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Liverpool Cotton Market.

LIVERPOOL, March 8. Cotton - Spot
eood business done; prices points higher:
american middling, fair. GA; good mid
ding 6.10; midding, 500: low middling.
oio' good ordinary. 5.5S; ordinary, $40
me sales OF the day were 1900 bales, of
Which 1000 We're for speculation and export
and included 1920 American. Receints
5000 bales, including 1000 American. Fu-
lures opened steady and closed easy: Amer
lcan middling, g. o. c.. March, STA: March
ana april. o.14; April and May, $40; May
and June o7s; June and July $50; July
and August, $50: August and September.
o.I9; september and October, 583; October
cember, $50.
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Closing Quotations.

Az the close of the stock market at 3:0l
O'Clock the following stocks had changed
In price since the above quotations. Their,
being no change in the balance Of the clos
ing figures as given above:
Amalgamated Copper, 1oSN.
American Car and Foundry. 42A.
American Locomotive, 70%.
American Smelling. pfd., 1915
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fee 93A.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit. s3is.
Chesapeake and Ohio. 57&.
Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul. 17T%.
Consolidated Gas. 155iz.
Erie. common. i3Is.
Erie. I'd pfd., 697s.
Greene Copper. G%.
Louisville and Nashville, 147
Missouri. Kansas and Tex. CON-, So
Missouri Pacific 935s.
National Lead, S2x.
New York Central f47I1.
Northern Pacific, 222
Pacific Mail Steamship. 43.
Pressed Steel Car, 53%.
Republic Steel and Iron. 57h.
Rock Island. common, 21M.
st. l.. and San Fran. second pfd., 46M.
Southern Pacific. 67h-
Southern Railway, pfd., 1905.
Union Pacific, 1884.
Unfted States Steel, AK.
United States Steel. pfd.. 1864.
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Washington Stock Exchange.

Sales.-Regular call. II O'Clock noon-Washington
Gas cert, 500 at lit.
Capital Traction. 100 at LAT. at lat, 10 at 147.
100 at 1864 20 at 146A, 20 at 1865, 20 146ss.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd., 10 at 30.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. COM, 10 at 42E.
Union Trust, 10 at 152.
Metropolitan National Bank 10 at 334.
Traders National Bank, 20 at 1885, 20 at 1876
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone, 25 at 6014,
IS at 81.
Washington Cas- 25 at 81.
Mergenthaler Linotype 10 at 1896, 10 at 1876, s
at 1856
American Graphophone pfd., 100 at 9A
Greene Copper, SO at 291a, 90 at 29as Is at
29A. rs at 29L.
After call-Washington Gas Is, $500 at 1914,
5000 at 104H.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. As. $500 at STU.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 10 at 1876.
Greene Copper, 80 at 29A, 80 at 29H Is at
29%. % at 29t4. 100 at 29Ia
Lanston Monotype, 100 at IA, 100 at 14b, 100
at 141s.
Capital Traction, so at 146N.
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Executive Board of ozanam League

Executive Board of Ozanam League.
At meeting of the executive board OF
the Ozanam League last evening at Car
roll Institute 1t was decided to hold a
pool tournament under the direction Of a
committee of five. M. ii. Lanman, ]. L.
Manning and stephen Giusta, appointed at
the last meeting of the board to inyesti-
gate and report upon the work of the
special works conference" of st. Vincent
de Paul Society, submitted a report The
members named were instructed to con-
tfnue their work and report upon other So
cieties. It was also decided to appoint
other committees to arrange public debates
and to look into the question Of increas-
ing the membership and arranging series
of baseball games.
The report of Mr.. George r. Cooksey.
the treasurer. showed much improvement
in the finances of the league. During the
evening addresses were made by Messrs.
John II. Pellen. David Thomas. ]. T. Man
ming, ]. 8. Knight. NJ. H. Lanman. w. G.
Sullivan, Arthur j. May, John Simonton
and F. s. Mcguire The societies which
are connected with the league are st.
Stephens Institute, st. Anthony's Club.
Carroll Institute and the Aquinas Associa-
ton.
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THE BALTIMORE MARKETS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, March 9.-WHEAT-W Weak:
spot, contract, SLASH; March. s1aS1A; APRIL
slhas1E; May, s2has24s; steamer No. 2 red. 7Ja
15h; receipts, Ii, 429 bushels; southern grade,
75aSl
CoRN--weak; spot, 49lsa46A March, 46isa461.
April, 46fsa47; May. 4734a4S: July. 4st5; steamer
mixed 44sa443l: receipts 1850 500 bushels; exports
1902 S57 bushels: southern white corn 431aa47;
southern yellow corn. 43a46.
white. 35s35a; No. mixed, 341sa34s4; receipts
II $50 bushels.
domestic; receipts, 1887 bushels.
HAY-Steady unchanged
GRAIN FREIGHTS-Quiet. unchanged.
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FOREIGN BANK BUSINESS.

