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SECURITY LOAN cOMPAN,
Money to Loan
On Furniture, Pianos, Etc.

II you are IN need Of money. we desire to In
form you OF our new method. We can secure you
a loan an easy monthly payment plan, at less
cost than ever before and below the rate Of any
other company i, the city You pay in full
at any time after the loan is secured and it will
only cost you for such time as you have had the
money. Our business is strictly private, and all
applications are treated confdentially. II you
have a loan with any other concern, you Sc
loan through Us to pay it and get more
money il desired. 1t will pay you 70 call and
Us before going elsewhere. We are ready at any
ard all times during Office hours 10 give infcrma-
tion concering business methods, and you
will receive courteous treatment
CAPITAL LOAN GUARANTEE CO.,
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Washington STOCK Exchange.

Sales-Metropolitan National Bank: 2s4
475: American Security and Trust: 7alS5;
Franklin Insurance: 20G45s 20m44 3-4;
Capital Traction: 25Gs2 5-s. 2G92 1-2. 1O1
92 s-4; Washington Gas: 25G52 3-S, 75@
81 1-2. 25d52 "a. 1oe653. 1898 IA. Esq
SO 3-s. 25G53 1-2, 50G53 SIS. 25g53 3-4 /;
Mergenthaler Linotype: 10d205 Ia, l09
205 IS; American Graphophone: 2edl3 ii;
American Graphophone, preferred: "a
IS IA. After call-Amerlcan Security and
Trust: 261Se.
The times., 1899-06-16

The common Steel and Wire was especi-
ally weak although the preferred showed
a small net gain for the day. The price
got as low as 80 Ia and the close was
at co, nearly two points of from the high.
More talk of differences in the manage
ment OF the company regarding the div
idend on the common stock caused the
weakness. with selling by inside inter-
ests.
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There is large public that would buy
Pennsylvania on any strong advance in
price. The stock is considered especially
good at present because of a general be-
lief that the new president of the company
will tend to greater liberality in regard to
dividends.
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strength of wheat all day had a depress-
ing effect on them, and, although they
advanced with the remainder of the mar
ket during the early part OF the day, they
sagged all the afternoon and closed the
day a trife off from the closing prices
of Wednesday. II is said that the bear
leaders in New York have begun a cam
paign TO force the price of wheat up sew
eral points, and the buying of the staple
yesterday was of a character that SEEM
ed 10 bear out this story. Ii is doubtful,
however, If the attempt will succeed, and
the advice in conservative quarters is 70
buy the grangers on every decline. The
short interest in these stocks has been
much augmented during the past two days.
As was to have been expected the
Flower buying yesterday made the stocks
of the Flower group the strongest on the
list all day. Brooklyn Rapid Transit,
Federal Steel common and preferred, and
Peoples Gas all made new high-price rec
ords for this movement, and, although the
selling of the group in the last hour was
large the stocks held up fairly well under
il, and showed tendency to rebound
whenever the selling pressure was with
drawn. The lesson for the bears to learn
from this is that they are likely to get
caught on the short side at any time in
a bad way. Brooklyn advanced from
III 3-4 at the opening TO 11S 7-S. and then
declined 10 III 3-S. Federal Steel COM
mon went up from GO Ia at the opening
to &c, and was sold down from this level
10 "a Ia. thus showing a net loss for the
day of l point. The preferred advanced
to S5 Is. and then declined 10 81 Is. Peo-
pies Gas went as high as l22, and then
declined to 120.
The street is still talking of buying of
the New York Traction stocks by the
Metropolitan people, and the early
strength of these stocks and their later
weakness seems TO suggest that the wish
at present of these astute gentlemen is
to accumulate stock without advancing
prices. Manhattan went as high as ia IL
and then declined to the opening price.
The dividend of Ia per cent will be
declared By the directors OF the Federal
Steel Company on the common stock to-
day The company is earning sufficient 10
pay dividends this year and lay by the
entire dividend money for next year in
addition on both the preferred and the
I common stock. This weeks Iron Age"
states that the condition of the trade is
/ constantly improving, although several
weeks ago the general opinion was that
/ there was no room for improvement.
| Prices are advancing. People are glad to
make contracts up to the close OF the
/ present year at the very high prices now
I prevailing. This Is all most encouraging
10 the holders OF Federal Steel securi-
| ties.
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The stock market was strong during the
greater part OF yesterday on heavy buying
by the Flower party and other leading in
terests Late in the session there was a
selling movement Of some Importance,
which wiped out all the days gains, and
in some cases even scored lower prices
than those OF the close on Wednesday.
The total of the days business was small.
and the market still preserved its profess
sionsl character TO a great extent. On the
whole IL was disappointing session, show
ing much less snap than had been expected
by the bulls generally. The trouble with
the situation is undoubtedly that the pub
lie is afraid of the market from its fire.
quent recent attempts to guess Il that have
been failures Now, when the leaders are
willing and even anxious TO make bull
market the public does not respond to their
invitations. The question is II the lead
ers Will care 20 persevere in their buying
until prices have been advanced several
points which will undoubtedly be neces-
sSry before the outside crowd will have the
coinage 10 embark on the long side again.
II seems reasonable to suppose that the
answer to this question will be in the af-
frmatlye. The leaders are a more impor
tant party and a more powerful one than
the bears, and they have the entire intrin-
sic situation on their side, prosperity with
All II means OF
money. broadening markets for American
goods and q larger American policy that
promises much for the future. The
traders market may continue day or
two longer. or yesterday may have seen
the last OF IT, for the present. The best
opinion is, however. that prices will con-
tinue 20 advance during the remainder OF
this month, and very likely for the greater
part OF the summer as we'll
no; particularly important The street was
not inclined TO consider the testimony OF
Mr.. Hayemeyer before the Industrial Com
mission bear argument, or at least If the
professionals felt bearish the insiders did
not Sugar was one of the most buoyant
stocks on the list during the morning
trading. getting as high as l56 on good
buying. supposed 20 come from the in
Eiders. In the last hour Of the day there
was some realizing which, with the ac-
companying short selling, forced the price
Gown nearly to the opening price. There
was good buying egain at the close, based
on the belief that today will see another
good advance il is TO be noticed that
despite the fluctuations OF Sugar It's ten
dency has been upward for several days.
This ia in accordance with the general be-
lief that the insiders have bull campaign
on foot.
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New York stock aarket.
Open. High. Low. Clos

