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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25

Outside SECURITIES Market dun and
irregular standard oil closed at fl-"fIf'
against i140415 on Friday. Last prices or
otber nronInent Issues were Brooklyn tie-
vated new stock. 27N2Sl2; preferred, ''N'S'
Rrooklyn city Railroad, 2lia2l3; standard Gas
common. l35a14O: preferred. l31@ldo Mutual
Gas 3oO0 $50. New-Amsterdam Gas. common
27a, G2Sh. preferred, Gsis@Gsi2; Glucose COM
mon 57m57h; preferred. lO3l.@ lO6ia.
Rank CLEAR1NGS.-The total bank clear
,rgs at ali the clearing houses OF the United
states for the week ending yesterday were 81
315o1447l a decrease OF SIS. S06,13, from last
w.et and decrease Of So Ss59ij as compared
with the same week last year.
RAILROAD EARNINGS.-"The Financial
Chronicle" computes the gross earnings OF n
roads for the first week OF September lS''S, at
81 eGG or. an Increase Of s526.523. or 6.3l per
cent. 7S roads for the second week In September
1898 at SS.712. coo an increase Of S2i3''3i' or
293 per cent.
SITB-TREASURY TRANSFERS.-Transfer
of currency by the Sub-Treasury yesterday
amounted to $4,000 to the South and West.
making the total for the week S2,IU,0oD.
APPLICATION TO LIST.-Application has
been made to the Stock Exchange to list 5000
600 additional Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring asscnted capital stock.
GOLD IMPORTS.-Total gold imports since
> f,llo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25

have been purchased and large part or them
put in the track. Several hundred new boNoars
have been built, and the part of The company's
shops at Macon that was destroyed by fire mas
been replaced with moro extensive and I'M
proved structures The president n his report
says: ION the whole, the result fr-m opera
tiohs of the properties during the last year
should be satisfactory and with peace and con-
fdence restored it is hoped that the depression
that has extended over section Of the ooun-
try for several years viii disappear, and that we
will soon enter upon a period % prosperity
which will be shared by all Industries, including
the railroad companies"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25

RAILROAD BONDS.-Market strong OF
fairly large volume Of business. Inc more Hi
portant dealings were in the Atchisoh lS'u'
Central Georgia consol rs. Chesapeake ano ohio
Az chicago Terminal As. Houston and Texas
Central As Kansas City. Pi:tsburg anu Gun
Arsts Michigan Central 3lzs, Northern Pacific
S,neral lien IS and prior Az. oregon Railroad
and Navigation As. San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass As. Southern Railway rs. Union Pacihc
A.. Union Pacific. Denver and Gulf first receipts
and Wisconsin Central first receipts Total sales
amounted in par value to S1,011,OoO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25

vannah-Buying. Lice discount; selling. 15c.
per Slooo premium. Chicago-10c. premium.
FOREIGN MONEY MARKET-Call rate in
London ~ per cent. Open market discount
rate, 2%Q2 1916 per cent for short and long
bills. Berlin discount rate. 3ss per cent; Paris.
IA per cent. Berlin exchange on London ~
marks 411a pfennings. Paris exchange on Lon
don, % francs 20 centimes.
EUROPEAN SECURITIES.-Brits consos,
1O9% for money and 109% for the account.
French rentes, 1O2 francs 80 centimes Spanish
per cents in London, 40.
THE SILVER MARKET-Bar silver,
60 15-1Gc.. declined Lice. Mexican silver dol
lars, 41Ac. Bar silver in London 2S }-1Gd., de-
clined Lied
GOLD PREMIUM.-In Madrid - -: Lisbon.
900; Buenos Ayres. 1860; Rome. 107.So.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD.

London Sept -, p. m-The market fof Amer
lean securities dull. with Central anu oiiioii
Pacific issues the only features Last prices
showed little change from yesterday ana WeIe
O. follows: Southern Railway preferred "1Hs
Union Pacific, "a: preferred. dS1s; Atchison pre-
ferred Boy: Northern Pacific. An; preferred
1pn; Central Pacific. 2GA Canadian Pacihc'
SOL: Louisville and Nashville. ~; New-f orH
Central, 12OA; St Paul. 113A; Erie first pre-
fered. 37la. and Reading. 3h.
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drawers of foreign exchange:

poMEsTic EXCHANGE. - New Orleans -
commercial. 81 - discount: bank SOC. premium.
ChaTieston-Buying, par; selling. Nc. premium.
ssn francisco-sight. i7kc; telegraph 2oc'
S'noinnati--over the counter. SOC. premium; be-
sSsea nankA par. bestou--l0o nsaniprn. 81
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25

