Wrights seek extra time to tune up new airplane
The War Department granted the Wright brothers a thirty day extension to conduct preliminary flights before the official test at Fort Myer. Orville Wright will fly with a companion, likely Lieuts Lahm or Foulois, to tune the aeroplane with larger propellers and revised planes while obstructions are cleared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cwrral
New York Times
Washington
Wright Brothers
War Department
Wrights
Avi
Orville Wright
Army Post
Orville. Wright
Broad Parade
Wilbur
Signal Corps
Fort Myer
Reform in curb listing tightens quarterly reports
The Curb market on Broad Street issued a circular from Curb agent E S Mendels demanding quarterly reports from mining firms whose shares trade there. Brokers had begun cleaning up fake stocks. now companies must have an officer sign statements filed quarterly. A Stock Exchange committee investigates potential curbs on outside brokers to align with Consolidated Exchange discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broad Street
E. S. Mendels
The
Stock Exchange
Union Pacific Preferred Stock Rise Spurs Retirement Talk
A rise of more than 5 points to 103 percent in Union Pacific preferred stock fueled talk in the financial district about possible retirement or exchange into common stock at one for two. Executives and Harriman associates are said to have discussed a segregation plan for investments, with preferred stockholders likely to resist unless they share in benefits. About $99.54 million of Union Pacific preferred remains outstanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Financial
E. H. Harriman
Harriman
James Stillman
Paris
Union Pacific Preferred
H. H. Rogers
United States Presses for American Share in Hankow Loan
London reports Washington would accept a 20 percent share to ease European participation but insists on a full quarter of the $27,500,000 loan and demands American rights under the 1904 convention be recognized. Peking opens the International Banking Corporation branch in East, the first American bank among British French German and Japanese lenders. Washington inquiry notes no confirmation of a 20 percent offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
Great Britain
China
America
State Department
Europe
France
Germany
Foreign Office
T 9
Peking
The
International Banking Corporation
East
Toay
Washington
Receiver Appointed for Leeds & Catlin phonograph firm
In Middletown Connecticut Judge Case in Hartford named former Sheriff Tomas F. Brown temporary receiver for Leeds & Catlin Company under a $100000 bond. He will seize books and property. A July 7 hearing will decide permanent receiver and two appraisers amid financial troubles linked to a US Supreme Court patent infringement ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Conn
Hartford
Hamilton Trust Company
New York
Leeds & Catlin Company
Tomas F. Brown
Supreme Court of the United States
Pictorial Treat in The Times Picture Section Next Sunday
The Times Picture Section next Sunday will entertain with a wide range of photographs. Highlights include a full page of baseball pictures showing the science of the game and the ball in flight. Additional features cover the Tuxedo Horse Show Pierrot London Horse Show and notable paintings and portraits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Times
Dayton
London
New York Stage
New York
Metropolitan Museum
Do Not Fail to Order Your Sunday Times
A brief notice urges readers to subscribe in advance through their Newsdealer for the upcoming Sunday edition. It emphasizes prepaid orders and timely delivery arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunday Times
Stocks Enter Listing With Bonds and Stocks Added
Governing Committee admitted multiple securities to listing including Southern Railway Company bonds totaling 41.3 million, Chesapeake & Ohio bonds to 44.4 million, Chicago Indiana & Southern bonds 15.15 million, Duluth Mesabe & Northern bonds 9.274 million, and other issues from New Orleans Railway Light, Pacific Telephone, and Detroit Edison. Also listed were Pacific Telephone preferred and common stock and a large 35 million irrigation and agriculture development issue in South America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Railway Company
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company
Chicago, Indiana & Southern Railroad Company
Duluth, Mesabe & Northern Railway Company
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company
Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company
New Orleans Railway & Light Company
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
Institution For
South America
South & North Alabama Railroad Company
Detroit Edison Company
Auction sale of stocks bonds and notes at Vesey Street
Securities disposed at the Exchange Salesroom Adrian H Muller & Son auctioneers include bonds of Atchison Topeka Santa Fe 4 percent due 1995 and United States Sugar Refinery Company 6 percent due 1921, various stock lots from Central Trust Dixon Crucible Chase National Bank and others, plus notes and mortgages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vesey Street
Adrian H. Muller & Son
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Broadway. Trust Company
Mate
Dixon Crucible Company
Continental Insurance Company
Union Ferry Company
Central Trust Company
Julius Braun
Catherine G. Lee
New York
Raton Water Works Company
Valencia County
New Mexico
Grain and Provisions See Wheat Bearish Crop Advices
