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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1886
Page
3
The Boston money market remains steady and strong as lenders tighten after a new defalcation. New York funds and government securities show modest changes while a feverish stock market session sees Atchison declines, Wisconsin Central gains, and Union Pacific drifting amid rumors and large-volume trades.
A compact list of closing prices and sales figures across multiple sectors including railroads banks and mining firms. Entries show bond and stock values for Atch T&S Fe, C B N Ss, K W 5s, Mex Cen 4s, US reg 4s, and various railroad and utility stocks with prices and percent changes.
Reported by Wilson W Fay & Co Boston sales August 17 listings show Toledo Cincinnati St Louis companies and values and a long string of unreadable OCR sequences. The fragment mentions Boston Water Power and various entities with scattered figures, hinting at an old commercial catalog page.
New York trading on August 17 reports tight money on call and a weak market. Union Pacific fell about 1 percent late with other stocks also slipping, closing near daily lows. Bond activity was dull, with railroad bonds quiet. Erie seconds and West Shore firsts drew notable attention amid general declines.
A dense listing of closing quotations for railroad and transportation stocks, preference shares, and bonds from Ohio to West Coast exchanges. Includes Adams Express, Pacific Mail, Reading, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, New York Central, and many others with percentages and notes on preferred and coupon statuses.
The San Francisco市 market report lists closing prices for several mining stocks including Best & Belcher Gale & Norcross Bodie Con and Eureka Con with values shown as fractions and decimals. Other entries mention Yellow Jacket and Bodie Consolidated with limited figures due to legible OCR.
The report shows earnings figures for the quarter ended June 30 1886 with contrasts to 1885 including gross, expenses charges balance and net income. It also lists nine months ended June 30 1885 1884 with totals for gross expenses charges balance dividends and surplus.
A Decatur dispatch notes a $9,500,000 mortgage recorded in the recorder’s office. The loan from American Loan & Trust Company of New York and Joseph E. McDonald of Indianapolis finances the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City railway as it modernizes the old narrow gauge, signaling its rise as a major national line.
Freight agents from Grand Trunk lines met at Commissioner Fins office to discuss the Baltimore and Ohio position in the pool. Post-meeting reports say no action was taken and the matter was referred to the commissioner. Vice-President Spencer indicated he had not signed the New Jersey Central agreement regarding the use of the pool.
The Saratoga Lake and Hoosac Tunnel railroads ratified a five-company consolidation into the Troy Saratoga and Northern Railroad Company. Plans call for a northerly route from Troy via Lansingburg Waterford Mechanicsville to Schuysterville, claiming the shortest Adirondack access. Also noted are expanded passenger traffic in Chicago, rate cuts by Baltimore and Ohio, and a Missouri Mississippi line sale to Kansas City. Civil Engineer E T Clark surveys a Sullivan railroad extension in New Hampshire.
Baltimore marble workers Caddess Bros. file a deed of trust for creditors, listing assets around 50000 and liabilities near 5000 to 6000. Principal indebtedness comes from J Parker Veasey at 106000, with 75000 in firm notes. Veasey, a Baltimore lawyer and former postmaster under Cleveland, faces embarrassment from poor investments. Other notices include W S Abbey Jr & Co of New York facing about 50000 in liabilities, Lewiston Steam Mill Co assignment in Maine, and multiple local insolvencies and assignments across states, with several firms approaching restructures and potential continuations. A Salem coal dealer meeting shows liabilities about 24000 and assets 10000, hinting at possible settlement to preserve operations.
A compiled list of property transfers in Suffolk County from July dates, detailing buyers and sellers, street locations, lot sizes or parcels, and prices from 600 to 18000 dollars. Notable entries include Thomas to Lisk on Huntington avenue and Lane to How on Oxford street, with additional notes on mortgages and transfers across Dorchester, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Brighton, Chelsea, East Boston, and Charlestown.
Discharges of mortgage recorded for Judith Bussey to Charles F Hall from a 1876 Kendrick mortgage, for Edward d Noonan on a 1883 discharge, and for Hannah Mc Carty on a 18385 date mortgage with South Boston Savings Bank, totaling $1000.
The twenty eighth annual camp meeting at Asbury Grove Hamilton began yesterday afternoon at the grand stand with a praise service before preaching. About 1000 people attended. Rev J H Mansfield presiding elder of the Lynn district led the meeting. Rev W R Brodbeck of Tremont Street Church preached in the afternoon and Rev J M Leonard in the evening. Today’s pastors include Dr Daniel Steele Rev J W Hamilton of Somerville and Rev G H Phinney of Peabody.
A Buffalo New York clinic advertises a large staff of eighteen physicians and surgeons offering treatment for chronic diseases by medical or surgical means. It claims cures for nasal throat lung liver kidney digestive and women’s diseases plus neuralgia rheumatism paralysis and more with home treatment via correspondence. Send 10 cents for a 168 page guide book from Worla's Dispensary Medical Association.
