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The times., 1899-05-11
THE PROSPERITY OF TRUSTS.
Old Ones Increase Capital and New
Ones IucOrpOrntcd.

Trenton, N. J., May 10.-In the secre-
tary of States office here today the
American Brick Company, organized a
few weeks ago to control a number of
brick concerns on the Hudson, increased
its capital stock from s10,000.OO0 to si5,-
900, 600 The stock is divided into 10000
shares, of which $1,000 shares are TO be
preferred, bearing cumulative interest
of per cent.
The Electric Storage Battery Company
of Philadelphia also increased its cap
ital stock s4.5O0O00. This makes the
total capital stock $4,000, 600. The con-
cern was incorporated under the laws
of New Jersey in 1883 with capitaliza-
ton of $4,000, coo. and is said to be the
backbone of the various electric vehicle
companies which have been organized
within recent years.
Articles of incorporation were filed
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and the new pieces spliced on and laid
with such expedition that the interruption
OF communication with Cavite was hardly
noticeable. Much credit is due to Lieut..
Edward L. Kelly for his management of
the technical part of the work. The cable
is laid sufficiently inshore TO avoid the
anchorage Of heavy craft, but in sufficient
depth to insure against probability Of in
reference by insurgents"
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washington stovs E.chanEe.

Sales-U. S. AS, registered, s5061l2.
National Safe Deposit and Trust, 10a 145.
Capital Traction. 5@S9 3-4; 20ds9 rs.
Mergenthaler Linotype. 30G203; 10d2O2:
S0Gi20l; 10000 81; 30@201 Ia; 10@
2Ol l-2: 1O@2O1 SIS. Lanston Monotype,
2d2O IL. Pneumatic Gun Carriage, 1000
CSC.
After call-Columbia Railroad SIS. s12,-
O0OGl1O. U. s. 3's, coupon, S900G10s; U.
s. 3's, registered, s100G10S. Metropolitan
Railroad, certificate A. sS99.1l4117.
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THE CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
A Fractional Decline In Wheat on
Light transactions.

