The„ OnhinrrcitlIlrentrie INCLUDING Bank & Quotation Section Railway & Industrial Section Electric Railway Section Railway Earnings Section Bankers' Convention Section State and City Section A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Representing the Industrial Interests of the United States. JULY TO DECEMBER, 1910, INCLUSIVE VOLUME LXXXXI. AM B. DANA COMPANY, PUBLIISHERS. FRONT, PINE & DEPEYSTER STS., NEW YORK. Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis s, Copyrighted in 1911 according to Act of Congress. by WILLIAM B. DANA COMPANY, inloffice/of Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C. - •• Digitized for FRASER http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis JULY-DECEMBER, 19 1 O. 1 INDEX. III INDEX TO THE NINETY-FIRST VOLUME. JUT1Y 1 TO DECEMBER 31 1910. EDITORIAL AND COMMUNICATED ARTICLES. Page. Page. Page A riculture and Electricity , 368 British. See also "English" or "Great Brit- Liability of Banks for Misuse of Checks 1-Inierican Bankers to Invade Foreign ain." by Officials 1677 Fields (F. S.) 753 British Budget Introduced in House of Minnesota Commodity Rates Held by American Finance, a Foreign View of the Commons (F. S.) Master to be Confiscatory 752 Situation 555 British Elections and Sobriety of Thought, Nebraska Law Fixing Fidelity Rates In- American Sugar Refining Co., Supreme &c.(F. S.) 1537, 1597 valid 1351, 1414 Court (U. S.) Decision Against and Its British Foreign Trade Returns (F. S.)_364, 1537 N. Y. Bank Tax Assessment for 1907 Bearing on Other Cases (F. S.) 1594 British Politics, the New Turn in 1357 Upheld 130 Anthracite Anti-Trust Cases Decided in Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., Development Private Banking Law of Nevada Uncon- Favor of Roads, but Temple Iron Co. Held of 495 stitutional 1682 an Unlawful Combination 1547 Bryan, William J., Repudiated 239, 1286 Private Banking Law of New York De- Anti-Trust Law, New Prosecutions (F. S.) Bucks Stove & Range Co. Reaches Under- clared Unconstitutional 1001 4, 1594, 1732 standing with Labor Organizations (F. S.) 178 Private Banking Law of New York Up- Anti-Trust Prosecutions, Attorney-General Building Construction Operations, Monthly held 564, 1418 Wickersham Prides Himself on His Rec- Features of (F. S.)_ -12), 428, 754, 1062, Private Banking Law of New York Up- ord (F. S.) 4 1355, 1598 held by U. S. Supreme Court-see next vol. Arbitrage Operations between New York Business, Federal Policy in Its Relations to_1541 Credit Bureau to be Established by Comp- and Europe-Action of Stock Exchange 1681 Business hesitancy Due to Timidity, En- troller of Currency (F. S.) 832 Argentina .New Railways in ' 1739 gendered by Political Influences (F. SO_ _ 176 Crops, Condition of (F. S.)__61, 362, 611, Argentina's Promising Future (F. S.) 487 Business Interests, Not Political Affairs, 995, 1536 Argentine Progress 1680 Should be Promoted (F. S.) 118 Currency Associations and Commercial Paper 562 Art Commission, New York, Work It Can Business Situation, No Element of Unsound- Currency Associations Recommended and • Do (F. S.) 1731 ness 424 Established _ _130, 178, 189, 249, 311, Atchison and Rock Island Employees Pell- 436, 496, 563, 689, 842, 917, 1072, - • tion Inter-State Commerce Commission to anada, Commercial Relations of U. S. 1220, 1681 Permit Some Rate Advances (F. 425 C with 179, 1289, 1353, 1409 Currency Question, Address by Mr. War- Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Report 914 Canada, Tariff Negotiations with (F. S.) 675 burg (F. S.) 1350 Atlantic Coast Line RR. Report 1359 Canadian Bank Clearings 73, 315, 566, Customs Revenues, Suggestion for Paying Aviation, an Epochal Week, &c.