The Springfield Daily Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

November 23, 1911

Publication:

The Springfield Daily Republicani

Location:

Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Thursday, November 23, 1911

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5

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16 BERKSHIRE COUNT PITTSIELD is'hnrfHy vimiiration of tie ndiiiinisi raiCou after only one year OBJECTS TO GOLDMAN LECTURE ('onifnued from Page 141 lcal suspicion on the movement of he republicans ns the proposition for Iwtih parties to indorse the holdover candidates was tnaile by the republican city commit tee and was readily agreed to by the dem ocrats tis they would be the gainers thereby Dentil of Chiirles H'llhtir i Charles AV Wilbur died Tuesday night at his home ou Division street He hail ill for 14 weeks but was able to sit up Tuesday so that his death was iitiexKicted lie was a native of Albany but practically all of his life hail been spent in or 15 years he had been employed as a baggagemastcr on a train on the Boston and Albany railroad thnt ran between Pittsfield anil Albany Since he left the employ' of the railroad ho had worked in a number of the local shois He is survived by his wife one sister Mrs George Andrews and one brother George Wilbur all of The funeral will bo held from the house this afternoon at and Rev A Hamilton will officiate The body will bo taken to Albany for burial irst Baptist Church In Bnn iuct The laymen's banquet nt the irst Baptist church last night was a big suc cess there being 200 covers laid There were many present from North Adams and other places in the north part of the county ns well as from and the surrounding 'towns The banquet was served by the women of the church Gnmwcli presided and introduced several speakers among whom were Kev Kev Norcross and Rev Stackhouse all well known mission er who gave interesting addresses on the mission work and what the layman can do to assist the work There will be a joint meeting of the Royal Areanum councils of the county this evening at Osceola hall Among those who will participate will be the Williams town North Adams Adams 'Worthing tn Lenox Stockbridge Great Barring ton and West Stockbridge councils and council of Grand Re gent Ernest Hobson of and other grand officers will ho present A class of 4( Candidates will be' initiated and the degree work will be followed by an address by Uriah If Tompkins of New York chairman of the committee' on appeals land grievances of the supreme council Lunch will be served after the meet inc William 1 Weitzel died Tuesday night nt the House of Mercy where he had lcen under treatment for spinal men ingitis since Sunday He was resident of Halton and was taken ill while visit ing nt the home of his father in Ia Thom as Hail on West Housatonic street lie was a resident of for lit years but recently went to Dalton where ho was employed by the Spark coil com pany He is survived by his widow two children and five brothers The funeral will 1e held from the mortuary chapel to morrow afternoon at 23O and Rev Luce of Dalton will officiate Burial will be in the cemetery Mrs Thomas II Maloy died Tuesday night at her Imine 5( Linden street after long illness from a complication of dis eases She was a native of New York tint had lived in Pittsfield for 4o years The survivors are her husband one daugh ter Miss Margaret and two sons Andrew and William 11 Maloy all of Pittsfield The funeral will be held to morrow morning from St cliureh and burial will bo in St cemetery The annual meeting of the Wtslnes dav Morning club was held yesterday morning at the irst church parish house Miss Anna Dawes who has been presi dent of the club since its organization was re elected The chib has a member ship of 275 The other officers elected were: Vice president Mrs James Hull secretary Miss Mary Hinsdale as sistant tv Miss' Lillian Adams treasurer iss 1 Pelrson assist ant treasurer Miss Margaret II Hall executive committee Miss Rosamond Hull Mrs Em taco A Bradley Miss Mabel Par ker Miss annie Stearns Davis Mrsrancis Rockwell The street union met at tin early hour yesterday morning and heard the report of the grievance committee on the conference held Monday afternoon with Goiierul Manager Richmond and Superintendent Shhw of the Berkshire street railway in regard to the discharge of throe conductors employed on the road No definite action was taken on the re port of tlm committee this being de ferrod to a meeting to be held later The decision the writ of mandamus brought by the city agqinst Citv Clerk Daniels to compel him to issue the elec tion warrant calling for the election of two i oinicilmon from each ward was not filed with Clerk of the superior court at the time of closing the office yes terdav There has lieen delay on this end in sending the papers required by Justice Rtigg of the supreme court lie having received the last of them only yesterday morning His decision will in till be received to day Miss Mabel Louise Watts of North Ad ams and A Courtland Van Rensselaer of Pittsfield were married at 12 yes terday noon at