Flour prices unchanged and trade quiet while corn eases slightly. Butter and cheese firm, eggs dull, pork and lard steady. Potatoes easier with fair demand. live fowls in fair demand. Beans, seeds, apples, and Sugars hold near last quotes. Fresh beef dull. veal market firmer.
Wheat unchanged but flour steady with no tendency to buy ahead. Corn quiet, buyers favored. Oats and barley mixed with limited demand. Steamer mixed 55c, steamer yellow 56 1/2c. No. 2 white oats 40c asked, November oats active with 2700 and 5400 bushel lots traded. Inspections include No 2 red winter wheat and various oats, with mixed grades and rejects. Flour prices listed from $2.35 to $5.90 per bbl depending on grade and source. Corn and oats bid ranges noted, rye quiet at 72-75c, millfeed and malt/hops pricing provided. Receivers’ prices apply except rye.
Fresh made creamery butter prices rise with Western extra and firsts firm in Chicago and New York. Cheese holds steady with Western cheddars and flats firm. Eggs steady with mixed regional demand. beets beans hay and potatoes cited with varied wholesale quotes across multiple markets.
The column notes stable bacon and packed beef with dull fresh beef. It lists varied prices for pork, lard, sausage, hams, ribs, and beef cuts, plus fresh meats like lambs and mutton. Fruit receipts include peaches, blueberries, blackberries, pears, apples, watermelons, grapes, and Vineland lots. Cotton market remains quiet.
The New York firms raised anthracite prices by 15 and 25 cents per ton last week while forecasting no coal famine. Activity waned slightly in the current week though expectations for September production cuts to stiffen prices are under discussion, with traders wary of strict quotas.
The Bulletin des Soies et des Soiernes reports five year silk outputs under Union of Lyons Silk Mercchants authority. 1855 production fell below the four prior years with totals around 9.27 to 9.47 million kilograms, and 1882 1883 1884 figures shown. Europe accounts for 36 percent of world output in 1885 with 57 percent to the Far East.
Seashore and mountain resort suppliers report strong business while city-dependent trades remain quiet. Fresh meats show no major price changes with steady demand. poultry and dairy trade remains light though oceanhouse traffic stays robust. Fruits vegetables and fish markets reflect varied activity with general firmness in pork and beef sectors.
Boston Post report by George J. Fox shows week ending Aug 17 totals for cattle 1034, sheep 6664, and swine 5456, with last week and a year ago figures. Prices listed for market beef, store cattle, sheep and lambs, hides and tallow, plus car counts on Boston & Lowell and Fitchburg railroads.
New York reports show flour firm receipts 18 037 bbls exports 2167 bbls sales 15 90 bbls with assorted grades from common to extra and Minnesota and Southern wheat prices varying. Wheat quotes rise with No 2 Chicago at 57 under and No 1 Northern 91 1 2 c, rye and corn movements noted amid steady to firmer rye flour and dull barley.
Detroit and Chicago show wheat firmer with No 1 white at 79 1 2 cents and No 2 red around 84 cents. Milwaukee reports flour steady and corn 41 4 cents, while Cincinnati notes pork and lard firmness and whiskey at 108 dollars. Minneapolis records No 1 hard wheat at 75 1 2 cents as a regional market detail.
Net receipts and stock levels for Augusta to New Orleans show varied demand with steady to dull tones. Prices and mid ranges quoted across coastal markets. consolidated four day totals report 5165 receipts and 196,291 stock across United States ports.
Chicago August 17 cattle receipts about 5000 with higher bids for stockers and feeders around 25 to 350, cows and bulls 175 to 275, Texans steers 323 to 380, Wyoming 1221 lb cattle 430. Hogs receipts 14000 active with corn fed mixed at 40 to 495, heavy 525, packing and shipping 450 to 525. Sheep receipts 2000 higher with natives 350 to 375, western lambs 350 to 360, lambs 450 to 500.
The Chicago market reports three million five hundred thousand bushels of wheat and flour exports last week with a 450000 bushel stock error. Prices rose on cables but closed 77 1/2 cents and 39/ seed. Linne buyers lead the session while shorts cover as Cudahy Kent Bloom Kammerer St Louis unload. Hutchinson returns from vacation and sells September corn.
A late Chicago despatch lists commodity prices and opening closing ranges. The figures cover Wheat Corn and other grains with high, low, and closing values for September October and November, reflecting market activity at No. 28 State Street. The OCR text shows numerous garbled lines but centers on price quotes and daily fluctuations.
Foreign markets note firmer wheat on cargoes off the coast with demand for California wheat for distant delivery but limited inquiry for nearby cargoes. Liverpool quotes firm corn and rising spring wheat prices. imports into the UK show substantial weekly wheat and corn totals with Calcutta Bombay shipments to the UK from the prior week.
London August 17 Atlantic Great Western firsts at 129 percent and seconds at 1614. Canadian Pacific 685g Erie 34 and seconds 1041g Illinois Central 14014 Pennsylvania 60 Reading 135g reflect varied trading activity across major rail and utility stocks with prices listed in pounds and guineas.
