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pecsations and in some lines exceeded them. The
dry goods houses boot and shoe merchants, the
druggists and confecticneIs have no complaint
while the grocers were surprised over the volume
OF their trade. The year promises to be i'm
Commission row a very TAR trade was trans
acted, but margins 50 small that il necas-
STATED handIlng COCO Noiqiile q tsa4tlc 10 real
ize any satisfactory profit. Fruits have been high
and vegetables low. Apples Sold slow because OF
high prices. The produce men had a good busi-
ness for January. IN provisions there was good
business but prices ruled the lowest of any jan
uaTy in some years. The -four market was nod
eratey active with steady prices. Coal dealers
enjoyed the largest business Of any month in the
last ten years. The hide market was active, but
prices ruled easy
month The receipts Of corn were liberal and of
other cereals light. The month closed with some
Track bids, as reported by the secretary of the
Board of Trade, ruled as follows:
Wheat-No red 7352e No. 3 red, s712q721Ac;
February, 73lzc wagon wheat Zoe.
Corn-No. / white, sec; No. white Zone
COLOR 3ec: No. white. 32Q34c; No white
mixed 85c; No. white mixed. S5c; No. white
mixed, 3Id33c; No. yellow. 35Lc; No. yellow
35I4c: No. yellow, 31Ad334c: No mixed 35c:
No. mixed, S5c; No. mixed, S1qS3c; ear corn,
2 mixed, 29c No mixed, &i2c.
Hay-No. 1 timothy, s.; No. timothy S6;9oQ7
spring, l. understandable. l. total, cars. Corn;
No white. 80 cars; No. T. z; No. white mixed.
J; No yellow 3; No mixed, 5; no established
grade, 1; total, "a cars. Oats: No. white car.
Poultry and Other Produce.
prices paid by shippersl
Poultry-Hens. 61zc; spring chickens, &c; cocks.
Sc; hen turkeys, young and fat, Size; young
TOMS re; old hens, &c: toms. sc: ducks, SC;
geese, &c for full feathered, &c for plucked; cap
ons. fat, Zoe; small, 6dSc
Cheese-New York full cream. 1OQ11c SKINS
case; domestic Swiss. 12l@c brick 12c limburger.
Butter-choice. 1Oc; poor, 5a7c; Elgin cream
cry, PIC.
Featbers-Prime geese. zoe per III; prime duck
10Gl7c per h.
Beeswax-30c for yellow; Csc for dark
Wool-Medium unwashed 1761Sc; tub-washed,
2O025c; bury and unmerchantabe, &c less.
Honey-10G13c per 10.
Game-Rabbits, 65d70c. Venison, $4,000 per Id.
Opossum, 20Q25c apiece
HIDES, TALLOW. ETC.
Green-saIted Hides-No /. Sc; No. :. Sc; No.
l calf Ice; No. 2 calf, She.
Grease-White, Sc; yellow, 21ac; brown, 2Ac.
Ta.low-No l, &c; No 2, 212c
Bones-DrY. S12Q13 per ton.
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short Route to the senboard.

The shortest rail route from the great
lakes to the seaboard is a project being
pushed by Pittsburg capitalists A company
has been organized and the contract let for
the first fifty miles of this road. and the
work will be undertaken and pushed 10 COM
pletion at once. The new line is called the
Erie < Eastern. A charter was Obtained
Tor it some time ago As at present con-
templated it will run from Erie to Titusyille
4 distance of hfty-sX miles. AT the latter
ONT II will connect with the Western New
York & Pennsylvania and the Dunkirk AL
legheny Valley a PittSburg roads At Mtu
Village, twenty miles from Erie it will con-
meet with the comprehensive Erie Railway
system. When completed this will be one
of the most important lines of railway i'm
the eastern part of the country. Next year
this line will be built from Titusville direct
to Baltimore. BY this route a distance of
from the great lakes to the Atlantic sea-
board.
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Personal. Local and General Notes.