Grain and provisions markets reflect bearish crop signals from winter and spring belts. Export sales around 50 loads, mostly Manitoba, to Winnipeg and Duluth for October shipment. Cash wheat in New York quotes No. 2 red around 1.47, No. 1 Northern 1.35, and No. 2 hard Winter 1.31, with other prices noted. Corn prices slip on crop prospects with No. 2 old at 0.82 and No. 2 new around 0.66 bids in futures markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Duluth
Berlin
New York
Northern
Market Summary From Chicago Stocks June 23
Special to The New York Times reports mixed trading at the local Exchange. Stocks like Edison and National Biscuit rise while Street's Stable Car and Booth Fisheries show modest gains or declines. Notable price moves include Diamond Match, Swifts, and Biscuits across several issues with mixed daily totals and closing levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Biscuit Preferred
Booth
Edison
Booth Fisheries
a.Booth Fisheries Pf
Chicago Bys
de Ianchiceee Subway
Chicago Title & Trust
Chicago Telephone
Com. Edison
Ihminois
K. C. Light
Carbon
Nat. Biscuit
Nat. Biscuit Pf
People’s Gas
Quaker Oats
Street’s
Swift & Co
Sears-Roebuck
United Boxboard
Treasury Reserve Fund Update Opens Business
Washington June 23 The Treasury opened with the reserve fund status noted as the initial condition of the department for the day. The brief bulletin states the reserve position as part of the morning report on government finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
European Markets Shows Demand and Cautious Gains
London trading was cheerful yet small in scale amid plenty of money for new issues as the Turkish 20 million dollar loan at 4 percent oversubscribed threefold. American securities opened steady then firmed with Union Pacific AT&SF and US Steel supported by New York. Paris and Berlin reports show steady to irregular closes with hopes of tax measures influencing activity.
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London
Stock Exchange
New York
Union Pacific
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fé
United States Steel
The
Franklin Society
New York City
Banking
Franklin Society For Home Building and Savings
Beekman St
Mineral stock prices show varied fortunes in mining markets
The short note lists assorted mining stocks with figures in pounds shillings and pence, including Camp Bird Esperanza Tomboy Dolores and Stratton's Ind. with values such as 186, 0.215, and 0.126, indicating dealer quotes and price movements.
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S. d
Camp Bird
Esperanza
Tomboy
Dolores
Stratton
Ind
Iron and Steel Notes Highlight Rail Orders and Trade
The Iron Age reports the Harriman rail order allocations with 79 000 to 80 000 tons to Chicago and 12 000 tons to the Mexican system for Carnegie. Colorado Fuel and Iron wins 22 000 to 25 000 tons as overall rail bookings near 225 000 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron Age
Harriman
Chicago
Tennessee Company
Carnegie Company
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
New Jersey Central
Reading Road
Baltimore & Ohio
Pittsburg Mills
Atlantic Coast
Pennsylvania
Iron Trade Review
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Rail and Billet Division
England
Germany
Weather forecast for cotton and grain states Thursday and Friday
United States Weather Bureau forecast shows local showers in several states including North and South Carolina Georgia Eastern Florida and Oklahoma and Arkansas Thursday and Friday. Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota and Kansas expect varying showers or fair conditions with modest winds.
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Washington
United States Weather Bureau
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Batten Wins Advertising Men's Lawn Tennis Title
Joseph Z. Batten, retired Princeton intercollegiate champion, defeated R. A. West 10-8, 6-4 in the West Side Tennis Club final after advancing from a field of 64. Three thousand fans attended as the Old Guard Band played. organizers plan to make the event an annual tournament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Z. Batten
Princeton
West Side
238Th Street
van Cortlandt Park
Batten
R. A. West
Old Guard
Dividends Declared by Banks and Pipe Company in 1909
United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry announces a 1%% dividend on preferred stock payable September 1 1908, with books closing June 29 and reopening July 2 1909. Bank of the Manhattan declares 6 percent dividend payable July 1 1909. transfer books close June 26. Columbia Bank also declares 6 percent dividend payable July 1 1909.
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United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company
Broadway
New York
Court of Chancery of
New Jersey
Court of Errors and Appeals
Tuedsay
Haughton
Columbia Bank
Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street
W. S. Griffith
Bank of New York National Banking Association
Chas. Olney
German Exchange Bank
Edmund F. Swanberg
THE _PEOPLE’S BANK
William Milne
the National Butchers and * Drovers’ Bank
WM. H. Chase
Casnter
Fourth National Bank of the City of
Charles H. Patterson
Hanover National Bank
City of
Elmer E. Whittaker
Phenix National Bank
City of New York
B. L. Haskins
United Fruit Company Dividend No. 40 Declared
United Fruit Company declares a quarterly dividend of two percent on capital stock payable July 15, 1909, at the treasurer's office 181 State Street Boston to stockholders of record June 26 1909.
