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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-28
Wheat and Otker Grains.

WHEAT-The week closed without much
change. either here or at Chicago Continued
arrangement OF the wires by washouts is keep
ing back the usual grain news from the latter
Local cash and future quotations remain
about as before, and both markets were quiet
yesterday.
CASH WHEAT
California Club, 81 4OG1 471b; California
White Australian, 81 55Q1 co. Northern
Club 81 4od1 4TI5; Northern Bluestem, 81 52b
al 5Th per ctl.
FUTURES
Session 0 to II 80 a. m
Open High Low. Close.
December 81 49ih 81 5oA 81 4oH 81 sol;
BARLEY-Previous prices ruled. with light
trading in both cash grain and futures
CASH BARLEY
Feed 81 0511 oSA new Brewing and Ship
ping. 81 12h@1 17h; Chevalier. 81 17hQl 80
per ctl.
Session to II 80 a. m
Open. High Low Close
December 81 09k 81 OBS 81 90 81 90
OATS-The market dull, featureless and
of a Saturday character yesterday and quota
lions were unchanged
White, nominal: Surprise 81 5011 go; Red
81 27Jbd1 40 for feed and 81 4061 As for seed :
Black. 81 30Q1 35 for feed and 81 50G1 So for
seed.
CORN-There is nothing new to report in
this grain. Quotations show little variation
from day to day, the demand and supply
Western sacked, 81 45@1 so Cor Yellow and
White and 81 45G1 AN for Mixed; California
81 55G1 6212 White. nominal Egyptian, 81 35
al As for White and 81 2591 80 for Brown
RYE-$1 25@1 80 per ctl.
RECOMMENDATIONS at 81 1892 per ctl.
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Receipts Of Produce.
STOCK MARKET.
Miscellaneous Securities Sell We'll
for Saturday.

Trading in miscellaneous securities was very
good for Saturday, both in bonds and stocks.
California Fruit Gamers was lower at S97 IS
and Pacific Borax higher at S1569156 so.
There were sales Of Bank of California at S42O
and Fireman's Fund Insurance at $40.
The oil and mining stocks remained about as
before.
Sales on the California Exchange last week
were "a 451 shares. valued at SIS. s75, the lead
Ing sales being as follows: Apollo 1000 shares;
Associated Oil. 1882 shares; Four 214T; In
dependence, COCO; Monte Cristo POO; Sow
ereign, 100; Twenty-eight. 1850; Claremont.
500.
The output OF the Ophir mine last week
amounted to 135 mining carloads Of ore. as
saying SIS rs per ton.
Hanford Oil Company. at a meeting May 20,
voted to increase the stock from 1000 to 20 OO0
shares. and the next dividend will be declared
upon this basis.
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Provisions.

Common grades of Bacon have been marked
up nc per 10. Hams and Lard remain un-
changed.
The Chicago market weaker
CURED MEATS = Bacon, lie per ID for
heavy, lie for light medium, 1870 for light
cured; dry salt Sides. 10kc: Bellies, like:
Eastern sugar cured Hams. 14c Cali
fornia Hams 1sc: Mess Beef. s1OQ1O so per
Dbl: extra Mess $11911 so; Family $I2612 so:
prime Mess Pork $14 so; extra clear, s24:
Mess. SIS; Dry Sailed Pork. 9%c; Pig Pork.
LARD-Tierces quoted at 61sc per 10 for
compound and exc for pure: half barrels,
pure. 9%c; 10-lb tins, 10Ac; 5-lb tins, 1880;
BIB tins 101hc.
COTTOLENE-One half barrel. s%c; three
half barrels. SAc tierce Sic; two tierces.
Sc: five tierces. 71sc per ID.
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FINANCIAL
SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS.

b'GH street stocks frmey and Cotton queaker
bcyy fair trading the local exchanges
ShSht fluctuations 1T Silyw and foreign Exchange
Local bank oearings slightly under those of last year.
4raan steamer expected bring SIz5oooo in gold o-ror
roc.
" neat and Barley quiet and not materially changed
No changes III Oats, Corn or Rye
Ray still coming in heavily Feedsnfs moderate supply
Lima Beans firm and 1T actf5e demand in the south
Butter firm Cheese 1teak and E ggs odvuncing
French Walnut crop beginning to stoqv a SHORTAGE
California AhHOnd crop remarkably light
Common grades of Bacon GdVGnced Hams and Lard unchanged
zeal N lighter supply and higher Other Meats unchanged
\fofatoes 7reak 7oitt a large surplus arsoH
ONIONS ana egetabes in liberal supply and 7ceqk.
Poultry firm, 1cTfh bare market. Game steady
fFeSi Fri7t in good local and shipping demand
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Hides, TdHo7U, Wool and Hops.

