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Show STEEL TRUST DIVIDEND. Directors United States Combination Pass Common Stock, But Remember Re-member the Preferred. New York. Jan. G. The directors of the United States Steel corporation met this afternoon, J. Plerpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, Jr , being among those prefient. The" directors passed the dividend on the common stock, but do-clared do-clared the regular quarterly dividend of per cent on the preferred slock. The net earnings for the quarter ending end-ing December 31st were reported to bo $14.Slfi.012. as against ?31,9S5,759 for the same period in 1902 |