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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-06
London Financial.

NEW YORK, April 5-Evening
Posts London cablegram: Stagnat ton
characterized all the stock markets
today, with a rather sharp relapse in
mining shares on the reported col
lapse of the Londonderry mine, big
Australian concern, introduced here
by Col. North. American securities
shared in the dullness. At an impor-
tant meeting of influential bankers
today to consider the binetallic agi>
tation, a committee was appointed to
express in proper quarters the danger
of any interference with the present
monetary standard. This, of course
does not indicate that there is even a
fear of such a thing, but the bimetallic
agitation is now strong, and a pro,
tective opposition is deemed advisable.
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New York Money.

NEW YORK, April 5-Money on
call easy at 2@21a: last loan, 2; closed
at 2. Prime mercantile paper, 4@5ls
per cent. Sterling exchange strong.
at 81. S912@4 .S9a4 for demand, and at
81. 881a@4. S834 for sixty days; posted
rates, $4.8S1A@4 .S91a and $4,000. 9O1a.
Silver certificates, 65A @65Ac. Com
mercial bills, 4.S7R. Government
bonds firm. State bonds active. Rail
road bonds firm
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MiiNaulSee.

MILWAUKEE,. Wis, April 5.-Flour
steady. Wheat firner; NO. spring,
511sc: No. northern. 6554c; May, Size.
Corn scarce and nominal; No. 3, 4Sc.
Oats steady; No. 2 white 32S4c: No 5
white, 32Ac. Barley lower; No. 2,
5l$c; sample. 50I49o21ac Rye steady 4,
No l, sec. Provisions steady Pork,
S12 10. LS,rd, $500. Receipts-Flour,
$500 bbls; wheat, 1890 blu; barley, IL.
2O0 blu. Shipments-F'iour, 2,30j; wheat
and barley none
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Chicago Live Stock.

CHICAGO. April 5.--Hogs-Receipts,
generally 10c above yesterdays clos
ing; light, S4.6005; mixed, 81. 75O5 90;
heavy, $4. 75@5 .3713; rough, 81 7504. so.
Cattle-Receipts, $500; market steady
at yesterdays closing. Sheep-Re-
celpts, 1000; market quiet. but steady.
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New York Produce.

NEW YORK. April 5. : Flnnr = Re-
ceipts- 1900 bbls; exports, 300 bbls:
safes, q 500 pkgs; active and lower for
spring patents; winter wheat bakers
aha low springs steady. Rye -four
II 49(955c. Cernmeal dali. Rye nominal.
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IH PEOPLES WANTS

All want ads. one cent word each
insertion Nothing less than Is cents
Advertisements from the country sent
any day by mail. accompanied by re-
mlttance at above rate. will be in
x,ariaoiy inserted the following morn
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/ IHE PEOPLES WANTS

All want ads. one cent word each
insertion. Nothing less than 10 cents
Advertisements from the country sent
any day by mail. accompanied by re-
mittance at above rate. will be invari-
ably inserted the following morning.
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ROGERS & ROGERS.
Live Stock Commission.
Union Stock Yards. South st. Paul, Mimi
LIVE STOCK.
Union Stockyards.

Receipts, 100 hogs. 500 cattle. 45
calves, Is sheep.
Hogs-5@l0c higher and active.
Quality averaged pretty fair. but moth
ing extra was offered.
REPRESENTATIVE Gales
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: H[ PEOPLES WANTS

All want ads. one cent a word each
insertion. Nothing less than Is cents.
advertisements from the country sent
any day by mail, accompanied by re-
mittance at above rate. will be invari-
ably inserted the following morning.
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BANK CAEARINGs.
Only Feur Cities of Importance
Show Decrease.