LONDON, March 9.-Bullion amounting to
a1JO 600 was taken into the Bank of Eng
land on balance today.
PARIS March 9.-Closing-Three per cent
rentes, 30 frances 65 centimes for the ac-
count. Exchange on London, % francs Is
confines for checks.
BERLIN. March 9.-The weekly state
ment of the Imperial Bank Of Germany
shows the following changes: Cash In hand
decreased 100000 marks. Treasury notes
increased 10000 marks. Other securities
increased 8, 100000 marks. Notes In circu-
lation decreased 10. 940O 900 marks.
Exchange on London. 20 marks 1914 pfen-
nigs for checks.
Discount rates-Short and three-months'
bills 4 per cent.
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The World Of
Finance and Trade
THE COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK. March 9.-The cotton mar
ket opened quiet at decline Of 1a4 points
In response to somewhat disappointing ca
Dies and reports of good weather In the
south. There was some demand for cover
ing at first, and with Liverpool d buyer
on the continued reports Of a good trade
demand the market rallied shortly after
the opening to net advance Of la2 points
General business was very light, however,
and during the MIDDLE of the morning the
market slipped back to a net decline of
pressure and liquidation.
Futures opened steady. March offered
IoJ9; April offered 1865; May. 1877; June,
1910: July. 10.SS; August 1880; September,
lo.4O; October. 1928; December. 1892; jan
uary 1895.
After declining to 1912 for May and TO- SO
Tor July, or about Sac points net lower. the
market rallied or points under renewal
OF covering but the trading continued very
quiet. and the undertone was no better than
steady. Spot cotton. quiet; middling up
lands: n2a; middling gulf, 11.50.
ESTIMATED receipts at the ports today.
1900 bales. against 2O,25S last week, and
23.611 last year For the week. 1OS coo
bales. against 1O4. O61 last week. and 169 664
last year. Today's receipts at New Or
leans 2,IS3 bales, against $500 last year,
ana at Houston, 4. 1G5 bales, against g. 100
last year.
Cotton-Spot closed quiet middlins up-
lands. II %; middling gulf. l150; sales,
1850 bales.
Today's Cotton Summary.
,s Quotations furnished by Atwood Violet & Co..
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The New York senate finance committee,
by a vote of to 5. Tuesday decided to re-
port a bill providing for a commission to In
quire into the operations OF the banking
law and to investigate any charges against
the superintendent OF banks which may be
referred to 1t by the governor.
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Horrors!

From the Chicago Tribune.
IT is horrifying to learn that even the
congressional grass seed Is adulterated
largely with dandelion and plantain.
Whittier Is this unhappy country drifting?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-09

Director of Public Works Hicks annulIed
the city filter plant contract at Philadelphia
Tuesday, which had been awarded to and
partly finished by d. J. McNichol The d.
rector gave as his reason gross fraud and
irregularity."
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Grain and Provisions Summary
Liverpool Grain Market

LIVERPOOL. March o. Wheat - Spot
nominal; futures dull; March. 6s 5a4d May,
is AID: July. Is 4%d. Corn-Spot steady;
American mixed, new, As Nd; American
mixed, old, As 715d; futures steady; March
As Id; May, As I'd. Hops in London (Pa-
cific COAST quiet at e. 10sa f3 los.
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New York Stock Market.

