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upon tho speculation in tho other Granger
stocks. AT tho same time, expectations are en-
tertained Of a favorable showing for May by the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy company, and
also by the 81. Paul company, for tho third week
In the current month. Crop reports from the
territory traversed by the Granger trunk lines
continue to be an important factor influencing
sentiment regarding their shares.
The Industrialstocks were comparatively neg
loctod. Sugar Refining was fourth In respect
to activity, and tho maximum fiuctuation in 1t
was emily q point. Views which are doubtless
advanced for q purpose. that the sugar schedule
as adopted by the Senate Is likely to be material
ly modified before the pending tariff bill be-
comes q law, checks the speculation in Sugar
Refining. A similar effect 10 produced on the
market for Chicago Gas by the persistent
circulation Of reports that the companies are
not earning tho dividends that are being
paid upon the certificates, and that the
q Doodle" element in the Chicago Board
Of Aldermen may enact some measure hos
tile to the company before the Frontage bill
becomes q law on July 1. Regarding this last
II IL TO be noted that tho element referred to was
unable to get its strike measure reported
from committee at the meeting of the board last
niRht, and that the purposes Of the various
" DOODLE measures have been 30 thoroughly eN-
posed by the local newspapers that 1t is extreme
ly unlikely that any one of Thorn will DO seriously
considered at the meeting Of the council
next Monday, which IL the last one that will DO
hold before the Frontage bill becomes operative.
Al to the payment of dividends. the character
Of the directors who have declared them, as we'll
as their Individual regarding the
earnings Of the company. should DO a sufficient
answer to the attacks OF. stock jobbers who are
responsible for the rumors that the dividends
have not been earned.
OF tho less active shares Lackawanna enjoyed
a net advance Of gig points, Lake Erie and
Western. Denver and Rio Grapde preferred. 1Hs.
and NJ. K. and T. preferred nearly q point. A
recovery Of part Of the recent decline in North
ern Pacific preferred was ono Of the minor
features OF the market. A few stocks closed
fractionally lower than yesterday. notably Ten.
nessee Coal and Iron and Jersey Central, while
Consolidated Gas lost q point. The news
Of the day was unusually meagre. hence
tho improvement in prices must be attributed
to tho continuing force Of conditions
that are thoroughly understood, but which tho
professional element has endeavored to combat
temporarily during the last few days on the
theory that speculative conditions warranted q
reaction In prices. Tho only engagement of
specie for export between now and the end of
the week was of $500. 900, which will DO sent to
Germany on Thursday.
Final sales compare with those of yesterday
as follows:
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RATES STILL UNSETTLED.
EFFORTS TO SECURE RESTORATION
By THE TR LINES.

ne Results from Yesterdays n1eetinG % the
Ereoutiys Cemn,tttee of The Beard OF
Control - Another Session To-Day - The
board or Control TO Meet on Juno ap.
Tho Executive Committee Of the Board Of Con-
troll was unable yesterday to reach any agree
mont for the restoration Of freight rates, and It
was decided to call q special meeting of the
Board of Control for juno 20. The Executive
Committee will meet again this morning at IL
o'clock for further consideration Of the subject.
There Is little attempt now TO conceal the
gravity of tho situation, and some Of the mem-
bers are 30 discouraged that only q leader IL
needed to disrupt the association. The rate cut
ting is not confined to tho weaker lines by any
means, for two Of tho strongest lines are be.
lieved to have made concessions to shippers
quito as large as those made by the other MEM
bers. When tho Trunk line traffic managers
met on juno 8 they agreed from that date to
charge full tariff on all new business and to re.
store full tariff on oil business by June Ia. Thero
II indisputable evidence that neither Of these
agreements has been kept.
&, All such promises have apparently carried
with them the provision that one would restore
rates IL the others did, and so each man was so
busy Watching his neighbor that he neglected to
keep his own promise. Instead. therefore,, Of i'm
proving, tho situation has gone from bad to
WOEOt, Hbu iilCulh YIN ~ ~ ~
association is to be preserved.
= 1t was suggested yesterday that tho Board OF
Managers should be authorized to put in an
open tariff at. the lowest rates now made to
shippers. Such action has been taken In the
past with excellent results. and many railroad
mon believe that it is the true way TO settle q
rate contest. They contend that the. losses. In
the end are much smaller, though the weaker
roads are apt to DO the greatest sufferers. At
equal rates shippers prefer the best routes, and
what little tonnage would 20 to the Others
would BIO carried at a heayy. loss. Under the
Interstate Commerce law three days notice OF
a reduction Of rates is required, but ten days
notice must DO given of an advance.
Only one or two Of the Trunk line Presidents
attended the meeting, the others. except the
New York. Ontario and Western, being repre-
'sented by other officials. President Thomas was
there all through the session. but President
Sloan only stayed q few minutes, AZ he had i'm
portant engagements elsewhere. The Pennsyl
vania Railroad was represented by Third-Vice
President Provost, the Baltimore and OHIO by
President and Receiver Cowcn. the West Shore
by General Manager Laying. the New York Cen
trail by Second Vice-President Hayden, the LIE
high Valley by Third Vice-President Garrett, the
Central Railroad OF New Jersey by President
Maxwell, the Wabash by General Freight Agent
Knight. the Grand Trunk by Manager Burton
and the Chesapeake and Ohio by Freight Traffic
Manager Walker.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
Asphal. Paving hid. Rejected.