NEW YORK, April 5.-The following
table compiled by Bradstreets, shows
the total clearances at the principal
cities and the percentage of increase
or decrease, as compared with the corr
RESPONDING week last wear. ~ - : :
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Cattie-Steady on fat cattle and
choice feeders; common stoekers and
Gamers dull. Two loads OF localized
steers brought s475. A train load of
fat cattle from Idaho arrived laie.
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M. DORIAN & CO.,
Bankers and Brokers,
3il Jackson ST.. ST. Paul, MINI.
Closing Stocks-West.

Atchison 49,. 61E
Adams s'EX....143
Alton & T. H. IS
American Elk. ZIP
Baltimore e O. 81
Can. Pacific. 49,:
Can. Southern. 492s
Cen. Pacific. -. 1867
Ches. & Ohio. III
Chicago & Alt.147
c., B. & Q. 73
Chicago Gas. III
Con. Gas. 1871
C.,C.,C.& St.L. 37H
Col. C. & L.. 81
Cot. Oil Certs. 25
Del. q Hud. 1871
Del, L. e w. .159
D. & r. G. pfd. 373i
Dis. & c. Eco. 15H
Erie ............ 81:
do pfd. 20
Fort Wayne. 1877
ct. Min. pfd.107
G. & e. l. pfd. IS
Hooking Val. 25$,
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Minneapolis Markets

The speculative market ruled very
I dull throughout the session. The open,
ing was shade higher than Thurs
days close and fluctuations were mar
row. Reported heavy sales of wheat
for export braced the market to some
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-06

Sheep-Fat muttons and lambs steady
Common dull Fifteen good lambs ar
rived, selling at S425.
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FINANCIAL
MEDICAL.

G6HI M REWARD - DR.. Taylor's
'HcOOsOO Tansy Pennyroyai English
Female Regulating Fills the ladies' friend
and priceless boon. They are the original
and only genuine; are safe and always rela-
BILE: never fail mailed anywhere for 81; sold
ct all drug stores Chas. A. Drefs. apothe-
iiary 50 broadway, Buffalo N Y.
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INSTRUCTION.

Or. AGATHA's ACADEMY OF MUSIC
- and Art. 70 East Exchange st., st. Paul
Piano, violin, guitar. banjo and mandolin
Taught. Lessons given in drawing aud paint
ing. Call or send for prospectus.
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Illinois Cent. s71kIU: s. Express. Al
ST. Paul & D.. q w, St. L. & P. 6ss
Kan. & T. pfd. 263si do pfd. ....... 14A
Lake E. & W.. III WELSH. Elk. Jos
do pfd. . 741hl Western Union 871s
Lake Shore. 1371a w. & l.. E.. u
Lead Trust. . go do pfd........ 43A
Louis. g. Nash. 51st NJ. & St. L.. 26k
Louis. & N. A. z d. & r. c.. 11ls
Maintain Con.112 Gen. Electric. 1875
Mem. &c Char. 10 Natl Linseed.. 21M
Michigan Cen e3k Col. F. & L.. .
Missouri Pac "a do ND ...... g.
Mobile & Ohio. 1914 H. & T. Gen.. IA
Nash. & Chatt. 10 T., A.A.& NM. IA
Natl Cordage. Isl. q nc.
do pfd....... 105s do pfd........ 10
N. j. Central. 94k Southern 49,. 11%
Nor. & w. pfd. 13k do pfd. SO
North Am. Co. AZ Tobacco ....... 95k
Northern Pac.. AZ do pfd. .108
do pfd........ 16% st. P, ri. & NJ.
u. p, d. & G.. AL
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fob in some place on Broadway. I
said, What do you take for break
fast?' 'Oh, pretzel and glass of
soda water said he. And what for
lunch?' 1 said. The same thing said
he, Now, sir, put American boys to
work on that sort of diet, and how
long do you think they'd Iast?"
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Bonds.