the Methodist church par sonage The ceremony was performed by Rev A Hamilton The bride was for some time the nurse of the groom After wedding trip they will return to Pitts field to reside Two turkeys escaped from crate in front of commission house on West street yesterday morning and flew to the elm trees in front of the store inding thnt they could not be capturedalive Wellington Henry was colled upon and shot the turkeys tin their lofty perch The quarries from which the stone for the new arnham rlnm are being quarried will bo operated all winter and la tween 50 nod 75 hands will be employed Thomas Collins of Hinsdale pleaded not guilty yesterday morning in the district court to a charge of threatening to shoot George Richardson of thnt town The case was continued to to morrow morning William IL Crane in Senator Keeps will be the attraction at the Colonial theater this evening NORTH ADAMS TALK ABOUT THE CAUCUS Itevlned itrnrew Make Mayor Victory Won by Only 40 Votes No new candidates nnnonncpd them selves yesterday a remarkable showing in this campaign Owing to a failure to change the totals of the mayoralty vote bite Tuesday evening after corrections had been made in the returns from two of the wards the majority for Mayor Charles rink over Dr Wallace Brown was given as GM whereas it should have been only 411 The ward figures were corrected but the total in the hurry nt the last minute was neglected Dr Brown has been urged from numerous sources it is reported to again run on nomination pa pers as he did last year but lie himself has imtliing 1 say regarding bis futurelans op the present situation except that lie was well with the result of the caucuses A lol of comparisons of figures esti mates and speculations on the result of the caucuses is being engaged in by sters" mid among them it is pointed out that with 301) more voters nt the caucuses than were at the same party caucuses the previous year xvhen the same men con tested for the mayoralty nomination Mayor rink gained only 11 on his total while Dr Brown gained 275 Of the re maining 23 votes 22 were blanks and one scattering It is mitnral that the rink element is not greatly dale over the re sult as a drop in the majority from 310 to Rev Dunphy' I'rotost" to Chief Permit ting It Rev 1' Dunphy pastor of St rancis Catholic church has protested to Chief of Police IV Dinneen against allowing Emma Goldman the noted anarchist orator from appearing in Grand Army hall in North Adams Monday night and delivering an address on Maternity" Chief Dnnecn yesterday afternoon denied that he had as yet taken any action to prohibit the lecture but as he had previously' stated that he would interfere with the lecture if com plaint was made he will probably take some action in the matter The complaint by Rev Mr Dunphy is made because lie holds that the subject of the lecture why the poor should not have children" is against the moral welfare of the community uneral of Austin Bond The funeral of Austin Bond first audi tor of the city was held yesterday after noon from his late residence on State street Rev Dr Bustield pastor of the Congregational church officiating Burial was in Hillside cemetery The funeral was largely attended by city of ficials and former members of the city hall staff with whom Air Bond was as sociated for many years The lire department was called yester day afternoon about 5 o'clock to f5 Center street where in a rear room of a small store occupied by A Melcher there was a brisk blaze The tirc was discovered by children of the proprietor who were in the rear room which is used as a storeroom A chemical line was used nnd the tire was confined to a small quantity of the con tents The property was covered by in surance ami the building was owned by AV Welch A mass meeting under the direction of the Young Christian association will be held Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church at 330 and Robert Spear of New York will deliver the ad dress This meeting will be for both men and women Air Spear who is a Prince ton graduate and a former star is secretary of the Presbyterian board missions James Morley Chambers or ganist of the church ami the Masonic quartet will render a special musical pro gram The land court which Tuesday lu gan hearinss in the case of Temple against Ben son to establish boundary line between disputed tracts of land concluded its hear ings yesterday Judge Charles Thornton Davis of Marblehead announced that the evidence in the case had effect the points in' dispute being purely a matter of law in the construction of the various deeds introduced He gave the attorneys in the case Alark Couch for Benson and AV Noxon forTemple until January I in which to file briefs after which a decision will be announced Tho Bottum Torrance company of Bennington a concern which efforts were made to have go to North Adams and take a local factory has bought the Hidden interest in their plant in Benning ton nml is to remain there Clarence Gardner who has been a bookkeeper in the North Adams national hank has bought an interest in the concern and been elected treasurer The concern manu