The following bids for asphalt pavement have
been rejected by Gen. Coils because no con.
siders them too hight
Market street, from Division TO Cherry street.
Warren-Scharf Company, $l7, o $50; Roose.
welt street, from Park row to Water street, ST.
teenth street, from Sixth TO Tenth avenue,
barber Asphalt Paving Company. 500, 407. 90;
Eighty;third street, from Central Park West to
pany. $35, 1870; Forty.seventh street, from
Seventh to Eighth avenue. Sicilian Asphalt
readyertised.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
Real E,.tnte Auction snle-.

Al the Broadway saesroom yesterday George r.
Rind sold West Park on.the- Hudson, seventy. mine
miles above New York. 1O1 acres, with two and
three-story house and stables, executors' sale. estate
OF DR.. Charles r, Gill. deceased. to Z. B. II Meyers.
for ]. A. Oil, for els. 1000.
James l.. Wells sold No. 584 East 151st street. eouth
side. 225 feet east Courtlandt avenue. 25x1ls.o. three
story frame dwelling, executors' sale. to George
Sturminger for %, 800.
Peter F. Meyer 4 Co. sold No. 2eo6 Second avenue,
east side, COLL feet north OF lt8th street, 20xS0,
four.story tenement house, with stores, foreclosure
sale. 10 Virginia D. Furman, plaintiff; for 100000.
Richard v. Harnett & Co. sold Irving place. %eoutheas!
corner OF sixteenth street. 43. 8x8f, four.stofy and
basement brick building. ana East Sixteenth street,
No. 1874. adjoining the above, 19x48.3. fourstory and
basement brick dwelling to Mrs. Christina ottmann
for $50, 600.
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Real Estate Private aa,es.

A. l.. Mordecai & Son and Frank Hughes have sold
for Leopold Kahan TO Charles b. Bnrkley, the hve.
story store and apartment building on the southeast
corner OF Seventh avenue and 191st street, A6I100i
also a hve-story nat house at No. 1865 West 181st
street, 25x9e. II; also to William r. Martin, senior
member OF the nrm Of Rogers, Peet 4 Co., the seven
story apartment house. THE Aylnmere, at the south.
east corner of Columbus avenue and Seventy sixth
street. The Aylsmere has o frontage OF 1898 and .
depth of 100 feet.
Arthur and Daniel P. Ingraham have sold to Louis
J. HorowitE No. A2b Pleasant avenue. . threo.story
and basement brownstone private dwelling on lot
1895.
Fannie Horowitz has sold No. 81 East 10Th street,
corner Park avenue, 11xlO0,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
RAILROAD TO BE ABANDONED.
Tho Bennington and Chatham seems 70 No OF
No Use TO Anybody.

CHATHAM. VT, June 22.-The Bennington and
Chatham Railway Is to be abandoned. 1t ex.
tends from Bennington ffty-eight miles to
Chatham and was built in 1s6s-7O. Most Of
the towns on the Bennington and Rutland were
bonded to aid its construction. Bennington CIV
ing 100000. 100000 of which are due July 1.
A direct through line from New York to Mon
treal was to have been the result of the new
railway. The road Is completely bankrupt. and
nearly every tie Is gone, switches do not work,
the coaches are barely at for cattle, and every
engine is more or less disabled.
The road has no credit and can get no rolling
stock. 1t has been In n receivers hands for some
time. A new receiver has Just been appointed.
This will DO tho only idle railway in Now Eng.
land.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
TUESDAY, June 90.