Chicago. May iO.-Wheat was very dull
and a trihe lower. The approach of the
May Government report with all its I'M
certainties inclined the spectators to even
up Liverpool was as dull as this market
and Just as narrow. Clearances Nere
$50. 600 bushels. There could not have
been more favorable weather. The weekly
weather crop bulletins were rather bear
ish. The Agricultural Departments sum
mary OF the foreign crop situation have no
bullish encouragement. There was prac-
tically no cash business here and the sea-
board reported only ten loads. 1t will take
a Government condition of about seventy
to renew any advance here at present.
Such q condition with the decrease in area
would mean 1000, 900 bushels less winter
wheat than year ago.
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The recovery of the market yesterday
was in every way as sensational as the de-
clines had been on the many days before.
Prices went skyward merrily all day with
hardly any recession or hesitation. The
opening was at the lowest prices and the
close at the highest. In every way there
was a radical and thorough change of SEN
timent such as comes in the market at
times with no particular reason assigna-
BILE Recoveries were all the way from a
point In the most inactive stocks to ten
or more in the specialties The profess
sonal operators are as much at sea at
present regarding the market as they were
two days ago. They incline>to the belief
that the big advance in price will be fol-
lowed by reaction as great If not even
to lower prices than any yet seen. This
view is not shared by the bulls, however,
who were most enthusiastic last night in
their predictions that the bottom prices
for the month have been seen and that
a strong bull market is now to develop.
1t is perhaps of little use siding with either
crowd In such market but on the whole
the circumstances under which the ad-
vance has begun favor still higher prices,
for a time at least, even If there is not
to be big advance. There never yet has
been a bear market without some let-up
and the past month came very near to
such condition. After declines of ten
and fifteen and twenty polnts, uol u HueH-
ton the thirty-five point tumble of Me-
tropolitan, 1t is reasonable that reaction
of several points should occur. This, sup
posing that the top prices for the year have
been reached If the bulls have been right
In their glowing predictions, the advance
may continue for several days without any
very bad break.
This is the technical side OF the stua-
| ton. The general news also favors bet
ter range of prices as 1t has for a week
| or more The earnings of st. Paul for
| the week were among the best ever shown,
by the road. feeling is growing up in
| the West that the wheat crop will be large
despite the not entirely rosy predictions
| of the Weather Bureau. The acreage is
large II the condition of the crop is not
of the best. Governor Roosevelt will sign
the Ford franchise bill, but 1t has been
known that he would do so all the time
and apparently this fact has been suffi-
cientiy discounted already. London was
heavy buyer of stocks yesterday. 1t is
said that London and Europe together took
at least $4,000 shares of stock. The lead
ers of the market also were heavy buyers
Flower, Morgan, and keene were all saiG
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here this morning by the Atlantic Brass
Company with a capitalization of $1,000
900. The concern is to manufacture and
deal in brass fittings and patented car
axle bearings and railroad appliances,
The Cuban Land and Steamship Com
pany was also incorporated here today
with a capital stock of $4,000 600. The
company's principal office in New Jersey
is to be at Passaic
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit was the star per-
former for the day. and has been for the
past two weeks. Its recovery was even
more rapid than any of its declines have
been. The close on Tuesday night was
around lis, after as low price as III and
a fraction. There was a sensational OPEN
ing yesterday morning, and much rapid
fluctuations up and down in the first hour
but the prices always tended upward and
1t was soon seen that Mr.. Flower was
buying an enormous quantity of the stock.
Later in the day a steady advance began,
which finally carried the price to 123 "a, or
within a fraction of ten points advance
for the day. The close was q trifle off
from this high, but the buying continued
to the end of the day. The action OF the
stock was in every way as expected. There
was. as a matter of fact, no good reason
why any such break should occur, and
as soon as the market showed any tendency
to rally 1t was very nearly certain that this
stock would rebound quickly. The facts
regarding the immense earnings OF this
system and its excellent prospects for the
future have been discussed in this col
umn heretofore. II is probable that there
may be some sharp breaks yet left. as the
ending of the bear raid. but the friends
OF the stock predict that it will soon reach
higher figures than any IL has touched
heretofore. The prospect for the immediate
future is good. though there may be some
reaction at the opening IL the first prices
are high.
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to be on the long side heavily, and there
was no sign of their selling yesterday
afternoon
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New York stock market.

Corrected daily by W. B. Hibbs a Co.,
members of the New York Exchange,
141q II Street
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Chicago Grain and Provision Market

Corrected daily by ". B. Hibbs & Co.
members OF the New York Exchange
1910 + Street.
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Sugar and Tobacco were among the most