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Southern Pacific CO
Broadway
New York
Southern Pacific Company
A. K. van Deventer
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RY. Company
Grand Central Station
N. Y
State Street
Boston
Mass
Canada Sa
Charles F. Cox
Michigan Central Railroad Company
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis Ry. Co
Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Co
Guaranty Trust CO
N. Y. New York
C. Hebbard
GEO. C. Flint CO
West 23d Street
New York City
Ethelbert Belknap
Henry A. Schenck
William E. Knox
Joseph G. Liddle
Dry Dock Savings Institution
Bowery, Cor
Awkdrew Mills
WM. F. Patterson
Charles Miehling
Union Dime Savings Bank
ST. and
6Th Avenue
Greeley Square
Charles E. Sprague
Francis M. Leake
William G. Ross
Bank For Savings
City OF New York
Fourth Avenue
Board of Trustees
Walter Tremble
Charles A. Sherman
James Knowles
Bank dividends and bond sales noted in 1909 notices
Multiple financial notices announce quarterly and semiannual dividends from Commercial Trust Company, Union Exchange National Bank of New York, The People’s Bank, Phenix National Bank, and Guaranty Trust Co. of N Y. Transfers close on various dates, with specific record times, and a first mortgage bond sale by The Cleveland and Marietta Railway Co. is set for bidding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chase National Bank
United States
First Mortgage
United States Express Company
Merchants’ National Bank
Union Bank of Brooklyn
Lawyers Title Insurance and Trust Company
Retsof Mining Company
First
Germania Fire Insurance Company
Standard Gas Light Company of
New York
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company
Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railway Company
American Foundry and Machinery Company
American Cotton Company
L. Co. Fuller
C. J. Purcell
Fanny B. Purcell
Greene Consolidated Gold Company
Cleveland and Marietta Railway Company
Pittsburgh
Farmers’ Loan and Trust ‘Company
New York City
T. H. B. McKnight
Kansas City Southern Railway CO
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
New York Trust Company
Broad Street
J. A. Edson
R. 4. Sperry
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Brothers
Prat
U. P
Leeds & Catlin
T. F. Brown
the Times
Grain and Provisions
H. Low
Chicago Stock Market
the Treasury Balances
Reserve Fund
London Exchange
Lon- N. Y. N.Y. Netden
Equiv
Close
Ch'ge
Atchison Sraistaate
St. Can. Pacific
Sta? Paul
Ccocee
Erie Seer
Erie
Uis. & Nash
N.Y. Central
Ccccces
So. Pacific
Notiex
Union Pac
U. S. Steel
U. S. Steel Pf
Foreign Public Securities
Cologne
Augsburg
Munich
Frankfurt-A-M
Vienna
Consol
Iron and Steel Notes
Bank OF the Manhattan Company
Manhattan Company
D. H. Pierson
United Fruit Company
Charles A. Hubbard
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway CO
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Company
Wall Street
J. A. Hilton
Union Exchange National Bank OF New York
David Nevius
Garfield National Bank
Twenty-third St
Sixth Avenue
W. L. Douglass
the Market and Fulton National Bank
T. J. Stevens
Cowpertinall Bedding Co
Park Row
WM. H
Bowery Savings Bank
Bowery, New York
Chambers St
W. H. B. Totten
George B. Dunning
H.e.tener,jr
Dollar Savings Bank
Avenue
John Haffen
WM. M. Kern
NEW York Savings Bank
N. W. Cor
14Th St
8Th Avenue
William Fellinger
James L. Wandling
Archibald M. Pentz
United. Traction and Electric Company
Jersey City
N. J
C. S. Sweetland
Bank OF America
W. M. Bennet
National Bank of the City
ER. V. Gambier
Vip Cise
Central 1 Mines Company
Wall Stre Jensen
Cobalt Sentral Mines Co
Ft Oe
Paar
Thomas J. Cloney
East River National Bank
E. Newell
National Bank OF New York
H. H. Powell
Seamen’s Bank For Savings
Savings Bank
Daniel Barnes
George M. Halsey
Mathusher & Son
Bryant
Newark Av
Jersey Way & 4Th
Front St
Broad St
Re -Red Bank
N.M
Estey Piano CO
West 29Th ST
REAL
Steinway Upright
Christman Upright
Y Sohmer
Chickering Upright
Steinnway Baby Grand
Christman Sons
W. 14Th St
Sellew
Fulton ST
Bronx
Ela Doe
Sares
Pure Iter Gales Co
Cortlandt, Budd & CO
Spring St
Subway
York Safe& Lock CO
J. M. Mossman
Maiden Lane
Franklin Desk
East 23d St
Eas Tee
Typewriter Exchange
Barclay
Ingleside
New Milford
Litchfield Co
WM. D. Black
Patroneaa
Airedale
Church St
NEW York Supreme Court
County OF
Anna C. Wildey
Constantin Pflumm
Amalia Minna Pflumm
Amalia
Amalie Minna Pflumm
State of New York
County of New York
Pierre W. Wildey
Post
Beaver Street
Manhattan
Orten
Vernon M. Davis
Supreme Court of
County Court House
Live Facts of Finance
New York Times Weekly Financial Review
Times Square
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