factures collars and cuffs and ladies' shirt waists and employs about hands Helen Afadden one of the younger members of the family in who suffered death anil burns in the tire at their home Monday night was yester day discharged from the local hospital' Her mother Airs Luke Aladden is the most seriously burned of the members of the family but she will recover it was said at the institution yesterday Owing to the many requests that the visiting nurse aid association make public the givers of money to the fund for the 'work the finance committee will reconsider its vote not to publish the list and will give the names accompanied by the amounts forwarded in response to its requests for aid II Benton of East Quincy street yes terday celebrated his 84th birthday in a quiet manner Although there was no for mal celebration Air Benton received a post card shower bearing words of congratula tion This evening there will be a family gathering and a dinner will be Served Arthur Graves of Wood store in North Adams whose home is in Pitts field returned yesterday with a handsomelne which he shot nt the of Haw ifty men of the irst Baptist church went to I'ittsfield last evening to attend the missionary banquet at the Bap tist church there The annual fair of St ladies' aid society opened last night and will continue for one week CHESHIRE Dentil of Dennis White Mrs Dennis 71 formerly Miss Charlotte Ingraham died at her home yesterday of a complication of diseases She was born in New Ashford and mar ried Dennis 53 years ago last Jan uary They moved to Cheshire in 1SG2 and had since lived there She leaves be sides her husband one son red of Cheshire: one daughter Airs Minnie Smith of Pittsfield and one sister Airs Lucy Clark of North Adams The fu neral will take place at the Alethodist church to day at 2 o'clock Rev Air" Rick ard officiating and burial will be 5 in Cheshire cemetery Mrs Alary Lane who was 94 years old yesterday had a number of callers ami was congratulated by a large number of relatives and friends She is remarkably active for a woman of her age and one who was thrown out of au automobile nt the age of 93 years and hurt consider ably our residents of Cheshire haVe shot deer this week TYRINGHA Nnthnn Canon Serlomly Injured Nathan Canon fell from a load of hay yesterday afternoon and cut a gash in his head which is deep ami serious Dr Stratton attended him While there are hopes of Air recovery the injury is sur as to cause his friends ami the physician much alarm Engineer George Curtis of Pittsfield inspected the strip of new state road yes terday and pronounced it well made The post office has begun its winter schedule of closing at each evening with the exception of Saturday nights The town has finished the concrete foot bridge over the stream near the Rouse place John Hution ami George have gone to Now York GREAT BARRINGTON A flock of seven wild geese flew over Scribner's place on Egrcmont plain few'dnys ago and lighted in what is called Root pond just south of the bouse Air Scribner his gun ami wont after Hie geese hut they Hew be fore he could 'get to them Going south a short distance they again lighted on the property of George Peck Air Peek Rilled one of the number which weighed eight pounds It 'was a Canadian wild goose anil was a fine specimen of the variety Rtidge will mount the spe for Air Peek Mr Rndgc has at his shop mi eight point head from a 309 pouml buck deer killed in AVest Stock bridge by Powell There is at present a scarcity of strict ly fresh eggs in the market and the deni ers lire selling them for 50 cents a dozen The poultrymen state that it is about im possible to got the Hocks laying at pres ent ami it is expected that the price will go still higher Air and Mrs Curtiss arc taking a few weeks' western trip Curtiss will leave next month for Porto Rico where ho will stioml a few months A number of the grangers went to Stock THE SPIUNGIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN THURSDxYY NOVEMBER 23 1911 bridge yesterday whor* they attended a meeting of the south Berkshire Pomona grange The next meeting will be held in Egremont mid at that time the annual election of officers will take place Air and Mrs Koster of Malden are the ir esis of' their daughter Airs Higgins EW ENGL ANON W0RCESTERCirNT DANA ADAMS Lorieau Desautels who has been in partnership with his brother Harvey De sautels in a grocery store at AIcKiulcy sqnnrc has sold his half interest to Eugene Oucllet a clerk for the former firm for the past three years The new firm will run the store under the mime of Desau tels Oucllet and Lorieau Desautels will be one of their salesmen until he goes into some other business Town Clerk Alorton has issued 14t licenses to local hunters dur ing the months of October and November 25 of which number have been issued within a few Mays for the deer hunting season Chalmers sealer of weights and measures who has been attending a con vention of the sealers of the state in Bos ton returned to his home yesterday The ladies' aid society of the Baptist church will conduct a rummage sale in the old gas office on Park street to morrow and Saturday