IMPORTS or MERCHANDISE At NEW-foRh
i'' -. s.,, o. ises 1907 1895
VIZ '''o ~ sls.5sa sl.Is7 I7s sligs. iDi
General merchandise. 3fvhof "'Hl'-4@ 'Vo''o''
for week ST322DIs t.s9S.I22 80 Iutott
Gu, r,nusrv 500 4C3 372 1850 s!t3 jill 752 2IJ
IMPORTS OF SPECIE.
r., ,ho ueck 81 5c2 sol sI4i 270 81 80 AZ
em I.r,arv ~ IS 2qssi2 G.324 9J2 si,3O5A 9
EXPORTS OF SPECIE.
a.. n4.L 81 ao1 b,G SAL, 40 $40.
sinc. January i..... DJiiOsTJ a. .O33 40 sd5IsFI
EXPORTS or MERCHANDISE FROM SEw-YORk
In 10 sept 90 scss 100 ia1 o2oI5.oot $751; &c:
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.s5i .o7o.3s7 s5i.si9,o3c Inc. sl57'a5

10 .
Tho company is free from floating debt
rha LARGE decrease shown IN income from IN
vestments including steamships. occurs because
n large part OF the earnings from the steamships
has been used in improving ships ana terminal
facilities. and during the Spanish War two Fhirs
were chartered to the Government to be used as
transports. Besides the improvements to steam
ship properties. 5000 tons OF eighty pound steel
rail, have been laid and $500 tons additional
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
,rTLE CHANGE IN PRICES.
crorE TRADING LIFELESS.
~ STATEMENT SHOWS MORE MONEY
=. THE CITY-BOND MARKET STRONG.

rUsng prices yesterday OF the principal active
.,rurtes and net changes from fridays quota
-. were as follows
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
uONTPEiL STOCKS :.
RAILROAD INTEREST.

CENTRAL. OF GEORGIA.
rha annual report Of the Central OF Georgia
RAILWAY company shows the following results
from, operatOnS;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25

THE DAYS OPERATIONS IN BONDS.
GOVERNMENT PONDS.-Sales. $4,000 reg
,s,ered 4s ~ 1929 at 1279s and $4,000 IS (when
,,sue6, q, 1o5n n 1O5% Final quotations follow;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25

OUTSIDE SECURITY MARKET.
NETWORK STREET RAILROADS.
BONDS.
reported by C. l. Hudson & Co.. No. 80 wali-st)
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MONEY AND EXCHANGE.

MONEY RATES.-Monsy on CALL per cent
Time money. per cent for sixty days per cent
Tor three months. per cent for four months ana
per cent for six months. Commercial paper
rates were 4@ih per cent for the best names
Tor all periods and above for names not so well
known.
FOREIGN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. steady at
unchanged quotations. Actual closing rates foi-
low
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
Srw.yoRK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 25 1895

THE ASSOCIATED BANKS IN DETAIL
bankh
o 3
Banks Capita. pssss. Loan. sO.s. Legal. Dae.. ( &
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.Ex dividend.
TRUST AND SURETY COMPANIES.
Cleported by Clinton Gilbert. No Wall-si)
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Sixty days.


Gables Sight Sixty days
Sterling 4H1 4s3LQ4SI 4s1hd4.s1s
Francs s2l7s e 522is- 1915. 22H 5o4&a LILO
Heehrm ks o. a,7.mD4 Is 10 ~ 3-i66tD414
Guidtrs.. ~ I-l014Oh 3S%N3s 1915
foiowing are the posted rates Of the leading
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
BANK STOCKS.

e.2 1862 700 49, 300 5000 2es
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sUnllsted
BOSTON STOCKS.