George NJ. Mason win to-day succeed e.
Field, resigned, agent of the Traders
Dispatch AT St. Louis.
e. II. Morton. representing the passenger
department Of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, is In the city.
The Indiana. Illinois & Iowa will this
month be in the market for several new
locomotives and several hundred freight
cars.
The Detroit. Toledo & Milwaukee. dating
from to-day. Will be operated the Miehi-
gan division Of the Cincinnati Northern
road
The Mobile & Ohio has put on a new train
called the West India Flyer. which makes
the run from St. Louis 10 Tampa in forty
hours
james Harter, ticket broker at this point
who has been seriously I'll for some weeks
was so much better Yesterday that he was
fl his office for short time.
A. T. Wolfschlager to-day takes the city
ticket and passenger agency Of the Wabash
at Detroit and Robert n. Colyer takes
charge Of the freight department.
Western lines are bringing In from sixty TO
eighty carloads Of corn for local industries
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Elsewhere.

CHICAGO. Jan S1.-offerings OF cattle to-day
were small, owing to the cold weather, and prices
ruled strong at Yesterdays advance. Sales were
basis of S4d475 for common droves Of beef
steers up TO S.. 6006 for the better grades, with
scattered sales Of prime beeves at $61p6 20: COWS
and heifers brought So. 306t4: Western fed stee ,
A10@5S5; Texas steers. s.. 35eg5 10; calves So 50T
Trade In hogs slow and prices averaged
fully dime lower all around The quality OF
offerings unusually poor and heavy weights
were remarkably scarce; fair TO choice So S0a3 e5
packing lots. S360q375: mixed. S. 6oG3 75. butch
ers, S3.65Q3.s2l2; light, S55@3.S5; pigs. $3.50
3.G7l2.
The reduced supply OF sheep caused upward
movement in prices and both sheep and lambs
sold decidedly higher than yesterday. Inferior to
prime sheep S2.5o0420; Western feeders. s4S5;
ewes, So $4,000; yearlings, Hl004.50; lambs. 81
64.05.
Reeeipts-cattle 5000; hogs. $4,000: sheep, la.eOo
ST. LOUIS. Jan 1.--Cattle-Receipts 1900 in
Guiding 800 Texans. Market steady: fair to fancy
native shipping and export steers, $le0Qs.10. bulk
at s375M5,l0. dressed beef and butcher steers.
So e005s0. bulk at 81 l0n520: steers under /, 900
lbs S355pA45. bulk at S3.s50445: stockers and
feeders. s5@490. bulk at SS.25Gff8es cows and
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the new minimum carload rule fixing
So'VVO pounez4ssSas the figures becomes effec-
i've To-Day, the protests of numerous ship
pers lahling to secure postponement. The
ciasSl Station committee will meet on Feb. Z
TO Consider the various objections offered,
'ig$ il is possible some modification may be
= fade in the rules as finally agreed on. A
prominent traffic official, in discussing the
new rule, said: In my judgment the COM
nlttee has made a mistake in pursuing the
course 1t has. Many men, especially those
who deal in perishabe freight, and manu-
iacturers of light machinery, will, as a rule,
De entirely unprepared to meet the new
time in which TO adjust themselves to it.
Ihat Is the burden of their objection-that
Is, of many OF them, while others notably
the Western packers, think that the in
crease Is too great | am naturally in fa-
Vor of high minimums for carload ship
ments, because they mean more revenue for
the railroad company, but l believe that
the move should not have been SO radical
nor abrupt
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ENOUGH POISON TO KILL.
Prof. Wltthaus's Analysis OF the Pow
der Given Mrs. Adams.