The selectmen have drawn ns jurors of the United States court at Boston AA'ill iam Anchor Pierce Cassidy and Thomas AL Powers EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS All who have guns and licenses are in the woods lookinsr for deer hut only two have been killed so far and only one of those in Dana Mr Milton got a doe in Hard wick which weighed 240 pounds and Spooner got a large buck on the town farm hill Aliss Dorother was given a surprise party Monday evening it being her birth day There were 22 present Johnson and a party ef friends spent Sunday at Camp Poutaupauge Railroad Mau Retires The retirement of A AA7 Alartin as superintendent of the Boston South station and the Boston division of New York New Haven and Hartford railroad was announced yesterday Air Alartiu is a native of South bridge His successor will be Hobbs now in charge of the South Boston freight terminal CONNECTICUT STAORD SPRINGS WORCESTER COUNTY ATHOL Athol friends of Senator Green wood arc glad to hear of his assured elec tion as president of the Senate Senator Greenwood has won the place by hard work in the past three years of service He entered the Senate without legislative experience and while he is not an orator he is a good plain speaker and he has won for himself credit in his senatorial career The district is honored by his success It is the first time in the memory of anyone that a county man has been elected to this place Then is considerable interest in Athol over the consolidation of the several elec tric' railways in this section It has leen known for some time that such a thing was under advisem*nt and that it was only a question of time when it would be brought about The road from Athol to Gardner is in need of much improvement both in service and roadbed Athol people are more than pleased xvith the local su perintendent Marsh and it is to be hoped that those important change) will not cause a shift in his management to other fields There was a good attendance at the en tertainment given under the auspices of the Baptist church last evening There was music by an orchestra of 14 soprano solos by Miss Marjorie Bates a flute solo by Aliss Alarion Bowker readings by Aliss Roberts of Orange vocal solos by Aliss Pearl Cfiase and vocal duets by Wallott and Smith Many Athol hunters hare got it in their heads that the proper way to hunt deer and be sure of one is to set out long before daybreak and do the hunting in the early morning hours Alany go away as early in the morning as 1230 and the woods are literally filled with Hunt ers young and old Superintendent of Streets Woodward stated yesterday that he expected that work would begin on the brick work on Alain street within a few days The elec tric road is rapidly finishing up its job nnd will probably be out of the way shortly A large number of members of the Athol woman's club went to itchburg yester day to take in a club affair held under the auspices of the itchburg organiza tion Pioneer Manufacturer Dead George TL Damon a pioneer manufac turer of combs and one of the leading manufacturers of horn goods and hair ornaments of this country died yesterday at Leominster of pneumonia Air Damon was G8 years old LYCEUMS OUTPOINT MERRIES Opening' of City Basketball League at Holyoke The City basketball league opened at Holyoke Tuesday night before a good sized crowd when the South Holyoke Lyceums defeated the Alerries 35 to 17 in the Rackliffe hall The winning team present ed practically the team that represented the Young Christian' association of Holyoke last year It xyas a fast game Sullivan a former Holyoke high school star played stellar ball for the Lyceums caging five baskets while playing a back field position Clarke the other guard played great ball and caged four baskets Ieslie AA'ells a Chicopee alls boy starred for the Alerries The first period was by far the more interesting of the two ses sions the score being 14 to 9 at the end of the first session In the last half the Alerries were only able to tally eight points while the Lyceums tallied 21 points Carl A Reed of the Springfield framing school was referee and had the game well in hand In the preliminary the Alerries juniors easily defeated the Lyceum) juniors by a score of 33 to 11 The winning team took the lead at the start and were never headed letcher was the stellar per former of the game The lineups Lyceum Merries Hamilton O'Brien 1 Rouleau O'Brien letcher I McNally Rouleau Liebeck AVhile Sullivan 1 'Clarke Clarke 11 AVells Score South Holyoke Lyceum 35 Merries 17 Goals from floor Sullivan 5 Clarke 4 letcher 4 2 Liebeck Hamilton AVells 4 Rouleau 2 Goals from fouls letcher AVhite 4 Clarke Referee Reed of Springfield training school Time 20 mn ute halves Merries Juniors Lyceum Juniors AV letcher 1 Ahearu Mochau McNally Hali Wells Albonesi orgette Manning 1 Courtney O'Donnell oran i 1 1 oran Score Merries Juniors 33 Lyceum Juniors 11 Goals from floor letcher 0 JIc Nnlly 3 Manning 2 oran 2 orgette Wells Ahearn 2 Hnll Mochan Courtnoy Goals from fouls McNally 2 AV letcher Mcehnn Referee Connors Time 20 and 15 mInute halves Metrjlorf Waiited nx