Furnished by w. B. Hibhs & Co, bankers
and brokers. 1419 + street members New
York stock exchange, Washington stock
exchange and Chicago board of trade.
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Improved Market Conditions
Continued Today.
THE SUBSTANTIAL GAINS
Occurred on Largely Increased Busi-
ness Volume.
RELAXATION IN LOAN RATES
Currency Movements Showed Net Loss
bv Banks-Railway Shares faru-
cipated In London's Strength.
RELAXATION IN LOAN RATES
soac,,, p,spatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The star
NEW YORK, March 9.-The Improvement
IN stock market conditions, which was hrs'
clearly defined in yesterdays transactlohS'
was continued today in emphasized 1orni'
Substantial gains in prices were scored u.
practically all quarters of the Market anu
these advances took place on largely IN
creased volume of business. The market
tendencies appeared to be chiefly oaseo
upon the continued weakness In Sternhs
Exchange which carried rates down 10 q
noint which suggested that with the COM
ing week there could be little doubt that
importations of gold in considerable VOL
ume might be undertaken.
There were some indications that nrms
and institutions active in the foreign ex-
change market were figuring upon the pros
poets for profitable engagements OF the
metal next week, and In fact so much was
admitted.
Notwithstanding the weakness In sterling
exchange the local money market showed
further relaxation. both for demand loans
and loans on time
The Currency Movements.
The preliminary estimates of the principal
movements in currency during the week IN
dicated net loss by the banks of about
1.J00. 900. Notwithstanding that they have
received twice that sum on account or the
relief measures taken by the Secretary OF
the Treasury. Their loss to the subtreasury
was only little In excess of $780, hence
It would appear that the banks direct ship
ments to the interior were in greater vol
ume than had been suspected.
This mornings intelligence indicating a
practical and favorable conclusion of the
protracted Moroccan negotiation had a nat
urally stimulating effect upon the European
markets, and American railway shares par
ticipated fully In the general strength of the
London market.
The industrial and miscellaneous stocks
showed a long list of substantial gains,
which were particularly noteworthy in Ma
tional Lead. American Smelling, Sugar Re-
filming, Colorado Fuel and Iron and Anal
gGmated Copper
The United States Steel stocks were like
wise very firm and active. Taken as a
whole. the days market stood out In spe-
cially strong contrast with that witnessed
at the opening of the business week, espe-
cially inasmuch as apart from the more
favorsb BILE prospects in the monetary situa-
tion. there was little change In the circum-
stances under which the trading was con-
Quoted
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CURB QUOTATIONS.

Furnished by E. n. Chapman & Co. e. B.,
Chapman, manager). members New York Stock Ex.
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Today's Cotton Summary.

QUOTATIONS furnished by Atwood Violet A. Co
members New York and New Orleans cotto, AZ
cnanges Washington branch Office 7i3 14th street
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Today's Government Receipts.
National bank notes received today for
redemption. 81, 1873 $40; government receipts
from internal revenue, $795, 448; customs.
S7S2929: miscellaneous, $41 1886; expendi-
lures. 81, 795, 900.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-08

build the extra bedroom so we can fold
and put it away, as we don't want any
visitors for a long time, and the young
ladys mother has said she would go TO
see her darling child often. Please let
us know what another small room will
cost next year"
Delay in pulling off the ceremony
because the bungalow with the red ge-
raniums in front isn't ready in time
won't lose their sweethearts to unfor-
tunate wooers now that the portable
house is here.
II knew my one-and-only liked an
other fellow pretty we'll even after she
had promised to be NINE" said a young
real estate man who has become a ben
edict since the fire. "and he was hang
ing around. despite the fact that he
knew l had closed negotiations for
life term contract. | told her my busi-
ness affairs made it necessary that we
get married right away and she said
she wouldn't wed until she could go TO
a home of her own in the country.
Well, that was easy. I went to a port
able agent and then got a lot down by
Blingum and hired a man to sod the
front yard and stick in some rose
bushes and geraniums that were al
ready in bloom. The next morning
married the girl and we went down to
the lot, where the sections of the house
ndQ Deen OollNeTeU, ana. WlIn the dS-
Sistance of one man, she and | put the
building up ourselves. 1t puffed her 10
think she had helped build her own
house. She's saving money now to
send for ready made chicken-coOp
with blue Stats that she thinks will
look just lovely in the back yard.
The next day after our marriage my
rival came around and gave me a con-
tract for the sale of a block of town
lots. He said l was the greatest
hustler he knew in the business. 1t
was the portable house that cleared
the situation, though. not my genius"
These portable houses are going to
drive us crazy if they don't drive us
out of business" said bill collector
The 'chronics' are taking to them and
when we make the second call, after
threatening court proceedings and
blacklisting and every other dire thing
we know, we find only a vacant lot.
When they learn that we know their
addresses they simply fold up their
walls and lease another piece of ground
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-08

