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Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-14

Cash quotations were as follows:
FIOUR-F1rm; winter patents, 1910
q360; s%traights, SO. 10Q3.3O; clears, S2.7Oa3.O0;
spring specials. $3.50; patents, x.4OG3. 20;
straights, s.. 90d3.20.
WHEAT-No. 2 spring. 72c; No. 3 spring,
67a7lc; No. 2 red, 72Ac.
CORNING 2. 66NG6i4c; No, 2 yellow, SIN
d6ihc.
oATs-No. 2, CSC; No. 3 white. alaS5c.
RYE-No. 2, 5ld52c.
BARLEY-Fair TO choice mailing, 4Sd63,.
ern. N.Ss: prime timothy, N.6O9L75; clover.
contract grade, $3.50.
PROVISIONS-Mess pork. per bbl., SIG 70
@1s.75. Lard, per 100 lbs, y10.sfh9l0S Short
ribs sides Qoose), $l0S)d1O.90 80. Dry sailed
shoulders (boxedD. $9.00Q925. Short clear
sides CboXed), S10.S7hQ11.12 k.
WHISKY-Basis of high wines, Si.32.
The following were the receipts and ship
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philadelphia Produce Market.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. l2-BUTTER-
Firm good demand; extra western cream
cry. &c. extra nearby prints. 23c.
EGGS-Steady; fair demand; fresh west
ern. 22c; fresh southwestern. 20c; fresh
southern. lSc.
CHEEsE-Firm; New York full creams.
prime small, 1O&qilc; New York full
creams fair to good. lOdlOlkc; New York
York fun creams, fair to good. s%ai0tc.
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St. Joseph Live Stock Market.

ST. JOSEPH. Sept. 13.-CATrLE-Re-
celpts. $50 head; steady; natives, t4.2bgS: 80;
cows and heifers, $2.00qS 10; veals, S.I50
800; bulls and stays, 81. 5Oq6 Is; stockers
and feeders. 81. 1905. 3.
HOGS-Reccipts, 2,0s7 head; steady to SC
higher; light and hight mixed, .50q7 .I5;
medium and heavy, N,65d7.So; pigs, A.OO0
LIS; bulk, 81 .6@f. 20,
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Native lambs, A.75
as 80; western lambs, $4.5OG5. 90; Yearlings,
Sc .5O@3.S5 wethers. S.259S.b; ewes, 2.75q
3 ~
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Toledo Grain and Seed.

TOLEDO. o., Sept. l3-wHEAT-Fairly
active and easier; cash, 7Shc; September,
f3hc bid: December. Shc; May, 721Sc.
CORN-Dull and weak; cash. SIC; Septem-
Der, 6Ohc; December. fiAc; May. $40.
OATS-Dull and steady: September, alac;
December, SIC.
sEEDs-Clover, duIl and easier; October.
ssh January. $50 Prime timothy. u0.
RlE@62c
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st. Louis Grain and Provisions.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. la-FLOUR-Quiet:
new red winter patents, S3.15d3.25; extra
fancy and straights, 2.SdalO; clear, g.. 7Oq
SEED-Timothy, steady, C.OOG4.0.
CORNMEAL-Steady, $3.50.
BRAH-6low; sacked, east track, 63aS5c.
Sc.
WHISKY-Steady. S.S2.
IRON COTTON TIES-SlO7Ik.
BAGGINGS 5-I6n7 1-l6c.
HEMP TWINE-9c.
PROVISIONS-Dry salt meats CboXed),
steady; extra shorts and clear ribs. ui:
short clears. Hl.b0. Bacon (boXedD, steady:
extra shorts. nl.s7lh; clear ribs. ni.e7i4.
short clear, d25.
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American. Futures opened strong and
closed quiet; American middling g. o. c.:
September, 44s-64d4 f9-6id. sellers; Septem-
Der and October 4 A-64d, sellers; October
and November, 4 S5-64Qf S6-64d, buyers; No
vember and December, 4 S-6td. buyers:
December and January. 4 2-6fd, buyers;
January and February, 431-64H4 32-64d, buy
ers; February and March, 4 3l-64d, buyers;
March and April, Si-64d, sellers; April and
IA St-64d.
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sioux CITY Live stock Market.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Sept. l3.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-CATTLE-Receipts, 800 head; mar
ket steady; beeves, S.75d7.25; cows. bulls
and mixed, s.. 50; stockers and feeders,
H0oG5.W; y~earling and calves. S2.6OG4.26.
HOGS-Receipts, 1000 head market
strong, selling T.4017.55i hulk, T.40q7.4.
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New York Money Market.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1s.-MONEY-On call,
steady at 6d10 per cent, close offered at 6
per cent; prime mercantile paper, bh95&
per cent.
STERLING EXCHANGE-Easier, with
actual business In bankers bills at 81. $500
l.S5625 for demand, and at A.S250G4. S27S for
sixty days; posted rates, A.S4G4.S4h and
A.66hG4.S; commercial bills. SLS175@As225.
The closing quotations on bonds are as
follNua.
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Cotton Market.