Corrected daily by W. 3. Hibbs & Co.,
members of the New York Exchange,
14l9 II Street
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THOUSAND ISLAND HOUSE,

ALEXANDRIA BAY, y ".
Opcns for season 100, Jnne i.th.
Finest fishing boating. aud air in America
Table second 20 none. For particulars and book
let describing the sane. address .. C. Staples
Riggs House Washington, ID. c.
icO-lmu-eod
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SUMMER RESORTS.
sTARK's HOTEL,

OCEAN GROVE, n j.
Near beach. Superior service. Under same sue
cessful MANAGEMENT as formerly OPers in June.
Iny2s.w, ,f,Su-lmo W. II. l. Stain, NJ. u.
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Leather preferred was very little dealt
In, but after selling "ex" 1-2 was recovered
Of the dividend
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The grangers were. on the whole. the
weakest stocks on the list. The great
The times., 1899-06-16

The return Of Mr.. Morgan is considered
bull argument, although 1t is realized in
the street that quite probably he may not
intend to jump into the market immedi-
ately and turn IL into a great bull cam
paign. 1t is known. however, that he has
been in Europe on business and that i'm
portant, that many railroads with which
he is Identified will benefit greatly by his
visit The developments that have been
promised in his properties may not ma
terialize this week or next, but the street
is bullish regarding them nevertheless.
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LINOTYPE COM
pxNY

NEW YORK. June 18th. 1899.
AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIREC-
tors held this day a regular quarterly dividend
OF TWO AND oNE-HALF PER CENT and an extra
dividend Of TWO AND oNE-HALF PER CENT
were declared. payable and after June 80.
lsgJ to the stockholders Of record on Saturday.
june II. 1899 at O'Clock p. m.
The transfer books will close on Saturday, June
II, IS09, at l O'Clock p m, and reopen on
saturday July l. 1899 at 10 o'clock !.
FRED'K j. WARBURToN. Treasurer
ieI5-9t
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Among the few stocks that showed net
gains yesterday were Louisville and Nash
Vile. Pennsylvania, Sugar, Leather pre-
ferred, and American Steel and Wire pre-
ferred.
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Chicago Grain and provi.ion Marke.