Referee The intercollegiate basketball leapne has asked A Aletzdorf supervisor of ath letics of the Springfield high school to serve as one of its basketball referees this winter However Air Metzdorf has been forced to decline the offer as many of the intercollegiate games will come on Satur day nights which are also busy nights with liis own team OOLED THE SERGEANT rom the New A'ork Sun the best joke over hoard of ni a said a high official in the police department "He was' going the rounds when ho saw a policeman whom we 11 call Mullaney go into an under taker's shop where there is generally a pinochle game in the back room lie knew there was no back way out for Mullaney so he waited "After a time Ito sent in word by one of the men working in the shop that he knew ATullanev was in there There was much commotion in the hack room and as there were a number of eof fins being loaded into a wagon outside? they put Altillaney in a coffin Then they drove hint down the street a couple of blocks and Alullancy climbed out He strolled back up to where the sergeant was doggedly watching and saluted rounds pleasant evening he said and the sergeant stared for a moment nnd then stamped away too mnil to speak" There seems to be no doubt that the decision of the coroner II isk that Joseph Gillman whose body was found in the river near the trolly bridge Thursday afternoon committed suicide was correct He had been trying to sell his property which was heavily mortgaged for some time Only one tenement was rented and the occupant Hugh was to vacate to day Interest was soon coming due nnd Gillman had nothing with which to meet it He leaves two sons and one daughter The sons are Joseph A of Stafford Springs Nelson of Ohio and the daughter is Airs Joseph Garvais of Stafford Springs The funeral will take place at St Edward's church this morning at 9 There was a largo attendance at the conceit given by Aliss Ethel so prano assisted by Miss Jean Little violin ist in the Congregational cimri last even ing The substitution of Aliss Little in place of Harold Aleck the baritone who was ill with tonsilitis was very fortunate and made a complete and interesting program Aliss AVhalen was formerly supervisor of music in the Stafford public school and was very popular with the audience Since leaving Stafford nine years ago she has studied in Paris for three years and her voice has' improved wonderfully in vol ume and sweetness Itt Rev Chauncey Brewster of Hart ford is coming to Stafford' Springs Satur day evening and on Sunday will confirm a class at Grace church Stafford council Knights of Columbus will have a social in Society hall to mor row evening WINSTED Up to last evening six deer had been killed in Sandisfield Dr Jules Toupense George Crocker and the lat son Cla rence each shot a buck and Peter Vcrchat and argo each got a doe argo had difficulty in getting his quarry as the animal after being shot swam out into Simonds pond Counsel for A Duquette landlord of the Beardsley house yesterday after noon filed a hill of exceptions with Judge Seymour in the summary process case of Lilley Bros against Duquette A writ of error is sought Edward Alanchester once prohibition candidate for governor of Connecticut and a well known farmer and Alethodist is critically ill at his home on Spencer street and his recovery is not expected Dr A Cook of Hartford will address the graduating class at the Sec ond Congregational church this afternoon Diplomas xvill be presented to four who have studied at the county hospital Mrs Armine Garney 62 died at the home of her daughter Airs Amandus Garney on the New Hartford road yes terday of dropsy The body of Mrs Della Tracy wife of Dr Edwin Holmes Alunger of AVest Hartford will be buried in orest View cemetery to day Tale Quits Theater Investigation So far as the Yale authorities are con cerned the incidents of the riot at the Hyperion theater in New Haven Saturday night following the sudden shortening of a play there and the subsequent arrest of several Yale students' in connection with the affair are closed according to a state ment made by Dean rederick Jones of the academic department of the university yesterday Dean says he has made an investigation and finds that the disturb ance was started by a man who leaped unon the stage and broke the footlights This man said the dean was not in any way connected with the university and as a re sult of the investigation it has been decided to drop the whole matter VERMONT BRATTLEBORO Deputy Sheriff rank AVellman of Guil ford returned from Jamaica yesterday morning with a l65 pouml buck he shot in that town on Alonday He report ed that a large number of bucks had been shot in Jamaica the past few davs Countv ish and Game AVarden Alarvin How ard of South Londonderry was in town on Tuesday ami lie said that a large num ber of' bucks were being secured through out the county and that in most cases they were excellent specimens being ex cecdingly fat this year He said that more bucks would be killed this year than last but that he did not think that the number would equal the number of bucks and does slaughtered in the county