US. 4s,reg, newI20kI G. P. lists, $500
do do coup. 120iL T.. & r. G. is. .115
u. S. as, reg. .115% D. & r. G.. As. S2ls
do coup. 49, 115% Erie seconds. 63
do As reg. 1113s G. Il. & S. 4. 6s IS
do As COUP. .112 do do Is. .10l
*do Is req. % H. & r. c. 5s. 1861
*Pacific IS, 49, 100 do is. 100
Ala, Glass A. los NJ K. T. LIST is. SO
*do do b.. .106 do second IS 81
*do do c.. 50 *Mut. Union 6S.1e9
%do Currency. IS N. j. Gen. 5s. .112A
La. N. Cons, As 81 N. P. lists. .u415
Missouri 6s.. -. 100 do seconds. 85lA
IN. G. 6s. .12i N. w. con. -. 1852
do as. do S. deb. SIS. 109
sc. Non-Fund ~ r. G. w. lists. 67&
Tenn. new 6s.. 84Is ST. 2. cons, Is 1864
Edo do IS. 100 do C.&P. W. 5s.112
%do old 6s.... 60 S.L.& I'M. G.5s TAX
Va Centuries. SO S.L.& ST. G.5s.106
do def. US T. P. firsts.... S7A
Atchison Es 67X do seconds. 24I4
do second A. 20A u. P lists, &c. 1893,
Can. So. DDS. 1884 West Shore 4s.105
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Northwestern. 91%
do pfd. 1881
N. Y. Central. 95M
N. Y. & n. E.. 38
Ont. & West. 1914
Imp. 8
Oregon Nav. Is
o. S. l.. G U.N. 51s
Pacific Mail. -. %
p. d. & E. ~
.Pittsburg .155
Pullman p. c. .156
Reading ....... 10
Rio C. w.. 1873
do pfd. 81
Rock Island. 63%
st. Paul. :. SIS
10 plu.. -If0
st. p. & o. 81
do pfd. -. .1G71h
Southern Pac.. les
Sugar Refin'y.16 11s
Tenn. G. & t.. IT'S
Texas Pacific. 9ss
1T. & O. c. pfd. rs
Uuion Pacific. Ia
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STORAGE.

FURNITURE and merchandise stored ;
L money loaned OH them while IN store
Ryan furniture Co., 1iz-l4A East Seventh st
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CHIRoPoD.sT.

iHlROPODiST = Good thing for sore
~ feet Good Luck Salve sure cure for
chillDlains and all other frost bites. IL your
druggist does not keep 1t, send or call " ii.
Lockwood. Cbiropodist. 2y3 aad POI Endicott
Arcade building; 10, SIC and 81 box.
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TO EXCHANGE.

nj EW goods for ec'd-nsnd. Rys GIL Furniture
IN and Exchange Co, IL and IA E. 7thst
ITO EXCHANGE-A lot of cordwood
l. Percheron stations and secured notes
for work horses Is Globe
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WANTS MAY Be LIFT

AT the following locations for
insertion in the Daily and Sunday
Globe, MT the same rates rs is
charged by the main office.
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DYE WORKS,

KAHLERT & MiSTEE - Minnesota
II Steam DSe Works, PA East Seventh.
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II ORSsS AT AUCTION-I5O horses and
i mares al auction every Wednesday at
wagons, etc.. private sale daily; consign-
ments solicited; we have from 100 TO 200
head constantly on hand Barrett & Elm.
merman's Horse Auction and Commission
Stables, No. ~ Second st. north. Minueapo-
lis References-City Bank, Columbia Ma
tional Bank. Farm. Stock and Home
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BOARD OFFERED.

BUHhU UfFEkEU.
A TTENTiCN is called to the Clothing
n Sale at 20 and 81 East Seventh
- rooms: excellent location; half block
from Selby cable; excellent board 155
Nina aT.
ROAKD-Rooms and board ~ Summit av !;
- house newly furnished; excellent table
board: terms reasonable
BOARD - Nicely furnished rooms with
ID board. 522 Cedar st.
QOARD-Furnished room for rent with
IL board. suitable for two; also table board.
IS West Fifth St, opposite Windsor
pOARD-Furnished front rooms and side
ID rooms with board. $50 North Washing
ton st.
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HORSES AND CARRIAGES.