,... no ~. l. Day Co. No. Broad-st
fuf"'ri , To aav YESTERDAY Tx day
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21
CtAECTED IN
 THE CORRIDORS

A. S. Ross. large rancher of Sonoma is at the Lick
 Sheriff E. c. Johnson of Riverside is a guest at the Grand.
 $. N. Lockland, large rancher of Moss Landing, is at the Grand.
 w. H. Stoy. capitalist of MarysviIIe. Is guest at the Occidental
 F. A. Rice, a prominent business man of Fl Rio, is staying at the Occidental.
 Joseph R. Ryland, the San Jose can,tal- ist. Is at the Occidental with his wife.
 pr. J. W. Robinson, a prominent pbv- sician Of Jacksonville, Is at the Palace. F. c. Lusk, one of the shining lights of the Chico bar, is registered at the Palace Timothy Hopkins, the multi-milIionaire is staying at the Palace with Mrs. Hop kins.
 Frank c. Roberts, a prominent mining man of Miles City, Mont, is at the Cali fornia.
 s. V. McClatchy, one Of the proprietors of the Sacramento Bee, Is at the Cali fornia-
 O. P. Hunt. U. s. A. has come down from Vancouver Barracks, where he has
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21
THE KLONDIKE TRADE.

C AN FRANCISCO has the Klondike trade.
 Whether she captured 1t by energy or whether
 It came to her by natural attraction matters not. 1t IS hers. All declarations to the contrary on the part of noisy opponents and all doeful croakings on the part of tmd residents are reuted by the records ot the water front The traffic which already has come to San Francisco IS pressing upon the limit of trans portaton facilities, and the rush has just begun.
 It may now be accepted as settled fact that all who wish to go to Alaska by any sure and safe transportation line will be virtually obliged to come to San Francisco to arrange for the trip It is from this port all the great steamers and sailing vessels tor the north and persons who go to any of the way ports and wait tor steamer come along and pick them up will have their waiting for their pains. Smp-owners are not the only business of the city who are feeling the impulse of the Alaskan trade The shp-builders have orders for new vessels that strain the capacity of their plants to build In every one Of them there is ceaseless activity whole fleet of new vessels will be added the commercial marine Of the city by the time the melting of the ice opens way to St. Michael and the Yukon River These, o course will increase the transportation facilities from this port, but when all are launched it is doubtful ii they will be able carry any freight other than that which is shipped by our own merchants or by Alaskan parties starting from here
 As matter of fact the Klondike rush has become too great to be adequately dealt with by any city of less size than the metropolis of the coast When thousands of men to be outftted for at least year in climate like that of Alaska there are needed to meet the demand large stores and stocks ol supplies and large equipments for traffic and trans portation This fact is we'll understood by those who are preparing to go to the northern gold fields, and as consequence they coming here to get their outfits, provisions and mining implements
 The Mining Fair will add force to the attractions which are already drawing the great mass of Klon- dike prospectors to the city It will offer strong in ducements to all who contemplate entering upon mining enterprises in any field whatever and particu larly so to those who intend to venture into the gold fields of the Yukon. Under any circumstances such exhibition would be of benedt to the com munity and to the mining industry, but this comes so opportune to the demands of the time and the place that the good to be expected from it can be hardly overrated
 Whatever may have been the shortcomings of San Francisco in other things 1t has certainly shown mendable vigor in preparing to profit by the oppor tunity of the gold excitement It has prepared for big trade, has laid in ample supplies for the traffic provided increased transportation facilities and opened exposition to instruct the public in the in dustry. It has taken energy to accomplish these things, and it is gratifying to know that there is every prospect the energy will be abundantly re- warded.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21

ficiencies of their times. and 1t exacted q work to discern when to concur, when to correct or when to deviate into new lines.
 Not only the American Nautical Alma mac, of which he was superintendent from 1877 to 1897, but all the ephemerides of the world have been benefited by these investigations; anL a thousand years hence many of the tables will still be available without the corrections that time eventually exacts. Though now in his sixty-third year, I.e is still engaged on the problem of planetary perturba- tions, and, no doubt, science will be soon indebted to his researches for more ac- curate knowledge of the orbits of the inner planets.
 Few intellects, even when effort was equally fostered by circumstances, have laborer more efficiently to satisfy the pressing needs of science. It seems then, very fitting that the name of NeWcomb should be inscribed on the first impress or the Bruce medal for distinguished services to astronomy. The selection is not solely due to the judgment of the Si- rectors Of the Astronomical Society as the statutes for bestowal require that the six following observatories be each re- queSted to name not more than three per- sons worthy of the honor: Harvard Col lege Observatory, Lick Observatory Yerkes Observatory, Observatory of Paris, Observatory of Greenwich. Oh servatory of Berlin. Some weeks are al- lowed to intervene between the arrival of these lists of names and the selection from among them of a medalist by the concurrent votes of at least six directors
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21
THR FIRST BEsToW4L OF THE BRUCE JMEDAL
BY ROSE O'HALLORAN.