HIDES AND SKINs-Culls and brands sell
about 15Q1c under quotations. Heavy saited
steers. 10c: medium, &c: light. &c; Cow
Hides, &c for heavy and SIC for light;
Stays. &c; Sailed Kip 911c; Sailed Veal. Toe:
Sailed Calf. lie; dry Hides 161Ac; dry Kip,
Acc each: short Wool. 40G65c each; medium,
$4,000: long Wool. $161 so: Horse Hides salt
50 rs for large and $262 so for medium 81 rs
al rs for small and soc for Colts; Horse Hides
dry. 81 rs for large and 81 so for medium $40
% for small and SOC for Colts Buck Skins
Dry Mexican. 30c; dry sailed Mexican 25c; dry
Central American. SOC. Goat Skins-Prime An
goras, zoe; extra large do, 81 rs; large and
smooth. soc; medium 35c: small, zoe.
No 2 SIC: grease. 2hQ3c
WOOL-Fall clip-San Joaquin and South
ern, 9g11c; Southern. e49c: Southern Noun
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Wants to Improve street.

The Board of Works yesterday petit
toned the Supervisors to set aside
from the urgent necessity fund a sum
Of money to construct a sewer in and
macadamize Twenty-sixth avenue, be-
tween Point Lobos avenue and A
street. The Fire Commissioners re-
quest that the work he done, as an en-
gine-house is to be erected in the
block and no provision was made in
the budget for work in front OF city
property.
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Associated Banks Statement.

NEW YORK Aug. 27-The statement of
averages of the clearing house banks of this
city for the week shows: Loans s., O99 95T 200
decrease Sill. 200; deposits 81 POT. 3O2. 500 de-
crease S1O9. 500: legal tenders $s1 600 900 de-
crease $203, 500; specie S277. SIS, 900. decrease
81 600 500; reserve 1888. POI. 100. decrease 81 =
OS4, 600: reserve required S3O1. S25 700 increase
$366, 925: surplus s57 375 400 decrease 81, 227, :
90; ex-United States deposits $63 219 500 de-
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CATTLE. SHEEP AND HOGS.
Chicago.

CH1Cd2O.
CHICAGO, Aug. 27-CATTLE-Receipts
SEQ: steady: good to prime steers, SIS 5096 10;
poor to medium So 5065: stockers and feed
ers $293 co. cows 81 2564 so; heifers. 81 759
70: Gamers, 81 25@2 25 bulls. 81 1891 10;
calves IS 5046 so; Texas fed steers So 500
80; Western steers, 81 9O@3 10
HOGS-Receipts to-day, 10, 600; Monday, 35,-
900; market steady; mixed and butchers, IS 10
40 65; good to choice heavy, So 40G5 65
rough heavy 81 65G5 Is; light. IS 3095 TO-;
bulk of sales SIS 1905 So
SHEEP-Receipts. 1000; market steady;
lambs steady to strong good to choice weth-
ers So 5O04 %: fair to choice mixed, 1898 rs;
Western sheep 81 50Q4 25; native lambs, 81 IS
Q6 40; Western lambs, S4@5 so.
Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 27.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts, 800: market unchanged
HOGS-Receipts 5000; steady: bulk So 25O
3 So; heavy, SIS 1895 3d. packers SIS 2095 40;
pigs and light, IS 2065 As
SHEEP-Receipts. none; nominally steady.
Omaha.
OMAHA. Aug 27.-cATTLE-Receipts 500;
HOGs-Receipts, $500; market shade strong
err; heavy. IS 1905 25; mixed and butchers.
So 2oq5 %; light, So 25Qo 80; pigs, 81 5O@
5; bulk, IS 2096 %.
SHEEP Receipts 1900; steady: Western
yearlings SO 65@4; wethers SO 4003 75 COM
mon and stockers. 81 5oG3 IS; lambs. $495 40.
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WEATHER AND CROP CONDITIONS.

WEATHER AND CROP CONDITIONS.
Colusa-Crop conditions unchanged.
PalermO-Peaches about all harvested; crop
very poor.
Wfllows-Crop conditions unchanged.
Livcrmore-dOp picking began at Pleasan ton
yesterday
Hanf0rd-Fcw farmers started picking
grapes to-day: prunes rpening fast.
St0ckton-Heavy shipment Of hay to local
and southern market.
Riverside-Fau potatoes looking well.
Hollister-Orchardists very busy; fruit dry
ing nicely
eWman-COndltiCns same.
san J0se-Grapes reported heavy in places.
Santa Maria-Bcans harvested far show
light crop: all other crops more satisfactory.
A. g. McADIE. Section Director.
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EASTERN MARKETS.
NeaU York Money Market.