GREAT CLOSING OUT SALE of ex.
VI tension tops. buggies phaetons, jump
seats, wagons. victorias, eoupes, rockaways,
harnesses aud saddles at half price; these
goods must be sold. Carriage rooms. No. u
East Third St.
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| = ARLINGTON HILLS.
x Marelius. .............. Drug Store
COR. BEDFORD AND DECATUR.
F.. JurSeSon. .............. Grocery Store
I PAYNE AV. AND REANi1Y ST.
a. & G. A. Schumacher. I'rllg Store
954 PAYNE AVENUE.
AOIinann .GrOc5ry Store
COR. BURR AND MINI EHATIA
I { DAYTON,s BLUFF.
FeVer Westby. Drug Store
! 679 EAST THIRD STREET.
y. Z. Wander Bic. Ice Cream &c Confec'y
595 EAST SEVENTH ST.
HAMLIINE.
Hamline Pharmacy. Drug Store
750 SMELLING AVENUE.
LOWER TOWN.
William K. Collier. Drug Store
SEVENTH AND SHELLEY.
Joseph Argay. Drug Store
COR. GROVE AND JACKSON STS.
Nj. d. Merrill News Stand
Az BROADWAY.
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MERRIAM PARK.
ST. ANTHONY PARK.

ST AM Sriieg AND PRIOR ipIss AVS VS.
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SITUATIONS WANTED.

IOUsEkEEPER-A widow lady, with n
IL son. would like situation as house
Keeper on farm: soE to work ON farm: is Il
ST., ST. Paul
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AUNDRESS - A first-class Iaundress
- would like rough-drY washing TO do at
nome; clothes called for and delivered and
456 East Sixth St
The evening times., 1895-10-21
CARNEGIE on CANALS.

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has apparently
made his city of Pittsburg enthusiastic by
indorsing the project for a deep canal to
connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River at a
point about thirty miles below Pittsburg.
Mr. Carnegie declares. however, that Ale
gheny County, in which Pittsburg is situ-
ated, should issue bonds for S15,000,GO0.
the amount necessary, and construct and
own the waterway.
This is perfectly natural, coming from a
monopoiist like Carnegie. Instead OF ad-
vocating general and popular ownership.
he would have the canal in the hands OF a
few local manipulators, who would more
than likely subserve the interests OF rail-
roads, rather than that of the people. But
the matter is not worth discussing, as there
is a State law which prevents counties
from engaging in such projects.
The only proper owner for all such in
stitutions is the general Government, which
would effectually prevent all possibility
of their being manipulated in a way that
would be practical pooling of rates with
railway corporations. A present scheme
is that private corporations shall construct
the Erie & Ohio Canal. If that be done, 1t
will simply result in pooling arrangements
with railroads from the outset.
The evening times., 1895-10-21
GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPH.

0ON EHNMEN El-EG hAfa.
Evidence is accommodating that the scheme
for Government purchase OF existing lines.
or Government construction OF new lines.
for a telegraph system which will not
be the sport of monopolists, will soon be
urged upon Congress as it never was be-
fore.
During several sessions of Congress this
great project has been before committees
OF House and Senate. A few years ago a
legislative committee of the Knights OF
Labor presented a comprehe Dsive bin.
with maps of initial routes. cost Of con-
struction and rates OF teiegraphing, and
urged the matter for one long session; but
it was never even fairly discussed in
committee. SO slow were members to take
any action which might seem prcjudicial
to corporations.
1t is discovered that many Of the new
members of the Fifty-fourth Congress are
favorable TO a Government telegraph, and
it is confidently asserted that they will
honestly and vigorously urge the passage
of law which will enable the United
States to make a begin ming in q great
work which has been practically accom-
plished by every other civilized country
in the world.
The evening times., 1895-10-21
Odd Persons and Things.

