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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05
CITY MARKET REPORT


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05
Heard on Change

A number of brokers whose opinion or
market conditions ought to be pretty good
are inclined TO think that the common stock
of the Washington Railway and Electric
Company is TO be the active speculative
stock for some time yet to come. This be-
lief is TO a large extent based on the con-
sideration that there is nothing else that is
likely 10 be capable of the fluctuations
which are to be expected in security that
is the subject of active buying and selling.
1t is expected. of course, that gas stock is
going TO have a further decline mainly be-
cause this is the proper season for such
movement The lowest point that has been
predicted for II Is IS.
There may be some movement in Lam
ston, especially IL the announced policy is
carried out and per cent dividend 10 de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05
London Money Rates Easier.
By Associated Press.

by Associated PresS.
LONDON, November 4-Money was In
fair supply in the market today and rates
had an easier tendency, owing to government
disbursements and the release of funds
by one joint stock bank. Discounts were
firmer in view of the conditions of CONT
mental exchanges, especially the Berlin po-
sition.
The trading on the stock exchange was
quiet and prices had an uncertain tendency.
Consols were sold on the increase in the
German Bank rate. Home rails stood out
as the feature of strength.
Americans opened irregular and generally
under parity, and rallied to parity level, at
which they hesitated. Business was re-
stricted, but prices closed fairly steady.
Grand Trunk juniors were bought on the
traffic increase.
Foreigners were dull and irregular
Japanese imperial skies of 1904 were
quoted at 1919
PARIS, November 4.-Trading on the
bourse today was inactive. At the close
prices were firm.
Russian imperial tours were quoted at
80. 40 and Russian bonds of 1904 at 517OO
BERLIN. November 4.-Prices ON the
bourse today were firm and the tone gen
orally was more favorable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05
London Wool Market.

LONDON, November 4.-The arrivals of
wool for the sixth series OF auction sales
amount to 1853 bales. including 1900 for
warded direct to spinners. The imports of
this week were:
1900; Victoria, 1886; South Australia
so; New Zealand. Lap; Cape of Good Hope.
80: Singapore. 1.o96: Falkland Islands, $40:
Philadelphia, SGT; various S2S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05

States Steel Corporation for the September
quarter was accepted as an important in
dex of these conditions, but was without
immediate effect on the securities of the
corporation in the market.
Bonds have moved narrowly in sympathy
with stocks.
United States 2s declined u per cent on
call on the week
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05

BERLIN. November 4.-Prices ON the
bourse today were firm and the tone gen
orally was more favorable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05
Bank Statement Shocked
Speculative Sentiment.
STOCK PRICES BROKE
FIRST TIME IN WEEKS 1T AGREED
WITH MONEY ESTIMATES.
Advance of Rates Marked Unusual Sit
uation-Foreign Events Responsible
for Irregular Movements.

NEW YORK. November 4-Thc bank
eta temcnt today for the first time In many
weeks. agrees with preliminary estimate
based on the known movement of money
and on other factors. For that reason ap-
parentIy as much as for any other, it came
as a shock to speculative sentiment, ana
caused a break in prices of stocks Inc
forces at work for the depletion OF oahH
reserves were notorious during the week
and the excited speculation in stocks gave
an obvious Indication of expansion OF loans,
but operators have come to rely on moo
ified bank statement to save the appear
ance OF conditions. Yesterdays rise In call
money rates to ga per cent was a cohn'
nation OF the situation.
The banking situation however, was al
most ignored today up to the time Oh inc
appearance Of the weekly statement on the
stock market tape. The response III 'he
market was immediate and the closing tone
was easy after slight rally. caused ny
hasty profit taking on the part OF pears
in the board room. The surplus reserve OF
the banks is cut down by the week Up
erations SlO.OT6, $50. bringing 1t to measer
50 354 % The heavy interior requir ernents
for currency have reduced the casn IN me
banks some 81. 400, 100. thus enectuaiiy as
sipating the speculative hope that the TURN
in the Interior currency movement had set
in in favor of New York. Yesterday
sharp rise in open market discounts at Ber-
lin was followed today by an advance IN
the official rate of discount of the Imperial
bank of Germany from per cont to ga
per cent, and there was sharp crop III
sterling exchange at Berlin. further mark
ing the pressure on that money market
An Unusual Situation.
The advance in the bank rate In the mid
die of the bank week in itself marks an
unusual situation. Sterling exchange and
the money markets i'll New York were
nominal. as is usual on a Saturday. tut
the tone was firm. and there was growing
week Today's early stock market showed
violent speculative advances in number
of comparatively obscure specillties.
Reading was under pressure ard sold at
one time points below last night, closing
only a fraction above the lowest. The loan
expansion by the banks of $lG.453OOO was
attributed for the most part to the speCu-
and bankers made little disguise Of their
satisfaction with the check Administered TO
the stock market movement.
Total sales of bonds par value, s, 10J. 900.
The wavering and irregular upward move
ment of prices of stocks this week has
been responsive TO the development of
events in Russia Periods when the dis
orders in that country assumed more
threatening aspect were the occasions for
pauses in the speculate movements in the
worlds markets. For the most part. how
ever. those markets have reflected feel
ing of relief and encouragement over the
promise of settlement of Russian dis
content and the hope that order and the
resumption of industrial activities will be
the result.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
CITY NEWS
BRIDGE WORK IS RUSHED
WASHINGTON AVENUE sTRUC-
TURE RAPIDLY BEING BUILT
WoRKMEN TOLL OUT OF SIGHT.

