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Optinued from Page 8). The Fatrel's crew went to work. -.- '(Continued from Page 6) Morning came, and with its One of them had four cracked ribs, tion has declared a dividend of 25 coming the wind fulled somewhat. though that was not known till cents, both payable on January 1 Good. The Petrel's skipper brought many days later. The Petrel's ribs of Stocks on December 7."Reuter.
Market Factors her up to face the wind again. In were not cracked. those terrific seas she looked, and Lest it crush her side in, the The following telegrams were re- was, scarce larger than a walnut Petrel's crew must first cut away (ceived by Messrs. 8. E. Levy and shell: a tiny black fragment, now the wreckage of her masts and Co. from Reuter:
The American Telephone and lifted high upon a screaming moun-boom. Doing so, they saved what tain ridge, now tossed to the green canvas they could. And, having Telegraph Co. has declared a regu- deepe of a moaning foam-flecked sea saved some canvas, they nailed Itlar quarterly dividend of $2.52 per
down over the broken hatch, and share.
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Scarce was the Petrel brought up stoven deck; and next drove &
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The Favourable factors:-(1) to face the wind again than the hur-hawser tight into the two inch pressure against Utilities seems to (2) The volume of ricane came back to blow with a crack. Dark set in while they were be lessening, ferocity even greater than before. still nailing: for it had taken much trading continues to dwindle on set- (2) Notwithstanding the Very well, then! Now with her time to find hammer and nails in backs..
of the current Indecisive moveniants, most helm lashed, she must face it: must the wreck and confusion be allowed her own way.
cabin. While the hurricane blew commentators remain moderately Throughout the forenoon the on, and unseen snow drove by, and bullish. (4) Steel operations in Petrel, trembling despite herself, sprays battered their faces and Chicago have increased two points faced the ceaseless fury of the burstung their eyes, and the seas rolled to 88 per cent, of capacity. ricane. You might choose any over them and the Petrel, they] Unfavourable factors:-(1) Int- word you care to attempt to describe nailed in the dark.
tiative is lacking. (2) Weakness in the violence of the wind, the wild- And having at last completed Wheat is disturbing sentiment. (8) Empr. of Asia. Nov. 30 Dec.. 2 Dec.
Empr. of Canada.Dec. 14 Dec. 16 ness of the sea, and your word their nailing they found, by feeling Public participation remains at
Empr. of Ruszia.....Jan. 16 Jan. 18 Jan. Empr. of Japan ...Jan. 29 Jan. 31 and not by seeing at all, the Petrel low ebb. would be insufficient.
Empr. of Asia.... Feb. 13 Feb. 15 Feb. Say that wind and sea were un herself telling them of it by her
Night TelegraIES
Empr. of Canada..Feb. 26 Feb. 28 theiri imaginable, impossible, insane, and slow sluggish motion, that
The following telegrams were Empr. of Russia..Mar. 8 Mar. 10 Mar. you would be nowhere at all near ship was still filling with water. received by Mesirs. S. E. Levy and Empr, of Japan ..Mar. 22 Mar. 24 it. Name them brutal, name them Somewhere in the darkness below Co. from Reuter:--
Empr. of Asin ....Apr. 8.Apr. 7 Apr. barbaric, and still you name them decks, in the bold that was already The National Biscuit Company Empr. of Canada.Apr. 19 Apr. 21 not rightly. As though aware that waist-deep In water, there were has declared a regular quarterly Empr. of Russia May 5 May 5 May they could ignore utterly all ships, buckets. They went down into the dividend of 50 cents per share, big or little, there was in them hold then, and having neither The report of the Public Service something sinister.
matches nor lantern nor light of of. New Jersey for the year ended It was, indeed, as though they any sort, held fast to one another October 81st shows a net income of said, "We will it. chaos comes" and groped for buckets. And hav- $24,942,000, against $26,811,000 the And so, indomitable-hearted, though ing found a bucket for each they previous year, quivering in her every oaken timber, came back up to the dark deck, into The American Sugar Refining the Petrel dared the weather's sarthe snow, and the spray, the spume, Company has declared £ regular and sea thunder, and began to bule. dividend of 50 cents per share. The Noon came. Leaving one man on All night they haled. Hungry, Company has also called for the re- deck to watch lest some other ship, frozen, sea-soaked, amitten by sleet demption of 6 per cent. bonds to the or some vessel left derelict by the and snow, they baled till the dawn value of $1,515,000 at 102% and storm that had as yet done her no came. And when dawn came the thua completing the retirement of harm, come too close, the skipper Petrel still floated, and the hur- this issue.