NEW YORK. Jan. 31.-Prof. r. A Witt
haus, to whom was intrusted for analysis
the contents Of the bottle from which was
taken the drug that caused the death OF
Mrs. Kate J. Adams a month ago. and also
the vital organs of the victim. made his re-
port TO the coroner to-day. The examination
OF the powder in the bottle" Prof. Williams
says. showed the presence of the follow
ing substances; Potassium, sodium, mer-
curry carbonic acid. cyanodin: bromin. q
trace of chlorine. tartaric acid and aceta-
nalid. The potassium was probably present
as potassium bromide, the sodium as sodium
bicarbonate and the mercury as mercury
cyanide. The upper layers Of the contents
OF the original bottle contained much large
er quantity OF mercury cyanide than the
lower portion. The amount of mercury
cyanide, Ali grains. found in the stomach
ana Its contents Is sufficient, in the absence
OF other violent causes of DEATH to war;
rant the conclusion that the deceased died
from the effects of that poison.
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red. cash, elevator re bid track. 7s97se; May.
7SIsc: July, 70isW7oSsc; No. hard, 69lsc. Corn
lractionally lower No. Z cash. S312e; track essse'
tions lower. Spot steady; No. . cash. &41c;
track, 2St2sllc; May 2Sssc asked; July, pc asked;
No white, SgAc Rye steady at aic. FlaAseed
track csc. Hay dun but steady; timothy st@
SO; prairie, 81. Butter firms. creamery, Ga2gc;
dairy, 12a16o. Eggs higher at 151sc WAisky
steady at 1926, Cotton ties, 60c; bagging higher
at 5isG6Ac. Pork lower; standard mess iobbng,
old. S9.57l9 new, rs Lard lower; prime steam
s5f5i choice, 500. Dry-salt meats-Boxed shout
ders, 81 extra shorts, S475; ribs s.; shorts.
s. 1919 Bacon-Boxed shoulders, &62l2 extra
shorts $5.25; ribs, $3.50; shorts, @.62i2 Receipts
Flour, 40G0 brls; wheat 900 bu; 5000 bu;
oats, 80 600 bu. Shipments-Flour, 6,0ee brs;
wheat. 1900 bu; corn. coo bu; oats, 1900 bu.
BALTIMORE Jan. 31.-Flour dun and UNI
changed; receipts. p 637 brs; exports 1.32S brls.
Wheat weak and lower; spot and month. tl6lta'sc;
February, UGTlAc: March, Isc; steamer No. :
red 74d741fc: receipts. 4S.J07 bu; exports, $40
bu; Southern wheat by sample. 110tSc; southern
wheat grade. 74159Ulac. Corn steady; spot
month and February 4elsQ40he; March, 4e7sg
4034c: steamer mixed S11sm2Sc; receipts. Z6,SS
bu; exports 295,7S1 bu Southern white corn, $50
4Qi2e; southern yellow 5'ztalotc. O3Ss steaoS'
ceipts 1853 blu; exports none. Butter steady and
unchanged. Eggs firm; fresh, 1Sc- Cheese steady
and unchanged.
LIVERPOOL. Jan. 31.-wheat-Spot steady:
ern winter dull at is SGD; No l red Northern
spring dull at 6s I'D. Corn-Spot quiet; Amer
lean mixed, SIS 1od; old, s. load futures
sid; May. IS 77Bd. Flour-St. Louis fancy winter
steady at as Cd Receipts of wheat during the
past three days. 1885, 900 centas. including 100000
American Receipts of American corn during the
past three days 143. coo centals Beef-Extra India
mess duh at 65s; prime mess dull at COS. Pork
Prime mess. fine Western. dull at Sos; prime
mess medium Western AIS Cd. Bacon steady at
27s Cd; short-ribs steady at 2Ss; long-clear mid
dies, light, steady at 27s Cd; long-cear middles,
heavy. steady at rs; short-clear backs steady
at 2Ss.
CINCINNATI. Jan. 31.-Flour quiet Wheat
easier; No red, 76c. Corn firm; No. mixed,
$7lzc. Oats firm; No mixed, &c; Rye firm; No.
q Csc. Lard easier at $40. Bulk meats easier
at S4.S5 Bacon duh at 1915. Whisky steady at
1926 Butter quiet fancy Elgn creamery, 1870
201Ac; Ohio, 14Q17c; dairy, 1Oc. Sugar steady.
Eggs firm at 15c. Cheese firm.
TOLEDO, Jan. sl.--Wheat active, but weak;
No. ?, cash. 731ac; May, 1850. Corn lower and
weak; No mixed SC oats dull, but steady;
No. mixed cash and May, 29c. Rye dull and
weak; No. 3 cash. SIC bid. Clover seed, prime,
cash, old, $3.50: new, $685.
MINNEAPOLIS Jan. 31--wheat weak, but
steady; January INC; May. 72lsc; July, 7234c; on
track. No. l hard 72sc No. / Northern, 1%c;
No. Northern, $3.50. Flour and bran unchanged.
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VITAL STATlSTICS-JAN. 81.