LIVERPOOL. sept. i2-coTToN-spot.
American middling. i4i6d. The sales OF
the day were 1900 bales. OF which 800 were
$500 American. Receipts. 1850 bales, all
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OIL Market.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1S-OtL-Cottunseed.
quiet; prime crude. nominal; prime yellow.
AO640izc.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 1S.-oIL-Turpentine
spirits, quiet. S2s 90.
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NOTICE
WESTERN SPECTATORS

The greatest BULL movement In the his
tory OF the country has been going on Tor
siisht reactions until January ia2 such
we'll. known dividend paying stocks as st.
Paul Missouri Paelnc, onion PACING,
CLARLG L.. $ STEEL, BOTH COMMON
AND fkETERRED. We advise the pur-
chase. at once. not tomorrow, or next week.
Nnnced ~ points from the prevailing prices
OF, today, tor when the dividends are raised.
which will surely be done on all the above
nBmed. They will be selling at prices un-
heard of in the history of our country. We
steel Common, which points out to the in
Nestor how 80 per cent a year can be made
the stock is bought around present prices.
Send tor II at once.
BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit. the largest sur
face railway line in the world. ana ats stock
Simply because that from the time OF Gov.
Flowers death up TO the first OF this year
governor was alive this same stock, without
half its earning power, was selling around
1877, higher than Manhattan was then, 1hs
control and have been tor the past thrVe
months, and at the present time no doubt
owns. a majority OF the stock Brooklyn
down 5 points from it's present price. Don I
wait until the stock gels active ana the big
they do. THAT is NOW. We urge the
purchase OF i. r.. r, also Manhattan, aud
execute orders In the above two stocks on
a 5-poiut margin If bought around prevail
shares, $500 margins loo shares and so on,
In opening an account remit by postal,
money or express order. or have your bank
money I'm their hands for our account. OUR
SPECIAL LETTERS on the following
stocks:
L. S. STEEL,
BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT.
MISSOURI PACIFIC
AMAIGAMATED COPPER.
also our letter on How TO Trade on
Margins, win be mailed free. SEND FOR
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On the Produce exchange today the but
ter market was strong. creameries. 16d25lse;
dairies, 15Q20c. Cheese, steady, lOhQl0Ac.
Eggs, arm; fresh, l9c.
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upward. The total advance for the week,
though, only amounts 20 a little over q
dime. Representative sales:
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Bo.ton stoek auetation..
BOSTON, Sept. ls.-Call loans. cal per
cent; time loans, 646H per cent, Ohicial
closing on stocks and bonds:
New York MininE Ouotations.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1a-The following are
the closing prices on mining stocks:
The Washington times., 1902-02-16
Aid for the Sick.

To the Editor of The Times:
Dear Sir: The very first thing would
do should come suddenly into possession
OF the above-named sum would be TO take
cab or some conveyance and go imme-
diately and visit all the hospitals of the
city, /. e, would visit all the free wards
and administer to the sick. From there
would go 10 the charity associations and
get the names Of the deserving POOR. re-
gardless of sect. color. or nationality,
visit them and see that they were pro-
vided with the necessaries of life. L
would furnish room in one of the hos
pitfalls here anu maintain it for the use
of the poor sick women of Washington,
which place l would visit occasionally and
see to it in person that they had every
want and care. l would also give an
nually a certain sum toward the support
OF home for POOR working girls and
free scholarship TO the two poorest and
brightest boys who are about to enter
college. MRS. W. EDGAR DALTON,
II Myrtle Street. Washington, d. G.
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To the Editor of The Times:
Dear Sir: Your question as to what /
would do with $4,000, were it suddenly
thrust upon me makes me feel communi
cative. l should like to write about S47.
GEO. for that's probably as intimate as l
shall ever become with it. and although it
makes me a little dizzy just to think of
such possibility. still I'd try to stand
the shock if it really came. l don't think
it's quite fair in The Times to disturb
so many with such soap bubbly PROPOSE
ton. but this is how | think l would
manage:
First. | would gather together all the
dirty all the cold, and all the hungry
little children l could find, and I would
take them in relays to a nice restaurant
where they served real chicken salad and
ice cream made of something besides wet
snow and skinned milk and no sugar.
I'd pay the bill and wouldn't wait for
thanks. then l should feel I'd earned my
right to what was left-a sort OF prelim-
mary blessing. Perhaps l should go to
Europe (and incidentally write home
weekly letter to your and l think ia
be one of the happfest girls in Washing
ton.
This may not be the Sunday Editors
idea of spending money-but it would suit
me Yours very sincerely.
NJ de H. b,
The Franklin.
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Would Spread the Gospel.

