Show IN THE BUSINESS WORLD Buyers of Iron and steel have been bus iilailmc orders In the past week and it i IKIB nuide a greater record than either of the two weeks preceding Chicago leads as a buying point The directors of the American Cotton OH comiiaiiy have declared an annual dividend of 3A lien cint on the coinmoi mock payable December 1st Last your tim raio wan 1 per cent and in 1SD3 S percent per-cent Bondholders have brought suit In the Supremo court of Rhod Island for U5000 against the American Wood Pnpor com puny which bonds matured hidt May Thin Is understood to is l o a step toward enforcing the atoclJioldcra to liability for debts of the company A meeting of representatives of the steel rorupanlns hus Just been held In New York city Steps were token some time ago to ported lie proposed steelbillet pool and two meetings for drawing up and adopting agreement under which the pool could bo formed havo now been held |