Bertha Levy ffty-six years. 511 East st, Clair
street, odema of lungs.
Infant Fox twenty days, ABS Agnes street. in
anitiOn.
Marie Hengen, three years. 745 Bates street,
meningitis.
Frank II. Borgerding seventy-one years, 706
South New Jersey street, bronchitis.
Sarah J. futile. sixty-nine years, 1903 North
New Jersey street senity
George Mcclellan, ffty-five years, Windsor
block, nephritis.
J: Leonard Chalk, twenty eight years, 2727 Isa-
belle street, tuberculosis.
Edwin Scott forty-eight years. 1892 South Me-
ridian street. paralysis.
Lawrence Cadle. sixteen years, 2216 West Michi-
gan street. pericardtis
Anna Stumpf, eighty-three years, 920 East St
Clair street, pneumonia.
Anna NJ Fields twenty -four years 726 Maxwell
street, consumption.
Lewis Howard, nineteen years. 2O2O Lewis
street. peritcnitis.
Bette Ward thirty-seven years, 507 Hiawatha
street, peritonitis.
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Rntter. Eggs and Cheese.

NEW YORK. Jan. Butter-Recepts, 1923
packages. Market steady; Elgins, 19c; factory, Il
@14c. Cheese-Receipts, 704 packages. Market
firm; large white, 10lsc small white, 11@llAc;
large colored, 101ac: small coored, 1l@114c. Eggs
Receipts, 1897 packages Market steady; West
ern, 1880; Southern 1715GD1S12c
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31.-Butter unchanged;
fancy Western creamery, 19c; fancy Western
prints, zoe. Eggs firm and lie higher; fresh West
ern, 20c fresh Southwestern, 20c; fresh Southern,
19c Cheese steady.
KANSAS CITY. Jan. 31-Butter steady; cream
cry, l6d1Sc: dairy, lac Eggs-Market higher;
supplies insufficient to meet demand; fresh can
died Missouri and Kansas stock, 1412c.
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-On the Produce Exchange
to-day the butter market was steady; creamery,
1361S1ac; dairy, 10i2@16c. Eggs firm; fresh, 1Sc.
Cheese steady; creamery, 9%d1lc.
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AvailabIe supply statement.

NEW YORK, Jan. S1-special cable and tele-
graphic dispatches to Bradstreet' indicate the fol-
lowing changes in available supplies last week:
Wheat, United States and Canada, east of
Rockies, decrease, 279. 900 bu afoat for and in
Europe, decrease, 100000 bu; total supply de-
crease, $4,000 bu. Corn, United States and Can
ada, east of Rockies. increase 500 900 blu. Oats,
United States and Canada, east of Rockies
turns incomplete. Among the more important de-
creases reported to Bradstreet not given in the
official visible supply statement those of
7000 600 bushels at Northwestern interior elevators
0000 at Manitoba storage points outside of
Winnipeg, $4,000 at Louisville and 81 900 Gal
weston. The principal increases are those of
26S, 600 bushels at Chicago private elevators and
S. eco at Portland, Me. The aggregate stocks of
wheat held at Portland, Ore, and Tacoma and
Seattle, Wash, decreased 217,0O0 bushels last
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Anna and William c. Won Burg, 1852 Brookside
avenue. girl
Barbara and Jerry Lewis. 1886 Wilcox street,
boy
Emma and Robert Foster, 22s Detroit avenue
boy.
street. girl.
Lena and Henry Keller, 1893 Fletcher avenue
girl
Teresa and Nicolo hi TRAM, 522 Louisiana
street, boy.
Lizzie and August Thau 1920 South East street
girl
Barbara and John Disch. 21SS South Meridian
street, boy.
bessie and William ROYAL S07 West Thirteenth
street, boy.
Annie and Harris Cohn, $50 Eddy street girl
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Getting Ready for st. Valentines Day.