(F. S.)..426, 613 919, 1222, 1490 in Certified Checks 916 Canadian Pacific's Wonderful Growth and altimore & Ohio RR. and Business Re- Prosperity 761 Dana,William B., His Life and Policy.986 1120 LP vival 997 Canadian Parliament Opened (F. S.) 1353 anbury Hatters' Case, Open Shop Aban- Bank Absorptions in England (F. S.) 677 Capital, a New Impediment to Obtaining 836 doned 178 Bank Clearings at Leading Cities, Monthly, Carlisle, John G., Death of (F. S.) 299 Debt Statement, U. S__252, 440, 693, 920, 74, 316, 567, 919, 1223, 1491 Carnegie Peace Fund (F. S.) 1596 • 1304, 1685 Dank Clearings, Monthly Feature of (F. S.), Cassatt, Late President of Penn. RR., Democratic Convention in Nebraska, Bryan 64, 302, 552, 909, 1209, 1478 Statue in New Terminal (F. S.) 299 Rebuffed (F. S.) 239 Bank Clearings by Telegraph_ _73, 567, 919, Census Figures of Population 1656, 1787 Democratic Party Victorious at Elections_ _1286 1222, 1490 Central Bank, Paul M. Warburg on • 1350 Denver & Rio Grande RR., Prosperity of 493 Bank of France Lends to Bank of England_1122 Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Report 763 Bank Guaranty Deposit Law- Chicago Burlington & Quincy RR. and Its lections-Triumph of Conservatism and a Kansas 1219 Operating Results 1216 E-.Rebuke to Radicalism 1286. 1293 Oklahoma 312, 437 Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Annual Electric Street Railway Progress in England Bank Note Circulation, Tax on, Not Equal- Report 682 See "Electric Ry. Section" Oct. 1. ized 14 Chicago & North Western Report and the Electric Traction, the Need of Standardiza- Bank Note Issues, Mr. Rhett's Plan for. ..1218 Rise in Operating Cost 837 tion-See "Electric Ry. Section" Oct. 1. Bank Notes, Changes in Totals of, &c. Chill, Death of Prest. Montt in Berlin (F.S.) 426 Electrical Trust (so-called), Contemplated (monthly)_193, 373, 441, 569, 921, 1225, 1687 China, Closer Financial Relations with 1544 Attack by Government on (F. S.)_ _1594, 1732 Bank Reserves Not Required against Time China, Loan by U. S. Bankers 1134, Electricity and Agriculture 368 Deposits 311 1214, 1289, 1544 Emergency Currency Associations, Sugges- Bank Stock Sales_ _14, 70, 130, 189, 249, Chinese Boycott Against American Goods tion by Sec. of Treas, as to Forming (F.S.) 178 311, 436, 496, 562, 633, 688, 764, 841, Proclaimed at Canton (F. 5.) 301 Emigration and Immigration, Monthly Fea- 916, 1000, 1071, 1134, 1219, 1301, 1363 Chinese Demand an Elective Parliament(F.S) 6 tures of (F. S.) .5, 305 1417, 1487, 1549, 1607, 1681,1740 Cholera, Scrutiny Here of Passengers from England Bank of, Advances Discount Rate Bank Tax Assessment for 1907 Upheld_ _ 130 Infected Areas Wise (F. S.) 677, 908 (F. S.) 831, 1059 Banks, Liability of for Misuse of Checks by Cholera in Southern Russia and Italy (F. S.) England, Bank of, Lowers Discount Rate Corporation Officials 1677 427, 614, 755, 833 (F. S.) 1476 Banks, N. Y. City, Large Reserves (F. SO_ 486 "Chronicle," The, and Publicity 1120 England, Electric Street Railway Progress in Banks and the Treasury, Facilitating Opera- Cloakmakers' Strike, Justice