everywhere. Don't make any mistake, but remember the wtange a The following statement regarding the 'Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, Trust Company WIIl Raine Capital Stock to $3,000,000, Notices were received in Wall street to-day that the Equitable Trust Com- pany directors have decided to increase its capital stock from $1,000,000 to $2,000- 600, A meeting of stockholders for Jah. 16 has been called, when the provoeition Y; botth & Grand public t meeting of ney Island direc ‘anys the St. Joseph was made |THE KOCH LYMPH INHALATION j of Tuberculine Cures »| Asthma, Consumption, Bronchitis. $5 A MONTH. Call at the o Board of DI rectors, eck » that. In ments, viz.: bridge at St oo) and the equipment, estimat of additional ast $300.00, no place in 16 has eee rmally advanced for them. to {dividend will be declared on the first aa Vote on. like the. Western Nauional | preferred stock.” | armecica were the, genylns : 1 Hank Jang “the National Bank of, the (oe Koch treatment, meee: On ; | tnited States, the Bquitable ‘Trust pets) OP= Company {a controlled by Equitable LONDON MARKET DULL. ripe AN Life Assurance interests. It js stated In connection with plan for an increase of capital sto that Mutual Life Ingurance interes! ominently fdehtified with the \ ne nk merger, would be allowed to take ‘a good portion of the new capital stock: Among the financiers interested in the Equitable Trust are James Henry Smith, Fdward H, Harriman. Valehtin P, Snyder, Henry C. Frick, M. Hartt Dodge and James H. Hyde, —————— The Cotton Market. ‘ho local cotton market to-day opened quict and steady, with prices un- changed. , Shortiy after thke opening prices went fractionally above yenter- the Kk ee Dee eee * ‘had a very dad case of My cough was | 4 incesseat, day and I Jos: weight’ and had | a Light Trading in Americans, with Weak Tone. WATCH 6 NASSAU x The London market to-day waa prac- | Rey pected 40 : far. Uaally at a standstill. Prices were little |e, but the Koch Sanatorium. at 12), Wert 224) [ cater, Harlem Branch, 16 6, 136m ct changed and throughout the entire mar- curm) me, and ine Wolf, 667 Kvergreen maya Mrs 1 Brooklyn. ket a hollday dulness prevailed, South African mining securitles were steady and displayed a good undertone. ‘Trading in the department for Ame! can rallway sec’ 3 was on a limited scale, with es in the early market irregular, Later in the day there was a tendency to decline and most of the list went fractionally below the final We Give Credit, © We sell Clothing for men, women and ehildnem without extra "examination DCH. SANATORTUM, (opp. Ehrich’ at lowest Cash Prices and take that you will pay as arranged, with us; no security reguiggd. 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WATCHES, 2.33 TYPEWRITERS AN makes. 56 Warren, N.Y.; 390 Pultea, # $1 WEEKLY 32", romen's, an pleted in Twenty-four Hours, PLATTSBURG, Dec, 4.—The work of changing the Chateaugay Haliroad tracks from narrow gauge to standard gauge from Garyville to Lyon Station, @ distance of twenty-two milos, will be begun Deo. It is expected that the work can be done in twenty-four hours, so that there will be no {nterruption Helo Wanted—Male hhand-methos last- PULLERS.0¥ Ing machine on Wom MoKay work. Dalton § Lawyers GEO. ROBINSON (Lawyer) 90 Nassaa st. (Day). 1370 BWA SiS (Evenings) For Sale. * CREDIT EVERYBODY. CLOTHING FOR ON BASY WHEKLY OR MONTHLY PAYMENTS, lowest prices; DIAMOND WATCH CO. eseatative calls. ane TE WATCH ©O., 11 Bast They payment MANHATTAN DIA} elevator, ‘Open evenings uni Maideen lane. $1 WEEKLY DEFORE XMAS. Jewelry, “furs and cloth- confidential gooda deliv~ REQIT,“"., ‘ ace, open evening: Geatlemen's order, 237 Coated Tongue, Bad Breath, Liver Complaint, 2