TUESDAY. juno %.
Under the leadership Of the so-called Wander
bilt shares tho stock market was In the main ag-
gressively strong. The belief that a plan for re-
funding a part Of the bonded Indebtedness OF tho
Chicago and Company in ad-
vance of maturity will be devised and an
nounced in the near future stimulated unusu-
ally heavy trading in Northwestern common at
a net advance OF 8 points. Omaha common was
naturally affected by this movement and scored
a net advance OF III v cent. Lake Shore made a
new record, selling at 175. New York Central
received much more attention than yes.
terday, when tho favorable showing for
the current quarter was made public,
and sold fractionally higher. while New
York, Chicago and st. Louis second preferred.
In which there was a revival OF activity, scored
a net gain OF IL y cent. The sharp advance in
Northwestern seemed to exert decided inauencs
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
ems. 900. 900 Mortgage ON the Mopoa.

INDIANAPoLIs. Juno GA mortgage of 49,
100000 was filed here to-day by the Chicago.
Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company TO
the Central Trust Company of New York and
James Murdoch of Lafayette, Ind, as trustee.
The money will be used to take, up old mort
cages and Improve tho road, which is known as
the Monon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
Southern Illinois whea, Crop a Failure.

MAscoUTAH, H., June 22,-The wheat harvest
began In this part OF southern Illinois to-day.
Mascoutah is In the centre OF the great wheat.
growing part of Illinois. The crop is almost a
failure, ~ estimates that the general yield will
DO about 20 per cent, of an average crop.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
NOBODY WANTS THIS RAILROAD.
rho Northeastern Railroad Goes Begging at
the states Figures, 1881. 600

ATLANTA. Ca. June 22.-Nobody wants the
Northeastern Railroad l. at 1927. 900. Not a bid
der appeared at Gov. Atkinson's ONCE yester-
day. The time for submitting bids expired at
4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon. The Governor
and Attorney-Genera j. M. Terrell were there
10. open anything that looked like q bid. Five
minutes after the hour the Governor offered to
set his watch back, but no ono was present with
a $4,000 check, which was necessary to qualify
a bid. So the State will continue to operate It's
thirty-nine miles of road from Athens to Lulah,
and will mako what 1t can out Of the property.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23
5. EXCHANGE on london. IS francs lo,s

The Ontario Silver Mining Company has de-
clared monthly dividend No. 215 of 10 cents per
share. making $13. 900 paid In dividends to
date, payable June 80 at tho office Of the trans-
for agents, Messrs. Lounsbery & Co., Mills
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23

Barley-was steady New feeding, s7SS2shc.
quality. Rye was dun. State, 39@d0c.: No. 2 West.
ern. s6hQS62c.. cost and freight to bunalo. Corn
Spot was Arm. sales l04. 900 bush, including 90, 900
No. 3 new mixed at 80c. and 92. 900 do. old at 31hc.
free on board anoat for export. No. y mixed in ele.
vator. 1000 at 29c. Futures advanced isc.. to sc.
Future sales 10, 900 BUSH. as follows:
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stL.... cd 24S ed 24 CAV
q wlllh 114h ll1h llAb 114t
is C.B&o. Sls s21s SlS S25 S2Ns
IL C.M&stP 49, 7e5 49, 7ee 7eh
10 c. q 81
Ppf....lae lse 100 1857 1901
IS CRAP II 7lS II 7lh 71S
20 ColFuel. leh leb leh 1eh 1eH
50 C.Hv&T. Oh 2h 2o gu 90
10 Con las. 1904 1904 le4ia 1e5 l67
20 Hud. 1917 1os 1919 Io7's loe
% I. L&w15d 1853 16d 16o l67
20 p&Rap 42ta 42h 42h 42 43
e5 Ed Ellie 1l6 lie l16% AT
IA Fl HD
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23

