Show IN THE BUSINESS WORLD Ihic Yesterdays statement of the treasury balances shows Available cash balances 150OtMSOO gold 502062350 The directors of the American StrawBoard Straw-Board company passed the regular quarterly quar-terly dividend 1 per cent The annual meeting of the SlosaShcfn field Steel and Iron company In Jcrsoj City resulted In the reelection of the retiring re-tiring board of directors Time directors of the Federal Steel company com-pany have declared the regular quarterly dividend of IVfc per cent on Its preferred stock payable April 20th The directors of the Missouri Pacific railroad elected Frederick T Gales a member of the executive board In place of Gen Thomas T Eckert resigned In Trenton K J articles of Incorporation Incorpora-tion were rtled yesterday by the American Can company authorized capital SS000 000 lo manufacture cans and receptacles of all kinds Ernest A Blgelow has filed an appeal with the Board of United Stales General Appraisers New York against the levying levy-ing of a countervailing duty on sugars Imported from Russia It was estImated yesterday that fully so per cent of tho stock of the constituent steel companies will have been deposited for conversion into the securlllcs of the surviving United Slates Steel corporation by tonight |