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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1914
Page
18
The Board of Directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend of 219 percent payable April 20, 1914 to shareholders of record March 31, 1914. Transfer books close March 31 and reopen April 18, 1914. S. J. LeHury secretary and treasurer, 805 Eastern Townships Bank Building, Montreal.
Haverhill Massachusetts awards a temporary 140 000 loan for 1914 with bidders listed. Minneapolis St Louis directors seek ratification of bond actions in several large issues. Saco Maine invites bids for 50 000 funding bonds tax exemption. Boston & Albany equipment trust bonds purchased by Lee Higginson and Kidder Peabody total 2 128 million. Yonkers New York sells 392 000 bonds to Rhoades. Beverly Massachusetts invites bids for 200 000 temporary loan. New York State railways first consolidated mortgage bonds report earnings over twice interest.
The report from Contact Copper Co. shows assets of 1471 dollars for the year ending December 21 1913. Colonel H G Prout is elected president of Union Switch and Signal Co. to replace the late George Westinghouse. Island Creek Coal Co. earnings for January and February improve over last year. E F Baldwin becomes president of Assets Realization Co. succeeding G E Shaw. Winthrop Savings Bank gets a charter and will open at 73 Jefferson Street with A C Pops as president, Joseph L Newton and L T Harrington as vice presidents, and A E Whittemore as treasurer.
Detroit Edison and Eastern Michigan Edison announce regular quarterly dividends with April payment dates and March or April record dates. West Kootenay Power pays on April 1 to March 30 records. Westinghouse Air Brake offers 2 percent plus 1 percent extra. Poston Belting at $2. De Long Hook & Eye 2 percent. National Shawmut Bank 2 percent with April 1 payable.
Industrial stocks show notable strength with Agricultural Chemical up 2 5-8 to 59 1/8, American Tobacco advancing 5 1/8 to 25 7/8, and Virginia Carolina Chemical plus California Petroleum Preferred making substantial gains. The Annual Report of Steel Corporation for 1913 records 11.01 percent earned on common stock as Laconia Car Co passes its dividend.
Total sales in New York 143500 shares and Boston 19005. Reading led New York with 13400 shares and Alaska Gold led Boston with 4180. Jan 1 1914 to date NY 20414000 and Boston 1477748. Last year NY 19958100 and Boston 1514510. Largest gain NY American Tobacco 5 percent to 25474. largest loss NY Colorado & Southern 2d pt 3% to 30. Boston gain Boston & Albany 414 to 191. largest Boston loss Boston & Providence 8 to 247. Call money NY 3 percent. Boston 1% to 2 percent. Time money NY 4 to 4% and Boston 2 3 to 4%?
New York March 19 speculators saw a near deadlock with leading shares flat yet a steady undertone. Tobacco fertilizers and oil stocks gained, while express issues and some low priced rails weakened. Lehigh Valley rose early on short-covering and anti trust news. Rock Island bonds fell to new lows before a late recovery.
Trading drifted along narrow lines with interest split between Industrial and copper shares. Telephone advanced to 1231-2 amid strong local and New York demand, aided by Tax Day expectations. Alaska Gold Nipissing and Burlington bonds sparked activity, while American Agricultural Chemical rose to 6591-4. Market closed firm with light overall offerings.
Ex-dividend report shows total sales of 19 095 shares bonds amounting to 67 500 and rights at 8 176. The figures indicate market activity across equity debt and rights without further context.
The foreign exchange market held a steady tone with actual interbank activity. Sterling cables quoted at 4.8680 to 4.8685, demand at 4.8655 to 4.8660, sixty day at 4.8455 to 4.8470, commercial bills at 4.8355 to 4.8370, francs 5.1734, marks 9534, guilders 40.14 to 40.16 with a 1-16 point adjustment.
Copper on the New York Metal Exchange shows steady change with spot and May contracts around 13.62 to 14.37 for electrolytic copper and 14.50 for Lake copper. Tin trades quiet with spot around 38.05 to 38.25 and June 38.20 to 38.55. Lead and spelter hold near 3.95 to 4.05 and 5.25 to 5.35. Iron futures firm with Northern and Southern prices listed.
January 1914 imports show raw wool up to 24.5 million pounds valued at 5.22 million dollars while finished goods rise to 4.67 million dollars, signaling tariff effects. Steel Corporation reports 1913 gross business near 796.9 million dollars but net earnings at 137 million, with profit margins slipping from 22 percent in early years to 18.8 percent in the latest year. The Lacona Car Company notes a million dollars in preferred stock dividends, amid regional rail equipment questions and a 1912 Massachusetts incorporation with 1 million in preferred and 1 million in common stock.
Over the past week copper values moved sharply from 18.99 on March 16 to 13.95 on March 17 and 14.15-25 cents per pound on March 18. The quoted figures reflect actual net prices and typically run 1-4 cents below open market quotes.
Read ing and other rail stocks show large price gaps while divisions yield varying returns. Canada Pacific remains above 200 with under 6 percent yield. Union Pacific at 158 yields 6.30, Lehigh Valley at 146 yields 6.80, Reading at 164 yields 4.9. Reading keeps the market guessing despite government actions.
New England officials and workers packed Mechanics Building for Municipal Day at the Boston commercial motor vehicle show. Attendance and sales soared with fire apparatus a focal point as hundreds sought specifications and prices for municipal trucks.
A note about a full page color comic by Westerman in the next Sunday Post feature section features George W. Hobart with a playful Dinkel theme and humorous drawings.
At T wharf twelve schooners and two beam trawlers reported heavy captures of fresh groundfish while dealers posted lower prices for haddock cod hake pollock and cask. Vessels including Spray Heroine Sylvania and Ralph Brown returned with noted incidents and canal port trade expansion looms with California asphalt shipments and canal zone exports.
The Schooner John G. Walter was towed from the same wharf to an anchorage on South Boston flats. Schooner Fannie & Fay laid up at Teel's East Boston will depart for Stonington to load for New York. The Lotus and Genevieve laid up at Meany's Albany street were towed down. THE LANDSMAN.
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