A peculiar. Puritan-like seutence was
Pa, few days ago. They were accused
of assault and battery, and were released
on their promise TO accompany their ac-
cuser to church on each OF the twelve next
succeeding Sundays.
Michigan newspaper has struck
bright idea, and is vigorously booming the
project of establishing a coffin factory in
the town where it is published. No mat
ter how hard times are. it argues. people
will die. and they must be buried. aud
the coffin business will always be boom
ing.
In Paris OF late there have been several
su icides OF children. The you ngest OF
these was only nine years of age. The
child had been missing for a week, when
his body was found In the Seine. On IL
was a paper on which was written: my
name is Alfred Fournot. am killing N.Y.
self. Ny father has scolded me-"
An Oregon paper cites an instance of
what ii considers the crowning act in
the degradation of the horse. A man in
Dalles owns q horse and also q bicycle,
and the bicycle Is the latest love. For Il
he has neglected the horse until the latter
has grown fat and lazy for want of cxer-
else. His stabieman said the horse really
must have exercise, SO the owner ties il
By q long halter - the handle OF his b.
The evening times., 1895-10-21
Some Famous JulietS.

Miss Pritchard played in 1156 to the
Romeo Of Garrick, and her extraordinary
Beauty made a great impression ON the au-
dience; still she soon faded into obscurity.
Mrs. JoItion played Juliet but once or
twice, and had no more success with it than
had Mrs. siddons. Mrs. Stephen Kemble
was a famous Juliet.
The first actress whose rendering OF the
part of shakespeare's famous heroine, who
receives any extended mention, is Mrs.
Cibber. who played it in Drury Lane in
1T4s, with Barry as Romeo. She was
great success because, said the critics.
'''she had heart most susceptible to ten
derness."
OF the performances of Romeo and Ju.
let'' in shnkespeare's own day no tradi-
tion is preserved. The first Juliet of whom
we have any record-the first woman juliet
as opposed to boy Juliet-who ever trod the
boards, was Mrs. that is, Miss Saundcr-
son, Afterwards known as Mrs. Bctterton.
OF her performance-at Lincoln's Inn Fields
in 1662-nothing is recorded, though Doran
does not fail to romance about It. The Hon.
James Howard, Dryden's brotherin-law.
provided the play with q new ending, Romeo
and Juliet remaining alive at the close.
In 1880 Otway wove the story OF Romeo
and Juliet into his "Caius Marius." about
half of which was lifted bodily from Shakes
pcarc. and this history seems to have
sopgsetied Shakespearc's play on the stage
for more than half q century. thus, neither
Mrs. Barry. Mrs.. Raccgirdle nor Mrs. Old
field ever appeared az Juliet, and we have
70 leap from Nn. Betterton to Miss Jenny
Cibber. Colley's and-dauehter, who play
ID the part Mt The HAymarket In iI4z. to
the Romeo Of hs father, Theophilns Cibhsr.
The evening times., 1895-10-21
wATcHMEN WANTED.

The narrow avoidance of a deadly ac-
cident between q cable car and car
drawn by horses at the intersection of
Ninth street and the Avenue last night
is basis for a new and emphatic demand
for watchmen where rapid cars cross the
lines of either their own kind OF those upon
which horses are yet the motive power.
1t is apparent that no system and no
amount of instruction will systeInatize
or instruct. Accidents or narrow escapes
from them happen every day. The cost
of watchmen at the danger points would
be but n trifle to the companies operating
these lines, and would be IS nothing COM
pared to the damages which are likely
to be assessed by any jury in the case of
even a single Individual injured in col
iisIons due to a lack of guards.
The columns of The Times might be
filled with complaints and dcnunciations
received from citizens who daily note the
danger TO which they are exposed.
The evening times., 1895-10-21
BackWOOdS BreezeS.