Corrected daily by W. 3. Hibbs G. Co..
members of the New York Exchange,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28
Fighting Engineers Of the oregon.

Eternal vililance is the price of good
engines. Robert Milligan, fighting en-
gineer, and the men under him put the
Oregon where the men behind the guns
could destroy the best ships of Spain. The
Oregon started down the Pasific without
a war time complement of men- twenty
seven short in the engineers force, and
sixty-seven less than her builders fur
nished on her trial trip. This ment work
for the ~ninty-four who had to steam her
to Jupiter inlet. When the ship stopped
they worked all the harder, for there was
coaling to be done, and overhauling in
careful haste. When the coaling was es-
pec;aIly rapid, the officers and men of the
engineers force worked t~wenty-four
hours on end. The ship started when the
bunkers were filed.
Not an ounce of salt water was allowed
in the Oregon's doilers. Milligan, writing
from Callao to a brother officer, said: II
fear that I a m rapidly becoming the most
unpopular man in the ship, because / am
determined that we shall not put salt
water in the boilers, and to that end have
insisted to the captain that, if necessary,
we must cut down the fresh water allow
ance for officers and men to the bare
amount necessary for drinking and cook
ing.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28


In all probability will be destined IN a
few years to follow her predecessor.
They are almost invariably crafty and
dcceitful and, like the African chief, are
rarely slaves OF their word. They have but
a dim notion of proprietary rights and
will generally steal when they get the
chance. Remarkably polite, they are SO
to gain favor, not from kindness of heart,
and, though.hospitable, they are usually so
from selfish motives and expect a tenfold
return for small favors bestowed. These
islanders are naturally cruel, and even in
the last battle fought the bodies OF enc
mics were decapitated and otherwise mu-
tilated.
A few years ago after a victory won by
the warriors of the late King Malietoa
they returned to Apia with the spoils of
victory. These consisted of the bleeding
heads of their defeated enemies, whom
they had decapitated after the battle was
won. Each dusky savage who had the
good fortune to secure an enenly's head
bore it in triumph through the streets OF
Apia. He carried the CORY trophy with
one finger stuck up the wiEdpipe ana
another finger in the mouth. They walked
up the streets yelling in their bloodthirsty
madness. with eyes starting from their
sockets in their crazy excitement, and
tossing the heads about like footballs, the
blood b~esprinkling the bearers. After the
several heads were paraded in this
about the town they were presented to
King Malietoa, who conplimented his
warriors on their achievements and for
the CORY spectacle displayed before him..
Subsequently Malietoa was reduced to
great straits owing to ~irregularity in the
payment of his salary of S25 a week. To
relieve himself from his embarrassment
he had his wives do washing for some of
the we'll to do white residents of Apia.
The king was very much hurt in his feel
ing at having to resort to such an expedi-
ent to exc u g living and threatened to
return to the practices of former years I'M
less his salary was paid with greater reg
ularity. All this resembles a story from
comic opera, but such disagreeable and de-
grading anomalies are not inseparable
from the kingly Office anon savage races.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28
ERccts of Tea Cigarettes.

Tea cigarettes are of o grade of green
tea which has but little dust and is COM
posed of unbfoken leaf. This is dampened
to make the leaves pliable and capable OF
being stuffed in the paper cylinder, while
the dampness is not sufficient to affect the
paper. The cigarettes are laid aside for a
few days and are then ready to be smoked,
The feeling Of a tea cigarette in the mouth
is peculiar, says Medical Progress. The
taste is not SO agreeable as might be sup
posed, but the effect on the tyro is a sense
of t~hickening of the head and a disposi-
ton to take hold of something or sit
down. If the beginner stops then, he will
not try tea cigarettes again. II, however,
the smoker sits down and tries q second
cigarette, inhaling it deeply, then the
t%hickening feeling passes and is succeeded
by one of intense collaboration. The stage
lasts as long as the smoke continues.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28
Kaknmn