in four of a kind no matter what the
denomination was, and showed every
sign of astonishment when somebody
held higher fours. even when Blaisdell
dealt. Twice or thrice he came TO Sc
rious grief in this way
Then the home players noticed that
sevens were his favorites for the even
ing. His theory of play. as far as they
had been able to gauge il. was that it
made not so much difference what the
cards were, as how many of them he
could hold. and there was not a man
to hold five of kind if there had been
so many.
His losses for the first hour failed
to disturb the big man. In that time he
play in more than thousand dollars.
but just as they were thinking il likely
that he would quit the game he reached
into an inside pocket and pulled out
another roll, larger than they had seen
him have. Laying il on the table he
said. That goes" AS the game was
table stakes and there was a prospect
of high play they all pulled out their
rolls and laid them on the table.
For the next three deals there was
nothing doing. so the Jackpot was well
sweetened when Hankins took the deck
Winterbottom opened the pot under
the guns for $40. that being the amount
in the center. Blaisdell stayed. Pears
all dropped. Bassett raised it $40. and
Hankins made it $40 more.
Winterbottom looked carefully at his
openers before deciding. They were
three tens and he concluded to stay
though he did not raise back. Blais-
dell saw enough, he thought, to Justify
him in staying also, and he put up.
Then Bassett made it 800 more to
play and Hankins went back to him
with 5000 more.
1t was too strong for Winterbottom
and he folded. but Blaisdell, after
glance at Bassett. made good, where
upon Bassett closed the pot by seeing
the last raise.
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-08

, might have been dishonest
MY home was burned" the policy
holder would say and it wouldn't pay
the insurance man to go in search of
wandering house that might be out
at the Presidio or on the slope of Twin
Peaks. 1t would have been game in
which the man with the policy would
have had the insurance companies wor-
rying more than they are now worry
ing the people over the quake losses.
This is an emergency in which we
can't save everything, a rueful house
holder with a large dwelling might
have said, but we'll at least have a
shelter. Well fold up the parlor, a
bedroom and the kitchen and let the
rest CO."
IF we don't have to move out too
far, pa" suggests the willing elder boy
of the brood, I'VE can come back and
take away the dining-room and the
preserve closet, too
"All right, son; you come back and
get them" replies the head of the
household. IF you want all the COM
forts of palatial residence at times
when the chicken coop looks as good
as Buckingham Palace. just take the
monkeywrench and go to work. l like
to see boy ambitious"
New conditions are going to come
with the foothold the portable house is
gaining in San Francisco since the ca
lamity. It is conducive to simplifying &
a great many of the affairs of exist
ence, and it is sure to relieve a great
deal of worry that people now have
about getting dwellings finished.
Strikes can't hurt. 1t is sure to add a
great deal to Cupids business 1t
makes marriage so easy. There is no
long period of saving, no long watch
ing of carpenters and plumbers as the
turtle doves await the period of nest
ing if they had the portable habit. They
Just make up their minds to get mar
ried and then send on specifications to
the house man for something within
their means that has hooks to hang
additional rooms on as the babies come.
I'VE want a house for a blonde haired
girl with dark eyes and tall man
who can stoop a door five feet nine
inches high will do. If the cost is not
more than $40 an inch make the house
with six-foot doors. We prefer your
No. 20 in the catalogue, with hamm k
behind the vines on the porch, but we
will grow our own vines. Be sure to
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-08

the beautiful tonneau. so the portable
house has grown from an unstable box
into a complete structure pleasing to
look a and comfortable to occupy.
You'll have to stack up them houses
and get out a few blocks farther" the
cavalryman or policeman would have
shouted in portable San Francisco
when the flames began to creep up
from the front and the householder
with a building too big to carry on his
back would have got out the set of
wheels that would naturally have gone
with such houses in a real ready made
city, unscrewed the bolts that held his
castle together. thrown the hattened
structure on the wheels with his effects
on top Of it and set out for a safer
place with his good wife and his
youngsters tugging with him on the
rope.
Maybe it would have only been ne
cessary TO move a block wide strip of
houses from in front of the fire, and
IL this had been the case the neighbors
from farther out would have hurried
in to help drag the loads, with many
expressions Of sympathy and perhaps
sly hints at the obli legation OF being i'm
posed on while thinking slyly that
their efforts were also putting their
own property in safety.
"I'll lend you our screwdriver, and
and stay there until your own lot cools
off," CHEEKY woman can be heard
saying To an acquaintance as he comes
along the street with his nattened
house, all the bigger children tugging
at the rope and the baby and the cc.t
scratching each other gleefully on top
of the load.
Your kitchen was twisted in taking
ii down2 Well, now. you just unscrew
that west bedroom that's on our house
and put il on the back of yours We
never use it, and cooking in it for
time won't hurt It.
We are going to take our house
down some day next week and air IL.
l believe these fogs make a house damp
inside. / don't see how people in those
old fashioned houses that you can
never lay out in the sun keep we'll
They'd think II was dreadful IL they
didn't sun their bedclothing often. You
know we have two easements and we
use one six months and then move the
house over on the other. That keeps
them both in better sanitary state"
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-08

