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FEF fy Off .02; let 45, 86.60, off ° é cy 8. of 50; Im 41-4 0, Of 14; 24 41-40, 85.64, off Gi-4s, 90.42, off .20; 4th 41-48, off .14; Victory 33-45, is 48-48, 96.66, off .14. intment over the failure of U, 8. Steel directors to declare extra dividend at Tuesday's meet- ‘was reflected in lower prices for stack at the ope! i if ee i! . FEREREDRDE AY i Mer, Petroleum ing. A block of in from 96 3-4 to , off 11-8 to 78. Republic was off at 969-8 but Crucible was up 3-4 } pn the ot! division Mex. Pet. at 1681-2, Pan. Amer. 1-2 at 93 inclair 3-8 pt 37 1-8. opened from 88 1-4 to 88 3-4, Ti 3 2 z BRESREREGEESEES z | the purpose of investing in securities and of giving cf backing to foreign indus- ies Corporation with an authorized tal of $5,000,000, consisting of | common stock at $1,000 i g 3 $ = 5 i wg: = 3 ® ff # § & Owens Bottling .... Pacific Devel Corp. sb: i i as F ie = ae Hii aif c Morton H. Fry. quarterly dividend of 21-2 per ‘on common stock is announced Eestern Stee! Company. July 156 in Third Liberty Bondé, Quarterly dividends will on June 15 on ist preferred | Com 2nd preferred stocks. Both of ‘will be at the rate of'13-4 per Southern Pipe Line Company has also declared ao dividend, payable June 1, Oil Corporation five a stock allotment of 60 per)‘ payable July 10. $116,969 for the month is reported by the Third Railroad System, which gives 982,70" i i Pitta Coal . Pitts & W, Vi Pond Creek Coal. Press Stoel a Be er a ne es € g 5 REP RS Middle State: - A deficit of | Col, Fuel & Tron, February of $64 ths’ total deficit all charges is placed at CURB IRREGULAR, 37-89; Retail Candy, 14— 41-3; Simms, 181-2; White, 26 1-2— Asphalt, 75 1-4, off 1; Carib, 23— Stutz, 476—480; _ 78 Reta Candy, 1 Products, export, 14—17. PUBLIC UTILITY MARKET. market opened quiet Cities Service, /369—372; ; Bkrs. Shrs., off 1-8; Am Gas & * red, 36—39; 4 83 1-2—84 1-: Lt, M—aT; preferred, 4—14 1-8; To. al z ii i a * i ° & i & | it i i i § | on §& “STEEL REPORT © SHOWS EARNINGS OF 42009019, Figures Exceed Expectations in Spite of 10 Per Cent. Increase in Wages. zg [_——} After interest and Dividend requirements classes of stock, were $12,053,700, leav- ing a balance of $13,723,085 surplus common June : BARNINGS. New York Dock Company—March, $472,222, increase $108,463; net expenses $168,348, increase $1 after ol and The report of the United States Steel Corporation for the last quar- 7,680, inorease|ter shows net earnings of $43,- whieh would be at the rate of about $16 a share yearly on the common, The sharps had been guessing $40,000,000 as a maximum. particularly good t the increase of 10 per cent. in wages, the last one at Jeast, went into effect in February, Notwithstanding that fact the March earnings were $15,704,000 as com- Pared with $12,880,910 in February and $13.602.209 in January, standing the railroad strike, which caused about ten days’ confestion, the earnings for the current quarter | 1919. are expected to exceed $48,000,000, regarded as a 6 per are many persons who believe that some part of the great and growing distributed this year extraordinary depreciation "7 Pree and The showing 11 for the reagon $953,300, = Thi: While Steel 1 plus will be ORMATION WA‘ITED. @ stock divi- Siother is healorok RAL DIRECTORS. 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UNION PACIFIC EARNS “Law That Half of Earnings Over © Per Cent. Go to U. S. Unconstitutional.” earned 13.69 cel effects and per cent. on its common t the 8 ie BROKER KELLEY DIES IN CAB. @tock last year, according to the twenty-third annual report, made Public yesterday. Net income from all sources, less sinking fund require- ments and dividends on the preferred Stock, was $30,426,096. In the year preceding the company earned 12.87 ber cent on the common stock. The railroad received rentals from the United States Railroad Adminis- tration of $39,363 Heed ord increase of is to credit to Income account of $1,051,300, interest compensation for two years on the cost of new equipment placed in service to amd including Dec. 31, Operating expenses increased largely 48 & result of the fact that in 1919 the corporation bore these expenses for the entire year, while in 1918 the Director General assumed these ex- penves for the finst three months, In discussing a provision of the new Railroad Act that any carrier which realizes for any year a net income exceeding 6 per cent. of the value of its radiroad properties shall pay over to the Government half of such ex- cess, Judge Lovett quotes the opin- fon ef eminent lawyers that it is un- constitutional. In part he satd: “One of the evils of dt is already ap- parent when even the strongest rali- road companies are faced with the necessity of paying over 7 per cent. for money wtth which to provide equipment, and other facilities needed by the public, while limited in their return to 6 per gent, and one-half of anything earned above that rate.” pelle <a STEAMSHIP MELON IS 200 PER CENT. Le Mee here ew and Original Fashion Designs | === By Mildred Lodewick « Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvening World) HE woman who acquires a new frock for present | Want to take into con- 20% | tential wear. try the moment » appears and Georgette combination, adaptable ‘for summrr needs. This would be @ decidedly wise choice if one happened to be the wise possessor of one of the season's modish capes. 