A drastic and heretofore unheard of
curfcw ordinance is pending in the Koko-
mo Ind.) city council. One section puts
the g limit at As years, and another,
directed against gadabout mothers and
card parties, reads as follows: 1T is fur
ther provided that when a child M
home at the prescribed hour and finds its
mother net present to hear it's prayers and
put it to bed it shall report such dcrelic-
ton to the mayorof the city, whose duty it
shall be 10 search for the absent mother
until found, and if it should be shown
that the mother was not on an errand OF
necessity or mercy it shall be the duty of
the mayor to administer a reprimand to
said mother, take. her hand and place at
the card table snd proceed to finish the
game. Should the mayor in his official
function at the card table win any favors
the same shall go to the child giving the
information
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28

BIG wHEE FOR Il PARIS EXPOSITION.
the number of cars is 40. Surprising
the average weight of each passenger
to be 154 pounds, the total load upon
the foundation will be 1,167 tons.
The foundation is of concrete made
of Portland cement. Two excavations,
is feet square and 80 feet deep, were
made in the earth and We're filed with
a mixture of sand. pebbles and pure
cement without the addition of any hy-
iraulic lime. Each of the monoliths
thus formed has a weight of 230 tons.
It is Upon these beds that rest the two
steel frames that support the wheel.
The electric communications, starting
from the ground, are effected through
cables that follow n of the frames
and end at the axis. From this point
the current is transmitted to the per-
lphery by cables and to the different
posts of electric distribution by circular
plates and contact brushes. The proc
esses of Illuminating every part of this
huge structure furllish a means of OBJ
taining all the riavs of light desirable.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28
CHICAGO ON ICE.
Harbor Looked Like a Sec.
ton Of the Attic
Regions.
STEAMERS FROZEN IN
How the Ice Floes Were
Formed--Harbor Tugs
Thrilling Dash

The harbor OF Chicago has been the
setting for a very arcticlike scene Of
late. From some of the lake shore
avenues and streets in the residence
district Chicago folk could look out Of
their parlor windows and see such
sights as are common up in Bafin's
bay or other places near the pole. They
could see miles on miles of ice foes.
with here and there a steamer frozen
in or a powerful tug battling her way
through with desperate effort.
This is something unusual for Chi
cage harbor, for while of course Lake
Michigan has a habit of freezing about
the edges every winter it is seldom that
the frequent comings and goings of the
steamboats, fail to keep a channel open,
but this winter the prevailing winds
have been from the northeast for days
at a time, and as a consequence all the
loose anchor ice in Lake Michigan
seems to have been blown down into
Chicago harbor.
Anchor ice such as is found in the
lakes is not much of a hindrance to big
boats when it is floating, but when it
collects into big fields and is damned
together and frozen solidly it assumes
d very u1lltISQl CndTdElGI. Anu Lille -
what is troubling the lake nayigators
this winter.
One of the most troublesome fea-.
lures of an ice foe Of this kind is that
while the ice of which it is originally
formed ma not be more than 4 or 5
inches thick the foe itself is liable to
range in thickness anywhere from 4 to
Is inches. This is caused by the forma-
ton Of what the lake men call wind
rows When big floating cakes are
damned together in a field, something
has to give way, for the pressure be-
hind them is often tremendous. Some.
times one cake slides up on another n
makes it a doubly ply section. but more
generally the edges of the two cakes.
meeting squarely, are crushed and
thrown up. In this shape they freeze
and look something like the windrows in
a bayfield, after the horse rake has done
its work. Hence the name.
When the big lake liners strike these
windrows of ice, they are brought to a
s~tandstill. Dynamite is sometimes used
to crack a path for the steamers. The
powerful harbor tugs which are kept
in commission the e round are also
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28