To the Editor of The Times:
If l were to come into possession of
81. 600. the first thing | should do would
be to set aside the major part of it for
the PRONUNCIATION of the true gospel, that
The man Jesus Christ gave himself a
ransom for all, to be testified in due
time" q Timothy, ii.5-6) and that God $
provision in the ransom is coextensive
with the curse the sentence of death
thiaus. Xv:22) and that all shall be saved
from ignorance, and come to a knowledge
of the only name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved
(Acts, iv:12J. That even all those in
their graves shall hear His voice and
come forth" and be given an individual
trial; and all the willingly. heartily
termost," but "all the wicked will He de-
stroy.' in death. oblivion. (Hebrews,
X:26-29; Acts. iii:22-23).
This fund should be expended in dis
placing that God dshonoring doctrine of
eternal torment, and showing that the
sentence upon Adam, in which all his
posterity shared was dea tn and further,
that the Kingdom of God, for which
Christians have for more than 1900 years
prayed. THY kingdom come" is even
now being set up.
/ might add. however. that l am not
waiting for a bequest of 1000 but am
doing all | can now, with my limited time
and means, to spread the harvest mes
sage"
CLARENCE E. FOWLER,
40i Washington St, Anacostia, D. C.
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A Nest for Two.

To the Editor of The Times:
Dear Sir: For a while l pictured my
self in the possession of all that money
and the feeling was rather pleasant.
What castles in the air l build. with my
imaginary wealth. Would buy a pound
of caramels or an automobile? No l
would not but a years subscription to
The Times would be a first-class starter
10 spend the money in way where one
gets 100 per cent interest. The dear New
Times. How. I hustle in the morning to
get my work done so can steal an hour
with The Times. II looks you full and
invitingly in the face with his large, clear
type and big head lines.
But, what would l really buy first?
Will tell you, 4 few small documents.
called receipts for some outstanding debts
and some necessaries. As l love pure air
clean water, birds and all animals, flow
ers. trees, etc. by first big investment
would be to buy an ideal. coy. little nest
for me and my maze in the country. What
a paradise this little home would be. with
a veritable garden of Eden all around
lacking the serpent and the tempting APP
pie tree. The rest OF the money | would
invest III some other way. where it would
bring the most interest-buy houses under
rental.
Ii ever you come across a party that
wants to leave S47 600 to somebody that
Will not spend it on patent leather shoes.
precious stones chewing gum, caramels,
automobiles, and champagne suppers,
etc, please recommend me. You are
right good fellow anyhow. Mr. Inheritance
Editor, to make us Washington poor peo-
pie play, make believe. we are rich.
BY the wav. you also wanted some one
that had a ghost to sell. Kindly let Mr..
Camille Flammarion know that / can sell
him a real one-The Ghost of a Smile,
Yours truly,
MRS. a. ROSA HAUSMANN
p. 81 managed not to write on both
sides, neither did oriss-c cross. but if you
find any errors, dramatically or other
wise, you must not mind it. / don't, for
| have an excuse for so doing. because
where / was born the babies neither laugh
nor cry in English, nor later when they
use their tongue do they wag ii English
fashion. AS to read or write It, why the
ignorant people could not even read
$4,000 in English. My own English was
like a cigar stump by a tramp-picked up.
a. r. H.
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dear, you are like all men-dull pain
fully dull. | was never more busy in my
life. have a seamstress in and am get
! ting all my spring sewing done; it is such
a good time. there is so little going on"
Hum, coughed the busy man, more
loss OF time. Secretary and janitor want
Good Friday of: why cant they choose
| different days."
The little sister came in while | waited
and climbed upon my knee. Il am going
10 give up candy or calls during Lent, i"
she coniided, but | can't quite decide
which" She entwined her fingers in mine
ana was silent Her pretty red lips were
drawn together and her forehead puck
cred in a pondering mood. waited
You see, sister has given up candy and
mother has given up calls" But. my
dear / yentured. Il thought YOU were
forbidden candy since your illness? ?"
"Ch, that's all right. neither can sister.
they give her pimpIes." Well how about
the calls2" Mother has given up call
ing because the tailor cannot get her
suits done until next month But" and
here the scowI became deeper have
a new red coat and ! want 10 show il to
Gladys Wells" The nurse called her and
when she scrambled down kissed her up
turned face and said, Candy, my dear. by
all means" For l realized that even that
uAlHtl Hlllt Knew more OF the up-lO- date
Lent than l.
Summing it all up, think | have a very
quaint definition indeed. Imagine the
shock to the poor Christians hurrying to
the catacombs to find an inscription in an
up-tO date poster style
LENT.
Ash Wednesday TO Easter Sunday Dur
ing these days Christians must:
/. Rest.
2. Get all spring sewing done.
3. Give up things they care not for.
4. Waste not valuable time from the
forum going TO church.
Yet, will not be pessimistic; there are
some few that back me up In my views.
| have noticed that certain chairs around
the card tables at the club remain unoc-
cupied during these forty days. have
met beautiful maids and danes hurrying
at dawn on a frosty morning to church.
I've known a college lad to clothe poor
child comfortably on the candy money
saved during Lent.
I've entered the church and heard the
plaintive Lenten music and seen the fig
ures draped in mourning, and l have
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bowed my head and thanked the Lord that
| am old fashioned.
Now, Lent is time for the busy man
who sacrifices earthly happiness plus
future existence to the god of gold, to
pause; if he is greatly rushed he might
dictate the result of his reflection to his
st,nographer:
Resolved, To be fiye-tenths as decent
to others as l expect them to be to me:
to save other than Canadian coins for the
blind beggar / give to each day: to be
three-fourths truthful in my daily deal
ing, and give TO all men almost their Just
due.
Resolved, That copy OF these rcsolu-
tions be sent TO all couce.ned.
Let every man do this and we moral
izers would be ill-content. we would have
naught to do but study Ourselves-a mel
ancholy theme indeed.
The path Of righteousness does not al
ways lead to wealth else how would you
and l explain our poverty. Honesty is
the most expensive luxury a man can in
dulge in, and virtue, if persisted in
leads. generally speaking. to a six-room
house in a suburb" But there most NOR
tails stop and say, or think, Il am viz
tuous; all men behold me-" but keep
the narrow path through the briars, and
one day YOU will come to a big gateway
struggles. the trials. and the six-room
house.
Some mile and knowingly quote that
certain place is paved with good in
tentions. but they forget that tapestries
that hang from the dome OF heaven are
woven Of TN trys."
But, alas, they will not pause, but,
like penny pinwheels, spin round and
round, making a little display. then sput-
ter. and go out forever.
Why do we men let the glitter of a gold
coin rolling on the ground start us run
ming; il will keep on rolling a little way
ahead OF US, sometimes in shadow, some
times with the sunlight full upon it, lur-
ing on down the path already strewn with
fainting, dying runners We dash friends,
comforts, all aside and rush hatless and
coatless after 1t. Sometimes We fall;
sometimes, II We are feet, we lurch for
ward, clutch the coin and fall exhausted,
too weak to hold the prize In our fingers
zee monde est plein de fous, ct Qui n en
vent pas voir
Doit Sc renfermer seul ct casser son
miroir."
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To the Editor of The Times:
l would be liberal in spending a good
percentage of the $47 goo in renevating the
public Schools of Washington. District Of
Columbia. OF their abominable and unjust
Laws and rules. As Citizen and parent
l would suggest a sufficient number of
officers be appointed to look after truant
children and compel them to attend
School These youths nave but one object
play and with the aid OF lot OF uIi-
crupulous Teachers closeting themselves
in a Teachers Room too or Three times
a week, planning some device backed by
a supertendant accomplish all and they
rob the public of what they honestly pay
for, and cheet the Boy out of an educa-
ton, and crush the Parent, and what a
sad Day it will be when thees Boys grow
up to be young men with out an education,
his Lips will burn with curses for the
good Shcppord and his little flock of
School Teachers, who has received the
People Money and gave little in return.
If the Citizens and parents was to take a
little time and trouble they would be
shocked To know that some of the public
Teachers Buss a little red headed prin-
Clpal WHcn ne calls at ile SCnOOl Bulld-
ings
The wrighter would like to know if il is
his red hair or winnig ways that makes
him so popular or has our public Schools
became not like the Fable OF the Spider
and Fly. II child arrives a little early /
they have to get into line and wait in the F,
cold until the Bell rings before they can
enter School, if you think this just, l |
would ask you to try it Five 8 or Ten 10
minits some morning an then try Your
penmanship or learn few verses of his |
tory while the Blood chases up and down |
your back like like icicles and if one
minite late just think of gouing back home !
Three or Four Squares for an excuse |
from the Parent, 1t is a disgrace to the |
American People, and one sufficient to /
make the Goddess OF liberty that addorns !
our butiful Capital blush when you call /
the Washington high School a free and |
public institution a poor Boy chance |
s131f for suit OF cloths will need two |
Suits and sl3 for Books total $40 Dollars |
this Government freeded the Negro but bar |
the poor white Boy from securing an |
education / an one that speaks from ex- |
perience | did not have the $40 to send |
my Son TO high School.
A TAXPAYER AND CITIZEN.
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make its exit alone frcm the nat; or
again. by bearing upon the invisible
thread, it may be made to dance upon
operations that eggs are not accustomed
to perform.
Some of the most amusing tricks are
those in which personal property Of one
Of the spectators is apparently sacrificed.
only to be afterward returned to its
owner safe and entire.
You borrow a hat. for instance. from
an obliging person. and startIe him by
piercing it here and there with your
finger, magic wand an egg, and a host
OF other objects.
This is all an Illusion the mystery OF
which is explained by the agency OF
slender needle, which Is attached TO an
artificial finger wand. hall egg. etc. and
which is quickly stuck through the top
of the hat with one hand and worked
from the interior thereof with the other.
The lnexhuustibIc Hat.
in order to take from a hat large
quantity of paler III ribbons. and then
doves. and even duck n q rabbit. there
is no need OF special apparatus nor a
great amount OF deXterity. Neither is
there any need of high hat. \ simple
straw hat or a cup, at a pinch, will
suffice. The prestidigitatvur holds close
pressed to his breast and hidden under
his coat a roll of the kind OF paper pre-
pared for the printing apparatus of the
Morse telegraph. and which is SO tightly
wound that it has the aspect and consist
ence OF Il wooden disc with a circular
aperture in the centre. In turning around
after taking the hat, the opening of
which rests against his breast. the OPP
orator deity introduces into it the roll
of paper which has the proper diameter
to allow it to enter by hard friction as
far as the Ton OF the hat and stay where |
it is put even when the hat is turned |
over.
Were it needed. the paper might be
held by a proper pressure OF the left |
hand eXerted from the exterior. The in !
of the paper is, by an expert. |
effected in a fraction of second.
a Few Humorous Remarks.
Your hat, my dear sir. was doubtless |
a little too wide for your head, for 1 |
The Washington times., 1902-02-16
Would Buy a Dolly.