Miss Catherine Wolfe Bruce of New York recently founded the Bruce medal for the recognition of distinguished services to astronomy" and the first be- stowal took place on November 27, 1897. at special meeting of the directors of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, which society is the trustee of the endow- ment and award. The temporary si- fence enjoined by the statutes connected herewith as to the person selected for the honor expired when a letter of ac- ceptance arrived on this day from the nrst recipient, Professor Simon New comb or Washington, D. c. This emi- nent astronomer, whose recent address at the dedication of the Yerkes ObserVa- tory excited such general interest is a natlVe or Nova Scotia; was educated at the Lawrence Scientific School of liar Vard, and in 1861, when in his twenty sixth year, was appointed professor of mathematics in the United States navy. TO his supervision was chiefly intrusted the construction of the 26-inch telescope or the Naval Observatory, at that time the largest refractor yet designed The organization of the transit of Venus ex- petitions C1S7D also devolved on him, and his own observations of that event were conducted at the Cape of Good Hope. But his most enduring renown has been at talned by his mathematical contributions 10 astronomy, some of which appeared as early as 1860, and all of which show q nigh order of talent, combined with a ca paclty for assiduous mental labor. In recognition of the value of these services
 and especially of his researches as to the orbits or Uranus and Neptune, the gold
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21
THE CLERK
 WAS SURPRISED

 which he laid on the desk of the hotel with evident difficulty.
 What have you got there that's so heavy?" said MT. O'Brien from behind the register as he handed the visitor a pen with his accustomed grace.
 ''Fn show you," responded the gentle man; and opening the pag he brought to light large-sized gold brick and watched for the look of surprised admiration he expected to see on the clerks face. But O'Br1en has seen too many gold bricks of various kinds during his hotel experience, so with the remark that all the suckers were not yet dead, he proceeded to assign room to his guest.
 1T m no sucker" said the man with the brick. This is merely a piece of lead heavily gilded over, which I have had made especially for my stage line up country. You see, we are troubled con- siderably with road agents and some of the boys have suffered considerably from their depredations. Each of my drivers is supplied with one of these bogus bricks, which they hand out when they are held up and the treasure they are carrying is demanded. The highwayman invariably bites and when he finds out how badly he has been fooled he is so ashamed of himself that he never comes in town and complains
 When the mining man concluded he looked up. and this time he was not dis appointed. The clerk looked surprised.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21

Neither nationality nor sex acts as de- barment from the award, but no indi- Vldual can receive it more than once, nor can 1t be conferred oftener than once a year. The medal will be of gold, and inscribed as in the illustration, the reverse bearing the seal of the Astronomical So- ciety of the Pacific.
 The cost is to be defrayed from the interest of fund of $2500, which is but one of many gifts to science from the same noble benefactress, who, we are proud to say, is a life member of the society mentioned. To her the Lick Oh servatory is indebted for large sums for the purchase of a comet-seeker and two photometers, for the employment of q computer for the reduction of the oh servations of Professor Schaberle when at Ann Arbor, and also to aid the install lation of the Crossley reflector. But her Jud1cfous liberality is free from narrow Ing parualities, and the Observatory of Prague, Austria, has been aided with SlOoO Tor the publication of a valuable atlas of the moon. The Yerkes Obserya- tory was equipped with a $7O0O photograph ic lens just suited to the work in which Professor Barnard is engaged: the reno Vation of the Dudley Observatory. AL pany, N. f., was encouraged by a gift or SZo,OOO, and the Harvard researches i'm south American skies are now facilitated with 24-inch photographic telescone at u cost or S5O,OO0. Such well-directed runi- hcence cannot fail to make the world also enables the future Newcombs Rarn aroS ana PIckeringS to begin their work on plane that otherwise could not ba dt1alneo even with a iife'S labor
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21

