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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1915
Page
16
A new supplementary loan to London banks adds to the existing $500 million Anglo French loan, with an initial $50 million installment. The market responds with a sharp FX jump to 4.71, the highest in weeks, as exporters face a record October trade surplus and expect further large credit extensions.
United Metals Selling Company and major sellers push electrolytic copper to 19 1/2 cents a pound with predictions of 20 cents before Thanksgiving. Calumet & Hecla reports large 1916 sales, while London quotes show G M B copper at £1 10s for copper and £80 1s for futures, tin futures at £171, lead at £27, and shelter at £98.
New York cotton futures show firm to steady trading with bids at 11.64 to 12.09 for front months and a spot around 11.75. Liverpool prices close at 11.55 with futures opening dull and market described as very steady after early activity.
Last hour activity shows New York total sales 552 800 shares and Boston 62 413. Most active in New York was Steel with 48 300 shares. Boston saw Ventura Oil at 11 281. Year to date totals: New York 155 653 000 shares, Boston 10 774 698. Compared to last year New York 46 500 900 and Boston 3 268 807. Notable gains and losses include Texas Co up 114 percent to 192 in New York and Mergenthaler down 71 percent to 1721 in Boston.
New York market shows extreme inertia with total 583000 shares traded, the smallest in about two months. Gains noted in General Motors and Texas Company lift spirits briefly, but overall stocks slip as rails, war shares, and copper weaken. tomorrow’s bank statement expected to show cash gain.
Boston November 19 review of high, low and closing prices for securities traded on the Boston Stock Exchange with comparison to the previous close. The list includes bonds and related market data summarized for the day.
Boston market notes a sharp rebound as metals rally on news of price gains in London. Zinc leads with a jump to 18 1 2 cents, Butte & Superior hit multi month highs, copper climbs fractions, while Alaska Gold steadies after prior declines. Braden and Kennecott bonds rise on the copper boom.
New York trading shows robust absorption with key deals in Baltimore & Ohio St Paul New York Central and Southern Pacific. Notable names include American Telephone American Smelting Illinois Steel and United States Steel with totals for the day $4.45 million on sales versus $5.42 million prior day and $7.18 million a week ago.
Current quotations list call loans at 3 to 8 percent with commercial loans at 3 to 6 percent and year money at 4 percent. Sub Treasury credits and New York exchanges show minor gains from Friday while foreign exchange remains strong with afternoon rates for sterling at 4.70 and francs at 5.90.
Prominent Boston writers and artists received gold medals at the National Institute of Arts and Letters annual meeting in Jordan Hall. Recipients included William Dean Howells, James Whitcomb Riley, Augustus St Gaudens, and Augustus Thomas, with Brand Whitlock’s Belgian paper read by Hamlin Garland. Percy Mackaye presented Federation.
New members elected to the society include Gamaliel Bradford historian of Boston Charles R Miller journalist of New York Elihu Root orator of New York Ellery Sedgwick editor of Boston Henry Osborn Taylor author of New York Robert I Aitken sculptor of New York Ralph Adams Cram architect of Boston James Earl Fraser sculptor of New York Bertram G Goodhue architect of New York Breck Trowbridge architect of New York Ernest R Kroeger composer of St Louis and Arne Oldberg composer of Evanston Ill Addresses were made by Arnold D Brunner city planning expert and President Nicholas Murray Butler of
State troops veterans and civic groups arrived in Niles to participate in the corner stone laying of the National McKinley Birthplace Memorial. National figures including Governor Frank Willis Myron Herrick James Hoyt and L C Dyer will speak as part of a veterans parade and Marine Band program.
A meeting of freight handlers, freight clerks, the Boston Central Labor Union and the American Federation of Labor concluded no lasting settlement. General Organizer Frank H. McCarthy stated the fight has just begun as freight workers remain unhappy with the Boston firms and New Haven line agreements.
Dr Henry H Goddard of the New Jersey Training School told the Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene that offspring of feeble minded individuals are increasing at four to one while that of desirable parents falls below two. He urged study of eliminating feeble minded from the population and planning action.
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