Delaware Tells the Old. Old story About Her
Peaches-Genern Prospects Fine.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

view YORK STOCK EHchange-S9los June 09.
UNITED STATES AND STATE BONDS TN 81. ooos).
Us4s.c C. 1so7113 / Alabama, CT Blo7a
go o %. c. 1e25l26 10 Va es def. trs aa
CLOSING PRICES OF UNITED STATES BONDS.
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Spring In bbls No. 2 extra, s9. 25a99.iO; No. l eN.
ira. S3.5o@S 20; straights. 93. 70S83.so patents,
o.. 95s 81. go.
Co~rroS-spot cotton here vas unchanged with sales
of us bales for export and 7sS for spinning; 400 bales
were delivered on contract. Middling uplands. T1sc,
against Tao. last year; New Orleans and Gulf.
Size. against 7'sc. last year. Sales of 62l bales for
export and l.225 for spinning made last week were
reported to-day. Savannah advanced l.1Sc. and
Wilmington isc. Galveston sold 1,2l7, New Orleans
$50. st. Louis l48. Norfolk 80 and Augusta 81 bales.
The port receipts were 2.7e8 bales. against 9s6 last
week and 3 1925 asst year: thus far this week 4.256.
against ASA thus far last week. The exports from
the ports were 1893 bales. Augusta received to-day
30 bales, against / 81 last week and log last year;
Memphis 10. against ~ last week and % last year;
st. Louis none, against z last week and 80 last year;
Houston 1874, against 90 last week and 81 last year.
Augusta shipped to-day 81, Memphis APO. st. Louis
e14, and Houston 1879 bales. New Orleans declined 2
to I points. Futures here opened l point lower, re.
covered this and advanced ! 10 g points, but reacted
and closed quiet at a net decline Of q to z points on
July and August. and 9 TO 3 on the balance OF the list.
The total sales were ~, 800 bales. The future trading
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-23

oats-Spot was easier. No. 2 white. 25s.c.: No. o
do. 24Lc.; No. 9 white, clipped. 28c. No b do. Poe;
No. mixed, gee; No. Q do. 21c.; rejected mixed.
soc;; do. white, gsc.; track. mixed, 22s23agc.;
Futures were steady. Future sales none.
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On 81 2s. r.
at pl Of @. o6ia
On st Is, r.
1907. ....l11h 1l1a
Tn 81 4s. C.
1907. ....1l3 1871
I'm st ~. r,
1925. ....l24S 1851
On st Il. C,
1895. ....l26 1851
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
DOLLARS AND GOOD ROADS.
How n Savings of Two-Thirds Could
Be Brought About.
Otto Dorner.

Otto Dorner.
Charles Kendall Adams, the eminent edu-
Gator and writer, now president of Wiscon-
sin University. while in Europe not long
ago, travelled a thousand miles by coach in
the Alps. There We're six persons in the
coach. 1t required thirty-three days They
went through four of the great passes. They
never drove less than twenty-five miles a
day and frequently as high as fifty, yet in
making that one thousand miles, in thirty
three days, they had but one span of horses.
1t is explained in the fact that the entire
distance covered had been supplied with SUI
perb roads. DR.. Adams is enthusiastic as
an advocate of good roads. After giving his
experience as above stated he asked.
What would be the condition of a team of
horses driven in this country, over noun
tain roads, from twenty-five to fifty miles
a day. six days in the week, for month";?
The statement of facts and the question
furnish ample food for reflection.
A dollar mark placed before row of fig
ures as naturally attracts the attention of
the average reader as a pretty face attracts
the attention of the average person If
there is a name, particularly the name of
well-knOwn man close to the row of figures,
the paragraph is about certain to be read
as telegram sent by senator TO an oIn-
ceseeker announcing his appointment to the
place he was seeking. Men who have been
spending years in computing the cost of
transporting farm products from the farm
to the railroad in this country, give 1t as
their firm belief that the products thus
transported amounted in 1896 to the tabu-
lous sum of 1853 LAT tons for one mile,
and that the cost of such Waf on transpor-
tatiOn was $685. 100000 or at tle rate of 70
cents a ton for each mile. They estimate
that the same amount of products trans
ported by wagon on good gravel or broken
stone road could be done at saving of
two-thirds of the vast amount, an amount
so great that it seems almost beyond COM
prehenSiOn.
Now, if these same gentlemen, one of
them the editor of an agricultural paper, Mr..
John M. Stahl another a farmer, another
Isaac Is. Potter, president of the League OF
American Wheelmen. and that class OF men,
would give an estimate of the number OF
miles of good road the 1865, 100000 that good
roads would save per year, would con-
struct, it would be comparatively easy to
state how long it would require to furnish
the country with a system of good roads
that would enable it each year 30 save more
than a half billion of dollars in the matter
of wagon transportation, to say nothing
about the hundreds of millions of dollars
that would be added to the value of farm
and other property; to say nothing about
the convenience in reaching school, church,
creamery, cheese factory, and so on, and
so
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
IS NOT VERY ALARMING
THAT BIG BICYCLE TUBING TRUST
INCLUDES But THREE PLANTS.
Guarding Against "the Bicycle Face
The ROVydy on Wheel-The
Humor of Riding.