KEW YORK Aug. 27.-Money on call nom
fuzI: no leans Time loans were slightly firm
e SIXTY days. ? per cent: ninety days. 25s
per cent. six months. 81 per cent Prime
mercantile paper. 3izQ4 per cent Sterling
exchange was weak with actual business In
banl1ers' bills al S4.s1O5 for demand and at
81 50 for sixty-day bills Posted rates 81 seq
4 $50. Commercial bills. 81 S4AQ4 S4%. Bar
silver b0kc. Mexican dollars 45Zc. Bonds
Governments. steady railroads. easy.
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Ne7V York Metal Market.

NEW YORK, Aug 27.-Metals were quiet
Little business was put through to meet re-
quirements, but no important transactions
were reported. Prices generally were un-
changed.
Copper. Jake and electroytic, s12 5Oa12 10;
casting $40 %
Tin S27G27 Is.
Spelter 81 S5G4 95
Lead, 81 20d4 %.
Iron. nominally unchanged from last quota
tfOns
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Cash Gram and Provisions.

CHICAGO Aug 27.-Cash quotations were.
as follows: Flour. steady; winter patents, s5d0
20; spring patents. 81 2095 so: straights.
wheat. 81 1901 y: No. 3. 81 O2Q1 10; No
red 81 o6Aq1 o7&; No. corn, 52Ac; No.
yellow, 5312c; No. . oats, 31631 No .
white, Ss@S4c; No. white 32a3SEc; No. ,
rye, 72Ac; good feeding barley, 42c; fair 10
choice mailing, 47d521sc; No. 1 haxseed. 81 IL.
No. 1 Northwestern 81 25 mess pork per bar.
rel, S11 30Q11 40; lard. per 100 pounds SIS sOeD
c s21a: short ribs sides Qoose), 81 80; short
Of high wines. 81 IS; clover, contract grade.
SO 70 IT,
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Omaha.
Ne7p York Cotton Market.

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-cotton futures
opened steady; August 10. 60c September,
10 60c: October, 10. soc; December, 10. SOC
January 10. 52c; March, 10. 64c April, offered
10. Csc; May, 10. CSC. Closed steady; August,
September, 10.74c; October, 10. SOC: November,
10. e0c; December 10. &c; January. 10. G3c;
February. 10. Soc March. 10. &c; May TO- re
Spot closed dull; middling uplands, IL zoe
middling gulf, IL 45c No sales.
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Flour and MiHStHfS.

FLOUR-California Family Extras, 81 s0n
10 usual terms: Bakers Extras 81 7065:
Oregon and Washington, jobbing at So S594 IS
per Dbl
MILLSTUFFS-Prices in packages are as
follows: Graham Flour, SO 25 per 100 lbs;
Rye Flour. So; Rye Meal. 81 75; Rice Flour
81; Corn Meal, 81 so; extra cream do So go;
Oat Meal, SO 10: Dat Greats 81; Hominy
So 6063 So; Buckwheat Flour. 81; Cracked
Wheat SS so; Farina SO IS; Whole Wheat
Flour So so; Rolled Oats: bbls, So 5000 90; in
boxes, So so; Green Peas So 30 per 100 lbs
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Bank Clearings.

Local bank clearings for the week lust ended
were s25.ssS.lis. against s26 800 4O4 for the
corresponding week OF last year showing q
eE-Iease or sotz25o. The clearings for the
s.-oe week N 1902 were S26. 20 81
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tain collie: Middle Counties free. 12614c;
do defective, 1OG12c; Northern free, 12014c;
do, defective. 1OG12c; Humboldt and Mendo-
cino 14G15c per ID.
HOPS-19O4 crop, 20924c per ID. The few
old crop left here are held at 25c for choice.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-28

While chopping wood near Augs-
burg, Germany. a boy named William
Behr caught his ak against a wire
clothesline. At the same moment a
flash OF lightning struck the line,
passed down the ak and killed him.
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Northern Business.

SEATTLE. Aug 27-Clearings, s715. 252;
balances S1S6 213
TACOMA. Aug 27.-Clearings. 1882. $40;
balances $26, 4S2.
PORTLAND; Aug. 27-ciearings. sa4s. GIL:
balances S6T, 312.
balances SOS, 922
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Northern Wheat Market.

OREGON
PORTLAND. Aug. 27.-wHEAT-S Shipping
Walla Walla, re; bluestem SIC; valley Soc
WASHINGTON.
TACOMA. Aug. Unchanged;
bluestem, SIC: club. 7Sc.
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LOCAL MARKETS.
Exchange and Bullion.