Work is being pushed on the recon-
structlon OF thte Washington avenue
bridge with all possible speed, altho the
travelling public is not aware of the
work going on under the bridge. The
first work will be to prepare the five
piers for strengthening with concrete.
The. upper portion Of the pier above the
coping on the foundation will be but
tressed on the ends by reinforced CON
crete pilasters extending from the con-
ing to the ironwork. These pilasters
Will be bound to the foundation and to
the pier proper by steel fastenings sunk
IN the stone piers and buried in the
concrete as it is begin made.
The pllasters will give an additional
width OF twelve feet to the bridge. The
cantllevers supporting the present side
walks will be taken down and addi-
tlonal set of trusses placed further
out and new cantilevers set. All this
work will be done without interfering
with travel in the least. Not until the
work of replanking the bridge has be-
gun will it be necessary to bar troffic.
The concrete work will begin this
week and City Engineer Rinker hopes
to get it all in before cold weather sets
in. While the concrete work is not
extensive, it will be somewhat slow,
as the material cannot be handled in an
advantageous manner.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
McCurdy''s Foot in It.


! Richard "A. .McC Curdy, president Of The
Mutual Life, said to. the investigating
committee yesterdayi 1.@., IL ,.'+ I.
There has been great mistake made
about the real province of life insur-
ance companies in these latter years.
People have been led to believe that
the main purpose was to make money
for it's po1icyholders. In my view that
is not the purpose of such companies.
They are eleemosynary. When a man
insures in a company he should take
into consideration the fact that he has
entered a great philanthropic concern
that is in duty bound to spread itself,
even tho this growth prevents him from
realizing asi much as he expected.
There was never a greater ebullition
of balderdash before committee Of
intelligent men than this statement. tt
is not true that people go into insur-
ance companies expecting to make
money out of them. They go into I'M
surance, as Mr. Me Curdy very well
knows, to put a part of their capital in
such low nterest-bearing investment
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
LEARNS FROM MINNEAPOLIS
Kansas City Will Try Creosote Paving
After Inspecting Here.

With Minneapolis as its model, Kan
sas City is planning to make extensive
experiments in the paving line. Mayor
Nef and several aldermen of the city
on the Kaw, who inspected mill city
pavement some days ago, have an
nounced that they were agreeably sur
prised by the results achieved here with
creosote and sandstone paving and. that
they are now prepared to improve Kan
sas City streets at much less cost than
would have been possible but for the
iunket to the twin cities. Admiral
boulevard has been chosen for the ere-
osote experiment, and it is the inten-
tion, if possible, to have the street
paved before Christmas.
The Minneapolis garbage system was
also studied by the visitors, but, ac-
cording to Kansas City papers, the men
are not entirely satisfied on this score
and will probe deeper before definitely
deciding the disposition of refuse. They
did, however, admit that Minneapolis
has an excellent model for garbage
plants. ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
MORE THAN PHOTOGRAPHS
PORTRAITS BY MISS ALICE AUS
TIN EXPRESS SOMETHING OF
SUBJECTS PERSONALITY.