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Of the new stock, $2,000,000 will be distributed as a! 6814 | dividend. ‘ The Sinclair Consolidated O11 Cor- 88%] poration has declared 8 per cent. in CONCERN TO BUY FOREIGN SECURITIES Corporation Aims Take Advantage of Exchange Depreciation. The Overseas Securities Corpora- tion has been formed by New York City and Canadian financiers to do javestment business bonds and stocks. 9% {Stock dividends on common stock to 96% | be paid in quarterly instalments sub- ject to ratification by stockholders at 00% |the annual meeting May 19, Stockholders of the J. Spencer it alms to take opportunity pro- depreciation or s | 6% 8% * 8% | ner Company yesterday approved an} 23% increase of capital stock from $1,350,- &% 36 56 Ge | 000 to $2,150,000 and a’ stock dividend| foreign exchange. Porta The principal function of the cor- . poration will be the investment of its capital in securities of foreign coun- eries or of industries or corporations ‘located in foreign countries; paftici- Discovers | pating in financing or refinancing of of 100 per cent. on the common stock, | contingent upon offering some of the #@% 49% |new shares par tt es PUMPS AIR INTO BRAIN. we ®% | Johus Hopkins Surgeo: Way to Remove Brain Tumors. BALTIMOR®, April 28.—Dr. Walter B, associate in surgery at Johns in foreign countries; ing in such other financial opera- tions, primarily abroad, as may from time to time commend themselves to the judgment of the Board of Direc- t ore. Capitalization will consist of 5,000 shares of common stock, par value $1,000, and 10,000 managers’ shares, no par value. are reserved ‘8 and interests identified with the corporation at $10 @ share, without deducting for any commissions. They will be entitled 20 per cent. of the corporation when distributed and the voting pow- er will be vested in them. The directors thus far selected are: Duncan A. Holmes, Chase Securities Corporation; Royall Sullivan & Cromwell; Agent, the Arthur J. ch tumors by covery efforts means of the X-ray were futile. here it has a a Vice President 13,69\PER CT. IN YEAR] aute''Stnott* ani*Sunveais! okt i fe : atruc within, th. ‘ Frederick T, Walker, Royal Bank of Canada; *) Rosenthal, Edgar S. Haruc and Mor- ton H. Fry, all of Bernhard, Scholle and Louis W. It was| Rogers, Mayer & Ball, e: no ill|of New York City, and Henry C. Quarles, Vice President Second Ward Savings Bank, Milwaukee. of ngineers, all the tient felt able to give au Memoral to the Men From the Kast ty Will be Erected, A patriotic drive of interest to every resident of the eastern end of Bronx County—Unionport, Westchester ‘Van Nest and Throge’s Neck— was Inaugurated to-day with the open- ing of @ fund for the erection of a memorial to the men of t trict “ Bere’ te weed Wen et ee ‘The work has been undertaken by the War Service Honor Roll League and is fommittce, designated of Kelley & Jewett. Austin P. Kelley, fifty-five, of No. 45 Kast 62d Street, a member of the New York Stock Exchange and of the firm of Kelley & Jewett, No, 35 died yesterday afternoon in a taxicab in which he was being taken to the Presbyterian Hospital from his office, where he was stricken with apopieay an hour before. Kelley became il! about 4 0% pextner sum: Cherry Stree! immedi: vu- Bal who adi lately be removed dy Both “Street ‘and house-to-house canvass will On Oct. 27, 1918, the leagu in. Westchester Square e joner roll Inecribed , oritis| names of 1.900 men. in service. ‘The monument, of granite, will be erected in ‘Accompanied ‘by Dr. Jewett, Bre M4 set fa the cab. A Park Avenue his ‘and Dr. Babli taken to the Hahi ‘pari 67th Street and Pi While the drive continues died ings will be held nightly in Westchester ey had been a ad ea Brings Glasgow Passengers. Because of the scarcity of passenger | at her ships the United Fruit Company's Ulua| “You yesterday brought 190 passengers for | SIOWly, — BRITAIN DENIES TOLLS TALE. the was built duri r as transport a short time before the ar- mistice and taken ba: here and the West Indies. Doesn't Rebate to Her Vewels Go- ing Through Panama Canal. WASHINGTON, April 28.