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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-07
PICK NE UP.
Special Sale For the Next Ten
DAYS.

]. KELLY & CO, "Cash Grocery"
King Street.
From now on we will be open till
g p, NJ.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-07

Eastern advertising Agent 239-234 Tenn
pie Court Building, New York City, E.
KATE, Agent.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
THE MARKET ELSEWHERE.

New York, March 2l,-The fact that
money was slightly easier today, call
rates ranging from 4 to "A per cent.
lent confidence to operators and gave
the market strong tone most of the
day.
Another important influence on quo
tations was the prediction that because
of the curtailment in loans supposed to
have taken place this week the banks
would be able to show an increase IN
surplus reserve tomorrow. Pool buying
of Brooklyn Transit which lifted it 81
and Peoples Gas Which gained nearly
a point had sentimental influence be-
cause of the prominence of the parties
concerned in recent operations for a
raid.
The railways were not quite as active
as yesterday in the dealings, but the
Changers improved fractionalIy and the
Pacitlcs We're trife higher. Console
dated Gas lost 50 and Third Avenue six
points on fears that they would not Sc
cure desired legislation. There We're
fractional losses, too. in Metropolitan
street railway and Continental Tobacco,
while in Sugar the loss was 1&.
Among the, eoalers, Lackawanna ana
Jersey Central rose over point each
while the Readings We're practically
unchanged. Among the railways the
Southern preferred, Louisville and
Atchson preferred improved over q
point EACH The activity in Louisville
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
MARKET NOTES.

A remarkable feature of Wall street
life at present is the large number Of
new faces in the street and the many
new accounts which commission houses
are opening daily with new people.
There is no suggestion that the c. B.
& Q. dividend rate will be advanced.
For this reason there are plenty of peo-
pie who think that Burlington is quite
high enough.
Copper spectators are becoming in
terested in Humboldt owing to the fact
that the shaft is now in rich rock.
An Eastern Illinois official says: "All
lines of traffic have shown a decidedly
healthy condition. The coal movement
during the winter months has been a
source of big revenue. I can see nothing
but encourd cement in the future"
In Sugar, the selling is better than the
buying, and it looks as IL the immense
short interest that was in. this stock is
altogether out of it, and that commits
sion houses now carry fairly large lines
of the stock.
Dividends have been declared in the
following Boston banks: Washington
National Bank, semi-annual, 21a per
cent, payable April l; Security National
Bank, quarterly, per cent, payable
April /: Freemen's National Bank,
semi-annual, 90 per cent, payable April
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
TOP NOTCH.
Fitchburg Railroad
Stock at 121.
FUTURE PROSPECTS
Don't Want to Break the
Lease OF the G. NJ.

= The Boston News Bureau says that
A prominent director of the Fitchburg
Railroad, when asked concerning the
reported proposition made to the gov
ernor for the sale of the states $4,000,
900 of common stock, said:
Although I have seen the governor
several times of late, he has given no
intimation or hint of any such propo-
sition. can say with posittveness that
no proposition OF any kind has been
received" This same director further
adds that there is no intention TO take
the Central Massachusetts, road into its
system; that no suggestion OF any such
alliance has come to the management
from any source, and if 1t did would
not in all probability receive faYora-
BILE consideration. Neither this direc-
tor, nor others of the board who have
been seen, know anything whatever
about the motive back of the attempt
to break the Central Massachusetts
lease, No proposition, it is said has
come to the Fitchburg management
from the Vanderbilt interests, or from
any other interests, for the control of
the road, and that there is no change
whatever in the management contemp-
lated The Vanderbilts, while owning
considerable interest in the proper
ty. have made no move whatever, so
far as the management is aware, to in
crease the same materially.
Fitchburg is held in good sized blocks
in Worcester. At 121 it is the highest
priced railroad stock in the market
save the New York Central. Each road
pays four per cent, but the latter will
soon increase it's dividend. But Fitch
burg's cannot be raised without pay
Ing as much on the common as the
preferred receives in excess of 4 per
| cent And 121 is very good price for
| o per cent railroad stock in this sec
ton. 1t is practically on a 4 per cent
basis.
| That means in the near future / per
cent dividend on the common, which
! would make that worth %, In fact,
| the common is worth today so to be
| retired, and thus secure to Fitchburg
all the benefits of the large gains in
! earnings which the road is making.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25