Two recent visitors to North Powde
River, Oregon, brought back sections OF
| fir bark sixteen inches thick. They say they
| saw very many trees with bark over a foot
| thick.
II should be promised to this story that
| panthers are very numerous in the coast
mountains of Oregon just now. In the last
| month a sheep herder on a big ranch near
Roseburg. Ore, has twice had the expert
ence OF killing three panthers In one day.
They were all fully grown averaging eight
feet in length each.
A rattlesrake that has been on exhibi-
ton Mt Peaks Island, Maine. the past four
months has eaten nothing in that time.
A lunberman of West Branch, Me-, says
he counted sixty-two deer in one day near
his camp recently.
Hugh Mcdonald, wocdsnlan. caught
pure white deer near Eagle River, Wis
1t is the first of the kind seen in that country
Pennsylvania has great plenty of wild
animals even yet. A Huntington County
trapper took from his traps one day last
week two wildcats, six foxes, and ten
mnks, and on the way home saw two bears
and two cubs.
A large seal was captured recently at
st. Mary's Island.
The beaver hunters of the early days
OF this country believed that the severity
of the coming winter was indicated by the
thickness of the beaver huts.
English sportsnen are particular as to
what they shoot at. The Daily Telegraph
having spoken inaccurately OF a covey
Of pheasants received the following list Of
correct names for assemblages of birds:
"A covey of partridges; a nye, nide, or nest
Of pheasants; a herd or swans; an exalting
Of larks; watching OF nightingales; a team
Of ducks; a muster OF pea cocks; bcvy Of
quails; a flight OF doves; flock or gaggle
ofgeese: a spring orteals: a fallof woodcocks:
pack of grouse; a sedge OF herons; shoal
of rocks; a trip of widgeon; wisp or walk
of snipe.'
The evening times., 1895-10-21
Twas Bloomin' Mean.

She was a lovely creature
In action, form and feature;
Twas pleasure sweet to linger by her side
And watch each graceful motion.
With a feeling of devotion
When we went Off in the country for q ride
Many miles we've wheeled together
During glorious summer weather,
With naught OF care to worry or distress;
nd with youthful animation
We discussed with much elation
Just how a woman 'cyclist ought to dress.
Ali those were days romantic,
And it drives me nearly frantic
When think sh ecannOt ride forQuite while;
And though my heart is healing,
Yet alone go a-wheeling
Without the potent rapture Of her smile
And though sometimes wonder
At her very thoughtless blunder,
know she regrets it more than 1;
And IL you will not tell her
will tell you what befell her,
For lean Observation-Disclosures thoughItr
One day while out a-strolling
She found 1t most consOling
T6iinger meath q tree awhile forest:
And there are current rumors
That she's laid aside her bloomers
For she sat right on an active hornets nest.
New York World.
AAg H.. - ND><<
The evening times., 1895-10-21
GOVERNMENT GUN CONTRACTS

Whenever the Government attempts TO
go into the manufacturing OF building busi-
ness on its own account there is au immc-
are naturally on the lookout for fat con-
tracts.
Just now the decision of the Naval
Ordnance Bureau to manufacture at the
Washington navy yard 100 three-inch steel
rifles calls for bitter protest from a
gun-factory corporation In Philadelphia,
which, in puerile way, complains that it
has been encouraged by the Government
to extend its plant with promises of vast
quantities of work.
Possibly this is true, but, if so, It is sug.
gestive of very mistaken policy. So.
also, when contracts were about to be
taken away from far larger concerns than
the one in question, on account of fraud
and infraction of contract, the plea for
mercy has been that millions of dollars
were expended for plants on account of
promises of Government patronage.
II is as plain as a pikestarf that the
Government, under the direction of ex-
perts, can construct aud operate plants
more cheaply than private corporations.
which take contracts only at a large profit.
With such Government construction and
supervision there would be little or NO
chance for trickery or fraud. Every ar
dcle would be honestly made, or, II
found defcctiye-for instance, full Of ''blow
holes'-it would be cast aside and not
plugged and smuggIed into use by trick
ery.