—The Brit- lsh Embassy denied through the State| Co; Department yesterday the report that the British Government rebates the tolls paid by British vessels passing through the Panama Canad ‘The department’ Government, it is ed out, only pays Panama low the Bi it 5 ot 6 from. Belfast empty, ow und took on’ the ——__— -— she pas An E inter, pretty, jane Hus that she has rer \1eamned about table. “You mean you've found a lover?” She met his eyes frankly “Again I say, you have no right to ask that question. place, | am not yet sure.” i | His mouth drew down in a leer. $| ‘So that's it, eh? turn me away for some rough-neck who murders the English language You'd let a thing Jike that overwhelm you ina few days when a civilized human has | failed after years of trying! | “I've tried to treat: and smelis of I've tried to be Now if you don't want this he-man God you'll get it!” ‘blue vein which as such. You be that kind! assurance, his jealousy and desi “The other da: ment—"when I beside myvelf. walked on toward ‘Dick, are you lenged, trying to * “pick T'm mad. ad Aaueteiee it hair, your,very and’ when I hear you've found the your flesh among me wild! I can ol Wee ee OvNGreat God, 11 But his snarl devotion, ‘of the dest ory , Un possess hamgry, a out 8} even without resi TO HONOR BRONX SOLDIERS. |°‘iic Grew her, to he struggled, too fr! out, face White and ‘imprisoned both her ha and with the other arm body crushed it against ered his lips toward her ward, bent back’ but the t of half slipped, fense! But now You Her face was flamin, shook with outraged pride. “Stop!” she cried, drawing herself ousy, afraid. up, no longer from fear commanding, end hesitated, THE LAST STRAW BY HAROLD TITUS xciting Western Romance of Adventure and Leve him ba and the wells of misery which t! Broke, disheartened, a New York society girl suddenly finds herself heiress to a vast Western cattle ranch. This thrilling story tells of the life she found there, and of how she won for- tune, a home and happiness. ‘To-night he was gone, and she was even strong enough to rise above loathing and pity him for the failure Just one fact of him re- Agein she heard his omi- pronounced on You cannot stand You will fail! nous prediction, You will come . She knew, now, never return to him, but th possibilities ¢ as Could she meet this new life and bewt © it and make in it a place for herself? in herself strong enough to outride the defeat which very possibly confronted her? She did not khow. ‘ Outside the rain drummed and the cottonwoods, now in full leaf, sighed wind bowed weighted -branches. Ste went to the window and looked out, searching the darkness for movement none, but he was not far away she Copyright, Small, Maynard and Compan} SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. young Kastern society girl, ws broke and despondent when she suddenly learns Sn goes to tbe ranch, determined to run it, simple process of wr but Tater fan Inherited ® great cattle ranca in the West. 1g to select & foreman, which she dors by i urn wins the drat jety man who was in love with Jani CHAPTER VY B laughed dryly, but she went on as though she had not heard: “You have never understood me; you never cxn hope to now. There's a gulf between us, Dick, that will never be bridged I never can love you and I | sorry, in @ way, hate to see | wasting your desires on me. “I have thought about you a great deal | is fine in life and because of that I am sorry for you. | thing in common—the lack of worthy ideals, I wish you might; [ truly wish that, Dick! | that you may, just beoause you are heré where realities coun® There's an incentive in the atmosphere and I do hope It gets into your blood. | “Tt is all so nonsensical, the thing you are doing, so foolish. I am the only thing you have ever wanted that you couldn't get and that's what stimulates your want. It's not love, Dick.” “How do you know?" | “Lt have learned | weeks,” with a wistful smile. “I have Her fingers again sought the jocket and she lifted it quickly, holding it pressed tightly against her “It's all there, locked up in a little You are missing ali that We used to have one Ihave wiped out that jack and And it seems possible to me CHAPTER VIII, F Dick Hilton had not been be- wildered by thwarted desires, » might have known that his horse was not taking the homeward way, and had the horse not been bred and raised by one of* Col, Hunter's mares he might have carried his rider to Ute Crossing. But he was a canny little was cold and drenched, the trip town was long and which, he had spent his happy colt- hood was not far riders before riders know horses, 80, ag he went through the gate, he slyly tried out this, rider and instead of to the right he bore to the tentatively through the pitch darkness, one backward at first, but when Hilton. collar up, hat down, bowed the storm, gave no evidence of detect- ing this plan, the beast picked up his rapid walk and took the trail for the . more satisfactory place where ° many times in'the past he had stood out uch, downpours with no great discomfort ‘under the