CThe Poet composes)
To tell thee of my lasting love
l send this to thee dear
To say that throughout all my life
I've ne'er found maid so--queer
-drear
peer
rye ne'er found maid thy peer.
love to gaze into thine eyes,
Those windows of thy soul
So fun of tender meaning, love,
Like to a-buttered roll
ton of coal
distant goal
To be sure.
They are my distant goal.
love to clasp thy little hand.
/ cannot let ii fall
Your shapely, tender little arm
Is like a-parasol
-worsted shawl
-musket ball
garden wall
Just what your little arm is like
l cannot now rc~all.
love the music Of thy voice,
L d listen TO il long.
often think its gentle tones
Are like a-dinner gong
something wrong
Yes, yes.
Are like an angels song
Thy wavy hair thy cherry lips.
Thy merry. siivery laugh;
But more than all, thy graceful form,
It's like a-thin giraffe
-brindle calf
turning lathe
You know just what 1 want to say.
can't express it half.
And so
send these verses to you. love
! hope that they will take;
For II you should accept my suit
L d have a-stomach ache
-grddie cake
Irish wake
garter snake
fear that can rhyme no more,
I'll stop 1t for your sake
Burgess Johnson. In Life
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BOSTON, Jan. 31-The wool market here holds
steady, with a rather firm undertone apparent,
but the volume of sales continues moderate. Ter
ritory woods hold steady in price and moderate
lots are being picked up as wanted. Australians
are firm, but sales are somewhat slow. Follow
ing the quotations for leading descriptions
Ohio and Pennsylvania heeces-X and above, 26c
Xxx, &c; Xxx and above. Csc; delaine. 2SQ29c: No
/ combing, 29G30c; No. 2 combing. 2SG130c. Mchi-
gan, Wisconsin, etc.-X Michigan, 210p22c; No. /
Michigan combing, Csc: No. l Illinois combing
Csc; No. 2 Illinois combing, 2Sc X New York,
New Hampshire and Vermont, 2lG22c; No. New
York, New Hampshire and Vermont, 2Sc; delaine
Michigan. 26GHc Unwashed medium. etc.-Ken-
lucky and Indiana 4 blood combing, 21c; 2s-biood
21022c; Missouri Il blood combing, 20Q21c braid
ed, lSf119c. Texas wools-Spring medium az
months, 1701Sc; secured. 10000; spring fine az
months) 16Gt17c; secured. 43045c. Territory woods
Montana fine medium and fine. 146D17c; secured,
49c; staple 4704Sc Utah. Wyoming, etc.-Ffne
medium and fine, 13015c; secured. 43c; staple 47D
4Sc Australian (scoured basis)-Combing. super
fine. 70@72c: good. 65@6Sc: AVERAGE. 62@65c.
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Tuegday's Bank CIearfnGs.

- as. 44S, New York Exchange par. Sterling ex
change: Posted rates $.SSla and s4S6; actual.
81 .SSh and 4S5is sixty days. 42 and AS4A.
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., s276, ,557 bal
ances Sl2,464,703.
At Boston-Cgearngs s27, IS. 467; balances.
SS,431,i75.
At Philadelphia -Clearings $lLsSs,O44; balances.
81. 976.2l9.
Al Baltimore-cIearings. s5oooso2; balances,
500 $50
At ACCOMPLISHMENTS. $44sl7s; balances.
At St. Louis-clear4ngs. s47sll6s; balances.
$685., a24.
AT New Orleans--Clearings S2426914
AT Observation-Disclosures, $l,914.2o
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-The market for cotton
goods continues strong and further advances are
reported in staple and other lines. Hope. Black
stock. Forget me-nCt Farmers Choice and Forest
Mills bleached cottons advanced nc. Prints Oc-
casionaly 2la per cent higher in both staple and
fancy lines. There has been improvement in
volume of general business Print cloths have
moved up 1-16c, with sellers refusing further
bids thereat. There has been good demand for
mems wear woolens and market is steadier. Dress
goods firm Pacific cotton warp cashmere 1c per
yard higher.
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A Radical Anti-Expansionist.