Sugar and Tobacco were among the most
rapid movers of the day. Both advanced
long way toward recovering all that
they have lost on the break. Curiously
enough the crowd was probably more bear
ish regarding these two stocks than any
others on the list Talk of the cut of the
Tobacco dividend to per cent-and this
will undoubtedly take place-and gossip
of the poor outlook for the end of the
sugar fight made many people sell both
stocks heavily when the general market
was going of. Tobacco declined twelve
or fifteen points on Tuesday. The entire
drop was recovered yesterday. the close
being at 112 Sugar did almost as much,
although during the early part of the day
the lowest price yet attained by the stock
was reached The advance was from
143 1-2 to 151 1-2-eight points. The
close was at $50.
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Aside from Brooklyn. there were really
no features in the market. The recovery
was so general and so strong that no
particular stocks can well be picked oct
The steel and iron securities and the
other specialties were all bought well and
all made good advances, but so also did
the railroad stocks, the grangers. the coal
ers, the Vanderbilts, the Goulds, and the
entire procession. London helped the rail-
roads by taking immense blocks of Atchi-
son preferred, and the Union Pacifics. Mr.
Flower bought the Federal Steel issues
heavily.
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Union Pacific was bought heavily by
London and there was quick covering by
the shorts in the stock There is much
bullish feeling regarding it in New York
houses near to the management. The
road will probably receive from the receiv-
ers within a short time s7,0OO,000 or more
on a friendly suit. This would pay the
dividend on the common stock for a con-
siderable time.
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Watch for town. consres. Heights. D. O.
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London is estimated TO have bought
10000 shares of Atchson preferred yester-
day, and there was also very heavy cover
ing of shorts. The two factors with some
buying for the long account here had
magnificent effect on the stock. During
all its decline there has been only one day
when the loss was as great as the gain
yesterday. The top price reached was sc
and the close was at 80 rs, only an eighth
off. The other grangers were all bought
actively and all had good advances. Bur-
lington was the most rapid in the list
with a gross advance of 3 points and net
gain of points. Much caution VIII I'M
doubtedly be a good policy in buying the
grangers after their quick advance. They
will almost surely attain to prices as high
as those Of three months ago, but de-
clines whenever there is bad news of the
wheat crop are to be expected. st. Paul
is picked out by many as likely to be the
best of the group.
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II any group was stronger than the
others 1t was the steel and iron stocks.
Their advances were larger and at all
times 1t could be seen that there were
good buyers ready to take them on any lit
tie recession. Federal Steel common had
an advance of nearly four points net, clos
ing at SO 1-2, after getting as high as
s. rs. The preferred stock advanced
from SO 3-4 to SO ga, the high, and closed
at SO. The Steel and Wire issues were not
quite as buoyant. but the common stock
had an advance of two points net. The
stocks of both these companies are des-
tined to be among the best during the
coming advance in prices if good buying
by insiders and the excellent earnings of
the company are to be depended on. These
earnings are increasing daily and it has
come to be the fact now that the capacity
of the many plants is alone the limit of
the business done. Prices are higher than
for many years past, and the percentage
of profit also. One of the officers of the
Steel and Wire concern in a talk with a
Washington broker recently stated that the
trust is earning IL per cent dividend on
the common stock in addition to the I
per cent on the preferred.
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Through the Burning District.

in the construction of telegraph lines
through the burning district the men suf-
fered greatly from the smoke and heat,
The signal party sent with the force TO
capture Jaro worked in the midst of
sharp action. Later the Office Of the cap
tain of the port was put into communica-
tion with the navy. The provost marshal's
office. Iloilo, the Eighteenth Infantry at
Jaro. General Millers headquarters at the
junction of Jaro and Molo Roads, and the
headquarters of the Tennessee Regiment
at Molo Bridge were in telegraphic COM
munication, the Offices being operated day
and night in consequence of the unsettled
conditions
ION the 23th Lieutenant Cannon accom-
panied reconnaissance Of the First Ten
nessee through and beyond Molo, and
northward across the Iloilo River; force
| of several hundred insurgents was met and
| put TO flight: signals directing movements
| and positions of troops during the fray
are reported to have materially assisted
| in operations.
"a most interesting series OF photo
| graphs has been taken during actiAn The
work has been executed under the r4rsonal
supervision of Capt. George L. Lawrence.
many of the pictures representing actual
| battle scenes TO secure which has neces-
STATED the exposure OF Lawrence to sharp
| fire repeatedly; the prints and original
| negatives are already sent to Washington
"Just before the outbreak IL had become
| evident that the Cavite cable would moi
| last much longer. The Manila reach. con-
| sisting of light insulated wire, had be-
come so weak that Just after the opening
gave way. The old cable was grappiet
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"Hecht's greater stores.