to give aid If possible to some suffer
ing unfortunate he would probably
have witnessed strange scene.
Help. help" come the cries, and
the hurrying throng drop their habita-
tions for the time and run to bunch
of lumber and door frames lying inside
a neat fence.
There is a man inside of the pile OF
wooden debris and as he hears the
flames cracking outside he yells more
frantically.
Where are you? What's the mat
ter?" are the questions put by police
man who comes running up.
Disdaining to reply to questions the
answers to which must be obvious, the
man in the lumber yells:
Get me out of here. I'm choking.
How'd you get into it?" demands
the policeman. The earthquake didn't
do anything like that. did it?''
Earthquake, nothing yells back
the man in the ruins. Il touched the
spring too soon.
"Dynamite?" ventured the policeman
"Confound it, no." comes back the
answer. Dynamite couldn't do any
thing like this. either. Can't you see
this is one of those patent spring fold
ing rapid-action portables? l got ready
to get out, and while L was moving the
stove / jammed that spring you are
supposed to reach through the window
and push on when you want to fold UP
your house and take it over to the next
block. I've been in a folding bed
squeeze. but this thing is worse. II
some pillows hadn't dropped on my
head I'd be dead"
Get some axes shouts the police
man, "and we'll chop him out
Don't you do it," cried the Gagged
man excitedly. This house cost me
s4oO Get at it and pull it into place
again"
The crowd falls on the house, but
they don't understand the combination
The danger becomes more imminent
A drayman comes along, and the po-
liceman orders man. house and all
thrown on the vehicle.
How'll 1 get my pay?' demands the
teamster.
Hold him in the thing till his friends
come and bail him out" yells the po-
liceman. who has learned a few things
in the Police Court.
What a time the insurance companies
would have had with any clients who
The San Francisco call., 1906-07-08

You can see the small boy of the
family being sent back the six blocks
to get the diagram key" to the build
ing, which had been accidentally left
in a discarded bureau when the hasty
exodus was made, and imagine the con-
sternation that reigned when he. re-
turned with the information that the
bureau had been burned. That family
probably slept in the dew for four
nights while playing the block puzzle
of getting all the sections of that house
fitting into their proper places.
Out on the bay you would see fami-
lies seated on their collapsed houses,
the father and the eldest son padding
with broom and shovel for the Marin
shore, there to turn their raft into a
house again after 1t had been spread
out to dry in the sun and live com
fortably until the normal conditions
had been restored in the city they had
fed from Combination RATS would
probably have been made by groups of
families, such conditions always es-
tablish feeling of brotherhood, and
their occupants would have had a
pleasant outing while watching the
spectacle of the flames eating such
buildings as were not of the telescope
kind.
You might have seen a man sitting
on a doorstep far from the site where
his home had been, mopping his brow
and denouncing the manufacturers
while he gazed angrily on two bulging g
and heavy grips resting beside him.
You'll always get done if you listen
20 the glib o~.t.on of an agent" you
hear him say. THAT fellow told me
the house he sold me would easily go
in one grip If 1 ever had to get away
in a hurry. and here I've filed two and
then had to leave the folding bathtub.
If 1 hadn't got those telescoping door
frames in my coat pockets I'd have had
to leave them, and then what chance
would / have had to get out of the
zephyrs tonight? ltd be just my luck
that that airpump wouldn't work and
/ can't blow up those rubber columns
to keep the oiled silk roof on. If there
don't happen to be any rocks to anchor
10 out where I'm going I'll be up
against it anyway"
Help. help" are the cries one sour
rying from the flames swapping at his
patent feathers might have heard, and
recovering from his panic long enough