COLUMBUS. O.. Jan. S1-Dr. w. Scott.
president Of the Ohio State University, lee
turing on the ethics of the late war. de-
clared that the invasion of Porto Rico was
unjust; the naval battle at Manila without
Justitiable excuse, and said Spain should not
cede Porto Rico and the Philippines He
said an argument which would Justify the
keeping of the islands would justify human
slavery
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NEW YORK, Jan. 9L-Pig iron warrants firm
at $3.50 nominal Lake copper strong and higher
at 1860 bid and 17c asked. Tin strong and higher
at 24.50c bid and "a 75c asked. Lead strong and
higher at 4621ac bid and Also asked. Spelter
strong and higher at 5.70c bid and 5S0c asked
The brokers' price for copper is TIC and for lead
425c.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31.-Lead higher at 4271k@
430c. Spelter strong at 5.40c
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Oils.

SAVANNAH, Jan. 31-Sprits Of turpentine
firm at 4S15c. Rosin firm quote: A, B, c, d, E,
F, $1.05; G, $1.10; H. SIPS; l, $1.40; X, $3.50; NJ
S1.60; N, s175; window glass. $2.05; water white,
81
WILMINGTON, Jan. 31.-Spirits of turpentine
firm at 431aQ44c. Rosn firm at 90d95c. Crude
turpentine firm at $1.35q24O. Tar steady at $1.1O
OIL CITY, Jan. 31.-Credit balances, $1.15; GER
tcates, no bids. no sales; shipments, 101, 325 brls
runs, S9.37S brls.
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and Dole Invited.

WICHITA. Kan. Jan. 3l.-Believing the
Philippines and Hawaii islands are 10 be
transmississippi territory. Secretary Knight
OF the commercial congress, has extended
an invitation 10 Aguinaldo and President
Dole to be present at the meeting here in
May
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NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 31.-Cotton steady; sales
4200 bales; ordinary 42sc; good ordinary, 5-16c:
low middling, 1-16c; good middling, $780, mid
ding fair csc; receipts, 21576 bales; stock, 49, 4S
bales.
NEW YORK, Jan. S1-Coton quiet; middling
6 LIZ
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NEW YORK, Jan 31.-california dried fruits
steady; evaporated apples, common, 70Sc prime
wire tray. S94@9c; choice. 91lQ9ac; fancy 9sia10c.
Prunes, S15@l0c Apricots-Royal, Halle; Moor
Park 13Q17c. Peaches-Unpeeled, 9Q11c; peeled,
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The Journal

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NO SECRET REDUCTIONS
EARNINGS IMPROVING WITH THE
MAINTENANCE OF RATES.
The New Minimum Carload Rule
tests of shippers-PersOnaI Notes.

Earnings of American roads continue to
show increases over corresponding periods
of last year, when earnings were considered
phenomenal, and the common carriers are
handling the largest tonnage ever carried
at tariff rates. The car famine has passed,
but traffic officials are taxed to their utmost
to furnish the equipment now required
Travelling freight agents report large accu-
mutation of freights at all important ship
ping points. The closest investigation has
failed to bring to light a single shipment
oil freight at less than full tariff rates,
and it is the opinion of freight men that
this condition of things will continue. There
are no agreements, no traffic associations,
no artificial barriers TO free competition,
and the fact that they may not raise these
barriers readily is making the roads ex-
tremeiy conservative. This fact is relied
on to prevent secret reductions. Some of
the large shippers who have not in the last
twenty years paid full tariff rates until now
are ioath to accept the situation, and are
giving the freight men some trouble, but
the freight agent feels that his employment
depends on his naming no rate below tarin,
anu the shipper gets no announcement.