May tenth.
I Asst Wednesday We secured thousands
OF boys and youths suits. separate
II coats. separate vests, and separate
pants from the Trade Sale Of John
W. Tillard's stock in New York city. To-
borrow we place on sale
The times., 1899-05-11
GOVERNMENT BONDS.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BONDS

S. Isse, "2O-year funding" ........ 100 =.
as 1907 '30-yenr funding gold. =. -.
IS. 1901, water stock" currency los -,
rs, 1903, water stock currency -.
Funding currency, SOS. -. III II
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no Captain KusseII is due The greatest
credit for the operations on the north, the
front OF the line OF battle OF which he was
to keep himself and commanders informed,
being something over ten miles in length.
II is not unlikely that personally he finds
most satisfaction in the rough, dangerous
work performed by himself, officers, and
men under the heavy fire of the 9th. or
during the advance on Caloocan; but 1t is
probable that the commander whose di-
vision he served would award equal credit
for the success OF his service with the fleet
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17
OFFICE CHAIR FOR BORES.
It's Owner Declares That Tt Saves
Him Thousands of Dollars.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.)


The time of almost every man in
active life is terribly taxed by useless
visitors" said busy New Orleans
shipper. Il mean people who come
on foolish errands, tedious friends who
drop in to chat and don't know When
to go. and the small army Of agents,
canvassers, solicitors and the like. who.
in the aggregate. consume many prec-
ious hours every day. L have a scheme
for disposing Of such bores that works
to a charm.
The whole. secret lies in that chair
beside my r9ll-top desk. 1t is very in
nocent-looling. as you will observe but
il has some marked peculiarities. To be-
gin with. ii is firmly attached to the
floor. and it is so placed that whoever
sits. in it faces a flood of light, while
myself am in the shadow Then, again
the back is very straight and very mar
row; it has no arms, and the seat
pitches slightly forward, the front be-
ing half an inch lower than the rear.
1T is utterly impossible for any bore
to s.. IN that chair four consecutive
minutes. With female book agents it
is peculiarly efficacious, for the simple
reason that such callers are generally
So or over. and no woman of that age
can sit quiet in the g1aring daylight
under the calm scrutiny of man in
the Shadow. The coolest of them lose
their possession. twist, wriggle and
soon fly the spot. Then. again. the
straight back and absence of arm pre-
vent the occupant from. assuming that
graceful. sidelong attitude without
which no woman is able 10 converse
With male bores it is equally dead
ly. All garrulous men either tilt back
when they are talking or lean forward
impreSsively with their elbows on their
arms. The two poses seem to be es-
sential TO a flow of language, and
neither of them is possible here. When
they find that the legs are attached to
the floor and search in vain for a rest
fer their elbows. they lose the thread of
their Story, look miserable for a mo-
Eent, aEt then beat retreat The
pitch OF the seat simply adds to the
general discomfort of the machine. One
finds ones self continually sliding off
without knowing why 1t is very dis
l wouldn't take anything
for that chair. 1t has saved me thou
sands of dollars
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17
bow Kimberley Was Discovered.
One the Founders Living First
Namond-he Great Empire Builders
Kindness For Ali Dumb BruteHow He Bought