medal of the Royal Astronomical So- ciety of England was conferred on him In 1874. The planets Uranus and Neptune, which mutually disturb each others el- Hptic motion, being in a comparative
 sense of recent discovery, observations had not extended over a sufficiently long period to allow extreme accuracy as to their theoretic orbits, while the accumu- lating errors became intolerable from an astronomical standpoint as the years went by. Only those versed in the calcu- lation of planetary orbits can appreciate
 the amount of work done by the naval professor and his assistants in this in- vestigation, which required a compari- son of the observations of the principal observatories and years of computation
 before the corrected tables of motion
 were completed. Among other subjects
 of his mathematical researches, before
 and since, the following may be espec- ially named: The orbits of the Asteroids. the distance of the sun, perturbations of the moons orbit by the planets, tables of eclipses from B. C. zoo to A. D. 2300 com parison of Hansens and Delannay's lunar theories, positions of fundamental stars, transits of Mercury from 1877 to 1881, development of the perturbative function and its derivatives, periodic perturba- tions of the four inner planets, and the value of the constants of procession, mutation and alteration. A mere emu meration conveys no idea of the labor in- volved in the preparation of these works.
 In nearly every case it was rebuilding on a more enlightened plan what had been attempted by gifted men in the past, who were hampered by the de-
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21
THE READY WARRANT.

IS not surprising that the professors at Stanford
 should be torn by emotion over the arrest of of their number. The man arrested was of course innocent, otherwise the bucolic constable would never have made him prisoner. Yet 1t is ap- parent that the objecting professors base their i- dignaton this fact. Certainly 1t is better that warrant should have been served upon an innocent professor than upon guilty one. Had the accused been the "J John Doe" for whom the constable was looking Stanford would have felt itself swept by flush of shame from which it, happily, is now free.
 Ii Professor Dudley, by the mere inconvenience of being kept short time in jail, shall awaken the pub lie to the fact that there is too great tendency to arrest citizens who happen wander into the vicinity of a constable, he should not begrudge the time nor the discomfort To be near a constable is not neces- sary crime. An indiscreton 1t may be, but so long as cOnstables do not carry signs the most worthy professors apt to drift into this form of error What the average constable needs is common sense. But having acquired this he would immediately re- sign, the path to better state of things is dark and devious
 But contend that professor has right to go nosng after specimens of fora and to his oldest clothes while doing 1t and be thrown in jail be- he fails to the fool questions of con stable who is snooping around for chance to try a John Doe warrant somebody. In this we are confident of having the support of President Jordan and every member of his distinguished staff
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21
FARMERS AGAINST ANNEXATION.

I is time for the American farmer to have his in-
 nlngs in politics, In normal year our farm lands produce surplus of the bread and feed grains far beyond domestic consumption. This surplus must go abroad for market and must sell at the worlds price ill competition with the land and labor of all other countries of competitive production In this situation if we are large consumers of product of the soil, which import but which we can raise at home under proper encouragement It is the height ot folly not to turn lands and labor that pur- pose. We consume sugar to the amount of more than $Ioo,oooooo annually in excess of our produc- tion. The most Of this is beet sugar In 1884 the world produced of cane sugar 2,I8oooo and of beet sugar 100000 long tons In 1894 the production was cane sugar 3O8o,ooo and beet sugar 4zooooo long tons.
 Production and consumption increase about per cent year.
 It Is demonstrated that our farm lands can produce in beet sugar entire consumption. Withdrawing them from production of the bread and feed grains and putting them into sugar beets will reduce our surplus of the former with favorable effect on the price they will bring at home and abroad
 Our farmers will gain only this enhanced price. but will keep at home the $Iooooo,ooo now spent abroad for sugar This will also add valuable crop to their present list of production and gain in pos sbility of rotation of crops necessary to the sus- tained fertility of the soil
 There are 100000 American farmers and 3oooo.- 900 of our citizens directly dependent upon agrcul- ture for living and competence
 The American farmer is no longer a peasant He is producer and a merchant He knows the effect upon his industry and his interests of far climates of distant competing fields of domestic and international politics He knows too the advantage of his posi- ton in this republic and proposes to get share of the profits that generate under system of laws He is opposed to the extension of that system to any distant country and the dlution of his advantages by bestowing them others.
 It is for these reasons that the American farmer opposes the annexation of Hawaii with large debt to be paid out of his substance and prospective tax of hundreds of millions to fortify the islands and build navies to control and defend them. The Amer- continental policy of the republic is good enough for the American farmer and he wants no change.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-21

Although the venerable Lord Arm strong (now ST years of age) is chiefly known for his improvements in cannon and for his connection with one of the largest manufacturing establishments in the world, he has given some attention to electricity. What is probably the most sumptuously printed work on that science, Electric Movement on Air and Water, with Theoretical Inferences," has just made its appearance in London, and is from his pen.