Miss Alice Austin of Boston has an
interesting collection of photographs on
exhibition at the Handicraft guild. 926
Second avenue S.. Miss Austin was for
merly resident of the twin cities and
she is a daughter Of Ex-Governor Hor-
ace Austin. She has been interested in
photography for several years and her
studio IN Boston is well known in the
east.
filed with some delightful examples O. Of
her work. Miss Austin is especially
successful with children, altho she has
some charming studies of elderly men
and women. Her pictures are more than
photographs, as they seem to hold some
thing Of the personality of the subject.
Her poses are delightfully."- natural and
the lighting is most effective. There is
an interesting picture of Winston
Churchill, the author. taken with his
daughter, and another of Mrs. Church
ill and her children. Cecilia Beaux, the
artist; Warren Manning, the landscape
architect, and Professor Zeublin are
other celebrities that Miss Austin has
photographs of. Just at present there
is special interest in the photographs
of Mrs. Frances Potter and her chill
dren, as Mrs. Potter's book, "The Bal
ington 81 is attracting public atten-
tion. Other Minneapolis people repre-
sented in the exhibition are Mrs. Charles
Deere Velie and her children, Mrs. C. c..
Pnvev and daughter. Mrs. Russell Ben
nett and children, DR.. Mabel Ulrich and
DaGy, Mrs. Clinton Walker and her
child, Mrs. E. J. Fisher and daughters,
Stanley Lyman and the Misses Rather
inc Everts Peck, Olivia Carpenter, Ann
Talbot Day, Louise Lamb and Rather
inc Wyman. The photographs will be
on exhibition the rest of the, week, from
10 to IL am. and to pm. L
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
Hearst for Mayor, !:

William Randolph Hearst has been
nominated for mayor Of New York on
a public ownership platform, straight
out; Mcclellan by Tammany on a plat
form which squints at ownership. The
republicans have not yet found candi-
date or a platform.
Hearst s papers have been making a
tremendous campaign" for the public
ownership Of utilities with varying re-
suits. M as :, # I1n Chicago the. Hearst paper was
about the only one which supported
Judge Dunno for mayor and his election
was hailed as a triumph of the people
over plutocracy and as revolution in
the public sentiment on the question of
franchises. The poor success of Mayor
Dunno in bringing about mnicipaliza-
tion has, however, taken some Of the
glamor off his victory and consequently
some of the terror out of the incessant
din of the Hearst newspapers, ~ 4 ,.~
The EDITORS appearance as candi-
date for mayor Of Greater New York is
probably nothing more than an attempt
to, test the voting strength Of the. own
ership. people in the city. Hearst CAN
not be elected without: the support { Of
all the nti-Tammany elements in the
city. This he is unlikely to get, since
the republican machine has less in COM
con with Mr.. Hearst than it has with
Tammany. This may be- creditable to
Mr.. Hearst, but it does not add to his
political strength.
The republican organization appears
to be in deep sea of despondency in
New York. It cannot find a candidate.
1t might try the experiment which was
tried with success the other day in
Philadelphia, choose convention Of un-
pledged, delegates and let: them find the
Candidate: by the old rural process of
nominating number of Of men and bal
loting to see. which is the strongest It
does not seem to have occurred to the re-
publican leaders in New York that the
people have some right to be heard in
the selection Of a candidate who may be-
come the executive head Of the city.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
Raising Railroad Rates.

Professor Ripley of Harvard denies
the statement so freely and confidently
made by James J.,>:Hill and other rail-
road managers that freight rates have
steadily declined for twenty years.
Rates, he says, did decline about the
time when the supreme court took from
the interstate commerce commission the
power to enforce it's DEGREES, but for
the past six years there has been a
steady increase. This increase, he as
serts, has been confined to rates in
localities or on articles which were not
subject to competition. On the articles
which have been raised, the increase
has been about 80 per cent, while the
general level Of rates has been raised
per cent.
It is significant that the period of
the general rise in rates has corresponds
ed with the period of great consolida-
tions of railroads, showing that the
movement for mergers was not alto
gether in the interest," Of more econom-
ical management, but also laid the
foundation for an increase in the tariffs.
This, of course, was the most natural
inference from the anxiety of the trunk
lines to consolidate their interests, and
altho the railroad men strenuousy de-
MED any such inten ton, the significant
fact remains that consolidation and
rate-raising are Contemporary and COM
Elementary.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
Aldrich' Dual Tariff.