There were slight variations in Silver and
Exchange
The steamer Sierra, due at this port on Mon
day from Australia, will bring $3.50, COO in
sovereigns. of which e2O0, 600 are consigned to
the London. Paris and American Bank and
e150 Geo 10 the Anglo alfornian Bank, lin
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St. Louis Wool Market.

ST. LOUIS. Aug. 27.-Wool steady; medium
grades confbing and clothing. 255d26c; light
fine. 19a20c; heavy. fine 15G16c.
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Butter, Cheese and Eggs.

CHICAGO. Aug. 27.-On the Produce Ex-
Creameries. 14q1s15c; diaries, 121sd16c. Eggs,
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.211.TO

Total sales. .211, 700.
UNITED RAILROADS OF SAN FRANCISCO.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2T.-No bond transac-
lions to-day
AMERICAN CAN COMPANY.
Common bid Al, asked Az preferred bid
45Iz asked 45A.
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Fritit and Wheat Bulletin.

For the tventy-four hours ending : n =,
ION me--a-an l-rne. san ErancLsco Aue,lst y.
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SAN FRANCISCO STOCK EXCHANGE.
Following were the sales the San Fran
cisco Stock and Exchange Board yesterday:
inrr
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-08-28

firm at mark, cases included. 141a@1eHc.
Cheese, firm. SG9c.
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~ & 81
Auction sale TUESDAY. Aux. 30. II a. m.
at 114O Folsom, OF wagons, Surveys. camping
outfits rubber tires and carts. and also 40
sets OF single and double harness and 25 head
Of all purpcsed horses.
VII L. WOOD, General Auctioneer, 16 City
Hall square-Grand sale, MONDAY, 9th Au-
gust. D. m. at salesroom. Indian curios.
burnt leather goods. china, whips, notions, dry
goods GALL new, and furniture. See Mondays
Chronicle Phone Folsom 4O43- On view Mon
day morning.
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STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE.
SATURDAY, Aug. 27-2 p,

UNITED STATES BONDS.
Bid. Ask. Bid. Ask.
As or coup. .10T 1913 As or cp new. 152 1921
As or reg. .10T 1O7% IS or coup. 1851 1881
MISCELLANEOUS BONDS.
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SALES
At Auction

By order OF Frank Prior OF EaKlevflle, Mo-
doc County win sell $50 head OF BROKEN
AND UNBROKEN HORSES AND MARES
direct from his ranch. They are all good solid
colors; weight from 300 to 1900 pounds and
from to years old. The horses can be seen
any time at yards. They must and viii be
sold to the highest bidder Sale takes place
Thursday, September 1, at n o'clock at the
International Sales Yards. corner Twelfth and
Harrison SITS. s. WATKINS. Auctioneer.
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PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGE.

Following were the sales on the Pacific
Stock Exchange yesterday.
Morning Session
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NoPAH MINING EXCHANGE.

Following were the sales on the San Fran
cisco and TonOpah Mining Exchange yesterday:
MOr0fu1 Session
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-02