OCEANIC AS SIZE APPEARED ON Il STOCKS.
spect has been divulged, but it is be-
lieved that she will have to do better
than the 221s knot average of the Kali
ser Wilhelm der Crosse to be accepta-
BILE.
The building of the Oceanic is a result
of the competition among the big
steamship companies, which has been
growing more and more keen in the
last ten years. The White Star and
Cunard lines were about even in point
of equipment in the early eighties.
They led the world in the matter of fast
travel until the Guion line put the
Alaska, Arizona and Oregon in COM
mission. Those new vessels broke rec
ords and startled the older companies
out of their trance. The Cunards
bought the Oregon md lost her shortly
afterward off the Long Island coast.
Then they built the Umbria and Etruria,
which led all marine professions for a
time.
The White Star folk Clipped along
with the Majestic and Teutonic, raising
the standard of speed and excellence to
A high point. In the meantime the In
man line, which eventually became the
foundation Of the American line, made
itself a factor in the competition by
building the City Of Paris and City of
New York. New time records were es-
tablished by those two boats, and again
1t was the Cunard's turn to raise the
limit.
The neutrality-suspicious. line got busy
about that time and put four modern
twin screw passenger steamships into
commission. One of these, the Fuerst
Bismarck, a German ship, built in Stet-
tin, proved to be faster than any other
vessel a1oat and held the record be-
tween New York and Southampton for
many years.
All these thorns in the side of the
! Cunard line owners caused them to
take a long step forward. They built
two ocean giants, the Campania and
the Lucania, vessels that eat up 500
tons of coal a day and show registers or
Is. 900 tons 1t was supposed that they
would remain leaders for a long time,
but not SO. America followed quickly
with the st. Louis and the st. Paul,
two crack steamships which proved to
be fully as fast as the big Cunarders,
although burning little more than half
rs much coal. They were followed two
years age by the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse, the first record breaking steam
ship built by the North German Lloyd.
Now comes the White Star with he
Oceanic.
The Oceanic will burn about 500 tons
of coal a day. Her supply, when start
Ing on a trip across the Atlantic, viii
weigh 5000 tons. enough to u her for
ten days. The blades of the two pro-
pelIers are made of manganese bronze.
Zach IF the. blades weighs EIGHT tons
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28
Diptheria versus Yellow Fever.

The fear of yellow fever among the peo-
pie has almost entirely obscured the dan
ger from diphtheria, tuberculosis and ty-
phoid fever and other infectious diseases
which confront US at all times and during
all seasons. The danger from a case of
diphtheria in New York at any season of
from a case of yellow fever in the same
place; still, persons who would shun a
street where a case of yellow fever existed
would deliberately enter the apartment
of a person suffering from diphtheria. A
serious outbreak of typhoid fever creates
but little CONSERVATION, and the presence
in our midst of innumerable cases af tu-
for an Incredible lumber of deaths, is
looked upon with indifference by the pub
lie. The misconception in regard to the
danger from this class of disease often
e~ffectua1.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28

spurB OF b.ood froIn tire throat s.4o-eed
him. The point of Macola's saber had
entered his mouth, cut his tongue and
made a Slight puncture in the jugular
vein. The doctors were impeded greatly
by the blood, which now spurted from the
mouth Of the unhappy man. Artificial
respiration was resorted to. At n mo-
ment, acting with great decision, they
had almost succeeded i'll making Q liga-
ture by means of an incision from the
outside of the throat. Vain ~effortsl There
was not time. Scarcely eight minutes had
elapsed when Cayallotti expired.
The CONSERVATION was pitiful. Macola
was waiting outside the villa.
what is i 5?" he asked as they came to
him.
ssHe is deadF' they replied. Macola,
livid, trembling, hid his face in his hands.
'.Tly! Flyl'' they cried. Macola fed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-28
LAcosTE.

years in Cincinnati, where his married
sister, Mrs. j. N. Doniphan, resides. He
became a great admirer of our institu-
tfons and took the necessary steps to
become a citizen.
He is now about IS years of age. with
the characteristic dark eyes and black
hair of the Spaniard. His hair and
mustache are slightly touched with
gray, and he is of distinguished APP
pearance.
In Cuba Mayor Lacoste is the owner
of immense sugar plantations and mills
and devotes his attention to this enter
prise. While in. ardent sympathy with
the Cuban cause, he did not take an
active part in the campaigns, but re-
manned in Havana, the president of the
Junta Patriotica, and was there during
the war between Spain and this our
try, subjected to the greatest danger of
Imprisonment OF death for his princi-
plpS-