A compiled shipment ledger shows imports at Boston Apalachicola London Leghorn Maracaibo Prospero and Smyrna including yellow pine lumber coal iron ore pianos woollens leatherware coffee tea flax waste paper beer pills and various eggs hides marble oil and other goods loaded on vessels such as schooners Nantasket Addie Benson Colonel Milliken Ovtene Susanna and Susanna in 1929 and 1930 with consignors brokers and traders including Baring Bros Co M Steinert & Sons W Haskins Darrow Salomon Seaman and Leighstone among others.
Maritime listings show cargoes from Cow Bay to Glasgow and London, with flour, meal, oils, cheese, tobacco, leather, lumber, and scheduled tonnage aboard brig, schooner, and steamer vessels. Notable consignments include 10,799 sacks flour and 56,000 pounds cheese aboard Waldensian from Glasgow, and 403 boxed iron castings plus 175 boxes cheese in London.
Receipts dated Tuesday August 17 show extensive consignments from Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, and Old Colony railroads. Items include flour, oats, corn, bran, lard, bacon, coffee, oleomargarine, cheese, eggs, leather, hides, pelts, and numerous bales and cases.
A compiled list shows buyers and agents from Abilene to Washington with firms such as Słapowski & Bro Tre Frank & Adler and Geo W Cady & Co. The ad-like roster includes numerous cities and representatives including Adler in Baltimore, Dearborn in Chicago, and McLauchlin in Seiz Schwab Co. It spans outfits in Cleveland, Charleston, Chattanooga, New York, Pittsburgh, Port Gibson, and more, reflecting a broad market network for boot and shoe purchases.
Readable segments show transfers of butter eggs flour and meat products plus large consignments of wool bales leather hides and various bales sacks and cases. Rail divisions Boston and Maine Fitchburg New York and New England Boston and Lowell and By Sea and By Express routes listed.
A table lists daily total receipts by commodity from all shipment sources, comparing current values to the same date in 1885 and 1886. Commodities include cotton bases, oleo packages, flour, eggs, corn, oats, wheat, potatoes, lumber, pork, lard, bacon, coffee, molasses, butter, and more, with figures beside each item.
A dense list shows departure times in Rochester Farmington Andover Danvers Exeter Great Falls Haverhill Kennebunk Riddeford Saco Lawrence North Lawrence South Lawrence Lowell Medford Melrose Merrimac North Andover Reading Wakefield Loret Wilmington and Dover. Times vary with morning and evening runs, including returns and multiple daily slots.
Aes of schedules show trains and times for numerous towns including Amesbury Beverly Chelsea Dover Everett Great Falls Rochester Hampton Ipswich Lynn Marblehead Middleton Newburyport North Conway Peabody Danvers Portsmouth Revere Rockport Gloucester Salem Swampscott Wenham Wolfeboro and Sunday services. The garbled OCR lists arrival departure times, am pm markers and branch notes across dense regional routes.
Leave Boston at 9 05 11 15 1 40 2 45 3 45 4 46 5 40 6 05 7 15 and 9 20 PM Sundays 10 30 11 45 am 12 15 12 45 1 20 1 45 2 15 2 45 3 15 3 45 4 45 5 10 5 45 6 25 7 15 8 50 9 30 PM City ticket office 306 Washington Street Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor trains James T Furber J Flanders GM and G Pax.
On and after Tuesday July 6 1886 Fitchbore Railroad issues new tram schedules from the Boston Wear routes. Morning departures include 6 30 AM and 8 30 AM with several express and sleeping car options to Chicago St Louis Albany Saratoga and other points. Through connections noted with New York Central West Shore and D H Co roads. Several intermediate stops listed including Troy Saratoza Greenfield and North Adams with varying ex and ex arrangements.
timetable shows trains from New York arriving on Monday Wednesday Friday at 11.15 pm and Tuesday Thursday Saturday at 11.15 pm with departures delays. Five minutes later on Tuesday Thursday Saturday and Friday. Detention at Mansfield until 9 pm if a line has not passed. A. A. Folsom.
The notice lists multiple timetable entries for Southborough, Berlin, Fitchburg, West Berlin, Boston and surrounding towns with departure and return times. It includes Sunday trains to Newton Lower Falls, Wellesley Hills, Newton Highlands, Brookline, and Newton stations, plus agents A Shanson and E Gallup with general supervision.
A dense OCR list of bus and train times across many towns including North Easton Stoughton Randolph Quincy Plymouth Scituate Whitman and more. It notes multiple return trips weekly with special routes via Abington Duxbury and Taunton and ends with signatures of J. Al Kendrick General Manager.
The Concord Branch and its northern connections announce new timetable starting June 28 1886. Departures from Boston B and L depot include 7 30 am 8 30 am 12 noon 1 pm 8 5 8 7 pm Sundays with additional express runs. returns from Concord list 5 30 am 7 30 am 10 20 am 2 50 pm 3 35 pm 5 05 pm.
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