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and two men went below for food. ricane showed signs of abating. Department Store sales in the
Sheltering as best he might be They might yet win then? How New York Metrópolitan area during] –– side the mainmast, the solitary look could they win!
the first half of November are esti- out-man gazed through flying It was 24 hours since the crew mated at 3.2 per cent. above those apume to the roaring waters ahead; of the Petrel had eaten. There was of the corresponding period of lasti and presently, so gazing, saw, ad-time to eat now? But where was year.
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vancing toward his walnut shell, a food? The sole food left in the It is learned from authoritative sea yet vaster than any sea that had [ship was part of a small keg of salt sources that laws for the limitațion yet been,
pork, and a sack of potatoes. of stature and influence of Utilities And since there was no fire, and holding companies would be recom- For a moment, watching the: Petrel rise upon the as yet un-ino means of making fire, they must mended to President Roosevelt by broken comber's onward-rolling side, eat pork and potatoes raw. They the National Power Commission. feeling her lift to meet it, the look-ate, and returned to their baling. Wall Street opened steady with out-man prayed that it might not And by night the hurricane was movements very narrow. Trading carl above and break upon. her.jabated.
was moderately active. Sentiment Fór five days the crew of the was cheerful and some improvement Then seeing the coming curl, he ran from beafde the mast and dived Petrel lived on raw salt pork and seems Indicated. within the companionway beneath raw potatoes, baled, and baled, and The daily average petroleum pro- baled. If ever any man of them duction was 2,411,000 barrels. The What happened then only a sallor slept it was when he could no weekly production of electricity, con Burmise. Had she been less longer hold his eyes open, and slept according to the "Edison Electric valiantly obstinate, had she, Instead on his feet. And all the time the Institute" was 1,691,000,000 kw. of pointing her bows to the wea-wind blew from the south, and hours, an increase of 4.6 per cent. ther, permitted herself to drift even slowly drove the Petrel away from on last year. The "Iron Age" esti- a little to leeward, the Petrel might her destination.
mates steel production at 28.5 per quite possibly have awum on But at last, ten days after the cent. of capacity. The expansion, harmed. Now, caught by a wave Petrel left Lerwick, the wind haul-although still hesitant and irregular, At the she could not meet, despite her ed and came fair. There had been, is gathering momentum. vallance, she was tossed aside, and still was, no sun. There had same time the reaffirmation of the caught broadside on, and utterly been no glimpse of any star. There present prices of pig fron and finish- LONDON SERVICE. engulfed. Precisely what happened was still nothing. Bave the immen-led steel producte for the first quar- below, no man can say.
Bity of cold grey mocking waiting ter has had a salutary offect and le Those who were there could not. sea.
expected to accelerate the upward It seemed to them to be eternity, Guessing, the Petrel's skipper trend. but could not have been more than judged that his ship was some 70
vn-
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E. A. Pierce Co.'s Report a moment ere they knew the general miles from the coast of Norway. In their market report, the happening. What they did know Seventy miles, winter, and no mast American Oriental Finance Cor of that eternal-seeming moment was left whereon to set a rag of canvast poration, correspondent for Messta. that all was derk, and that they But there was a way out of that E. A. Pierce and Company New stood upon their heads; then on too. In the hold they discovered a York state: their feet again; and that they were twelve foot length of spruce. They "Stocks: The cessation in Utility 80th Jan. Bea-drenched, bruised, broken and had found it afloat while fishing a liquidation and the regular dividend
half-drowned.
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When the light returned, such picked it from the sea, and, think and Telegraph Co. imparted a light, that is, as may be in aling, some day when there was time stronger tone, with Motor issues northern hurricane in winter time, to spare, to chop it up for firewood, prominent, attributed partly to sen- they rushed breathless for the com- had placed it below in the hold. sonal influences. panionway to get to the deck. And Now they set it on the stump of "Wheat: The, strength of Corn there was no companionway. Where the foremast, stayed it there after was the principal influence. Wheat, it had been was a gaping hole. a fashion with fragments of rope, at one time, was under pressure on The Petrel, caught by the curling and on it spread a fragment of sail. news of good rains which were comber, had been turned bottona.
up: keel to the sky, deck to the sea's bottom. But, being Petrel, she had declined, to remain bottom- up, had made the full circle, and had come erect again. She had] turned round about, as a Baflor would put It A landsman would 4th Jan say that she had turned turtle,
6th Dec.
Her masts were gone. Her jth
Continued on Pode 17%,
Cinema Notes
(Continued from Pagë 3.)
"THUNDERING HERD"
MAJESTIC THEATRE
reported in many sections. Buenos Aires Wheat held steady, Corn was firm from the outset owing to the improved shipping demand.
"Cotton: Activity consisted lärge: ly of the evening-up of December Cotton due to the close proximity of the. Notice Day. Liquidation and small hedging were readily absorb ed by the trade. The Cotton-goods
boom was gone, snapped short off. A spectacular drama of wild markets were dull.
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