shelter of a spreading cedar. And direction was the last thing In Dick Hilton's mind. terval his thoughts were incoherent and the conflicting emotions provoked were distressing. Being alone, made physically uncomfortable by the water seeping through his shoulders and breeches, sensi! steady movement of the anima! der him, brought some order to his mental chaos and finally realization began to dawn. Yes, he had followed his strongest imputses; there could be no question _ ‘ about what he had done, but as for its Ah, that was another mat- ter, and he cursed himself for a ‘at first mentally, and when, the horse mounting a steep ‘incline, olattering rocks with his Hilton halted him and looked about in foolish attempt to make out his whereabouts and said aloud: “Off the road. That's twice you've made an ass of yourself to-night There was nothing for him to do but go on and trust to the horse. He that this was not the highway ‘but consoled himself that it might be a short cut to the Crossing. Smalt it was dissipated {band to a chair back and eyeing her aiculatingly 2s The vein on his forehead still stood out like an uneven cried again. | tn " honeyty, an | thing. I have found an honeyty. a Dick Hilton, honor, a simple directness, which IL have never known before.” | He rose and leaned his fists on the “Shame on you, shame on me for having tolerated, for having believed in you little as I did! Oh, I loathe i you and myself—that was—because f it had not been for that other self which tolerated you, which gave the range on Horses know would never have been. failing to buy a woman's loy: take it by strength! this, and talk of your desire as love. You, who scoff at men whose respect for women is as real as the lives they 1s (the eecoee You Would do repeated again. “Like all these other beasts, others who are blinding you as you say I have blinded you, who haye"-— she demanded again. “There is nothing now and there is but one thing left for you to do.” “And that?” laughed bitterly and ran a hand over his sleek hair. “If I go, you go with me,” he said uu with respect. ntie and honorable. For a long in- sort of wooing, by hair back soe about the table. A bi and adyancelich ram down over his out in knots. Jane rose. or iek! she cried, and in the one word was disappointment, anger, ap- peal, reproach, quer} “Oh, P'm through, used to think you were sort; used to think you w ed. But If yo He kicked his c! “Leave this house: manded, but instead of obeying he {moved toward her again menacingly, “Ila disgusting smile on his lips. He passed the end of the daven- ere fine and | port and she, in turn, retreated to woman 1n | the far side, “When I go, two of” — “1 take it that you heard what was said to you, t the sound of the intruding voice on wheeled sharply. Tom Beck, who stood in H way, framed against the black night, limp and rather eyes danger- still, playing across them was that half-amused look, as this were not in reality so the girl com- he muttered. a different | hen I'll treat you ind an heur. then under his u out of my mi! onrm trough holding myse now. You've driven y your own ins the lover you want is ni will dally with you, primitive, go-and-ge' that takes and keeps. » mad and you insinuations that ot the one who You want the -it kind, the kind ‘Well, mine can ufshod hoofs, ously |uminous; ‘She backed from him slowly and he kept on advancing with face. contorted wiph y"—stopping For an interval there was no sound except Hilton's breathing hoarse gasp. The two me other, and Jane, supporting her sud: denly weakened limbs by a hand on the able, looked from one to the other. “What the devil fire you doing here?” Dick asked heavily. “Just standin’ quiet, waiting to open the gate for you when you ride out. The Easterner braced his shoulders consolation and when they commenced a descent with a wall of rock uncom- to his right, so close his knee scrubbed it. smartly. He became alarmed, for th horse went cautiously, foeling his way over insecure footing. Once his “ore Cont slipped aad stopped shurt while loosene rolled before them on the trail and Hilton heard one strike fambelow to his left, and strike again and again, sounds ' growing fainter. He down into the gloom but could see nothing, hear nothing but the hiss of An empty ache came into his/ viscera as he imagined the depths) that might wait to that side. After a moment the horse went on, — pickfhg his way gingerly. d or below he It was a feeble here in this room was almost ce tof my thoughts an hour sin then! I tried to kill it wi and then AC et tient and wi the “cattle in that little town. mad?” she chal~ mon her assur- fright which he had hat. you think. fortably close that at times backward and sniffed. “And if I don't choose to ride out? What will you do then?” Beck looked at’ Jane slowly and his ance through the frigh' " “It's not wW' sys none of your