last season The Brattleboro Athletics will open their basketball season on December 12 with the Crescent athletic club team of Koene as their opponents Alaunger Henry ncy is arranging a schedule for season so that the present indications are that there will bo some fast basketball in Brat tleboro this winter The local team will nrobably be lucked from the Stafford Adams Dunlevy Ellis Orlin and Oscar Aloore of Gardner Alass a former star who is employed in town will belli to strength en the team The Athletics practiced Tuesday evening' in esrivnl hall Brattleboro lodcc New England Order of Protection will hold its annual enter tainment ami fair in grange ball this even ing A food sale will be held from 5 to o'clock and an entertainment will bc given from to 9 o'clock after which there will be darn ing' The Brattleboro Sunday school union will hold its annual meeting at i3t this evening in the vestry of the irst Bap tist church Renorts of the work for the past year will be given and officers for the ensuing year elected The women of the Universalis! society will hold a veepi dion for all the babies of the parish and their mothers in the church purlers this afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock All the women of the parish arc invited to attend I The annual foreign missionary thank of fering meeting of the nskoejation of the Center Congregational church will be I held at 330 this afternoon in the chapel The Brattleboro hoard of trade will hold its annual banquet on even ing December at tli HM)ks hrtllRP Tlie principal speaker will lie Lewis A of Providence I The officers ami teachers of the Baptist Bible school held supper and social in I the church parlors ist evening The Salvation Amir will hold a rum I mage sale beginning to dnv in the Emer son building on Elliot street Attorney AV A Graham of Bellow a alls was in town yesterday on profession al business PROBING EXPRESS RATES HEARINGS BEGIN IN NEW YOBK GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP URGED Representative Lewin Points Out Need for More Nntnral Ratio to reight Charge" Mr Ives of Boston Heard Criticisms and remedial recommendations ranging from mild to radical were listened to by the interstate commerce commission yesterday at the opening in New York of a series of hearings to be held throughout the country in investigation of the express business The magnitude of this business was brought out by Attorney rank Lyon counsel for the commission He 'said that the express companies operate over 270000 miles of and do business through 31328 stations He placed the cost of con idueting the express plants at $27000000 and the operating net income at $10000 000 or a fraction over 38 per cent on plant valuation Congressman David Lewis of Cumber land Aid one of the first witnesses said that government ownership would ultimately prove the only logical solution of the ex press business He had given up the idea he said that a parcels post would give the required relief "Express rates are prohib itively he continued 16 times the freight rate $3120 a ton fr express for $190 for freight Parcels post schemes per se impose a rate of 8 and 12 cents a pound At eight cents the cost would be $160 a ton or five times the average ex press charge and 11 times the European parcels post three pounds the express compa nies now give much lower rates than pro posed by the parcels post and below three pounds they give rates as good The reasons these parcels post schemes have rates so high is that the government is paying an average of four cents a pound to railways for carrying mail matter while the express companies are paying the railways but three fourths cents a pound" Representa tive Lewis pointed out the express compa great profits and characterized the bus iness as a "transportation Con tending that there should be a more natural ratio of express to freight charges he argued that there was a margin of profits by the companies on which the interstate com merce commission might work to give relief to business interests without jeopardizing the investments and operations of the ex press business To remedy some conditions be suggest ed: service is now provided by the railways 'But the main need is an articu lation of the country and suburban points with the railways which may be accom plished by rural delivery agency Express railway contracts should be secured by the postal department to obtain rail rates Cheap capital and a public service motive both of which the nation can cer tainly provide is necessary Unification of express plants with the postal system is needed to secure simplification of meth ods and fullest economically feasible ex tension of collection ami Ives of the Boston chamber of commerce testified that the chief cause of complaint against the express com panies was their effort to evade responsi bilities to the public men and shippers took exception to the receipt clauses of the express he said the companies claimed in de fense that the clauses had practically be come a dead letter It is an injustice against shippers for the companies to take goods which they declare to be