strike the Pioneer vein, and are already
over 1890 feet from the main No. tun-
mel. with about 400 feet more to go.
This work. when completed, viii, it is
believed land Endorsed by all the ex-
pefts that have examined the mine),
open ore bodies that will furnish the
mill for a long time to come. The pro-
duct Of the mine for the two months
since Mr.. Jaques was there would seem
TO indicate that with the new machin-
cry in good running order, future pros
poets were good. At the same time,
uncertainties in mining are great, as
no one can see through solid rock. The
company's property is extensive, and is
well regarded as a paying mine.
The company has at the present time
100000 to $4,000 in cash to pay for de-
Velopment work if necessary.
Utah stock is firmly held around 40,
without great activity. In fact, any
accretion of buying orders would doubt
less result in higher figures, The Stand
ard Oil people, as is well known, took
$4,000 shares at "a. Their option on
10000 shares more at 80 was extended
to April 8, and at the same time a fur
Their option on 81 900 shares at 40 was
taken, to expire at the same date. If
these options are exercised, and II is
generally believed that they will be, the
u vi Will QMll lVuu StAeNA AiAOA =
than a majority.
Twenty listed Boston copper
stocks, including so-called unlisted"
shares, but not the curb" stocks, have
reacted an average of 20l4 from the
highest of this years rise, representing
a total shrinkage of $50, sos, 900 in mar
ket value, applying the losses TO out
standing capital stock, Calumet &
Hecla's recession from S95 to 705 ac-
Ncounts for $19,000O00 of this total
shrinkage, Utah and Quincy for $4,000,
900 EACH Montana, $4, 500, 900 Parrot,
S4,1400O0; Arcadian, s2,025, 600; Butte,
$2,300000; Centennial, 81, 800. GEO; Osceola,
sl,627000; Santa Fe. $2,240,000 Tama-
rack, $2,700,000; and Baltic, 81, OO0,0 In
Guiding the curb stocks. the total
shrinkage in market value in Boston
copper stocks in the last three or four
weeks aggregates more than $50, 900 600,
one-quarter of it, at least, in the So
called Standard Oil shares.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
Until Your Wide World
Combine Cries Enough"

Hugh Macduff, we'll known in manu-
featuring circles in Worcester, and
formerly of the firm of Whitney, Mac
duff g. Co. of Millbury, is becoming one
of the prominent factors in the great
linen thread combine now going on in
Europe.
Dispatches from London yesterday
afternoon stated that the negotiations
were progressing satisfactorily. No de-
finite amount of capitalization has yet
been fixed, on account of the promot-
ers not knowing the number Of firms
ready TO so into the combine, but it is
expected to range from $12, 100000 to
ST, 800 600. In addition to English and
Scotch firms to be included, offers have
been made to several firms in the
United States, as well as in Germany.
1t is likely TO be some time before the
final details hsNe been settled and the
combine ready for flotation.
1t Is understood that the great mills
Of Messrs. Robert Stewart & Son of
Lisburn, Ireland, have been bought by
the Linen Thread Company Limited of
! Glasgow and New York, which Is the
name of the combination, Mr. Macduff
entered the employ of the company sew
eral days ago, and will.shortly leave for
I! ireland to superintendent the closing of
I the mills that have been purchased
4 from the estate of the Messrs. Stewart.
\ AS soon as that work is completed il
! is understood that Mr.. Macduff will
4 come TO America and look about the
eastern section of the country to learn
what properties are worth absorbing
/ here
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
VALUE OF FARM ANIMAL S.