Tor It's chivalry, Is cause for great re
greet. Ii the crimes were unusual and
really merited the punishment on that
account there might be some excuse
for the system, but the first colored
boy received his public whipping be-
cause he had struck white boy. The
lucky, that state famed far and wide
victim yesterday was punished for
damaging private property. These are
petty crimes and Imprisonment is gen.
orally regarded as sufficient punish
ment. But Kentucky must institute the
old whipping post and bring back to
these days when every effort should
be to cement the more closely the ties
of union and united action, the modes
|of punishment that made slavery the
issue in the sixties.
Is this the spirit that prompted the
southern states to return to the union?
Is this in line with the admission that
all men are equal, regardless of color?
Is this a step toward the solution of
the race problem? These boys who
were publicly whipped for petty crimes
will bear the ignominy of that punish
ment for years. Thousands of people
crowded around while they were being
beaten and each one of these cannot
but remember, whenever he sees one
of the victims Of the courts unusual
order, the day Of its execution. The
boys will have to ask for employment
at some early date, no doubt, and their
chances will be dwarfed by the fact
that they have been whipped in pub
lie The fact that the offense was
light will be forgotten but the manner
of the punishment cannot be.
There are some crimes, no doubt,
for which punishment by mere imprls-
onm ent seems to the majority of peo-
pie insufficient, but for these the laws
provide more drastic measures. The
whipping post is a relic of slavery
days and no less and its revival by
courts which should be courts Of JUS
fair-minded men.
The Emancipation proclamation gave
the colored people of the United States
certain rights which the officers Of the
courts are sworn to protect for them.
Chief among these rights, whether lit
orally expressed or not, is an equality
before the law with people Of white
skin. Because prisoner is black no
court in the United States Is justified
in passing upon him more severe SEN
tence than would be passed If white
man or white boy occupied the dock
Until these rights are respected by
the courts they will not be respected
by the people at large and until the
public realizes their existence and
their right to exist the race question
cannot be solved.
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called "yellow journals" on the streets
is proof that they are read very wide
ly.
On the other hand the pulpit is the
last place where the public expects
to find exaggeration or any form Of
untruth. If the preachers remarks
have to be divided by two before being
digested, whom can we believe? This
lis evidently the view most ministers
take
The fact of the matter Is that ex-
aggeration is entirely unnecessary. II
preachers want to make startling state
ments they can provide themselves
with any number of them simply by
brushing up against life in darker
phases. Truth is stranger than fiction,
and it is strange indeed that in city
the size of Chicago minister must
resort to hyperpole in order to put
sensation before his hearers. One trip
through the slums will provide him
with more sensations than whole
weeks thinking of imaginery cases.
What seem like eXaggerations to many
preachers and to others who do not
know conditions below the surface are
often mere statements of facts. per-
haps not up to the standard of the real.
| While the preacher continues to sit
lin his study. aloof from all the world
except that part which is made to
order" he need never be afraid of over
drawing sensational stories. Had he
Imagination enough for that he would
not be a preacher but the author Of
paDer back novels.
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FIGHTING AGAINST HER GOLD.

Washington Post.-A singular fact
incident to the struggle between Rus
s1a and Japan, Is chronicled by the
London press as a thing not dreamed
of when the Japanese forecounted the
cost of the war. Since the first of the
year japan has exported some $780,
,ooo,OOo in gold in payment Of military
equipment purchased abroad. Nearly
all of this money, it is stated. has
found it's way into Russia's war chest,
and is being used in the operations
against the power that unwittingly
supplied the wherewithal. For a peo-
PIE to have their gold come back to
them through the lannon's mouth is
not a pleasing experience, as we are
assured by the London editors.
Inc process which made 1t possible
shipped from Toxic was simple
enough; The gold was shipped from
Japan to San Francisco and thence to
New York, in transit to London. AS
Parls was at that time drawing heav-
ny on London for gold with which to
take up the Russian war loan, the ia
panese gold was DETECTED from it's pri-
mary destination and sent direct to
Paris from New York, invested in Rus
sian bonds and sent on to st. Peters,
burg. The fortunes Of war have sell
dom or never furnished the parallel of
this transaction, but the anomalous
development of the hostilties will not
long continue, as the $50,O0O,OOO ia
panese loan recently foated in New
York and London will end the necessity
of drawing upon Japan's modest stock
of treasury gold in order to liquidate
her foreign Indebtedness. This CONSUME
nation will permit the solicitous Bril-
fish to cease from troubling over the
boomerang-like results of their allys
purchase OF arms abroad, though at
this distance they appear more con-
structive and sentimental than real
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THE PUBLIC PRINTING.

The announcement is made that
the public printing Office at Washing
ton will put in type-setting machines
to take the place of hand compost
ors This a great move in the right
direction and will be so regarded by
all who know the facts. For some
years the composition in this, the
largest printing Office of it's class in
the country, has done without ma
chimes, while all the big papers first
and later even small concerns in lit
tie towns, have put i'll use from one
machine to scores of them. The rea-
son for the delay has been said to be
a desire on the part of the authori-
ties to ascertain first whether the
machines are practical before invest
ing the money. Another influence
that has probably had great deal to
do is the desire on the part of the
unions to keep the machines out of
the government shop and thus keep
the number of employees the same.
Now, however, it seems that both
The type-setting machine is, beyond
any doubt, success and a practical
invention of merit. 1t does the work
VI lOuC manu- COIupOSllOIS anu Tie 1e-
suit is better if anything than with
hand set type Fifty machines, of
two different makes are to be intro
duced into the government printing
office within the coming year and it
is stated that because Of the increase
in business none of the printers now
in the employ of the government will
he dispensed with. The hand com
positors will be encouraged to learn
the use of the machines and as they
become proficient more machines will
be put in. At first only certain kinds
of work will be done on the machines,
but as time goes on all will go to
them and the government printing
Office will be thoroughly modernized.
The increase in business at the
plant in Washington has been the
cause of hiring extra help on several
occasions. This will be done away
with when the machines are in use
and the force Of men now employed
can handle the bushes of the Office
for several years to come.