improperly packed without explaining the style of packing which should be followed to meet their Air Ives said that he thought the receipt clauses were in the re ceipts to fool ignorant small shippers while the large shippers were never sub jected to similar annoyances' A number of shippers who were wit nesses emphasied their objections to the regulations especially the clauses and asked and not Jones a commission merchant of Baltimore said that the Adams ex press company had a monopoly in that city and that deliveries were so poor that com mission men had to haul their own goods to protect themselves from loss The hear ing will be continued to day Not Eager for Cotton inancing A lukewarm reception of the announce ment" that New York' bankers are ready to advance $50000000 to farmers on a cotton holding plan was accorded yester day in interviews by cotton men in sev eral of the Texas leading cities some favored the object nearly all ex pressed doubts about the possibility of ar rangements which would suit any consid erable part of the cotton producers Cot ton middlemen generally said the project would not be accepted ew cotton plant ers could be reached for interviews At Austin two or three planters said that their own banks were looking after farm interests satisfactorily The London inancial Market" Preparations for montb end payments re duced the supplies of money and made rates dearer yesterday at London Dis counts wore also higher The stock mar ket was quiet but steadier Copper shares were strong features on buying for the continent and America and Utah copper arivaneed live eighths oreign rails and foreign bonds were steady The new Chilian loan was quoted nt 1 per cent pre mium American securities opened firm ami during the morning prices advanced on good buying The market continued improve in the afternoon with Amalga mated copper the loader The closing was steady at prices a fraction below the best Dividend" Declared American tobacco company regular quarterly of per cent on preferred stock payable January 2 to stock of record December 1 AleKinley Darragh Sa vage mines 10 per cent payable January 1 Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pa cific railway company ini extra of 2U pci cent and regular semiannual of per cent on common stock Chicago telephone company usual quar terly of 2 per cent payable December 30 to stock of record December 20 Childs companv regular quarterly of 1 a per cent on preferred stock and 22 per cent ou common payable December 11 Books close December 4 reopen Decem ber 12 The A'ctv York Dry Goods Market The New cotton goods markets arc firmer with steady buying reported ju the print cloth division and in colored goods for the manufacturing trades AA'orstcd yarns arc steady with a fair busi ness doing Cotton yarns are quiet and steady Jobbers report moderate trade I in general lines and fair demand for quick shipment of holiday goods The Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific railway company declared'a extra dividend of per cent on the common stock yesterday The company also de clared a semiannual dividend of 3 per cent on the common which is an increase of 1 of 1 per cent semiannually over the dividend nite which lias ruled since 1906 The usual quarterly dividend of 114 per cent on the preferred stock was declared At a meeting in London of the United Railways of the Havana ami Regla ware houses limited yesterday resolutions nec essary to carry out the agreement under which the United absorbs the railway of Havana were adopted The railway also gave assent to the plait A AND NAVY To Detect Source" of Murconigrrama ree entry into this country for experi mental purposes is being sought by the navy department at for an instrument designed to indicate the direc tion from which wireless telegraph mes sages ae coming Although the navy would be willing to pay for a set of these instruments it has balked at the heavy duty and is now looking to the treasury department for relief In time of war naval officials say this instrument would be invaluable Although messages being sent by au enemy would bo in code it is said that it would be possible to ascer tain whether the waves going through the air were from the enemy's vessels and with the indicator pointing the direction it would be comparatively easy to locate a hostile fleet irst Atlantic leet Squadron at Hampton Hoads The first squadron of the Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Osterhaus passed in the capes at 1 o'clock Tuesday and dropped anchor in 'Hampton Roads A'a The squadron came in from Newport arriving somewhat earlier than had been expected The vessels arriving were the battleships Connecticut (flagship) Alichi gan North Dakota Louisiana New Hamp shire South Carolina and the cruisers North Carolina nnd Salem A rumor of trouble to the battle ship Michigan was not confirmed AST HORSES rom Tit Bits said the you can't talk to me about horses I had an old mare Maizypop who once licked our best express by a couple of miles on a 30 miIe run to said the Canadian was out on the farm one day about 50 miles from the house when a frightful