Washington, March 24.-The annual
report Of John Hyde, statistician Of the
department of agriculture, on the num-
Der and value of farm animals. will
shortly be ready for distribution. It
will show an increase in the number of
sheep and mich COWS and a decrease
in the number of horses, mules, swine
ana neat cattle other than mich cows.
with general Increase in value. A de-
crease of 295,604 in the number OF
horses is accompanied by an increase
Of S32, 7l2, 406 in total value. the average
value per head increasing from $34.2
10 S37.40 Similarly a decrease of ,269. =
VIZ IN the number OF neat cattle other
than milch cows, is accompanied by an
increase of $25, 634, sol in total value, the
average value per head increasing from
$2O.92 to $22.79. In the case of milch
COWS, there is an increase OF 149, 229 in
number, of $39, 420 099 i'm total values
of 1921 in average value per head and
in that of sheep an increase of 1,457, 493
in number, of $14,976, 397 in total value
and of 20 cents in average value per
head. Mules show a decrease in num-
Der of 56,069 and in total value Of
Sl46,255. The average value per head,
however, is S1.0S higher than last year.
In swine, there is decrease In number
of l,l0S,362 and in value Of S4,241, 6G6,
In nearly all the great agricultural
states Of the central Mississippi valley
there is a decrease in average value per
head, but throughout almost the entire
south, as we'll as in most Of the eastern
states and on the Pacific coast, there
is an increase in average value, the net
result being an average differing only
one cent per head from the average Of
last year. The lot value of farm ami
mails is conservatively estimated at
H,9O7010 4O7, an increase of sos, 355, 4S2,
or 5.74 per cent during the past year.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
THE GENERAL MARKET.

Willett & Gray, New York. say rela-
tive to the recent violent fuctuation in
Sugar stock: Under series of more
or less vague rumors, all of which
are highly improbable and repeatedly
contradicted by authority as absolute
ly false, Sugar stock passed d week Of
violent fluctuations, rising to the high
est point ever touched. There is no
truth whatever in the reports of pur-
chGseS of refineries or consultations,
and no likelihood of any such consum-
nations in the near or distant future
An official of the Elevated road says:
We hope to do as well in our net earn
ings this year as last, but tho rebuild
ing of our tracks continues, and as
recently said to the engineering depart
ment, 1t seems to me from the esti-
mates presented that we must go on
rebuilding forever. We have had very
bad weather for our gross earnings this
winter, and have not. l think, made
the usual gain of p. G., and our snow
account to date is something terrible.
Snow and ice alone have cost us this
year so far $500, 000'
Considerable comment has been made
concerning the sale by the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe of 81, 699. 900 addi-
tional general mortgage per cent
bonds, application for the listing of
which has been made to the stock ex-
change. Under the terms Of the mort
gage provided in the reorganization, the
company has a right to issue $4,000,
900 per cent bonds annually to pro-
vide for necessary expenditures for i'm
provements and betterments. The com
pany has not exercised its right to is
sue and sell these bonds and has il
the treasury at the present time a con
siderable portion of them which it car
turn into cash when desired. 1t is sig
nificant that practically the first is
sue of bonds to provide for improve
ments is made at the present time
when, owing to the bad weather pre-
vailing last month, it's gross earnings
would not permit of heavy drafts TO
construction to be charged to operat
ing account. Should the betterment
paid in February be charged to opera
ting. the statement would be bad ant
at the same time misleading. Officer
Of the company will not discuss thi
phase of the case, but it is certainl,
worthy of note in connection with tn
coming statement
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
NEW DIVISION.
A. o. +, May Extend Its Organization in
Worcester in the Near Future.

County President John j. Rogers has
called special meeting of the county
board of the A. o. il. next Sunday for
the purpose of organizing another local
division Of the A. o. H. in this city.
The board which is elected at the
biennial conventions of the A. o. H. has
the authority to organize new divisions
and settle grievances. IT consists of six
members besides the county president.
Besides John ]. Rogers, the board is
made up of Il. A. Dowd of Millbury, p.
Conley Of Fitchburg, James NJ. McDon-
aid of Winchendon, A. C. Ryan OF
Leominster, James M. Mulvey of
Brooktield and Timothy Warren Of this
city.
The board will convene at 10 o'clock
Sunday morning when the new division
Will be considered. If the board deems
necessary TO allow the formation of a
new division, one will be organized at
the afternoon session.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
THE FINAN

started in London and aroused a brisk
local demand.
The explanation that the Westing-
house suits against the General Electric
Company were of a friendly nature cons
tinued today to the benefit of the GEN
eral Electric. which rose a point. Rub
Der and Chicago Terminal were, also
strong and gained over point each. a
drive at Burlington In the late dealings
reduced its extreme gain over point
and exercised an unsettled effect on the
general market. This stock, however,
toward the end spurted Up again and
made net gain of Y. Elsewhere there
was some hesitation and the market.
ended with a rather easier tendency. A
good business was transacted in bonds
today the aggregate being S39S5,O00
Prices moved up pretty general with
decided strength in standard incomes,
u. S. new As and the old As. advanced
Il in the bid price. Is ssgaE 3
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
Market Dull, Though
Money Easier.
SUGAR THE LEADER
Statement Of Bank Aver
ages Of Principal Interest.