I 70 organize a stampede for the new
/ field.
'Popham and Rhodes got away il
less than two hours and fully intend
ed to accompany them. but deferred tC
the wishes of my partner. TO remain
with him at old De Beers; sending or
four Kaffir Zulus however. to hell
stake out our claims.
1t was but few hours after
through the instrumentality of the
/ friend who l had taken with me on the
hunting trip. that the news was spread
abroad through the camp, and before I
a. m. in the next morning Old De Beers
was deserted and in twenty-four hours
later there were from 5000 TO 1000 men
on the ground on which now stands the
city of Kimberley.
In few days the country all around
that clump of minora, where.I had shot
; the partridges.. was staked out, and
IL was almost on that spot, right in the
center of the crater of the extinct mud
volcano now forming the celebrated De
Beers mine. that Pepham, Herbert
Rhodes and myself secured three of the
best paying claims.
Cecil's Disgust.
1T was about five. or six months after
this, when we had all moved to New
Rush. that Cecil Rhodes. the youngest
brother. unexpectedly turned up at the
diggings.
Cecil Rhodes was. both in appear
ance and character. quite different TO
his brothers, being at that time tall and
thin. darker in complexion than Frank
Rhodes, but not so dark as Herbert.
His constitution appeared to be very
delicate, and it was generally under
stood that he had come out more with
the idea of building up his health than
making a fortune.
He took up his abode in a tent close
to my own, and for some months. on ac-
count of the intimate relations exist
ing between his brothers and myself. l
saw gold deal Of him in fact. dining
with the three almost. every night.
while. as ! said before Herbert and
Frank Rhodes were open hearted, gem
erous fellows, Cecil, on the other hand,
was of an altogether different charac-
ter, being very reserved and hard to
draw out. He was, at first, evidently
not bubbling over with delight at all
he witnessed and heard in his new sur
roundings. taking rather unkindly to
the situation, which did not tend to
make him popular in the camp. and
even his brothers seemed a little shy of
his presence.
"Gn the morning of his arrival in
camp. Herbert Rhodes asked me to take
his brother. Cecil down and show him
over the claims, where they were work
ing from eighteen TO twenty Zulus. To
this request readily agreed, and while
in the pit pitched out small diamond
from the side wall and handed it to him
his first stone in South Africa He
was, however, very reticent of all he
SAW, only renarkins that he had no
idea il was like this or that and appaF-I
emily by no means enthusiastic over the
prospect of becoming a diamond dig
ger.
Having made up his mind to stay.
he settled down TO work with a deter
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17


waste" is most frequently exemplified
when the novice is trying to shave.
Blood is frequently wasted by undue
haste in this work
The young man, when he begins the
work of shaving himself, should, in adj
dition to a first-class razor. purchase a
good shaving strop. When one begins
TO strop razor Of course he always
tries to do it Just Ike the barber He
soon finds out that it requires a bit OF
experience to do it that way" and
while he is getting the experience the
stroD suffers accordingly. The way the
poor leather is lacerated is a sight to
behold After about three or four at
tcrpts the strop is ready to he made
into shoe<trings. II is usually wise to
pay about quarter for the first horse
hide
One never reaches the top round of
the ladder in any kind of fame in one
bound. So il is in this case. OF course
the razor VIII hurt little and remind
the novice of rake and all that,
but do not become ineensed at the
razor. If used properly. it viii not cut
you but few times to the shave, or
give other than gentle pulls
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17
Che christmas TrcIle~
BY HARRIET PRESCOTT sPoFFoRD.

Copyright. 1859. by Harriet Prescott
Spofford.)
you'll not be goin' great WAYS. this
threatenin' weather. an the dark so
early?" said his wife anxiously looking
out on the gray river. where the white
caps were running against the tide.
Mot too far" said the fisherman.
'Tomorrer bein Chris mus" added the
wife. "'Twoud be sorry Chris mus an
you not comm in safe
Il allus hev come in said Joe. I.ain't
much fear but what L allus shell.
wouldn't miss my Chris mus getting
into his long boots. for the best fish
swimmin' Got the turkey?'
Down sullar. on the sWingin' shelf A
big eobbler. You want pertater stuffin' -
Wal, do no. Which you want?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17

Chestnuts an thin's is tasty 18th sum-
mer savory. Here. you fixs this string.
Sis can get the chestnuts to the corner. -
20 The boys went muffin along the
fall an / got quite a few set by. I'll put
some raisins in There's some left over
from the pies
Them pIesll go right to the spot. Lots
o. cider in EN-? Got some turnovers for
the stockin's?
AN a bunch o. wife grapes apiece
threading her needle to sew on a loose
betton for him. They'll have thins TO
the Sunday school tree But I'd like 'em
ter have good times ter hum ter remem-
Der binieby.r
An so, looking up with CLEAN OF