Local bicycle manufacturers are of the
opinion that the English syndicate which
has invaded this country with the purpose
of controlling the output Of bicycle tub
ing win accomplish little more than to find
a profitable place 10 invest it's capital
Arthur Pikngton. a brother of the tube
king Of England, and three other repre-
sentatiYes OF tube. manufacturers OF the
Midlands, England, came to this country
late in April. Their coming was kept quiet
and it was not until they were ready to
announce a partial contamination of their
plans that it became known they were
here.
Last week it was announced that they
had succeeded In forming an international
trust in which were the BIidlands factories
and two plants in this country, those at
Elwood and Greenville, Pa. The latter are
really but one concern, though operated as
separate corporations. Samuel Smell really
controls them both. He is the man who
went to England last year and tried to
corner the market by buying all the tub
ing in sight and came very near succeed
ing. He would have done so had it not
been that there were other tubing centers
besides England Germany. for instance,
has the inventor OF the first seamless tub
NNDNAHo
ter from which probably comes the best
tubing produced. Then there were other
factories in the United States besides those
controlled by Mr. Smell Most of the manu-
f4cturers had provided for the seasons
supply Of tubing and an attempt to corner
the market pro6ted little. 1t resulted, how
ever, in the establishment of large trade
between the Wheelm2kers in this country
and the tube manufacturers in Weissen-
burg and also in the establishment in this
country of several tubing mills. Notably
among the latter is that at Albany, Ind.
which is controlled by three bicycle manu-
facturers. one Of which is the Indiana BIZ
cycle Company, of,this. city. This mill has
q process for manufacturing weldless steel
tubing that is said to ne the equal of any
In the world. There are several tube mills
at Toledo O., one large one, at Shelby, o.
one at Brooklyn N, ", and that at Hart
ford controlled by the Pope Manufacturing
Company.
With such a large number of plants in
this country the consolidation of two plants
with the English manufacturers does not
mean much. 1t does not mean. that. the
Britons or Samuel Smell will be any better
able to control the market than they have
been during the, past two or three years
since the bicycle makers in this country
became independent of the tube manufac-
turers OF England.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
THE MANLY THING TO DO.
Chairman of the Mothers Convention
Points the Way Out of Difficulty.

Chicago Post.
The presiding officer of the mothers con-
vention looked decidedly uncomfortable
and coughed in a deprecatory sort of way
behind her hand as she looked over the
assemblage. Then, instead of calling the
convention to order, she sat down and en-
tered into an animated conversation with
two or three of the other officers. 1t was
evident that they were endeavoring to con-
vince her of her duty in the premises and
that she did not wish TO be convinced. FL
nally however, she sighed, bowed to their
will and rose again
Ladies'" she said and she looked rather
sharply at a little group near the door,
"as you all know. presumably, TINS Is
mothers convention, and While 1t is not
absolutely essential that every one here
shall be or have been a mother, 1t is highly
important, in order that there may be per
feet freedom of debate in the matter or the
training Of children, that there should at
least be a remote possibility that every one
here may be a mother at some future time
She paused and looked little more I'M
heretofore" she went on at last, this
matter has been easily settled to the salts
faction of ali concerned, and at the con-
clusion of roll call we have entered into
discussion of the danger of tutti fruttl when
given to children at improper times without
the slightest fear that our deliberations
might be affordng amusement to some one
who on account of sex, really had no right
to be present. 1t was, may say, a com
paratiVely simple matter to distinguish
those who We're entitled to be present from
those who were not
There was another brief interval of 81
Ience during which every woman in the
place looked suspiciously at every other
woman.
view of the fact that it is sometimes diff
ficult to distinguish boomers from the
trousers of golf suit. and that the eye can
no longer be relied upon we nave decided
to call in a notary and let all women in BIZ
furcated costumes swear themselves into
the convention. which will be such a manly
way of doing things that 1t really ought to
fatter them"