Stock market trading was I'M
usually dull yesterday, although money
ruled easier and fears of harder rates
are subsiding. Great interest will, of
course, be taken in today's statement
of bank averages, but with the large
special payments this month out of the
way, and April l, with its release of
dividend and interest money, near at
hand, there is reason to look for greater
ease in the money market. Call loans
were quoted at per cent in Wall street
yesterday. The benefits Of this month s
activity in money counterbalance any
losses in the volume of speculation
caused by it, in that overtrading has
been discountenanced and any reason
of sharp break by reason of over
speculation on their margins has been
averted. There is good demand for
investment account. Both New York
and Boston are purchasing good securi-
ties in anticipation of April disburse-
msnts. Many Boston stocks usually
favored by investment purchasers were
| dealt in yesterday morning and the de-
| mand in this direction is likely to ex-
pand next week.
street, fluctuating between 1881 and
| 1914. Shortly after the noon hour ii
was quoted at this end of the line at
| 1903 Brooklyn Rapid Transit ran W
31a and General Electric "a .'These were
the principal changes in the specialties
although Quincy, after gaining q, LOST
| IA and rallied q.
Consolidated Gas fell points on the
| failure to procure desired legislation
| Railroad stocks lost all prominence
| but held well in the main.
There was an improved tone in the
| copper market yesterday. Higher
prices came with the rise in Montana t.
$50 on report of favorable court de.
cision at Helena. Curb stocks were
quiet. Prices: Victoria, sales at
and tx; United States Mining, 1917 All
Miners, 4@42; Melones (gold> Offered
at .; Massachusetts, 12la@13k: Trio
lgold), ~; Arcadian rights" 1412
later 14@141z.
The following quotations were made
| yesterday on the Boston exchange OF
stocks held in Worcester and vicinity
| RAILROAD COMPANIES
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
WITH NE1GHBoR sKILIINGs.

IAN Evening at Neighbor Skillings. -
an entertainment by old fashioned
folks, will be given at the Webster
Square NJ u. Church on Tuesday eve
ming next at s o'clock.
At the close of the entertainment, the
audience is cordially invited to visit
the museum of old and curious things
in charge of Prudence and Hannah
Merriman. Aunt Tabitha and her as
sistants will serve old fashioned re-
freshments to those who desire.
For the benefit of the Epworth
League.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
LAND COMPANIES.
IN The coPPERs.

Secretary Howard Of the Pioneer has
written to inquiring stockholders thus:
II do not think Pioneer gold mine stock
Is worthless. The ore in the vein
where 1t has been aftording supply
for nearly two years has been exhaust
ed. For several months, the company
has been doing Development work to
secure a new ofesbody below the 1000
foot level. and the winze Cor shaft ia
now down some 200 feet below that
level. When the ore body is reached.
which we hope will not be very long,
we can then commence to get a supply
for the mill
1--WE are also running a tunnel to
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
STEEL AND WIRE.
Stock of the Big Trust Is Strong and
Dealing in It Goes on at Merry Pace.

American Steel and Wire stocks are
getting strong again. The common is
playing up about ga and the preferred
at the 1903 point. There is a good deal
of trading in the common, and the
buying is considered excellent De-
malls of the recent stories regarding re-
cent liquidation by important inside in
terests were again in circulation, but
the street persists in believing that
one or two of the big insiders have
been shaken out and that the remain
ing powers are now working on the
bull side of the stocks again
The story was current yesterday that
the Newburg, N ". Wire and Nail
Company had been bought at a fore
closure sale, for $4,000 supposedly in
the interests of the American Steel and
Wire Company.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
GAULs PASSION MUSIC.