To the Editor of The Times:
Dear $4,000 Man: I am not Mr.. Man
nor Mrs. Woman. but just Miss Little
Girl eight years old. but I know what 1
have wanted for seven years. I would buy
a 81 goo baby doll with long white dress
and a baby buggy to ride it in; then I'd
take walk from the Stratford Hotel to
Capitol. Oh oh, oh. that beats an auto
mobile Yours still wishing.
JOSEPHINI GOLDEN.
1904 Fourteenth Street.
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stock if it could be
bought. Some Of. the
answers received by
The Times are as
follows:
Take Stock in The Times.

lake Stock in The Times.
To the Editor of The Times:
In response to the query What would
be the first thing you'd buy if you were
suddenly to come into possession Of 81
OG0?" will state that | would make a
strenuous effort to purchase that amount
of stock in The Washington Times. The
general appearance Of the paper shows
100 per cent improvement in the short
time it has been under the new manage
mcnt. and it is not unreasonable to sup
pose that its profits have increased in a
like proportion. The attractive manner
in which the news of the day and the spe-
cial articles ares-presented ELECTS most
favorable comment from the Washington
public, especially as regards the Sunday
edition.
As an eX-newspaper man, one who has
done little of everything connected with
country veeklies and dalies from washing
OFF the forms to taking in cord wood for
subscriptions. and from writing up dog
fight to recording the proceedings Of the
church deacons in executive session |
have taken great interest in the trans
formation CT The Times into a real news
paper. and take mis- occasion to offer
word Of praise TO the men who do the
work-"the men behind the guns
JOHN R MOSS
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NJ. de II. b,
The Franklin.

To the Editor of The Times:
Esteemed Sir: Were such an event pos
sible with me, l would hail it with joy
Then would HE me 20 an agent for coun-
try property, secure six acres. have a
lovely retreat built. thoroughly modern,
with outbuildings for poultry. etc, and
employ landscape gardner to beautify
the grounds. Then my children should
have a finished education fitting them for
business and social duties of life. The
balance could be banked and the interest
could be used for my travels. prospective
rainy day and for practical charities If
the wealth did not change me so that
would become mercenary
MRS. JOS. F. MITCHELL
6Sj Fl Street.