storm came up 1 turned the head for home and do you know he raced the storm so close for the last 10 miles that I didn't feel a drop while my dog only 10 yards behind had to swim the whole PROVED rom no question about it" said Scribbleigh is the place for an author to live in who wishes to write perfect English become merely the expression of our environment after all and I wish to do iny work in an at mosphere in which the language I use for the expression of mv ideas is spoken in all its pristine purity Do you npt agree with me I ord Aliggleton?" Jowvc bally right old replied his lordship MONEY AND BUSINESS Aloney on call at New York yesterday was steady 2(5T2 per cent ruling rate 2 last Ioan 2 closing bid 2A4 offered at 2 time loans steady 60 days ler cent 90 days 31 six months prime mercantile paper 4'a iy2 per cent Sterling' exchange steady at decline at $48360 for 60 days and nt $48670 for de mand commercial bills $483 Bar silver 56 cents Alexican dollars 46 The bond market was irregular The total sales par value were $3 91600g United States coupon and the 3's declined one eighth on call Quotations moved upward during the fore part of trading in stocks and downward in the later session The two movements nearly balanced each oth er In the cases of the more prominent issues net changes were small though generally in the direction of a high level The early advance was characterized by the same tendencies as those which marked rise chief among which was the speculative movement in the cop per issues Bull traders operated less confidentjy than Tuesday and the feeling that the strength was to some extent artificial was indicated by the manner in which profits were taken when favorable opportunities xvere presented Representatives of commission houses said that general speculative buying remains small In the afternoon the market showed some signs of weariness and did not re spond to manipulation of special stocks The downward movement of prices in the late trading reflected the growth of bearish sentiment which however was due to the opinion of professional traders in regard to the technical position of the market rather than to any change in the broader outlook which on the whole is regarded as brighter A stimulating influence lies in the declar ation recently of increased dividends by several railroads and industrial companies Declaration of an extra dividend on the common stock of the Cincinnati New Or leans and Texas Pacific yesterday made another addition to this list "of increases which it is expected will stimulate in vestment buying A steady though com paratively small investment demand has been noted for some time The further rise during the morning in the copper stocks was stimulated by ex cited trading in the London metal market and strength in the New market with transactions at New above 13 cents Tiie steel stocks also showed strength Declaration of the usual divi dend on Repubic steel preferred was ac companied by a rise of 1 in the stock as it put an end to reports that the divi dend was in question There was further pressure on Third Avenue on aeeount of the court's approval of the reorganization plan and the stock fell to 7 its lowest price of the year Two days ago this stock sold at' Baltimore and Ohio was strong reflecting its favorable October report The show ing of Lehigh for last month was of a different character Although op erating revenue increased slightly there was a considerable gain in exiM'iises the result being a shrinkage of $155JHX in net operating revenue The exxrtation of gold was continued yesterday with the engagement of an ad ditional $5M1NM) for shipment to Canada It was said that all of the recent ship ments to the Dominion have been for payment of one issue of bonds and that no other call for gold for Canada has been made quotations follow: Net Sales High Low Clos chg 4C0 Allis Cha Inters T4 200 do pref 13 13 2 '37500 A null Copper 64T4 04 G44 2oo Am Aar Rhein 55 55 554 Ct JtoO Am Boot Stig 50 4 loO A pi 127 127 3 27 4V 750 Am Can 11 11 li 114 14 SOO do pref i'O'i 00 00 1 SOO Am 5K 55 55 200 do pref 116 116 I 100 Am lee See 21 2014 20'4 loo Am' Loco ti i 3110 Am Malt pr 42h2 424 42li 7500 Am Smelt 7414 73 74 800 do pref 104 102 loi4 le4 Am Steel I 34 34 34 200 Am Sug ir 118 118 12500 Am Tel Tel 141 140 1411 300 Am Toll pr 08 OS 500 Am Woolen 28(4 27i 200 do pref 88 SSU 88 13700 Amicontla 40 30 40 1 300 Atchison 104 107 4CO do pref 104 103 103 32co All Coast Line 137 13104 12 4100 Balt A Ohio 103 102 103 400 prof 80 80 80 1 200 Bethlehem fit) 30' 30 30 1 1700 B'klyn It 78 77 too Butt crick Co 30 30 30' 1 1MK Can 240 230 230 1300 Cent Leather 23 22 ICO do prof 05 05 05' 700 'lies A Ohio 75 75 75 it 700 Chic Gt West 21 20 21 400 do pref 30 30'4 30 4JOO t'hlc A St 112 111 in i 1 1200 Chic A N'west 140 145 145 400 Chic etfs 2 2 2 5i 46 2 134 56 14 141 4 107 15 3 84 1' 121 11 70 109 78 ag rlnerease 1100 100 Rubber do 1st pref 31 140 Lead ion Cop 106 35 103 174 106 35 64 44 4 1011 04 109 47 do pref Wabash do pref Wells argo 113 30 200 BlO 300 6100 11 19 31 32 52 44 70 65? 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