Goff's Decision See "Electric Ry. Section" Oct. 1. tions Between 916 (F. S.) 549 England, Oath to be Taken by King Bankers' Convention at Los Angeles_ _830, 1000 Coal-The Decision in the Anthracite Cases_1547 Amended (F. S.) 7, 240 Bankers' Convention at Los Angeles, Report - Commerce Court, President's Appointments 1681 English Elections, After the 1675 of Proceedings and Addresses in Full. See Comptroller of Currency Institutes Reforms, English Politics 1481 Bankers' Convention Section, Oct. 15. 191, 633, 689, 765, 832, 842, 1740 Equitable Life Assurance Society New Bankers' Convention Section. See follow- Concrete, Multiplying Uses of 1679 Trustees Not Yet Appointed 1550 • log articles, &c.: Congress-A Deputy Congress, Working by Erie RR., the Transformation of 1066 • Editorial Articles- Proxy 617 European Banks Advance Discount Rates • Bankers and Currency. Congressional Elections-Defeat of Repub- (F. S.) 831 • History Los Angeles Banks. licans _1286 European Discount Rates, Changes in (F.S.) 992 • Frisco Banking Growth. Conservation of the Country's Resources, European Investors Large Purchasers of • Banking Section- Divergent Views on (F. S.) 609 Our Stocks (F S.) 240 . Commercial View of Currency. Consols (British), the Low Price of 1126 Express Strike Settled (F. S.) 1213, 1354 Pacific Coast and Currency. Copper Production, Monthly (F. S.). _ _361, • Bankruptcy Law. 609, 1288, 1535 Failures, Monthly Features of (F. S.),_120, • Banker as Public Servant. Copper Situation in the United States (F.S.)1354 363, 613, 922, 1210, 1479 • Southern View of Currency. Corn, Wheat and Other Food Crops of 1910_1297 Fall River Mill Dividends._677, 692, 1298, 1421 • The Monetary Commission. Cotton Bills of Lading-See Bills of Lading. Farquhar-Pearson Security Holdings Taken Report of Secretary. Cotton Consumption of Europe and the ' Over 238 Report of General Council. World (by Cable) 1062, 1071 Federal Corporation Tax Returns, How to be Report of Treasurer. Cotton Crop, Annual Report for 1909-10_613,621 Made Public 1487 l'rotective Committee. Cotton Crop Condition of, &c.(F. S.)._ _ _5, Federal Railroad Act-A Deputy Congress Fidelity Bonds. 300, 550, 909, 1121 Working by Proxy 617 • Report Executive Council. Cotton Crop Estimate of Department of Fidelity Insurance, State Regulation of Bills of Lading Committee. Agriculture (F. S.) 1536 Rates Unconstitutional 1414 • Report on Express Companies. Cotton Ginning Report and Advance in Finance, American, a Foreign View of the Standing Law Committee. Price (F. S.) .0 407 Situation 555 Currency Commission. Cotton High Under Manipulation (F. S.) 179 Finland Antagonizes the Czar (F. S.) 677 • Legislature Committee. Cotton "Leak" Cases Prosecuted by U. S.. 15 Finland, Threatened Russian Absorption of • Detailed Proceedings. Cotton Manufacturers' (National Associa- (F. S.) 489 • Trust Company Section- tion) Semi-annual Meeting (F. S.) 755 Fire Insurance Companies and Fire Under- . Prepared Addresses. Cotton Manufacturing at Fall River-Mill writers' Assn.(F. S.) 241 • Detailed Proceedings. Dividends, &c 677, 692, 1298, 1421 Fire Insurance Companies and State of • Savings Bank Section- Cotton Manufacturing in Japan and India_ _1738 Indiana (F. S.) 1121 • Prepared Addresses. Cotton Manufacturing-Lockout in Lan- Fire Insurance. See also Insurance. • Detailed Proceedings. cashire and Settlement (F.