Senator Aldrich has shown that it is
not the rcvisionists alone who are capa-
BILE Of toying with the dual tariff idea.
While standpatter Of the most ad-
vaneed type, Mr.. Aldrich has plan for
a dual tariff. He proposes to preserve
the present tariff as minimum and add
25 per cents 3toEthe rates for the maxi
mum tariff B B d 81 s..-
igThis kind of q dual tariff is gravely
proposed as a proper method Of dealing
with Germany which is already aggra.
waited by oar present schedules, to the
point of preparing for a. tariff war. The
counter proposal from the standpatters
is that If Germany raises her tariff, we
will raise ours and they will justify
their act on the ground that Germany
began the trouble. The Germans, they
believe, would be at decided disadvan.
tage in tariff war since they are sell
ing to us great many luxuries, while
we are selling to them the necessaries
OF Slife such as; flour, meat and meat
products. !: - . {; "%& :a&
This is a view. of the tariff, situation
with which the American people are
not likely to have very much patience.
1t not only fastens upon the consumer
the BURDEN Of high prices maintained
under cover Of the tariff wall, but it
proposes, under certain conditions, to
raise that wall still higher when, of
course, prices to the domestic consumer
may. be advanced still farther.
The force which is going to modify
the American tariff is not so much the
plea for. such an adjustment Of our
schedules as will promote our foreign
trade, as the demand for Justice by
the home consumer, Our foreign trade
is already growing rapidly and particu:-
lalrly in the line of manufactured goods
There is weakness about the argument
for tariff reduction for the purpose of
trade expansion which the tFstandpat:
ter' is not slow to take advantage of
and use effectively. But there is no de.
feet in the argument that the tariff
should be revised and reduced in many
cases because, as it now stands, it en-.
ables the. domestic manufacturer, by
means of ecombines and trusts and trade
agreements, to impose upon the home
consumer very much higher price than
the manufacturer is willing to accept
for, the same articles in the foreign
market. [~7JTTC-2 5%3.S'fS! 95fGt
It is this rank. discrimination against
the home consumer, who has been the
willing and patient supporter Of the
! protective system and has submitted tc
higher prices for the sake of the gen
eral good, which has got to be taken
into account in all our future adjust
ments of the tariff schedules. The
consumer knows that he is now being
| imposed upon and he will not stand fol-
| it very much longer.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11

HALL GAME AND THE AMERICAN
MlLLlONAlRE.-At large dinner given
by ]. H. Sears, president Of D. Appleton
& Co., recently, at the Union club, New
York, Hall Caine made a speech in which
he explained how much he did NOT know
about the American millionaire. -.
I now see," said the Manx novelist
Mr. Sears dark design in giving me this
dinner. This is the opportunity to study
the American millionaire
At this point the speaker fixed his
glance on George W. Perkins Of the New
York Life Insurance company. who had
spent the previous week explaining to the
insurance investigating committee his
gradual advance in salary from s1b a
month to a larger-much larger-sum
There were half a dozen bankers present
1t must be source of great pride to
be an American millionaire with control
over the destinies Of so many" continued
the speaker, 'but the position of states
man Is higher, a position that has enabled
your chief executive to stand higher than
any crowned head in the world. B,it
wouldn't give up being a novelist to be
either millionaire or a president
Il think that when the great Americar r
novel comes it must deal with power and
position as well as wealth. If I ever at-
Tempt to treat the problem of Wealh i,
shall be only from the point Of view Of
my tiny island. -
But" concluded Mr.. Caine, taking q
final survey of the assembled millionaires
when you see a thing in little you see n
vlv1dly, you see it close"
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11
THE PERFECT PUN

]. A. Macy, in the October Atlantic.
A perfect pun makes good sense both
ways; the edges meet with click like
the blades Of a sharp pair of shears.
Sometimes the very thoughts fit tight to-
gether in antagonistic identity, as when
the man said of the temperance exhorter
that he would be a good fellow if he
would only let drink alone; or when
DisraeH df it was he) wrote to the youth
who had sent him a first novel: 81 thank
you very much, shall lose no time in
reading It," or, as when man seeing a
poor piece of carpentry, said: That
chicken-coop looks as If some man had
made it himself Exquisite perverse
literalness of thought! And the same alb
solute punning, the very self destruction
Of proposition, was the old death thrust
at a poor poet by the friend who said:
His poetry will be read when Shakspere
and Homer are forgotten 1t was a fine
double-edged blade of speech until some
crude fellow, Heine, think, sharpened
1T to a wire edge by adding. and not till
them q hanality that dulled its perfec-
tion foreve
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-11

i s . 4 s
FUN FOR THE AUToMo1ILIsT
WHEN HIS MACHINE is IN THE
SHoP.-Tho we have never owned an
automobile and have small hopes of ever
doing 50, we should say after perusa1
OF Auto Fun, that we'll developed sense
OF humor would add about so per cent
to the enjoyment of the sport, both for
the man in the "auto'' and the man in
the road. Auto Fun is an albumesoue
volume made up Of great many pic
lures and few paragraphs Of printed
matter, all taken from Life. Both pic
lures ana printed matter are full of keen
endowment for anyone with sense OF
ehumor.f For him without q sense of
humor Auto Fun would make q good
tract to use on legislative bodies in ef-
forts ito obtain speed regulations
Thomas Y. Crowen & Co., New YORK s
81 net. 80, s.