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FINANCIAL NOTICES.
TODD SHIPYARDS CORPORATION
5 Year 6% Convertible Gold Notes.
SINKING FUND NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4, Article 4, of the Indenture of Trust, under which the above Notes were issued, that the sum now in hand, together with the sum to be paid into the Sinking Fund on December 16, 1918, amounts to Eight hundred twenty-eight thousand, two hundred twenty-five and 74/100 ($828,225.74) dollars.
Sealed offers for the sale of Notes at a price not exceeding accrued interest and 107% of the face amount thereof will be received by the undersigned at any time up to twelve (12) o'clock noon December 10th, 1918, at No. 2 Wall Street, New York City, or No. 177 Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York.
Unless otherwise stated, offers may be accepted pro rata. Offers should be marked "Tender of Todd Shipyards Corporation Notes." Payment for accepted offers will be made December 16th, 1918, at our office, 2 Wall Street, New York, after which date interest on accepted notes will cease.
BROOKLYN TRUST COMPANY.
Trustee under Indenture of Trust.
Dated, New York, Nov. 11, 1918.
PENNSYLVANIA IRON WORKS COMPANY.
NOTICE is given that under the provisions of the Trust Mortgage the following six First Mortgage Five per cent. Gold Coupon Bonds of the Pennsylvania Iron Works Company, for $1,000 each, due November 15, 1921, have been drawn for payment, and will be paid at 105 and interest, at the office of The Land Title and Trust Company, Trustee, Philadelphia, Pa., on November 15, 1918, on which date interest will cease.
Bonds No. 30, 36, 92, 127, 138, 243.
THE LAND TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY, Trustee.
Philadelphia, October 16, 1918.
To the Holders of the PRIOR LIEN FIVE PER CENT. GOLD BONDS, dated the 30th day of June, 1909, and of the Scrip representing fractional amounts of such bonds, issued by ECLIPSE TANNING COMPANY:
Please take notice that the property of the Eclipse Tanning Company having been sold for the sum of $190,000 on the foreclosure sale held on the 19th day of September, 1917, by virtue of a decree for sale issued out of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, in the suit entitled, "United States Mortgage and Trust Company, Complainant, and Eclipse Tanning Company, Defendant," and a Receiver having been appointed to collect the rents, issues and profits of Eclipse Tanning Company in said suit, and said Receiver having paid over to said United States Mortgage & Trust Company the sum of $95.24, the net proceeds of said foreclosure sale, viz., $96,241.15, and said sum of $95.24 are now ready for pro rata distribution among the holders of Prior Lien Gold Bonds and Scrip representing fractional amounts of said bonds of Eclipse Tanning Company, and said net proceeds and said sum of $95.24 will be paid to the holders of said Bonds and Scrip upon presentation thereof at the office of the United States Mortgage & Trust Company, No. 35 Cedar Street, Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, for indorsement thereon of the the payments to which the holders thereof are respectively entitled.
Dated, November 1st, 1918.
UNITED STATES MORTGAGE & TRUST COMPANY, Trustee.
THE AMERICAN THREAD COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given that the Transfer Books of this Company will be closed at the office of the Guaranty Trust Company, 140 Broadway, New York, from Nov. 15th to 30th, 1918, both days, inclusive.
J. G. WYLIE, Treasurer.
FINANCIAL NOTICES.
HOCKING COAL COMPANY
First Mtg. 6% 20-Yr. S.F. Gold Bonds issued under Indenture dated July 1. 1912, between HOCKING COAL COMPANY, THE MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS R. R. Co. and EMPIRE TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee,
Notice is hereby given that in accordance with the provisions of the above mentioned indenture and supplemental indenture dated January 25th, 1918, bonds now outstanding, bearing the following distinctive number have been drawn by lot, by the undersigned, as Trustee under said indenture, far redemption on January 1st, 1919, out of the moneys in the Sinking Fund, to wit: 8, 14, 24, 60, 85, 89, 97, 101, 141, 184.
Said bonds so drawn for redemption will be paid on and after January 2nd., 1919, at the 120 Broadway Office of the undersigned Trustee, N. Y. City, upon presentation and surrender of said bonds with all coupons then unmatured at 105% of their par value. Interest on said bonds will cease on January 1st, 1919.
EMPIRE TRUST COMPANY, Trustee.
By HENRY F. WHITNEY, Ass't Trust Officer.
Dated, N. Y. City, November 1, 1918.
NOTICE.
Office of UNION TRUST COMPANY PITTSBURGH, TRUSTEE.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF NEW YORK SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION FIRST MORTGAGE THIRTY-YEAR FIVE PER CENT SINKING FUND GOLD BONDS, DATED NOVEMBER 1, 1916, DUE NOVEMBER 1, 1948.
Pursuant to Section of Article Four of the Mortgage of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation to The Union Trust Company of Pittsburgh Trustee, dated November 1, 1916, securing its First Mortgage Thirty-Year Five Per Cent. Sinking Fund Gold Bonds, the undersigned Trustee hereby gives notice that bonds of such issue will be purchased by the Trustee for the Sinking Fund provided in said mortgage, to an amount sufficient to exhaust One Hundred Eighty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($187,500), being the moneys now held by it in such Sinking Fund. The Trustee hereby invites from the bondholders offers for the sale to it on NOVEMBER 25, 1918, of such bonds. As provided in said Mortgage, such offers shall in each case be for all or any part of the bonds so offered. The lowest offers to the aggregate amount not exceeding an amount sufficient as nearly as may be to exhaust such moneys now held in the Sinking Fund will be accepted, provided that the price or prices accepted will in no event exceed, in addition to accrued interest, one hundred two and one-half per centum (1021⁄2%).