affair—— “necessary to talk about cKasped her wri things that won't happen. i “Am I mad?” he tr down at her, bie jaws cl ated, looking ale he hell are you to be su@ter- want of you your lips, your “My name's Beck, es me mad.) workin’ here. “And playing the role of a protec- ~ eyes, breath driv: made out a light. glow and its location became a weird thing for lack of perceptive, but it cheered him. He was decidedly un- comfortable and his state of mind added to the physical need of warmth | and shelter, so he urged the horse on. Finally they reached a flat and he felt wet brush slapping at his legs as the horse, intent on the light himself, trotted forward. Their destination was a cabin, The glow finally cracks of light showing between logs and through a tarpaulin which hung across the doorway. ¢ Dick shouted. Movement inside; he curtain was drawn back and he rode blinking into the light, which he could see came from a fireplace. A} © woman stood outlined against the “Who's there?’ she asked sharply/ + and Dick stopped his horse, F “My name is Hilton,” he said, “but that won't do you much good. stranger and I'm off my way, ‘Well, nothing much ever comes up that I don’t try to do. Hilton made as if to speak again but checked himself, walked down the room in long strides, seized his coat, thrust his arms into the sleeves viciously and stood buttoning the garment. Beck ked away into the night as though interested him, and “| Jane stood clutching the locket at her and| throat, caressing it with her slim, ner- ry | vous fingers. the circumstances, must be to the point.” He spoke sharply, belli- 1 have just this to sey. IT face and she}am not through.’ ‘ moaned Jane, dropping into her face with he any of them can & a! loves not the snarl of he who would nothing within him roughly ightened to c' lips closed. He ‘nds in his one| my farewells about her| Hilton said. a chair and covering tense in the struggle his stremgth greater, last barrier of caution, @he heard the men veranda, heard a from Hilton and knew that he went After the outer gate had the mouth and] closed she heard Tom walk slowly He gave her] up the path toward the bunk house. easing ber) He had left her without comment, . . + stop, . ." she pant- ed Dad managed to free one hand, She struck hie on struck again, blindly. efforts no mone Wak, rele hands, crushed her to t be made [nama and she could feel the quick come and go of hi her hair as he buri ‘And at that abe becal fresh eae halt fought her ‘him with both| without any attempt at an expression cf concern or sympathy. She knew it is breath through| was no oversight, but only a delicacy which would not have been shown by The other did not reply as he dis- mounted and walked toward her, ied ‘his face in it, me possessed] many men. Her loathing was gone, her anger near ast was a numb through his clutch, running down the| memory and she iboked up and about room to the Sreplace ‘znece he stood | the room as though it were a strange with the davenpo! breathing irregulariy, . + + you beast!" ‘unsteadily as he came towal She | Per yee boast!” he echoed. “W “| peasts, every one of us who sees and feels and I've seen you and I've felt between | you and the beast is hungry Instead of |*“and you © spoke rapidly, breathlessly. “An hour if anyone would have said that Dick Hilton, sober, would have dis- played this, this thing which is his | fluence true self, I'd have come to your de- The first thing he saw inside was A cartridge belt, swing, ing from a nail. A rifle leaned handi- ly against the door casing. The girl who had held the curtain back for him to enter let it drop and turned to face him. Hilton drew his || Blue-black hair in a heavy, orderly mass atop a shapely, high-held head and falling down her | straight trim back in,one thick plait; brown eyes, ripe red lips, a delicate chin and a throat of exquisite propor- His gaze travelled down her figure, the natural grace of which’ \could not be concealed by the shirt . and riding skirt she wore, wholly beautiful, “Oh, I've seen you before,” he said, “You're the girl’ that de- manded respect and got it in t Crossing the other day!" She eyed him in silence a moment, evidently unaware of the admiration ‘There, within those walls, she had experienced the rebirth, she had felt ambition to stand alone come into she had shaken with which the sought to hamper ‘And now she was free, wholly free. |The tentacle that had been reached out to draw her back had been cast ‘To-nigit’s renunciation burned the last bridge to that which had been; Dick Hilton, she believed, | would never again be an act! a hand clenched breath sharply. She could not—perhaps fortunately —foretell how mistaken this beilef ac- ually would prove to be. know the intensity of « ma particularly when Fate has fhe emerged tricked him of his most valued prize, ressive, Nor could she foresee those events