on Good Friday evening at the
choir of Central Church, Under the di-
rection of Mr.. Buzzell, win sing Alfred
Gauis Passion" service" for the sea-
son of Lent.
The custom of rendering devotional
music of a high character on the eve
ming of Good Friday has largely in
creased of late years both in England
and America, and this service was COM
posed with special reference to such
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
TO FIGHT BELL.
Reliable Electric Manufacturing Com
pany of This City Is in the New Com

pany of This City Is in the New Com
bine.
The big combine Of telephone manu-
featuring interests. OF which the Re-
liable Electric Manufacturing Com
pany of Worcester is a part. has or
ganized for the specific purpose of
fighting the Bell Company. ". T.
Blaine, its chief promoter, says that
options are in hand or in prospect for
90 per cent of the factories producing
independent apparatus. John ] Mitch
ell, president of the Illinois Trust and
Savings Bank of Chicago, and Assist
ant United States Treasurer w. p
Williams and Mr.. Merigold, a New
York banker, are the financial spon-
sors in the deal
About s3,5OO,OT Of the new corpora
tons capital stock will be preferred
shares while the other half will be III
the nature of a bonded Indebtedness
issue. The plants of the component
companies will be taken over for part
cash and part stock, along general
trust" lines.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
- CARD

We, tho undersigned, do hereby agree tn
refund the money on a 60 cent bottle Of
G.eene's Warranted Syrup OF Tar n ~
fails to cure your cold or cough. We also
warrant % cent bottle to prove salts.
factory or no pay.
Albert w. Andrews
o. J Carroll & Co
Frank g Rourke & Co.
i. II, Fales. Holden.
Albert y. Booth. Leicester.
ID. ii. Gregory e. Co., Princeton
II. j. Wizard. East Brookfield.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
TOUCHING EULOGY,
Funeral of Carl Victor spets Elicits-Many
Tributes of Affection.

The funeral OF Carl Victor Spets son
of Mrs. Caroline and the late Andrew
Spets, IA Roster street, who died Wed
nesday morning, aged q years, was
held from the Swedish Congregational
Church at Quinsigamond, yesterday af-
ternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The services
were conducted by Rev. John Udd,
pastor of the church, who spoke at
length upon the high moral character
of the young man who had been taken
just as he was entering upon manhood
and who had endured the sufferingS of
long Illness with much fortitude
The church was crowded with friends
Of the deceased, and there was a pro-
fusion of floral tributes, among which
were an anchor with the words AT
rest cross with the word shop
mate" a harp with "Wemotsige," an
open book marked bet A. R. Fulkom-
nod a violin marked AT rest" be-
sides wreaths of roses, pinks and other
flowers.
The church was appropriately deco
rated under the supervision OF Mrs.
Lundquist, Mrs. Nelson and Mrs.
Berg.
The bearers were Andrew Fosberg,
Carl Lungren, Charles Larson, Frank
Danielson, Daniel Nyquist and Frittof
c. Ekstro-4,.
Music was furnished by the church
choir
The remains were placed in the tomb
at the Swedish cemetery.
The members Of the Second Swedish
Congregational Church will meet at
the church at Quinsigamond tonight to
\ discuss the plans for the new church
\ building. AS the pastor, Rev. John
| Udd, will be absent, it is doubtful if any
definite action is taken. Aif. Udd is
visiting in Boston and Lowell and will
not return until Monday. His pulpit
| tomorrow will be supplied in the morn
| ing by Rev. X. F. Forsell. who has re-
Gently returned from Sweden.
At the evening service Rev. A. L. An
derson of the Salem Square Church will
speak, and Mr.. Forsell will occupy his
1 pulpit.
The sacrament of baptism was adj
ministered Thursday to Carl Edward
son of p. j. Olson and wife, at then
home, IA Reeves street, by Rev. F. A
Engstrand, pastor of the Swedish Lu-
theran Church at Quinsigamond. #;
also performed the service upon Helm
Elina, daughter of Isaac Koskela anC
wife, at 1873 Millbury street.
Easter Sunday will be appropriated,
observed at the Swedish Lutheran
| Church at Quinsigamond. In the eve
ming there viii be a children's concert
at which the Sunday school scholar.
will figure in a musical and literar.
propram.
The petitioners for the extension o
the car line at Quinsigamond will holC
mass meeting at T. o. G. L. Hall,
Ekman street, Wednesday evening
; 1t is hoped at this meeting to inter
, est the people to the extent that tn
! work will be pushed forward at once
) Speeches viii be made by prominen
petitioners and discussion will be ope
a to all present. The petition, which un
til then will remain at w. Forsberg ,
: Co.'S, "a Greenwood street. is receivin
! new sigma lures daily
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25

rotary OF the Appalachian Mountain
Club. Representative Tatman, E NJ.
Brewer. a summer resident, and others,
favored the bill.
No remonstrants appearing, the hear
ing was closed.