As soon as may be, on or after November 18, 1918, the undersigned Trustee will notify bondholders whose offers are accepted, so that delivery of the bonds covered by such be made to the Trustee at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 25, 1918.
All offers must be in writing, be enclosed in sealed envelopes, state the number or numbers of the bonds offered, and name the price or prices at which the same are offered.
All offers must be received at the office of the Trustee on or before noon of November 18, 1818.
THE UNION TRUST COMPANY OF PITTSBURGH, TRUSTEE.
Pittsburgh, Pa., November 1, 1918.
NOTICE TO HOLDERS OF UNITED STATES TREASURY CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS OF SERIES IV D, DATED AUGUST 8, 1918, AND MATURING DECEMBER 5, 1918:
All United States Treasury certificates of Indebtedness of Series IV D, dated August 6, 1918, and maturing December 5, 1918, are hereby called for redemption on November 21, 1918, at par and accrued interest, pursuant to the provision for such redemption contained in the certificates. On November 21, 1918, interest on all certificates of said series will cease to accrue.
W. G. McADOO, Secretary of the Treasury.
November 8, 1018.
POCAHONTAS CONSOLIDATED COLLIERIES COMPANY, INCORPORATED
Fifty-Year Five Per Cent. Gold Bonds.
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the terms of the Mortgage dated July 1st, 1907, that the undersigned, as Trustee, will recolve sealed proposals up to 3:00 PM. on the 6th day of December, 1918, for the sale to it of bonds as above described, sufficient to use the sum of $41.808.27, the undersigned reserves the right to reject any or all tenders.
THE NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, Trustee. By B. G. CURTS, Secretary.
New York. November 1st, 1918.
TO HOLDERS OF FIRST MORTGAGE 6% SINKING FUND GOLD BONDS OF THE SANTA CECILIA SUGAR CORPORATION, DUE AUGUST 1, 1927:
The undersigned, as Trustee under the mortgage to secure the above described issue of bonds, desires under authority of said mortgage to expend the sum of $42,598.75, in the purchase of bonds of said issue for the Sinking Fund, provided such purchase can in its opinion be now made advantageously.
Sealed offers of said bonds may be sent to the Columbia Trust Company, Trust Department, 60 Broadway, New York City, on or before November 15, 1918, at 12:00 o'clock noon.
Bonds accepted must be delivered on November 16th, 1918, or security furnished that day if required, that delivery will be made within ten days.
The right is reserved to reject any and all offers.
COLUMBIA TRUST COMPANY, Trustee.
By GEORGE E. WARREN, Vice President.
Dated, New York, November 4, 1918.
NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY.
26 Liberty Street, New York, October 4, 1918. The books for transfer of the capital stock of Northern Securities Company will be closed at three o'clock P.M. October 18, 1018, for the purpose of the annual meeting of the stockholders, to be held on the 11th of November, 1918, and will be reopened at ten o'clock A.M. November 12, 1918.
C. N. TERHUNE, Secretary.
TO ALL HOLDERS OF THE FIRST MORTgage Six Per Cent. Marine Equipment Gold Bonds of the Munson Steamship Line, dated January 1, 1915, and secured by Indenture of that date, executed by said Company and by the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company of Baltimore, as trustees:
Notice is hereby given to all holders of the outstanding bonds of this Company of the above mentioned issue that said entire issue has been called for redemption at 105 and interest on January 1, 1919. All holders will therefore present their bonds at the office of the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company, in the City of Baltimore, Md., with all coupons attached, for redemption on said date. (No premium, however, will be paid on the bonds regularly maturing on that date.)
F.C. MUNSON, President.
J. W. REYNOLDS, Secretary.
To the Holders of the First and Refunding 5% Sinking Fund Mortgage Bonds of the International Paper Co.
Notice is hereby given that the amount of funds now in the Sinking Fund provided under the First Mortgage of the International Paper Company, dated January 1, 1917, is $55,211.52 and that Bankers Trust Company, as Trustee under said Mortgage, and pursuant to Section 1 of Article V. of said Mortgage, will receive at its Trust Department, No. 16 Wall Street, New York City until twelve o'clock noon, November 18, 1918, sealed proposals for the sale to it of bonds sescured by said Mortgage sufficient in amount to exhaust such funds, at the lowest prices at which said bonds may be offered for sale, but at a price, if so purchased, not to exceed the par value of the principal of said bonds with accrued interest and two and one-half per cent. (21⁄2%) premium upon the amount of said principal. Accepted bonds should be delivered on November 25, 1918, accompanied by Federal Income Tax Ownership Certificates for amount of accrued interest, on which date payment will be made.
Such proposals must state the number and aggregate principal amount of the bond offered for sale and the price at which such bonds are so offered, and must be signed by the holder thereof, and state his address.
Dated at New York, this 6th day of November, 1918.
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
By H. F. WILBON. Jr., Vice President.